1. Creating Ebooks with Sigil  permalink

Creating Ebooks with Sigil
Linuxtoday.com

"This nifty application allows you to create ebooks using the graphical interface without getting your hands dirty with coding. Despite being a relatively new application, Sigil already sports all the essential features that simplify the process of formatting ebooks and generating ready-to-use EPUB files.

2. Adding Custom Button to the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon  permalink

Jfrost / MSDN

In this blog post I will walk through how to add a custom button to the new SharePoint 2010 ribbon. One very big and noticeable update in SharePoint 2010 is that we now have an awesome, Office client-like ribbon the provides most of the controls and buttons now in SharePoint 2010. A question that has come up on my current project is, how can we ...

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Adding Custom Button to the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta   —  Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November. ​ Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries ...

Greg Malcolm / Geekswithblogs.net
Adding Custom Button to the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon IronRuby and Cucumber - Installation   —  This tutorial is based on a short demo/talk I gave at the Columbus .NET Developers Group ( CONDG ) on IronRuby. It’s mostly designed for the .NET professional and making no assumptions of prior Ruby experience. In Part 1 we get everything installed. In Part 2 we take IronRuby for a test drive  In Part 3 we use it to integrate with Cucumber. ...

3. Christmas Gadget Gift Guide: Digital Cameras  permalink

Christmas Gadget Gift Guide: Digital Cameras
Www.ben.geek.nz

It’s November – I’m just as surprised as you are – and you’re starting to scramble for presents for the tech freak in your life. Relax, I’ve got your back. Below is the first in a series of Christmas gift guides I’ll be posting over the coming weeks. Don’t worry if these ideas are too expensive for ...

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Christmas Gadget Gift Guide: Digital Cameras SAMSUNG ST550   —  Whether you're capturing the smallest detail from far away or grabbing a great shot of yourself during an once-in-a-lifetime moment with the Dual LCD, the ST550's robust features ensure a perfect picture with every click. Or touch. With the 3.5" Wide 1,152K Touch Screen LCD and built-in Haptic vibration effect you'll get all the feedback you ...

4. Cash Shy? Try Bootstrapping  permalink

Cash Shy? Try Bootstrapping
Www.entrepreneur.com

I define bootstrapping as "pursuing success with limited resources and with the help of others." By limited resources I mean a shortage of money or knowledge. Here are some tips and ideas to help solve these shortfalls for small and wannabe entrepreneurial business owners. These ideas are particularly apropos in today's environment.

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5. Microsoft Holding BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure  permalink

Microsoft Holding BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure
Wzack / MSDN

We are hosting a number of startups in the Atlanta Microsoft office that are interested in moving their web based applications to the Windows Azure Platform . At the end of the week we are going to have a panel of judges evaluate the various applications and choose a winner! Its a great opportunity for some free exposure and a lot of PR around ...

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Scott Dorman / Geekswithblogs.net
Microsoft Holding BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours   —  I have previously mentioned that I’m working on the upcoming Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours book. Things are progressing nicely, if a bit slower than I’d prefer. I have the draft for the cover art, which looks really good. I’m also very pleased to announce my technical editors – Claudio Lasaala and Eric Lippert. Claudio ...

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet Blogs
Microsoft Holding BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure Microsoft to show off new visualization language at PDC   —  Microsoft is planning to show off a new visualization language, codenamed "Vedea" at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in mid-November.

6. Netflix instant streaming demoed on PlayStation 3  permalink

Netflix instant streaming demoed on PlayStation 3
Darren Murph / Engadget

Aw, suki suki now! Those Netflix instant streaming discs that started floating out to anxious PS3 owners yesterday are obviously splashing down, with YouTube user (and avid Engadget reader) otimus posting up a stellar walkthrough showing everything in action. We've got to admit -- the whole thing looks exceptionally sleek, but given the PS3's ...

