Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Azure, Office 14, PDC, Visual Studio, Windows 7 on January 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
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 on directions.
Click here for more details / register.
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software on September 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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 of the roles has been an equal player in the process. Visual Studio Team System 2010 continues to build the platform for functional equality and shared commitment across an organization’s ALM process.- Enabling emerging trends
Every year the industry develops new technologies and new trends. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft delivers tooling and framework support for the latest innovations in application architecture, development and deployment.- <Click here to read more>
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software on September 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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. (more…)
Posted in Computer Tutorials, IT, Microsoft, Software on August 24, 2008| 23 Comments »
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 😉 I ran a few virus / Trojan scanners on the computer and found a handful of spywares plus a Trojan! (more…)
Posted in Computer Tutorials, IT, ITS @ Otago, Microsoft, Software, University of Otago on July 5, 2008| 8 Comments »
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 your default browser, you have to manually configure the proxy settings for it to work on our student network…which is NOT convenient at all! (more…)
Posted in Apple, Computer Tutorials, IT, Software on April 21, 2008| 14 Comments »
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. My friend Chaks, who also owns a MacBook, recommended a software to me (thanks Chaks) 😀 Its called SMC Fan Control (SMC stand for System Management Controller). Here are some details about the software:
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, thoughts, tagged Imagine Cup 2008, Microsoft New Zealand on April 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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 🙂 (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Internet Explorer 8 Beta1, Microsoft on March 6, 2008| 2 Comments »
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)… (more…)
Posted in IT, ITS @ Otago, Software, University of Otago, tagged University of Otago, University of Otago ITS, WPA2 Patch on February 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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. (more…)
Posted in Apple, IT, Mac 101, Software, tagged apple.com, Find Out How, iLife, iWork, Leopard, videos on January 31, 2008| 8 Comments »
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 tutorial is one solution to this problem. Apple recently posted quite a few “Find Out How” videos (http://www.apple.com/findouthow) and its aimed at the “new comers”; people who are new to Mac / just switched to Mac. (more…)
Posted in Apple, Computer Tutorials, IT, Mac 101, Software, tagged Apple, dictionary, Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5 on January 24, 2008| 99 Comments »
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 the meaning of the word that I’ve high lighted.
But there is just one little problem…the Dict App only comes with a few built-in dictionaries…for instance if I want to know the Chinese meaning of a particular word, I’ll need to search online / use something else. It would be great if I can add more dictionaries and make it the “one stop” app that I’ll ever need.
Well, it turns out that with the help of DictUnifier, you can add all kinds of dictionaries to the built-in Dictionary Application in Leopard. Take a look of my list 😉 (I only use a handful of the dictionaries, others are for my friends) (more…)
Posted in dot net, IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Microsoft, Visual Studio 2008 on January 22, 2008| 2 Comments »
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? (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, University of Otago, tagged 2008 Summer Road Trip, Dunedin, Microsoft on January 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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 Chris Auld (Microsoft Regional Director) and Jeremy Boyd (Microsoft Regional Director) along with local, Beric Holt, as they set up a solution entirely on Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and host an application built in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 over a two hour period. (more…)
Posted in IT, Software, Study, tagged Computer Science, Software Engineers on January 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Found a very interesting article today:
Posted in Apple, IT, Mac 101, Software, tagged Firewall, Leopard, Leopard Firewall, Mac OS X 10.5 on January 1, 2008| 21 Comments »
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. (more…)
Posted in Apple, IT, Mac 101, Software, tagged 10.5, K-Lite Codec Pack, K-Lite Codec Pack for mac, Leopard, Mac OS X on December 30, 2007| 70 Comments »
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 as you can see, they are trying to find the “Mac version of K-Lite Codec Pack“. (more…)
Posted in Apple, IT, Mac 101, Software, thoughts, tagged 10.5, Fusion, Mac OS X Leopard, Parallels Desktop, Virtualization, VM on December 29, 2007| 1 Comment »
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? (more…)
Posted in Apple, Computer Tutorials, IT, Mac 101, Software, thoughts, tagged CHM, chm files, Mac OS X on December 21, 2007| 32 Comments »
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 to read CHM files under Mac OS X? Since a number of eBooks that I’ve got are in CHM format, I was conformed with the task of finding a CHM reader for my Mac. So I did a little research online and found an application called xchm. (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Office 2007, Software, thoughts, tagged Microsoft, Office, Office 2007 SP1 on December 11, 2007| 8 Comments »
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 time of this writing, the link “Download and install Service Pack 1 for Office 2007” won’t lead you to the right place, all you will get is: “We’re sorry, the page you requested could not be found“. Looks like Santa forgot to put the present on the web page 😉
Hopefully when I wake up tomorrow morning (12th of Dec), the link will be working 🙂
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You can also checkout: Visio 2007 Service Pack 1 and Project 2007 Service Pack 1
But the end result is the same (page not found) at the moment 😦
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