There’s a good post over on the MS Digital Memories Experience blog about how you can use the various Windows Live tools to add Geotags to photos without the need for GPS. It’s then followed with another post about linking your photos to a tour within Live Search Maps. It got me thinking… That’s pretty […]
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LCS Public IM Connectivity
Here at work we’ve just setup Public IM Connectivity (PIC) on our Live Communications Server setup. Although it’s not my project I’ve been slightly involved as I designed the original setup here a few years ago. The good news is that it all seems to work quite well, you can’t quite do everything you could […]
Group Policy Preferences
Back in the day I used to look after big desktop deployments both here at Atkins and a few other places. Managing large numbers of desktops is always a problem. There’s no doubt that managed desktops are A Good Thing(TM), but the tools available to do the job were always a bit harsh on either […]
Dashwire – Mobile Synchronisation
Spotted a nice new service over over on Jason Langridge’s Blog. Dashwire syncs Windows Mobile (and soon Symbian apparently) phones and PDA’s with a web service. I’ve only just signed up but it looks pretty cool. It runs a client on the device that syncs all your basic phone info (contacts, bookmarks, SMS’s etc) as […]
HP Does Cloud Infrastructure
Seeing as I’m involved in getting a new Data Centre at the moment this post over on ZDnet could my eye. Looks like HP is to target a ‘data centre as a service’ product at enterprise customers. I’ve heard bits about this for a few years now – HP account managers will bore you silly […]