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Brad Abrams to demo Silverlight in action in Second Life Microsoft Island Theater

Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager, .NET Framework and developer technology enthusiast will be on the Second Life Microsoft Island Theater on Thursday, August 30th, 3 PM SLT. He has grown up with the .NET Framework from the early days of just getting Fibonacci to work on the first CLR before Console. WriteLine() was written. Nowadays, Brad’s work is about ASP.NET, AJAX,

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Bebo becomes first social network to integrate with Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Contacts

Bebo, the global social networking site, and Microsoft today announced an alliance to bring the Windows Live Messenger service, the world’s largest consumer instant messaging (IM) network, to Bebo users. Additionally, Bebo and Windows Live will allow users to seamlessly exchange their contact information to invite and connect through their respective services. This deal marks the first time Microsoft has

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Bloggers to Unite on Blog Action Day

An international initiative of bloggers known as “Blog Action Day” launched today, with the aim of uniting thousands of blogging voices, talking about one issue for one day. This year on Blog Action Day, which is slated for Oct. 15, 2007, bloggers will be discussing the environment.

Major blogs have signed up to participate, including Lifehacker, Dumb Little Man, Lifehack.org, Get

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Paint.NET v3.10 Beta 2 is now available

Paint.NET v3.10 Beta 2 is now available. Check it out at http://www.getpaint.net Changes include: Changed: Increased max brush size to 500, as per forum members request Fixed: Some layout issues with the Save Configuration dialog and the DDS configuration control Fixed: In some cases, undoing an action that removed a layer would result in the un-removed layer not showing up

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Backup and Restore text messages on Windows Mobile Devices using PIM backup

How many times have you had to hard reset you’re Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC or PDA just to find that you couldn’t backup/archive you’re text messages? 🙁 Well if you look around like I did, you’ll find that there are quite a few applications and websites out there that allow you to back/restore you’re text messages, contacts, appointments etc

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National Rail Enquiries Live Departure Boards Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget

Do you love your Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets? Would you love to see a National Rail Live Departure Windows Vista Gadget so you could tell which trains are departing from your train station in the UK? If so then your in luck, Conchango have been helping National Rail Enquiries in the UK develop an official National Rail Live Departure Board Sidebar gadget for

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Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 Full Lineup

It’s the 24th of July 2007 today, so guess what? There’s only 30 days left until Reading and Leeds Festival 2007! 😀 So as Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 is only a short way away, I thought id once again post the full and complete Reading and Leeds Festival Lineup so far, but this time I’ve also linked to all

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Web Poll Leader Vizu Launches Vote Maps

Vizu Corporation, a leader in providing free web polls and do-it-yourself market research, today announced the addition of vote maps to its poll results. The launch of Vizu vote maps concludes a series of redesign initiatives that resulted in a registration conversion increase of 69%. Like chocolate and peanut butter, polls and maps just go together, says Vizu CEO, Dan

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Review of Pixars New Movie Ratatouille!

Last night I was in London for an exclusive press screening of Pixars new animated movie Ratatouille, and I must say the film was certainly enjoyable. Ratatouille is most possible Pixars best movie yet, not only is it action packed with excitement, funniness and cuteness but it’s also a movie which all audiences can enjoy to put it simple it’s family

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