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I'm famous: http://blogs.technet.com/itproaustralia/archive/2008/03/06/technet-vodcast-of-the-sydney-heroes-happen-2008-event.aspx Watch out for the good looking guy at the end... :-p I had a great time the other day at the launch event. It was great getting a chance to check out the new improvements in VS, SQL and Windows 2008. And I had a ...

I managed to download and install IE8 today, after hearing it was available from the Microsoft web site. The overall setup experience was quite painless, and it managed to keep all my settings from IE7. The first page that loads after installing introduces the new features of IE8 - i.e. Activities, WebSlices and IE7 Emulation. Activities ...

Scott Hanselman posted about some cool Visual Studio themes so I thought I'd put mine out there. As you can see, it's the simple white-on-black. It uses blue class names, purple strings, orange key words, and yellow highlighting. One of the things that some miss is the snippet fields. I've ensure that the fields are white on green and the ...

I was considering getting a KVM the other day, but stumbled across an open source application named Synergy. It's a pretty nifty little app that lets you share a keyboard and mouse across two or more machines. This means that I can have my laptop sitting next to my desktop monitor and use the keyboard and mouse hooked up to my desktop to control ...

As a recent purchaser of a set of bluetooth headphones, I frequently run into the situation of loading a media file before realising that the wrong default audio device is selected. As a result, I've had to shut down IE or WMP in order to change the default audio device before I can hear the audio from my chosen media. Thinking this was just an ...