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Video Demo: Netflix Instant Streaming on a Sony PlayStation 3 Valve Says Xbox360 Community Is 'Head & Shoulders Above PS3' >   —  The Left 4 Dead project leader Chet Faliszek has said that the Xbox360 community is "head and shoulders" above the PS3's community. He said that this is why the multiplayer zombie-killing series is not on the Sony Console. In a recent interview he said that the community aspects of PC and Xbox360 "really fit" with Left 4 Dead. Sorry PS3 owners.

Clarkezone on Zone
Video Demo: Netflix Instant Streaming on a Sony PlayStation 3 How to: Apply User saved encoding presets via PowerShell and Expression Encoder 3   —  At work today Oscar called me up asking how to apply a user preset with the PowerShell Convert-Media module that we shipped in the Encoder SDK. As a side note he reported that he uses the module a lot and apparently it works just great over PowerShell Remoting allowing him to easily do remote encoding from machine to machine. Pretty cool! Oscar..

7. Catch up on Sun news this week!  permalink

Maijaliisa Burkert / Sun Bloggers

Catch up on what happened at Sun this week in this short podcast ! Topics include new updates to Sun's Java Store Beta, Sun's new alliance with PayPal, Sun solutions in use at Columbia University and the University of Zurich, and Sun's top honor in the American Society of Training and Development's BEST Awards competition. (Brought to you by ...

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Sun News -- The Week in Review   —  This short podcast features hosts Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert reviewing Sun news this week. Topics include updates to Sun's Java Store, Sun's alliance with PayPal, Sun solutions in use at Columbia University and the University of Zurich, and Sun's top honor in the American Society of Training and Development's 2009 BEST Awards ...

Maijaliisa Burkert / Sun Bloggers
Weekly Sun News Wrapup   —  Another week, another news wrapup podcast for you to catch up on what happened at Sun this week. Topics include new updates to Sun's Java Store Beta, Sun's new alliance with PayPal, Sun solutions in use at Columbia University and the University of Zurich, and Sun's top honor in the American Society of Training and Development's BEST Awards ...

8. How to: Run Expression Encoder 3 under PowerShell remoting  permalink

Ocalvo / MSDN

James wanned me to explain the set of steps I use to enable Convert-Media under a PowerShell remoting. First a disclaimer: running these steps will lower the security settings of your PC, use with caution. Here there are: In your encoding server (mine is called tv-server): Enable-PSRemoting -force # Enables remoting set-item WSMan:\localhost\ ...

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Greg Malcolm / Geekswithblogs.net
How to: Run Expression Encoder 3 under PowerShell remoting IronRuby and Cucumber - IIRB Tutorial   —  << Part 1 - Installing IronRuby and Cucumber A quick look at IronRuby Background IronRuby is an implementation of Ruby which runs on .NETs Dynamic Language Runtime platform (the DLR). Languages hosted on the DLR are interpreted at runtime, rather than compiled then executed (like C# applications). One benefit is that code can be invoked on ...

Ukgovernment / MSDN
Saving Money with SharePoint in the Public Sector   —  Did you know that Microsoft published a paper on the five ways in which SharePoint can save you money with customer stories and evidence early in 2009? In May, the Treasury published the Operational Efficiency Programme report with recommendations about how to save money around IT and back office. I thought it might be interesting to have a look ...

9. IPhone Users are Shallow and Vapid  permalink

IPhone Users are Shallow and Vapid
Hinkmond / Sun Bloggers

Here's a study from Retrevo painting iPhone users as being shallow and vapid, favoring cool gadgets over intelligence and using their iPhones for dubious purposes. Well, you'd hardly see this type of behavior from Java ME cell phone users. ;-) See: iPhone Users are Shallow Here's a quote: Retrevo asked, "What makes a person most attractive to you?

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IPhone Users are Shallow and Vapid Squarespace hosting/CMS service launches iPhone app   —  Filed under: Software , Blogging , Internet Tools , iPhone , App Store After a long wait, Squarespace customers finally have an iPhone app of their own. Squarespace is a hosted blogging/CMS service that competes with the likes of WordPress.com and Typepad . Having used all three, I can say that interacting with Squarespace (posting, changing ...

