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Environmental Data Management at NOAA: Archiving, Stewardship and Access

Environmental Data Management at NOAA: Archiving, Stewardship and Access A recent publication available via National Academies Press – Environmental Data Management at NOAA: Archiving, Stewardship and Access is, IMHO, a must-read for anybody gathering any type of data (not just … Continue reading

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Sync’ing your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar

Sync’ing your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar The problem with the previous posting about the iPhone Activesync to Exchange is that it’s going to be months before any of it becomes a reality.  I think they’re talking June or … Continue reading

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Exchange & ActiveSync – Coming soon to an iPhone near you

Exchange & ActiveSync – Coming soon to an iPhone near you Apple did some announcing yesterday (March 6) regarding the "iPhone Software Roadmap".  One of the announcements was that you’ll be able to sync your Apple iPhone and perhaps your … Continue reading

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Vista SP1 changes to Remote Desktop Sessions

Vista SP1 Changes to Remote Desktop Sessions A colleague brought up an interesting change in the switches used to establish remote desktop sessions.  In original Vista, if you wanted to fire up a console session on a remote box, you’d … Continue reading

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Worldwide Telescope Talk at TED

Worldwide Telescope Talk at TED Roy Gould & Curtis Wong gave a quick glimpse into a Microsoft Research project called the WorldWide Telescope at a TED talk in February.  This appears to be building on the SeaDragon and HD View … Continue reading

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Crayon Physics Deluxe

Crayon Physics Deluxe A finalist in the 2008 Independent Games Festival (IGF) – Crayon Physics Deluxe looks like it’s going to be a pretty cool educational app – and fun to boot.  I plan on getting it for my son … Continue reading

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GRC.COM Goodies from Steve Gibson

GRC.COM Goodies For those not familiar with Steve Gibson and the goodies available on his site, I figured I’d post some links to some pretty useful software tools and freebies. Script-free Pure CSS Menu Always the security purist, Steve Gibson … Continue reading

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Mole Project – A Debugger for Visual Studio

Mole – Debugging App for Visual Studio I heard about this on the Polymorphic Podcast when Craig interviewed Josh Smith about the Mole Project. Looks to be a sweet add-on for the serious Visual Studio developer – with support for … Continue reading

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Live Mail / Hotmail is Back!

Live Mail / Hotmail Access Restored! Finally, I’m back online with my Live mail account.  For those none Live/Hotmail users, there was a slight hiccup in the matrix that took Hotmail/Live mail offline this week.  By midweek, reports were that … Continue reading

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Hyper-V

Win2k8 RTM + Hyper-V Pre-Release = ALMOST Well, we’re ALMOST there…Windows Server 2008 has RTM’d and is ALMOST available to market.  Reading through the fine print online, it seems that Hyper-V is included on the disc, well…ALMOST…it’s a pre-release version … Continue reading

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