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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

Was checking out the live search blog and came across their post on the new options in live search images. So you can now add filter images by face, b&w and portrait.  I added multiple filters and that seemed to work … Continued

I’m always doing this and having to look it up…if you end up with just the command window in Visual Studio when you’re debugging and want the immediate window back, type the following in the command window: immed

I called up Flight Centre back on the 22nd June and followed up with an email to ask for a contact that was working the following day so i could email an urgent flight request through on the weekend. Well today I … Continued

This morning we left Elspeth and Jeremy’s place to have lunch with John’s uncle (John) just outside of Salisbury.  Had a huge lunch and then went for a side trip to Stonehenge.  It was a lot smaller than i expected … Continued

Today we went to Bristol and caught up with Elspeth and Jeremy.  I’d spotted a jousting festival at a local castle but it had been cancelled due to the floods 🙁 So we went on a wander around the town … Continued

Today is a bit overcast..so not game to do a hike in fear of being rained on so we’re off to do the Wild Wales Tour.  A longish drive across wales with a 2 way road the width of 1 … Continued

We picked up our hire car today and off to Wales.  They all have their little scams…to have an additional driver (me) they wanted to charge an extra 25 pounds a day!  Which is mighty expensive when the car hire … Continued

We’ve spent the last 3 days working out of Tricky’s office along with Neil.  It’s been good to have everyone in the same place to go through a few things.  So we’ve got a few spare days so we’re going … Continued

Today we caught the train out to Putney to catch up with Graham and Roanne.  They took us out to Richmond Park.  It’s MASSIVE! and so close to London.  It’s full of wild deer which we were lucky enough to … Continued

Today we ventured into London and met up with Linda.  Everyone here seems to hate the underground and public transport.  I found it awesome! It’s quick and it has great frequency.  We jumped on and off trains all day/night and … Continued

We were supposed to Go Ape today but on our way there it was cancelled.  It rained pretty hard and a lot of roads got flooded.  Funnily enough, an hour later there was blue sky.  There was a lot of flooding … Continued