Josh Carr / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
IPhone Users are Shallow and Vapid AT&T looking to sell an 8GB iPhone 3GS?   —  Filed under: iPhone Boy Genius Report is claiming that two separate sources have told them that AT&T is looking to sell an 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99 US before Christmas. While this news wouldn't come as a shock, it would certainly take more than AT&T to make it happen. As most of you know, Apple doesn't make an 8GB iPhone 3GS and it would ...

10. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch  permalink

The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'

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Matt Christian / Geekswithblogs.net
Development Diary: Pong RPG   —  I have been hard at work recently porting Pong RPG from a PC-only XNA game to an Xbox 360 game in the hopes of potentially releasing it on the Xbox Indie Games Marketplace.  Pong RPG (PC) was a great success in my mind because even though it was flawed, it was a full game product that I created from scratch (almost all by myself) since my days ...

Major Nelson / Xbox Live
The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM and Xbox 360 Family Settings   —  As some of you might be aware, those under the age of 18 are not able to access Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm in our public preview . I want to you let you know that this will remain the case when it launches to the world soon. We made this decision because as it stands now, parents aren’t able to use Family Settings to customize which of ...

11. Posting you WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Search to the IE Add Ons site  permalink

Posting you WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Search to the IE Add Ons site
Jamesci / MSDN

IE 8 makes it simple to create great add on experiences for users. Specifically, a site can provide web slices, accelerators and visual search. If you want to learn more about these features look here . I have heard a number of stories where people have written an add ons for IE 8 but then they have trouble posting them to the site http:// ...

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Sayre Collado / Geekswithblogs.net
Simple CRUD on Visual Studio 2010   —  Hello Guys, I have sample here on how to create a simple Create, Read, Update, and Delete on Database. This sample created on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 using C# and Asp.Net. I did'nt include a validation on this sample. I only want to show on how to Select, Insert, Update, Delete on Database. For those who beginners I hope it will help. You can ...

12. Long Test Cases in VS 2010 Beta 2 – Scrolling Issue  permalink

Long Test Cases in VS 2010 Beta 2 – Scrolling Issue
Dylan Smith / Geekswithblogs.net

My team is going to start using the Manual Testing functionality available in VS 2010 for one of our larger projects.  We started today to migrate some of our manual test scripts over to Test Cases/Test Plans in Test and Lab Manager.  We ran into a problem immediately that almost prevented us entirely from continuing to use the product. If you ...

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Long Test Cases in VS 2010 Beta 2 – Scrolling Issue TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – A Realtime Holiday   —  It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch ! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, ...

Slumley / MSDN
Long Test Cases in VS 2010 Beta 2 – Scrolling Issue VSTS 2010 Feature: Load Testing Run Comparison Report in Excel   —  This blog post is going to be about one of my favorite new features added for Beta2. In Beta1 we added excel integration for reporting on Load Test Reports. In beta1, the report that was added was a trend report which would give you a feel for how certain counters changed from run to run. Check out this blog post for more info on that report: ...

13. Boxee shows off its new look at Beta Unveiling jam December 7  permalink

Boxee shows off its new look at Beta Unveiling jam December 7
Www.engadgethd.com

We won't cancel our trips to Vegas just yet, but Boxee is planning on giving users an early peek at its new beta release -- with all new UI, queue, navigation and search features -- December 7 at the Music hall of Williamsburg. Beta Unveiling visitors will be the first to get their hands on the new version and see new applications being launched ...

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14. Over clocking intel i7 on a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme  permalink

Over clocking intel i7 on a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme
Www.raiden.net

The beauty about this overclocking adventure is �it is not my rig if I cook it I do not own it�. I'm told that the i7 920 Quad Core is really a i7 940 clock locked by Intel @ 2.65GHz. The target is the CPU, MOBO and CORSAIR 3 channel DDR3 and the goal is to bring it up to 4GHz a49% higher clock and you should take the time and locate you BIOS ...

