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i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective organizations dedicated...
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IE7 Buttons

I downloaded IE7 yesterday. So far, it looks and works much better than IE 6 (Good job IE team!). I have a small gripe about the position of the buttons though. The buttons I use the most are the Forward, Back, Refresh, Stop and Home buttons. I wish these...

Office 2007 Export to PDF

Update (Nov 16 2006): Microsoft now provides an add-in to Office 2007 which allows you to save as PDF or XPS. It was a big dissapointment to hear that Adobe is making Microsoft remove PDF support from Office 2007. This means that CutePDF writer is going...
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Lego Mindstorms NXT

Lego Mindstorms NXT will be available in August 2006! Lego has announced that the firmware for the Mindstorms NXT will be open source and will be releasing developer kits too. I am sure the .net interface for Lego Mindstorms will also be updated to support...
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Google Bookmarks : Notebook

Google Notebook was released yesterday - I think it is really cool to be able to access your notes from anywhere. They ought to extend it to allow users to access their browser bookmarks from anywhere. One step closer to Global Personal Information Access...
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Ajax and double buffering..

As I look at the new www.live.com interface, a thought came to my mind. I think it would be cool if the very first time an Ajax application is loaded, the web server would collect all the information from whatever different sources (which can be cached...
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Secure Logon?

I don't get it. When I need to logon to a secure site, I expect to see a https url before I enter my username and password. All the sites listed below (except Citibank) prompt you for the user name and password on a http page and it says that the information...
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Patent for Ajax/Web 2.0 ?

I read about this patent on digg a few minutes ago. Rich-media applications are designed and created via the Internet. A host computer system, containing processes for creating rich-media applications, is accessed from a remote user computer system via...
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ASP.net chat - Open request to the ASP.net team

I would like to request the ASP.net team to consider holding chat sessions from time to time. Just like before, each session should focus on a specifc area. Looking at the chat archive , the last time a chat with the ASP.net team occured was in December...
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The problem with Biometric fingerprint readers

Biometric fingerprint readers allow you to logon to your computer in the active directory and to your favorite websites with the touch of your finger. Unfortunately, most users rely so much on fingerprint readers that they forget their domain password...
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