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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:25 PM

Slaves to E-Mail?

Over the past few days, it seems that I've been involved in a few conversations about the volume of e-mail at Microsoft. My general impression is that most of us believe that we send and receive a lot of e-mail as compared to others. Of course, we don't
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Friday, August 19, 2005 5:43 PM

Submit Your Show Off Videos

If you've been following my blog recently, I've been talking a lot about the Show Off event we're planning for the Professional Developer's Conference next month. Well, we have most of the details ironed out, and you can read about what it takes to submit
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:53 PM

PDC05 Buzzcast #7: Show Off

As we continue to plan for an exciting two-hour event at this year's Professional Developer's Conference , you can hear Thomas Lewis and I talk about the Show Off concept in the latest PDC05 Buzzcast #7 . By the way, Michael Lehman , a fellow technical
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:20 PM

Adobe Blogs and PDC 2005 Show Off

I feel like I'm breaking some blog rule by covering two different topics in the same post, but both topics are so short that neither of them warrants a full post of their own. First, Adobe joins the corporate blogging world and encourages its employees
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:04 PM

Acrylic August 2005 CTP Exports to XAML

The Acrylic August 2005 Community Technology Preview is now available for download (~82MB). Of particular interest to me is the new XAML export support; this makes Acrylic a very powerful tool for creating high-quality artwork for the Windows Presentation
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Friday, August 12, 2005 2:26 PM

Show Off at PDC 2005

Although I haven't had the time to blog about my experience, I attended SIGGRAPH 2005 at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, and it was an amazing show. On Tuesday night, I attended a 2-hour event called the Electronic Theater where a sold-out
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:13 AM

SyncToy for Windows XP

If you're like me, you probably have thousands of digital photos and documents that you want to backup or copy to external media. In my case, I copy everything to an external 160GB XIMETA NetDisk for safe keeping. I have used the free version of Allway
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Monday, August 08, 2005 9:57 PM

Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX Beta 1

If you've installed the WinFX Runtime Components Beta 1 and the associated WinFX SDK , and you're wondering where the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as "Avalon") and Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as "Indigo") project
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