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Over clocking intel i7 on a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Intel promises SSD firmware fix   —  Chip-maker Intel has promised to supply a fix for a recently released firmware update, which once applied, bricked certain users' SSDs (solid-state drives).

Andrewbrust / Geekswithblogs.net
Cuomo vs. Intel and Son vs. Father   —  I grew up in New York, and I’ve grown up with the Cuomo family.  I liked Mario Cuomo and thought he was a good governor.  He was one of those guys in the 1980s that I characterized as a Macho Liberal: someone with compassionate beliefs and a street-tough approach to pursuing them.  A Macho Liberal wasn’t a wimp, nor was he a bully.  He ...

15. IT Pro Momentum Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2  permalink

IT Pro Momentum Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Matt-MS / TechNet Blogs

This is great project involving both Windows Server and Windows 7, take a look at the challenges and solutions below. Objectives of the project: We are still running win XP and 2003 server. The great debate we’ve been having is which to upgrade first or at the same time. Coming from the PC side, I’m pushing to do all the desktops first then ...

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IT Pro Momentum Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 TechNet Azure webcast - now available for viewing   —  In Q1 we did a number of events in the Central Region of the US on the topic of Azure. Budgets being what they are these days, we can’t go everywhere but fear not, we recorded the sessions from the Nashville, TN event. Here are the links to those recordings. You can watch the streaming version or download for offline viewing. Since we also ...

16. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web  permalink

Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...

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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

17. Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice  permalink

Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM

Even though less than 1 percent of the population uses Google Voice, David Erickson, president of the Free Conferencing Corp., a conference call company whose numbers are blocked by the service, is pretty aggrieved. So he met with the FCC and filed a letter urging the regulatory agency to get Google to play fair. [...]

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Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice Google Dashboard brings security settings to the forefront   —  Keeping user in mind, Google released Dashboard, a page that gives users access to the privacy settings for all of their Google accounts.

Www.macworld.com
Google Dashboard gives you a bird's-eye view of your cloud   —  If the size of your Google cloud is starting to look like Act IV of A Perfect Storm, you'll probably be interested in the company's latest feature, Google Dashboard—a one-stop shopping overview of all your Google cloud services, with links to preferences and privacy settings for each. (The Dashboard link is somewhat buried on your account ...

18. The Long Gun Registry  permalink

The Long Gun Registry
Jordon / JordonCooper.com

At work, there is only one thing I really, really am afraid of. It’s that someone will sneak a gun into the Centre. Two springs ago I got a phone call from the Centre that the police thought a client had snuck a gun into the Centre. We ripped the place apart looking for [...]

19. MESSENGER WEB TOOLKIT SCALES FOR HOTMAIL AND MSN  permalink

MESSENGER WEB TOOLKIT SCALES FOR HOTMAIL AND MSN
Terry.lentz / MSDN

Have you ever wondered how well the Messenger Web Toolkit scales? What if we told you it scales enough for some of the largest web sites in the world? Well it does! Hotmail and MSN both depend on the Messenger Web Toolkit to offer instant messaging functionality to their users. Hotmail alone has more than 350 million active users worldwide. ...

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Om Malik / GigaOM
MESSENGER WEB TOOLKIT SCALES FOR HOTMAIL AND MSN Facebook Pokes XMPP. MSN, Yahoo & AIM Better Watch Out   —  The instant messaging world should prepare for a major quake — thanks to Facebook, which seems to be all set to launch a new connection interface that would allow Facebook Chat to work with any kind of XMPP client. The news of this development was first reported by Mickaël Rémond on the company blog of [...]

20. The Story of Conficker, part 3  permalink

Tzink / MSDN

Setbacks and Triumphs The domain registration task became exponentially more challenging on March 4, 2009, with the discovery of Worm:Win32/Conficker.D. Investigators reverse-engineered the new variant and determined that it was programmed to generate 50,000 new domain names a day across 110 TLDs, beginning on April 1, 2009. Though this seemed ...