Monthly Archives: July 2008

Another futuristic video by Microsoft

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Quite some time ago we saw this video about the future and how people do their banking.

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YouTube – Microsoft’s future vision on banking

The technologies showcased that time was a bit ‘old’ you still see the old Windows Mobile devices with stylus (its so yesterday huh). So fast forward a bit, Microsoft industry innovation group comes out with this video about how technologies help us with our health in the future. Some currently hot technologies like multi touch (it will be found on any devices, any furnitures including a smart card which will be your digital wallet) and WPF driven user experiences (developers can really get a lot of inspirations of how application UI should look like here). Check it out here.

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YouTube – Microsoft Future Vision : Healthcare

IE7 Pro First Impression

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What? Internet Explorer also got Pro edition? How much must I pay?

Actualy IE7 Pro is a free addon for Internet Explorer 7 which comes with tones of features to make Internet Explorer rocks again. Upon install you will see a IE7 Pro icon on the lower right of your IE window.

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Right click on it will brings up a host of stuff you can do

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My Favourite features would be the ability to auto refresh a website as shown below, so those websites which are not AJAX enabled I can set it to auto pull information from the web server.

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I have long yearn for a light weight Download Manager just like Firefox and now I got it in IE7Pro!

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Open up preferences and its like a pandora box with features like FasterIE webpage prefetch mechanism and more plugins like Alexa/ Google Page ranks

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So don’t wait, go download it here http://www.ie7pro.com/

Composite WPF Guidance aka Prism ships!

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The Composite Application Guidance for WPF is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications. This guidance will help you design and build flexible composite WPF client applications – applications that use loosely coupled, independently evolvable pieces that work together within the overall application.

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Check it out!

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Prism Homepage at Codeplex

Office Tips: Line Breaks Without Bullets

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Tested on Word 2007

When you’re creating a bulleted or numbered list in Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you might want an item to appear in the list without a bullet or without incrementing the number. You can start a new line without a bullet by pressing SHIFT+ENTER. The next time you press the ENTER key, the new line will continue the bulleted or numbered list.