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July 31st, 2008

NBC Olympics Website Uses Silverlight…or are they?

I’m really excited about the Olympics getting ready to start on 08.08.08. Even as simple as it is, I love the date it’s about to start.
One of the other things I’m looking forward to this year is the ability to really be able to enjoy the highlights of the various events that I […]

By Jason Bean -- 9 comments

July 31st, 2008

Microsoft Live Search Gets Rebirth Design

The Windows Live Search has gotten another overhaul now, and they’ve taken a little bit of a different slant on what their home page looks like as you can see from the screen shot.
Along with a new background, which I’ve yet to figure out if you can change it to something else you would […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

July 22nd, 2008

How to Manage Data Files and Backups in Outlook

My brother has been going through some challenges with errors he’s receiving as he’s using Microsoft Outlook. I’ve stepped him through the basics of using the Inbox Repair tool and using the original install discs as a repair option, but he came across a site that does a great job of giving you loads of […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 20th, 2008

New Design for Microsoft Download Site

Just trying to update some Windows and Microsoft software and noticed that there’s been a little bit of a design change with the Windows download website.
If you’ve been to the Microsoft website recently then you’ve probably been prompted for the option to download Silverlight to help update and improve the functionality of the website […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

July 7th, 2008

New Technical Preview Available for Windows Live Writer

One of the tools that has become invaluable to me in publishing posts to my variety of blogs is the Windows Live Writer software that works so brilliantly with WordPress.
There’s a new Technical Preview release available for the software that includes the following features:

Uploading videos to Soapbox
new ways to crop images, including tilting and new […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

July 7th, 2008

Different Data Types Available in SQL

If you’ve been reading here very long you’re probably aware that I’ve been teaching myself VB, .NET and SQL over the past couple of years.
One of my challenges of learning is that if I’m not using something regularly, I forget it or the information isn’t just sitting in the back of my head waiting […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 7th, 2008

Microsoft Interested in a New Yahoo Board

More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger.
Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling of […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 1st, 2008

MSN Releases New Version of Toolbar

I’ll be honest, one of the toolbars I don’t use or have installed even is the MSN toolbar. I never did like the MSN interface back when I had MSN as my ISP on dial-up. Hated their browser navigation interface. I’d always make the connection with their program and then use the default Internet […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 18th, 2008

A Little Bit of Windows Live Confusion

There’s a new URL in town and you can get to it by going to http://my.live.com. If you were me, you’d see this when you went there.

That’s all cool, but then I was clicking around in my account and looking at my settings and when I clicked on “Home” (http://home.live.com) I saw this:

Are […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 12th, 2008

Google and Yahoo Announcing Partnership?

What’s changed?
TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo are announcing a search partnership today at 1:30pm.
Update: everything I’m hearing says that the companies will be announcing a search partnership of some sort at 1:30. Since we’re talking about public companies here, I want to stress that this has not been confirmed by either Yahoo […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment