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Note to self: Sinofsky has a new blog – Learning by Shipping 4 Jan 2013 | 10:54 am
Former Microsoft Office and Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has a new blog: Learning by Shipping Now that he is no longer with Microsoft, I really hope he provides more information about Windows 8 and t...
Note to self: Nodewerk 26 Dec 2012 | 09:28 am
Nodewerk is a visual laboratory. Create amazing images textures and patterns with mathematical precision. nodewerk.com
Note to self: Microsoft Office Web Apps updated – Oct. 22, 2012 23 Oct 2012 | 01:17 pm
Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Office Web Apps have impressed me a lot over the past year. I’ve written a series of articles related to this combo of services for BYTE: 2012.02.01: How To Do Cloud Apps With...
The GIMP 2.8.2 for OS X: New features. But, is an unusable mess 3 Sep 2012 | 04:20 am
The GIMP 2.8.2 for Mac OS X update has a lot of promise. It brings the single window option from a previous update that many people (including me) had been waiting for combined with the first native (...
Oops: NBCNews.com confuses Neil Young and the late Neil Armstrong 26 Aug 2012 | 04:42 am
Everyone makes mistakes…I read the news about Neil Armstrong’s passing today. The headline on the web page read ok. However, when I added the news item to my Facebook timeline, this is what appeared. ...
Microsoft: Outlook.com doesn’t support IMAP because it is old, but it supports POP3 because… It is older? 12 Aug 2012 | 02:14 pm
Gizmodo arranged for a Q&A with Microsoft’s Outlook.com engineering team recently. Outlook.com is the relabeled Hotmail with a slightly spiffier user interface. The first question out the gate was abo...
Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Preview doesn’t like Office 2010 64-bit 17 Jul 2012 | 02:03 pm
Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium sounds interesting. But, I don’t know yet because Microsoft recommends AGAINST installing the 64-bit version on Windows 7 64-bit with Office 2010 64-bit. Instead, it ...
So, how did that $6.3billion aQuantive buy go for Microsoft? 3 Jul 2012 | 06:09 am
In 2007 Microsoft made the biggest purchase of its history up to that point: $6.3 billion for a firm most of us had never heard of – aQuantive. So, how did that purchase work out? We learned today tha...
My Theories: What Larry Ellison will do when he owns the island of Lanai, Hawaii 22 Jun 2012 | 04:19 pm
Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO and one of the wealthiest people in the U.S., is close to buying 98% of the island of Lanai in the State of Hawaii. But, what does he plan to do with what was once the place ...
Testing WordPress 3.4 tweet embedding feature 15 Jun 2012 | 02:32 am
The WordPress 3.4 update includes the ability to embed a Twitter tweet using just the URL pointing to the tweet. Testing 1 2 3 World of Coca-Cola enables visitors to immerse themselves in bubbles wit...
