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Having just built a new computer I have to share this tip for anyone doing cross browser testing and finding firefox really slow to load your pages and assests. http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/06/17/fixing-firefox-slowness-with-localhost-on-vista.aspx “It turns out that the slowness is caused by an … Continued

You ever get sick of having mulitple liveids and different passwods and trying to remember which one is which (is is it just me) ? A great new feature has been released that means you can link your liveids, login … Continued

A few weeks back our printer decided it didn’t want to feed paper anymore.  It was an All-In-One type inkjet which was handy for scanning and photocopying but took quite awhile if you wanted to print anything over a couple … Continued

For anyone interested in articles on Live Alerts, I’ve posted a new artcle: Writing Your First Alert Messages This article discusses the basics of the using the Alerts SDK and provides some simple helper methods help you write your first alert … Continued

I’ve been busy with the release of Virtual Earth 6 this week exploring the new features and making some videos and articles. A must read for any VE developer is the what’s new Article I just finished: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/WhatsnewinVersion6.aspx I’m very … Continued

I opened up a solution today to be presented with a nice System.Runtime.Interop.COMException in Visual Studio 2008.  After that my web project wouldn’t open. After creating a new project from scratch and recreating I found a couple of ways to … Continued

We’ve helped a few people set up their home desktop systems.  We were getting them to buy 2 identical HDDs and striping them for added speed. So since then 3 of us have had one of the array fail…my dad, … Continued

Saturday we decided to have a fun day out and do a ropes course at Adventure Parc. Down near Tambourine National Park, it was an interesting drive..as we were expecting signs..oh well we found it eventually. One we arrived and … Continued

Today we expand our team and welcome Phillip Suh. Based in Brisbane, Phillip has been in the IT industry for 7 years working for a range of companies such as Qcom, Praxa and most recently Technology One. As his meego … Continued

For anyone interested in articles on Live Search, Daniel Wissa has contributed a new article on ViaWindowsLive. Adding Live Search Functionality To Your Website This article explains the different ways you can use to integrate Windows Live Search functionality to … Continued

Been experimenting with WPF again.  Wanted to bind a listview to properties of an object.  I wanted to list the meals and types of meals that i’d selected for today.  So I had a List of Meals. So first I … Continued

I bought John a WRX Drift experience for XMas last year and he finally got round to using it yesterday. I don’t take a lot of sports photos so it’s always interesting taking photos of a moving target.  The problems … Continued

A couple of weeks ago the session videos for Remix Australia were released.  If you missed any of the sessions they can be found: http://blogs.msdn.com/postmixau/ John helped in Neil’s sesson on Windows Live Mashups by showing what you can do … Continued

It’s been just under a month since launch! So what’s been hapenning in week 4 for ViaWindowsLive? 129 registered users Live Search integrated on the site Showcase site for Snapsis Menu – http://demo.snapsis.com

When we first started working in a virtual office we looked at our internet and phone usage.  It’s been awhile since we last looked at how it’s going so it ‘s time for me to review what we need and … Continued

I’ve been experimenting with the .Net 3.5 framework, so I thought this was a good opportunity to play with LINQ.  I’ve starting doing some spikes to see what’s going to bite me.  For this spike project I’m accessing all my … Continued

So what’s been hapenning in week for ViaWindowsLive? 112 registered users 3 new articles published – Setting up Windows Live Custom Domains for your Email, Using Silverlight streaming plugin for Windows Live Writer- Step by Step and Accessing Remote GeoRSS from VE New … Continued

Yesterday I attended the Australian Blogging Conference held at QUT Kelvin Grove Campus.   Overall I thought it was good and congrats to Peter Black for organising it.  The conference covered a number of areas including blogging in politics, legal issues, … Continued

I was made the moderator for the MSDN Virtual Earth Forums today. The idea is a moderator can help make the forums function better for everyone. How? Make sure Answers are marked as answers. This makes searching easier for others … Continued

The crew over at Virtual Tech.Ed have been dedicating some space to feature Women in Technology.  So being of the correct gender, and in the right place at the right time (Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast), Zaakera, The Program Manager … Continued

It’s been a big 2nd week for ViaWindowsLive. What’s been happening? 103 registered users! 2 new articles published – Your Video to Silverlight Streaming 101 and Using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live In Your Blog Posts and Websites  Live translator has … Continued

Today we’ve posted a new article on Turning video to Silverlight Streaming 101. It shows how I turned the video on Virtual Tech.Ed into this! So check it out and give us some feedback.  

When we were at Tech.Ed this year we were interviewed for Virtual Tech.Ed.  We decided to talk about the new community site ViaWindowsLive.  You can see it online here or i’ve put it on our own silverlight streaming account (so … Continued

Last week we announced the launch of our new community site ViaWindowsLive. Just to make a few clarification to some incorrect posts flying around…The site is not sponsored or launced by Mirosoft. So an update on the activity over the … Continued

We gave away a few ViaWindowsLive shirts at Tech.Ed.   We gave one to Delicate Genius…and it’s now on the web: So anyone else out there that has one of these..send us your pici’s or blog entries.

Awhile ago i put out a call to all the geek girls out there…well today i’ve got over 20 blog feeds from geeky girls here. Thanks to all the girls who’ve submitted their feeds and to Anna and Catherine for … Continued

We’ve been working pretty hard on the new community site for a few months now in our “spare time”.  We’ve finally got it to a stage where it’s ready for public beta consumption.  Check it out here: It follows in … Continued

I don’t feel “that” old, but..”I remember the day when”…the crowd would ignite their lighters and burn their fingers at a concert..and I swear it wasn’t that long ago.  We went to the Powderfinger concert at Boondal on Friday night…which … Continued

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