Monthly Archives: July 2008

Social News Networking Site “SocialMedian” Opens To Public

  SocialMedian – a new social news network that is working on solving the information overload problem, opened its website to the public today. SocialMedian Launch Features:   Anyone and everyone will now be able to use socialmedian without an invite … Continue reading

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Microsoft Releases Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition

  Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition enables you to make outbound audio calls and answer inbound phone calls from callers (PBX, PSTN, VoIP or soft-phone callers) and provides this functionality from inside or outside the company firewall. In short, … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” Now Online

  As a Microsoft blogger, here’s MY obligatory link to Microsoft’s "Mojave Experiment" (^_^) Welcome to the "Mojave Experiment"  What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it’s Windows Vista?  Microsoft disguised Windows Vista as codename "Mojave," … Continue reading

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Microsoft “Online” Deep Zoom Composer

  Microsoft’s Deep Zoom allows users to explore collections of super high resolution imagery, from a 2 or 3 megapixel shot from a digital camera to gigapixel scans of museum pieces, all without waiting for huge file downloads.  The simple … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Photosynth Team Merges With Virtual Earth

  We’ve all played with programs like Group Shoot that stitch photographs together — but Microsoft’s first public demo of Photosynth showed this was possible in 3 Dimensions!   So I was excited to read on Chris Pendleton’s MSDN Blog that … Continue reading

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Microsoft Research Upgrades HD-View “Gigapixel Panoramas” Viewer

  HD View  is the camera for the web. Its goal is to create the best picture given (a) a source with high resolution, arbitrary dynamic range, any field of view & color gamut; (b) the user’s interaction; and(c) the … Continue reading

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Microsoft Updates Creative Commons Add-in for Office 2007

  Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007 enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using: Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Software Acquisition Caligari Releases “trueSpace” Free 3D Authoring Package

  trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual … Continue reading

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Microsoft Adds Calendar Synchronization to Office Outlook Connector for Hotmail and Office Live Mail

  Microsoft Office Outlook Connector gives you access to your Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts, including email messages, contacts and calendars. Outlook Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook: Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages. … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases “AUReset” – Automatic Updates and Windows Update Reset tool

  AUReset = Automatic Updates and Windows Update Reset tool contains scripts to fix most AU and Windows Update problems. This tool supports the following client machines (x86 only for now): Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 … Continue reading

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