Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is a nice software for professional or amateur photographers which allows to add location information to the photos i.e. to geotag photos. By adding location information, it becomes easier to find photos by searching for the name of the place where you clicked the photo. If you are heavily in photography [...]
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Technology
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Microsoft’s PopFly, an easy mashup maker, has added a new feature named PopFly Game Creator. The new feature lets you create your own games without writing any code. The PopFly Game Creator is based on Microsoft’s Rich Internet Application and Multimedia platform, Silverlight. The Game Creator provides the ability to build a new game or [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Imagine you open your Outlook just to be greeted with an error saying that the Outlook will not work because of the corrupt Outlook Data File. But you don’t need to worry as you will not lose any data nor you have to create a new PST or OST file and transfer the account to [...]
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Technology
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Microsoft has released the Messenger for Mac version 7 with new features for both home as well corporate users. The Messenger: Mac 7 version provides the ability for the personal users to find their contacts by name or e-mail address and assign nicknames to their friends. Another big feature for personal users is the support [...]
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Technology
Monday, April 21st, 2008

A bad news for those who access their Hotmail accounts using Microsoft’s Outlook Express. Microsoft is planning to disable the Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol (DAV) which is required to access Hotmail using Outlook Express. The change is expected to happen by June 30, 2008. This move looks more of a push from Microsoft for [...]
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Technology
Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Microsoft has announced the private beta launch of its “All-In-One” subscription service which was code named “Albany” and has been under covers for a very long time. Albany is Microsoft’s latest move in line with its strategy of providing Software plus Services to the customers and keep up with the competition from the likes of [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

For some people Outlook is just inevitable; either by choice or otherwise. Here is a list of 12 add-ins and toolbars which will enhance your Outlook experience and make the madbox inbox more social and productive. These plug-ins will help you derive more value from almost all components of Outlook i.e. the email, addressbook and [...]
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Technology
Thursday, April 10th, 2008

New York Times is reporting that Microsoft is expected to launch a service on Thursday which will provide driving directions to the users for avoiding traffic jams. The Web-based service named Clearflo will take into account takes into account the prevailing traffic patterns and on the basis of that it will provide information about the [...]
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Business
Monday, April 7th, 2008

Amidst lots of guess work from the blogosphere about how will Yahoo respond to Microsoft, a letter has been sent out to Microsoft from the Yahoo’s Board of Directors and CEO Jerry Yang. As anticipated by the blogosphere, the letter mentions that: They will not let Microsoft acquire the company at this value Yahoo is [...]
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Silverlight is an effort from Microsoft to challenge Adobe Flash and Action Script as the de facto platform for developing Rich Internet Applications and Video streaming. Silverlight has started to gain momentum in the Rich Internet Applications space. I am taking this opportunity to list down few resources which will help aspiring Silverlight developers and [...]