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Tag Archives: Microsoft
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

You may have read that Kinect for Windows will be arriving on 1st Feb. This device is the only one to be supported on the commercial full version of the Kinect for Windows SDK. Many have said this is a good thing, and in some ways they may be right. However I think Microsoft have [...]

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Sunday, April 17th, 2011

I was reading this interesting (and bravely-titled) post on cross-browser testing earlier and scrolling down this memory-jogging infographic detailing the history of modern web browsers when I got to the bottom where Chrome came into existence and thought back to that day in early September 2008 when Chrome was first leaked then announced and the [...]

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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

ParcelGenie is a website which allows you to send real-world gifts to your online friends. Be it though LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or the brand new Windows Phone 7 app, you buy the gift and say who you want to send it to, and they will take care of the rest.

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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

The full release of WebMatrix is now available. It’s a great tool designed to be easy to use to build great websites. It comes with a load of built in project templates including DotNetNuke, Joomla, WordPress and more. You may have noticed this list includes PHP software – WebMatrix and the servers that support it [...]

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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The videos from PDC, Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference back in October are now online. Channel 9 were live at the event, and had some extremely interesting interviews in the “backchannel” for the conference. They spoke to Scott Guthrie, head of the developer division at Microsoft, who covers all kinds of topics including how to get [...]

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