Software

Expression 2 is out

May 2, 2008

Microsoft released the Expression 2.0 suite of products today. I’ve been using expression since last year and religiously updating whenever a new beta or preview version of any of the applications as they were released. At first I wasn’t a big fan of the tools, but over time I’ve really come to enjoy them and [...]

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Windows Live Agent

May 1, 2008

I just stumbled upon the Windows Live Agent. I’m not sure how I missed this before. Their blog is full of some very interesting stuff. Check out the BuddyScript Subpatterns entry. Here’s what Microsoft has to say about their agents: Windows Live Agents are always-on conversational characters that engage Windows Live Messenger users while providing [...]

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Infinite Live Mesh Remote Desktop

April 28, 2008

It just goes on forever Of course it’s the first thing that comes to mind when I see that I can remote back in to my machine from a remote connection

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Microsoft Live Mesh Part 3

April 27, 2008

I had a chance to see Ori Amiga give a presentation around the Live Mesh platform at the Web 2.0 Expo. At first I was little hesitant about this technology. After all the public preview is super early and lacking in a whole lot of usefulness and features. Getting a chance to really see where [...]

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Microsoft Live Mesh Web 2.0 Keynote presentation

April 27, 2008

Here’s the Live Mesh Keynote presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo. Technorati Tags: Live Mesh,Microsoft,Web 2.0,Keynote,Video

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Microsoft Live Mesh

April 24, 2008

I just got my beta access to the Live Mesh services. This is the first page you get as a new user. I’m going to start playing around with it today to see how it can be used and how it can be pushed to its limits. At first I was a little doubtful about [...]

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Yahoo! Search Monkey Dev Beta

April 24, 2008

You can sign up now for the SearchMonkey Developer Preview now. As Ari Balogh, Yahoo!’s new CTO, will discuss in his Web 2.0 Expo keynote this morning, we’re rolling out a limited preview of the SearchMonkey Developer Tool starting today. With this online tool, developers can build data services that can be used to present [...]

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Silverlight 2.0 Twitter Widget

April 16, 2008

I’m on an RSS widget roll. I put together a widget that is much like the Flickr widget only it uses Twitter as the source. Now Twitter had to go and give me a hard time by recently changing their cross domain policy file to only allow specific sites. Because of this I had to [...]

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Silverlight 2.0 Flickr WordPress Widget

April 8, 2008

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,WordPress,Widget,Flickr I had the challenge of creating both a simple Silverlight 2.0 flickr viewer and a WordPress widget that used silverlight so I combined the two projects in to one. The first part was creating the Silverlight 2.0 Flickr RSS viewer. 1: <UserControl 2: xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007" 3: xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 4: x:Class="FlickrShow.Page" 5: Width="auto" 6: Height="auto" [...]

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