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August 6 2009
Springboard Series Insider: Volume 1, No. 4
There are lots of cool new interviews on www.talkingaboutwindows.com,
including interviews with engineers and members of the Windows team on everything from the user experience and compatibility to DirectAccess and BitLocker.
Check out www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise for information on cost savings
and business value plus real customer stories from early adopters. Remember all of your resources can be found in one spot at
www.microsoft.com/springboard!.
August 5 2009
Microsoft Expression & Silverlight v3 UK Launch
On 22 July at the Microsoft London Offices, Microsoft UK launched Expression 3 which followed the release of Silverlight 3 on 10 July. At the UK
launch Ian Ellison-Taylor (General Manager of Presentation Platforms and Tools Group at Microsoft) presented the keynote. The keynote included
demonstrations of Expression Blend and Expression Web as well as introducing demonstrations from end customers and agencies.
The presentation slides that were shown on the day can be accessed here.
August 5 2009
Google launches Chrome gallery
Google on yesterday launched a gallery of 29 themes for Google Chrome.
The collection of themes includes Legal Pad, Star Gazing, Transparent, Dots, and Pencil Sketch. One monochromatic theme called Minimal downloads nearly
instantly.
August 4 2009
Google Voice, the new version of the GrandCentral technology Google acquired in July 2007, has the potential to make the search giant a middleman
in an important part of people's lives, telephone communications. With the service, people can pick a new phone number from Google Voice; when others
call it, Google can ring all the actual phones a person uses and handle voice mail.
The first promise of Google Voice is to simplify your phone communications. You don't have to worry about which number to hand out to people, and if
you're sitting with your cell phone next to you home or work phone, you can choose which to answer. If you have the "screen calls" option enabled,
Google Voice will tell ask you if you want to accept the call or send the person to voice mail.
Now, Military to get priority Google Voice accounts. Staying in touch with family and friends can be a challenge for military staffers, especially those serving overseas. Google will now offer priority Google Voice accounts to active members of the service, according to the company's official blog.
August 3 2009
MS SQL Reporting Services in Silverlight
Perpetuum Software has released a new product Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services, which is intended for display of Reporting Services
reports in Silverlight applications.
The product is fully compatible with Silverlight 3 offers a wide set of instruments for development of user-friendly and visually-appealing RIA
and SaaS-applications. At your discretion, the reports can be used in applications, run out-of-browser mode or directly on the HTML page. The reports
are displayed in vector graphic ensuring high quality report representation which is impossible to achieve when reports are converted to html.
See more details here
View on-line demo: here
August 3 2009
Silverlight Spy 3 Beta available
This initial version is a public beta and will cease to function on August 31st, 2009. Silverlight Spy 3 happily co-exists with Silverlight Spy 2.
No need to uninstall Silverlight Spy 2. Silverlight Spy 3 requires Silverlight 3 RTW. If you do not have/want to upgrade to Silverlight 3 RTW,
do not install Silverlight Spy 3.
- Simplified UI with floating view windows. Works great in dual monitor environments
- Initially comes with 10 different views on your application, more views are scheduled.
- Significant updates to underlying model, allows for easily adding plugins (more on this later)
- New DLR shell: interactively execute dynamic language code (I am very excited about this one)
- Standalone Object Browser (moved from XAP Package view)
- Modify files and folders in the isolated storage
- Filter on names in property grid
- Context sensitive object commands
- More detailed UI property grid with support for SL3 features
- Performance Monitor supports new SL3 Analytics class
- And more, much more..
Watch more details here
Get your copy of Silverlight Spy 3
July 31 2009
At Seadragon.com you can share any image on the web as a zoomable photo. Simply point Seadragon.com at
any image you've got on the web, and in no time flat, you've got a zoomable viewer just like this one. Share the link on Facebook, Twitter, or through
email or IM. Or embed it directly on your blog, eBay listing or virtually any site.
July 30 2009
What are Microsoft Expression Family ?
- Microsoft Expression Web
- Microsoft Expression Blend
- Microsoft Expression Design
- Microsoft Expression Media
and
- Microsoft Expression Studio
Microsoft Expression Studio - is a combination of the first four products, plus Visual Studio Standard.
Microsoft Expression Web - is the replacement for FrontPage
Microsoft Expression Blend - is a design tool for making fancy XAML files that represent animations, graphics, forms etc.
Microsoft Expression Media - is a commercial digital asset management (DAM) cataloging program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
Microsoft Expression Design - is a fancy drawing program kind of MS Paint with thousand more features. And where MS Paint is pixel based, Expression
Design leaps into the world of vector art.
July 30 2009
Microsoft Expression and Silverlight Launch : See this
The Visual Kitchen : See this
July 29 2009
Yahoo, Microsoft reach search, ad deal
After months of fits and starts, Microsoft and Yahoo on Wednesday announced a 10-year search deal that will see the two companies join forces
to take on Google. "In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force
for both companies' premium search advertisers," the companies said in a joint statement. The deal is expected to go into effect in 2010 and improve
Yahoo's profitability, though not its revenue, the companies said.
Read More @ CNET News.
July 22 2009
Google to Let 100,000 Surfers Ride Early Wave
On Sept. 30, 100,000 Web users will be allowed to explore Wave, Google's new data communication and collaboration tool. The company isn't calling
it a beta test, and it hasn't actually pinpointed a date for general availability. For now, Wave is still being drilled by teams of developers,
who are exploring new ways of working with its source code.
July 22 2009
Microsoft on Wednesday said it has finalized the code, paving the way for the software to make its way onto retail shelves and new PCs in
time for its October 22 launch.
Watch out video on cnet.
July 22 2009
Chrome security in limelight with Google OS plan
The techniques Google uses to protect Chrome users from browser-based attacks have taken on new importance with the company's plan to make the
software the centerpiece of a Netbook operating system. Two weeks ago, Google announced plans for the open-source Chrome OS designed for people
who spend most of their time on the Web. Read more deatils in Google
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