WorldWide Telescope is Now a Web App
Starting today, you don’t have to download any software to your PC to enjoy what Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope has to offer – it’s now available online as a web application! This is good...
View ArticlePhotoSynth – Very cool!
Hi All, I've been working a bit with Nigel Parker in our developer evangelist team on some projects and he's always doing cool stuff with our new technologies, so I wanted to see how hard it was for...
View ArticlePhotosynth’ing Liam’s School
Hi All,I’ve given myself a project of synth’ing Liam’s school (Halswell) for them – It’s a wicked technology from Microsoft Live Labs which has a whole heap of potential uses.. So if you’ve got some...
View ArticleIT Does Matter!
Hi All, Today started like most others, with my daily dose of humour and news watching Breakfast on TV One. Over the past few days, there have been a number of articles online in New Zealand...
View ArticleConsumerisation of Corporates
Hi All,We’re living in an interesting time from a technology perspective - where staff are beginning to demand more and more the functionality they consume at home, whilst in the office. As the...
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7Stacks for Windows 7
There’s a new program called 7Stacks that lets you add stacks of icons to the Windows taskbar (aka the “Superbar” in Windows 7). Instead of launching a program when you click the icon with your mouse,...
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What is SkyDrive Explorer
SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live...
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Exchange 2010 Active Sync Issue
Hi All,I’ve spent the last few days migrating to Hyper-V, SQL 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 from 3 machines - Windows Server 2003, SQL 2005 and Exchange 2003. The last thing I had to...
View ArticlePictionaire, a new Multitouch Table from Microsoft Research
A joint project from Microsoft Research and the University of California brings us another touchscreen, mutitouch table-top computing experience. Like a larger version of Surface, the Pictionaire, as...
View Article8 Years down…and still loving it
Hi All,2010, Welcome! This Thursday marks my 8th year at Microsoft New Zealand (so I’ll be enjoying my day off!). I started back in 2002 in our old Auckland office on Fanshawe Street and remember my...
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Noel Lemming - Extended Warranties Updated & Conclusion
Hi All,I’ve always been the kind of person that prefers to buy higher end appliances, and purchase the extended warranty for piece of mind. I’ve never had to ‘claim’ before, however this week that...
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DIY Digital Photo Frame
HI All,Over the past few months, I’ve searched about for a decent digital photo frame to display our photos on. In New Zealand we seem to be limited to frames that have photos stored on a USB...
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POST Christchurch Earthquake–22nd of February 2011 #eqc #chch
Firstly I wanted to pass on my sincere thanks to all of you for your kind words, emails, texts and phone calls. It’s been a tough week and hearing some friendly voices has made things more ‘normal’,...
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10 Years Service at Microsoft
Hi All,My 10 year award arrived today on the courier! On the 4th of February 2012 I celebrate 10 years of working for Microsoft New Zealand. So many things have changed, yet many things remain the...
View ArticleDIY Digital Photo Frame–Reborn!
The 4th of September 2010 will be remembered by us all here in Christchurch for many reasons. I was away in Queenstown and missed the whole thing, however my cell phone made short work of that with a...
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