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Ran across this today. Setting up a laptop, and one team we use Windows Live Messenger, the other Google Talk. I know there is Trillian, Digsby, etc, but I just wanted to use Windows Live Messenger, but still IM Google Talk contacts BuddyFuse integrates Google Talk and Twitter into Windows Live Messenger BuddyFuse to the [...]

Microsoft has published a site, PC vs Mac There is only one thing you have to know, everything else is fluff. You will never get a blue screen of death on a Mac. Oh, I got one last night on a Windows machine. With an xlsx half way open and not done yet. Lovely. done. [...]

Last week Flipboard informed me that their iPad app was ready for me to use (I have had it since day one, but their servers were overwhelmed). The premise is that it takes your Twitter and Facebook feeds and creates personal “magazines”. It has other aggregated/curated content from around the web as well. I don’t [...]

Funny how you might not EVER use a given tool, and some days you might end up using it twice. Sysinternals Procmon was that tool today. It is the successor from old utils from Sysinternals – Filemon and Regmon. What does it do? It monitors all processes and services and watches what they are doing [...]

Virtual Machines have been around for years. VMWare and Microsoft have been the main competitors for a while, both offering somewhat similar products. Parallels for Mac is another, and Virtual Box for pretty much everything. I have used them all. When it comes right down to it, VMWare, to me, is ahead of the rest, [...]

According to Gizmodo, Hulu+ Invites are Now Arriving.. Well, I got mine on July 16th. And I have already cancelled it. It isn’t worth 10 dollars a month, at least not a this point. Why? Well, first off, your queue and shows on regular Hulu aren’t in Hulu+, so you can’t watch them on the [...]

For a while, there have been offerings from Google (Google Apps/Docs), Zoho, and others, and recently, Microsoft jumped into the “online office” game with office.live.com. Pretty cool. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in the cloud. Limited, but you can create docs, share them, edit them, with *no software* installed on your system. Good in a [...]

I have used a ton of “meeting” apps. Live Meeting, Goto Meeting, ATT Web Conference, TeamViewer, etc, etc. Best of the best? My opinion? Goto Meeting. Easy to setup, easy to use. Just works. There is also an iPad app! I have used a couple of times and it works great. Whenever some *other* meeting [...]

I still love it. Like I said, I don’t use it as a phone. But I have noticed something different (And I blame AT&T for this – working for cell phone company for 5 years, I blame the carrier :)) In Madison/Sun Prairie, I get 3G ,works great, no issues. When I drive out to [...]

So, I previously blogged about using PivotViewer in your Web Applications, but you can also just consume Pivot collections using the “Pivot” tool from Microsoft Live Labs You can download it here What does this tool offer? Well first it has a library/homepage of collections you can browse You can do some slicing and dicing [...]