So I’ve become extremely fond of my iPad. I think it’s the future form factor for ‘sofa surfing’ (that’s web surfing from your sofa while watching TV). I just checked into my hotel here in Bellevue for the Microsoft Hosting Summit and wanted to get my iPad online. The problem only wired internet was included […]
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I’m currently in seat 10a on my flight to San Francisco abroad virgin America and am 38228ft above Austin traveling at 430mph and thought what a great time blog. Well first let me say this is the greatest flight experience ever! We arrived at8 am for our flight only to see the lines at southwest
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My most popular blog post is about installing Windows 2008 from a USB thumb drive. Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and used the same instructions to do that upgrade. So the instructions for: Installing Vista from a USB Thumb Drive Installing Windows Server 2008 from
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Being a technologist all my life I’ve come to realize one thing: “to be good at what you do you can never stop learning”. (I also think to remain youthful at any age it’s important to never stop learning but that’s another conversation altogether.) With that in mind you’re often confronted with a task that
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Tired of trying to find just the right wordpress theme? There’s millions of them to choose from afterall. Would love to create your own but have less artistic talent now than you did in Kindergarten with a box of busted chunks of crayolas? (You know what I’m talking about. First week of school you had
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While at MIX, I learned about the Microsoft Translator. It’s a website widget you add on your site and allows your visitors to select their preferred language and then translates the page into that language. I had a wordpress plugin at one time that did this but quit using it (I don’t recall why, I
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I’ve become a huge fan of twittering as I’ve been picking up a bunch of great tips on it. I follow Robert Bowling (fourzerotwo) on twitter (who was one of the devs on COD4 and I play a lot of COD these days) and he posted that he was installing tweet suite on his own
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At work and home I have the same setup, dual monitors. I always RDP into my desktop these days instead of installing Outlook, Office, etc at home and I’ve always found myself not working in dual monitor mode because of this when working remotely. Turns out you can use multiple monitors in Terminal Services afterall.
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I was really impressed with the deep zoom version of the Newseum newspaper frontpages from the Obama Election win in my previous blog post. I was so impressed that I had to figure out a way to do this myself. This post will guide you through this process, step by step. Step 1, creating your
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Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield did a fantastic job of creating a deep zoom collage of all of the frontpages collected from 11/5/2008 by Newseum. You can see it here: http://bigpicture.vertigo.com/obama/
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