By Charlie Marval on 8/21/2010 6:43 PM
Windows Live Writer is a free tool from Microsoft that makes it easy to post entries to almost any blog service like Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Posterous, and TypePad. The tool allows you to post content with photos and videos.
A not so well known fact is that Live Writer can do much more with the use of plugins. Live Writer supports third party plugins that extend the base functionality well beyond text and photos. You can download out of the box plugins from http://gallery.live.com/default.aspx?pl=8 |
By Charlie Marval on 6/22/2010 12:50 AM
 Contrail, a new service developed by Microsoft researchers will allow secure encrypted sharing in any social network.
The service works by sending an encrypted filter from the phone of the person that wants to share to the phone of the person he/she wants to share with. The sharer can then send encrypted information... |
By Charlie Marval on 9/20/2009 6:42 PM
One way of increasing your online sales and increase your level of customer service is to provide a way for customers to get answers quickly and easily. While there are a number of online chat and support applications, one interesting way of providing live support is using IM on any page on your site. For instructions on how to get started go to http://bit.ly/6Aowuf. |
By Charlie Marval on 7/14/2009 11:38 PM
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8. This new version comes with a new feature called "Web Slices." It is a new approach to publishing and consuming content from any web site. It allows you to publish a fragment of your web site that users can subscribe to. Very easy to implement, you would place some special html tags around the piece of the content of your web site you want published. When the user visits your web site, they see a green highlight around the fragment you published and gives... |
By Charlie Marval on 1/30/2009 11:32 AM
 Awesome technology ... "a fundamental change in the way we interact with digital content." While only available for commercial purchase Microsoft Surface is a sign of things to come. In a nut shell, the technology is based on a table with a touch screen and a set of five cameras that allow for scanning of hand gestures and movements and the ability to scan and... |