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At http://BuildWindows.com we received a really Nice Samsung Slate with Windows 8 developer preview loaded. Playing around with the hard button combinations, I found that holding the Windows Home key, along with pressing the Power Button brings up a quick menu, with access to the Task Manager.
Saturday, September 11, 8am to 8pm. All day baby! What a great event. I’m not really sure where to start, so I’ll just start rambling from the beginning and see where it takes us. First, the setup. Microsoft was kind enough to supply the learning materials. Let’s face it, WinPhone7 isn’t released ye
For the last few years, I’ve been using the free Google apps for my email and calendar solutions. I’ve been what I would call a power user on Google Mail – falling in love with the keyboard shortcuts, and the idea of archive over delete, and the conversation view of email. That really sums up
Welcome to the QuickStats wiki! I’m @ScottCate and I created and am maintaining the QuickStats applications. Here I will write a few notes regarding the code for Quick Stats. Quick Stats is a sports reporting engine built on top of the FanFeedr API. The code is used for individual apps for each team
I’ve recently been considering GoDaddy.com as a DNS provider. I have 150+ domains registered at GoDaddy.com, and they offer a nice software panel for DNS entries. I’ve been using DNSMadeEasy for a very long time, on the recommendation of Tim Heuer, way back in the day. I didn’t use
VSLive is coming the first week of August, 2010, and I’ll be speaking at the event, talking about Visual studio. Use and abuse it to the best of your ability. My talks over the last few years have been around productivity, and this one follows suit. Plain and simple: Use Visual Studio better. That’s
So I have another application in the Windows Phone Marketplace publish today. It’s a nice little application with great functionality. Saving you 10’s of seconds at a time 🙂 If you use twitter from a Mobile Application, you know it’s sometimes slow to start. When these applications start, they typi
There is a Keyboard trick that is very common with [WIN]+[Arrow] that will move windows around your desktop, and dock them side to side. Here is what the four arrows do … [Win]+[Left Arrow] will Dock the active window to the left of the current screen [Win]+[Right Arrow] will Dock the active window
I’m happy to have accepted the prestigious Microsoft Regional Director award in February, 2011. The Regional Director program is an award that is given to outstanding community members, who support the Microsoft Stack. You may have heard of the MVP program? The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional’s
