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Video on the new Office 2007 interface

Monday, March 27th, 2006

On Microsoft’s website you can see the new Microsoft Office 2007 interface in action. Menus and dialog boxes are being replaced by “browse, pick and click” actions. If you’d rather see some screenshots, you can check out the Geekpedia gallery.
If you’re interested in joining the Microsoft Office 2007 beta, you can sign up at Microsoft […]

Made in Express contest: $10,000

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

I learned about this contest on David’s blog.
What you have to do is think about a cool application that you could develop in Visual Express. After filtering the ideas, if you are a finalist you can start building the application. Then the winners are being selected, and hopefully you’ll be one of them. What’s at […]

Deleting saved password from Internet Explorer

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

So you’ve been using the automatically remember password feature of Internet Explorer so you don’t have to type your password again and again, every time you log in. That’s a very handy feature, and it doesn’t involve security issues unless you are using it on a public computer.
In certain situations, you’ll want to remove the […]

Thank you for SQL Server 2005

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Microsoft and Electric Artists sent me a fully licensed copy of SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, because of a small promotion I did for this product on Geekpedia.com (see Escape From Yesterworld if you haven’t seen it yet).
I really needed SQL Server 2005 since my trial was about to expire, so I’m very excited. Thanks!

Internet Explorer 7 Commercial

Friday, February 10th, 2006

One funny commercial for the new Windows Internet Explorer 7. Screenshots of the new browser can be seen at
http://www.geekpedia.com/software51_Internet-Explorer-7-Beta-2-Preview.html.

Firefox users can download the video at
http://www.geekpedia.com/video/Internet Explorer 7 Commercial.wmv.