I saw demoed a couple of really cool products today. One for business and one for fun. The first was SpinVox. This converts your voice email messages on your mobile into text or email messages. Jason Langridge demonstrated this with a colleague and within a minute the voicmail message he left on a colleagues phone…
Year: 2007
Women in Technology we need Help
I know that is a bit of a dramatic tag line. But where I am coming from is that I feel there is a real need to encourage more girls to choose technology as a career of choice. I have always been a lucky person in the sense that I have never felt uncomfortable or…
Welcome to a couple of colleagues to the blogosphere
A couple of my colleagues in Premier Field Engineering have started blogs and I am pretty excited about it. These two colleagues have fantastic knowledge and come from a rich background of experience working for GTSC here at Microsoft. So please check out their blogs; Ben Pearce – http://blogs.technet.com/benp/ – his first blog entry has some…
Nothing Like starting them Young
I came across this blog post by the Seattle times. The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley’s bloghttp://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2007/03/want_your_kids_to_work_at_micr_1.html . This talks about a site that I was totally unware off. It is called Beginner Developer Learning Center. So if you have any budding programmers in your family get them to log onto this site and start developing…
James O’Neill’s blog : Get into the Groove …
I was at a Customer site just last week and a person onsite asked me to explain how Groove could benefit their organisation. Well James has come to my rescue. He has an excellent blog using a real – life example of How Groove can add real functionality and power to the way your organisation…
Hi I am back and recommending a good read
I apologise for not blogging for a month. I got out of the habit at Christmas and into the New Year…and before you know it what with work … it is March !. Anyway I am back and am going to give myself a shove in the blogging direction . Therefore I am recommending an excellent…
This is impressive
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/18/kingmax-busts-out-worlds-first-4gb-microsdhc-card/ I apologise for not blogging recently. My laptop has been going through a painful rebuild operation. Anyway hopefully going to be back on track again. This advert in Endgadget made me sit up and take notice.
What are DLT Objects and how should we deal with them
The DLT object can cause NTDS.DIT Bloat in the Active Directory. This will of course mean you are replicating objects around in your Active Directory unnecessarily. So firstly what are DLT objects DLT Objects See below as taken from http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312403 “You can use the Distributed Link Tracking Server service and the Distributed Link Tracking Client…
Windows Home Server – Its Announced
Here is an excellent blog from Charlie Kindel ….hot from CES in Las Vegas about the announcement we have all been waiting for. Plus most interestingly a picture of the Windows Home Server. I think it looks really cool and funky. I suggest you watch his blog posts very closely in the future plus also…
Tips for Speeding up Outlook 2007
I have been using Outlook 2007 for quite some time now and have been using the RTM version for the last month or so. Anyway I have been noticing a slowing down recently in loading up Outlook and the new circle Hour Glass seemed to be sat “doing nothing”. Well apparently a few other people…