[Event] MSDN UNPLUGGED Dunedin – February 2009

February 2009 MSDN UNPLUGGED Dunedin – Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7
Time: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 4:00 p.m – 5:30 p.m.
Welcome Time: 3:45 p.m.
Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel
Speight Room
Cnr Princes and High Streets
Dunedin
Click on the Google Maps / Street View for more details [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars:

Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) crosses many roles within an organization and traditionally not every one [...]

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Register Now for the 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition

Imagine Cup is a competition held by Microsoft every year to encourage the students all around the world to use technologies to solve real world problems.  The competition have a different theme every year, and this year, the theme is:
Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.

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Internet Explorer 7 freezes at startup? | How to disable add-ons for IE7

Last Friday I went to a friend’s place to take a look of their computer because they think it have viruses on it.  Their computer wasn’t as bad as I thought……but then again the computer was quite fast; so having a few viruses / Trojans running at the background probably won’t make much difference [...]

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[University of Otago] Firefox’s Proxy Auto Detection Problem in Vista

The ability for web browsers to automatically detect proxy settings is really useful when you have to switch between multiple networks all the time.  With Internet Explorer, proxy settings are being detected in both XP and Vista, but things aren’t going so well with Firefox!  If you are using Vista and Firefox happens to be [...]

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Controlling your Mac’s fan speed with SMC Fan Control (with step by step guide)

Before I got my MacBook, I’ve heard people complaining that their MacBook / MacBook Pros are getting a little too warm at times. After I got my MacBook…I’ve noticed that the default fan speed is a little too low…thus the CPU could get quite warm when you open up quite a few apps. [...]

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Imagine Cup 2008 – Vote for your favorite team!

I still remember the times we had in Auckland last year when we competed for the Microsoft Imagine Cup NZ Final…although its nearly one year on…but to me, it feel like everything just happened yesterday

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 pass the Acid2 Test!

I’ve downloaded and installed the Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 (IE8 Beta1) this afternoon…the interface looks very similar to IE7 (of course), with a few enhancements (E.g. the Zoom feature)…

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University of Otago: WPA2 Patch for Windows XP

Lately I’ve noticed that quite a few people searched for the WPA2 Patch and actually came to my blog instead of the download page from Microsoft. So I’ve decided to put the link (to the download page) here and hopefully it will save you a bit of time.

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“Find Out How” videos from Apple (with download links)

When are you NEW to computers, no matter its a PC / a Mac, it would be great if someone is sitting beside you and show you around on your new computer. But finding someone like that is not easy, let alone considering the cost. So what can we do? Well, video [...]

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Adding dictionaries to the built-in Dictionary Application in Leopard

The Dictionary Application (Dict App for short) is really helpful at times when you are reading an eBook / web page. I even define my own shortcut key so that when I high light a word and press “Control + Command + A”, the dictionary app will come up straight away and show me [...]

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Setting the StartUp Project in Visual Studio 2008

Q. Say you have a Solution in Visual Studio with a few Projects…and you’ve finished debugging with the first one…how do you move on and debug your next Project?

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2008 Summer Road Trip – register now! – Dunedin 18/02/2008

Summer is here! And with it is coming new technology from Microsoft that will affect how we design and build infrastructure and applications.Come and join [...]

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Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

Found a very interesting article today:
CrossTalk – Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? – Jan 2008
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Chinese translation (although the title might be misleading): http://news.csdn.net/n/20080109/112571.html

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Setting up the firewall in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

After receiving a port scan this morning (thanks for the new year present):

I’ve came to realize that I need to setup the firewall on my Mac asap before someone decided to take a tour of my iMac.

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K-Lite Codec Pack for Mac?!

I have been keeping an eye on my Blog Stats and interestingly enough, I’ve discovered that there is a fair amount of people coming to my blog because they searched the term “k lite codec pack mac“. The actual search term may vary (E.g. some people might search for k codec mac instead), but [...]

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Parallels Desktop or Fusion? Which one should you use?

Boot Camp is the first thing that come to people’s mind when they need to use Windows on the Intel Macs…but what if you want to use your Windows Programs inside your Mac OS?

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Viewing CHM files under Mac OS X

Most of the eBooks nowadays are in either PDF or CHM format. While Windows have native support for CHMs (of course…), Macs have native support for PDFs. If you want to read PDF files under Windows, all you have to do is to install Acrobat Reader, but what if you want [...]

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Service Pack 1 for Office 2007

Looks like Microsoft is giving us “an early present” by releasing the SP1 for Office 2007 before XMAS The first service pack for Office 2007 is suppose to be out on the 11th of December…but the link doesn’t seem to be working tonight
Check out this link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
At the [...]

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The Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2007

Lately I’ve been busy learning Office 2007. So far I’ve finished Excel and I am now half way through Word 2007. Currently I am planning to finish PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook before Christmas.
I am learning these things for two reasons: 1st: we can’t get away from Microsoft Office…its everywhere! [...]

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