Monthly Archive: August 2009

Aug 27 2009

Windows 7 Line In

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I just recalled a video I watched on Channel9 which shows you that you can connect an MP3 player, in my case an iPhone via the line in and listen to your content via your PC speakers….  Larry showing this at around 56 mins in. Link to video: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Inside-Windows-7-Larry-Osterman-on-new-audio-capabilities/

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Aug 26 2009

Exchange SP2 is released today

Exchange SP2 has been release today and can be downloaded form here. Although there does seem to be a few issues with installation on SBS 2008, see The Official SBS Blog post here for more information. Sigh..  Surely this should of been catered for and we shouldn’t have to go off hacking the registry….   …

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Aug 24 2009

Twitter Down Again!

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    UPDATE: Backup now, seem to be having intermitted access here in the UK.

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Aug 24 2009

Outlook 2007 Managing RSS Feeds

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Had this error starting coming up in outlook the last few days: Believe it or not I couldn’t ID which feed had the issue, I went into the RSS folder and right clicked but it doesn’t display the URL. Eventually I found it in Tools > Accounts > RSS Tab, double click on each feed …

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Aug 24 2009

Windows 7 Family Pack

Just reading on the Windows Team Blog, that we are indeed going to be able to purchase the Windows 7 Family Pack here in the UK. This will allow 3 PC’s to be upgraded in the home.  This is good news, however the bad news, is that’s it’s only going to be on sale for …

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Aug 20 2009

Twitter

Ah – Twitter seems to be down again!  They really need to sort this.

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Aug 08 2009

The Next Big Move

Google has said that they are going to enter the OS Market late next year with ChromeOS. With Office 2010 bringing office to the Web (at last!) then I think Microsoft should introduce a free, yes that’s right, free version of Windows. This wouldn’t be any more than Windows with a browser, including the ballot …

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Aug 03 2009

MSN TV

Microsoft has launched MSN TV in the UK, which is great even ad supported the more methods we have watching content legally the better. When I first heard about this on PC Pro’s news when site the surprise was that it was based on flash rather than silverlight. Indeed this is odd, when I used …

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