Monthly Archives: August 2007

Yesterday we mentioned Parnter Maps had been released with Virtual Earth support.  Check out a few other people who have been blogging about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/08/30/new-find-a-partner-site-virtual-earth-enabled.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/08/30/find-a-partner-in-australia-with-virtual-earth.aspx http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=269e4081%2Dac58%2D42a6%2D9a54%2D383a6a3fb0d8&ID=11 http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia/archive/2007/09/13/new-find-a-partner-website.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ausptsiw/archive/2007/09/12/partner-finder-tool.aspx  

I was playing today with some logos in Photoshop and noticed our graphic design team had inverted our gold logo on a black background to be a nice blue logo on a white background. For fun, I happened to have … Continued

One of our latest projects went live yesterday… the new version of find a partner.  It allows users to find Microsoft Certifed, Small Business Specialist and Gold Certified partners and visually see them on a Virtual Earth map.  Users can also filter … Continued

Having installed our Panasonic 720p projector over 12 months ago I’ve always been struggling to get HD content. For my Birthday my Dad bought me the Pioneer BDC-S02. The drive can’t write to Blu-ray but the trade off is it … Continued

When I built these two gadgets they never looked like this: Yes it is raining in Brisbane. You can add them to Vista sidebar too, download them from here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=558b2088-0106-422c-8b67-da067db2360a&bt=1&pl=1 http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=fd7fd7af-32e4-43b9-bbf3-3cf9233f0117&bt=1&pl=1 They are dead simple to edit also

I came across this today when setting up a Virtual Earth map to run in an Iframe on another site. The issue is the content of the Iframe is on another domain and any calls to the ajax helper function … Continued

After John won 2nd in the Mark.Ed competition at Tech Ed we received a shiny new HP 19″ widescreen monitor. I used it for a day..and while it was a sweet screen I found the 900px high a bit restrictive … Continued

John was awarded 3rd Place in the Vista Gadget Competition on Tuesday at the Brisbane MSDN User Group Meeting. Full Webcast on how to build the gadget can be found here.  

Have you been trying to sign-in to Skype and it just won’t connect?  Have you tried rebooting, an getting the latest update?  You’re not alone…. Skype is having a “software issue”.

Some great news…Windows Live ID Web Authentication 1.0 has just been released!  So for anyone who was using the Alpha this is great news…it means you can now access your liveid in production accounts (the ones you use everyday for … Continued

This one has got me 2ce now..I’ve added the Contacts control to my page, got the javascript included and the required functions implmented but when i run the page…i see NOTHING!! Make sure you check the html element  has the … Continued

Was trying to add a couple of feeds to a feed reader and was getting an error about xmldocument not expected.  The feeds were outputing as ATOM not RSS. Thanks to Catherine for working out my issue with her blog feed. So … Continued

This got released last week but i was a bit busy and only just got round to mentioning it… Contacts Control has been updated so you can now search for a contact or filter the list by your groups.  This … Continued

Talking to someone today and they mentioned our blog was a bit bare recently…well can’t make an excuse for but my excuse is i’ve been blogging on Tech Talk as a Guest Editor. So if you want to check out … Continued

I bought my mum and iPod Nano the other day for looking after my dog while we were away.  After getting her a screen protector and a case and showing her how to load a cd onto it she’s off.  She’s … Continued

So we are in for a busy week here at TechEd Australia, aside from presenting Virtual Earth on Friday Morning I’ve signed up to give a 15 min WOW prsentation and most likely a chalk talk as well. We are … Continued

As part of Tech.Ed this year there’s going to be some interviews for Virtual Tech Ed. As speakers at the event, we get to be interviewed and suggest some questions…so is there anything you’d ask us?  Let us know!

Happy 1st birthday to our blog!  It’s been busy…in it’s first year it has 223 blog posts.  Should’ve counted my posts on Tech Talk Blogs..oh well.  So to mark its’ 1st birthday, here’s a recap and figures on us. Most people view our … Continued

We thought we got an exit row from Japan to Bris..but when i looked at the ticket and saw we were in row 70 I had my doubts.  After sitting in Japan airport for 7 hrs (lots of sleeping on … Continued

Well I experienced Heathrow on Thursday.  It wasn’t nearly as bad as I’d expected after all the stories.  As we got there early for our flight we were the first to check in and scored emergency exit row. You go … Continued

So today we start our long journey home.  In Berkhamsted we’ve been stayint at Berko’s B&B.  We’ve found it really good.  We stayed in the flat which had it’s own bathroom and kitchen.  They also have a cafe so you … Continued