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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

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