It has a 7-inch1024x600 multi-touch screen, 1.00 Ghz processor, GPS, wi-fi, 3G internet, 1.4 megapixel webcam, 7 hours battery life if playing a video (I imagine much longer than that in normal use)

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2. Apple iPad replacing PCs as well as paper?
3. No Flash on iPad? No problem – we’ll redesign the site says NPR and others

...continue reading Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role

1. Microsoft playing HTML 5 standards game alongside Silverlight game
2. Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it
3. Silverlight 4.0 released to the web; tools still not final

Fortunately I know exactly what this means. Read here for my earlier explanation. And if I go

...continue reading Delphi XE still not quite ready for Vista/Windows 7

1. Delphi and C++ Builder 2010 are out
2. Delphi and Windows Installer: small problem, fiddly solution
3. Installing Delphi 2006 on Vista

...continue reading Open season for patent litigation makes case for reform

1. Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz makes the case for free and open source software
2. Oracle still foisting Google Toolbar on Java users
3. The end of Sun’s bold open source experiment

In this case it is Font ‘Lucida Sans’ does not support style ‘Regular’; but the font varies and other common

...continue reading Font does not support style regular – a fix for this annoying error

1. Should IT administration be less annoying?
2. Annoying Word 2007 problem: can’t select text
3. Word 2010 ugly font in .doc format

...continue reading Review: Tapworthy – designing great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark

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2. Spotify for iPhone looks great – if Apple allows it
3. Enterprise app development on Apple iPhone and iPad

Why bother? There’s two aspects to this. One is simply the comfort factor: if you are a .NET developer used to Visual Studio, but now working on Flash or Flex, this could

...continue reading Develop for Adobe Flash/Flex in Amethyst for Visual Studio

1. Amethyst from SapphireSteel: Develop Flex in Visual Studio, an alternative to Tofino
2. Develop for Adobe Flex in Microsoft Visual Studio – or maybe not
3. Adobe’s Flex Builder to Flash Builder name change does not go far enough

They include printing in Word when in edit mode,new chart tools in Excel, and again in Excel the handy autofill tool, which lets you drag the bottom left corner of a selection to extend it automatically. In the

...continue reading Cloud users get Microsoft Office Web Apps update first

1. Linux users will need a Microsoft Office license to use Office Web Apps
2. Microsoft’s Office Web Apps enter technical preview
3. Office Web Apps: is Microsoft missing its big opportunity?

What else? Well, Schmelzer and Seven had read my earlier blog post so we discussed some of the things I speculated about. Windows Phone 7? Won’t be in

...continue reading Visual Studio LightSwitch – model-driven architecture for the mainstream?

1. Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
2. Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role
3. Visual Studio 2010 RC arrives with go-live license

...continue reading Ten things you need to know about Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch

1. Visual Studio LightSwitch – model-driven architecture for the mainstream?
2. New Visual Studio 2010 beta has WPF editor, Silverlight designer
3. Silverlight versus HTML, Flash – Microsoft defends its role