Team Individualism
Some exploration in technology options that enabe teams to build solutions, but focus on the individual
Just when you were thinking Touch was pretty cool
Some guy in a lab coat had to add the X factor to it… IEEE Spectrum: Engineers add texture to...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/18/2009
Visual Studio 2008 Free e-Books & .Net Services
Vey handy! Also some new white papers just came out for the .NET Services….. · An...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/15/2009
Beginnings of Office 2010 info
Links Some nice screen shots and history External sites with previews Office 2010 the movie preview...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/13/2009
Going Green on TechNet and The Architecture Journal
For Earth Day 2009 the TechNet team created a special Green issue of TechNet Magazine. This...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/13/2009
Windows 7 RC Example Changes
Over and above my previous IO categorisation of Windows 7 features, RC brings some welcome new...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/11/2009
Facebook and CoMo for Windows Mobile
Its out! See here for more information Thanks to Deeps De Silva for this. And, says Rick Anderson,...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/08/2009
Office 2007 Service Pack 2
Office 2007 SP2 has been released. Download links for SP2 Why should you deploy this service pack as...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/03/2009
MED-V compared to Windows XP Mode
To answer a number of questions around XP Mode and MED-V. I have borrowed some of the FAQ. I...
Author: drmcghee Date: 05/03/2009
ExecTweets and Vine
A couple of pretty cool social tools appeared in beta recently…. ExecTweets is a new Twitter-powered...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/29/2009
Compendium of Windows 7 Search Connectors
A while back I published a how to make your own Windows 7 Federated Search Connector. There is now a...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/29/2009
Windows Live Opens Up
25 ways now of adding web activities to Windows Live. The biggest being facebook! Now, the task will...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/28/2009
Save Money on Certification – Until 30th June 2009
I’m going through some certifications at the moment, so can see the value in this special offer:...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/28/2009
Windows 7 – XP Mode
Do you want to move to Windows 7 but worried about that XP application that will require some...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/27/2009
Economist Cumulus – Software plus Services
Thanks to Tony Hackett for some sound bites from Creating the cumulus, The Economist, 23 October...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/04/2009
SOA, prioritise the the “SO”, rather than the “A”
You may have recently read SOA’s obituary as presented by Anne Thomas. I read and identified with...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/03/2009
.NET services interoperability
As .Net Services mature greater support is being added for for REST, ATOM, SOAP, and HTTP web...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/03/2009
Windows 7 – Good press
Just wanted to let you know about a couple of great news articles on Windows 7:...
Author: drmcghee Date: 04/03/2009
BizTalk Accelerator for ACORD messaging
Many Financial Services customers are evaluating ACORD as a standard set of messages to accomplish...
Author: drmcghee Date: 03/22/2009
BitLocker to Go – Use in Windows 7 Beta
Windows 7 Beta has added a new feature, BitLocker to Go, which allows you to encrypt removable media...
Author: drmcghee Date: 03/22/2009
WCF REST – Starter Kit
Something for my to-do list… the second preview release of the WCF REST Starter Kit on CodePlex. The...
Author: drmcghee Date: 03/22/2009
Mobility – Australia – New Windows Mobile data plans coming in May
I love Rick Andersons passion when it comes to Windows Mobile. For those in enterprise I thought I...
Author: drmcghee Date: 03/22/2009
ItzaBitza – a game promoting reading and creativity for kids
I recently downloaded this at home and for my family this was a stand-out improvement in learning. I...
Author: drmcghee Date: 03/17/2009
Go Green with Visio
Are you looking for creative ways to save money without putting your business at a competitive...
Author: drmcghee Date: 03/02/2009
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Management
Win7 Power Management...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/25/2009
Twitter Notify
Send a Tweet announcing your newly published blog post. Nice – will be using this:...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/23/2009
Windows 7 Quick Keys – ZoomIt
Windows Logo+Down Minimize the current window Windows Logo+Up Maximize the current window Windows...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/19/2009
Microsoft Recite - a search technology for your voice
Microsoft Recite is a search technology for your voice that runs on Windows Mobile* devices. With...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/16/2009
Victorian Bushfires - Live Maps Collection
The dreadful Victorian bushfires and the current extent of the devastation is mapped out in this...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/09/2009
My next phone and sync'ing
My next phone could be the TG01 from Toshiba. My worry is the pickup and hang-up button is the same...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/09/2009
Augmented Reality on GE site
AR again/ After flicking through the Amnesia bloggers I discovered the GE augmented reality version...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/09/2009
Federated Search in Win7: Adding news to your search
Thanks to this article and some cajoling by Chris Allison I decided to add WotNews to my Win7 search...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/03/2009
GroupThink via Twitter, interesting observations from the superbowl
I thought I would bring to your attention an interesting article on the use of twitter and my...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/03/2009
Open question: What's the impact of a search engine returning faulty results?
Some of your may have read about the “human error” on Google at the weekend: "This site may...
Author: drmcghee Date: 02/01/2009
Some Sharepoint Search & Governance Resources
https://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/tags/Search/default.aspx - search related from...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/31/2009
Microsoft Tag – Make your phone a multi tag reader
The recent beta announcement that Microsoft has made around Microsoft Tag has certainly sparked my...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/22/2009
The Boyer Lectures - Brands and Dead Trees
Like Ted I have largely missed these insightful talks. Were it not for a recent road-trip I would...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/14/2009
My experiences with Windows 7 Beta on MacBook Pro & Mac Mini
Short story: Build 7000 works just fine. MBP better than MacMini Today the Windows 7 Beta was made...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/08/2009
Silverlight in Financial Services
I've blogged previously about these but now they are updated to Silverlight 2.0 RTM. For Banking:...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/05/2009
Surface Car Shopping
The BMW Product Navigator employs Microsoft's Surface to assist potential customers to hand-pick...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/05/2009
Purchasing - A marketing view
I was reading the other day a marketing site and found this interesting slide on purchasing intent....
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/05/2009
Dexter on Vista
I watch a fair bit of cinema and unless you are truelly unaware of product placement you would have...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/05/2009
Top 10 Strategic Areas for Technology in 2009
Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas for 2009(thanks to Gartner, Oct 2008) Related Microsoft...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/04/2009
BitLocker To Go
Inspired by Windows 7 beta I saw today and the superb USB drive encryption I thought I'd post some...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/04/2009
Windows Marketplace
I accidentally stumbled upon the updated Digital Locked aka Microsoft Store. From here I found out...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/03/2009
Home Cinema Tiny Speakers
A pet project over the Christmas break was to do a low cost outdoor cinema. Thanks to ebay cheap...
Author: drmcghee Date: 01/02/2009
Model View Controller Free Templates
free ASP.NET MVC Design Templates
Author: drmcghee Date: 12/24/2008
Happy Twitterer
Apparently my twitter is classed as very happy, thanks to https://happytweets.com/ That’s probably...
Author: drmcghee Date: 12/24/2008
Window Shopping – Nice UX
This would be great to get in Silverlight – a real change to the norm of “paper-form” Web shopping....
Author: drmcghee Date: 12/22/2008