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By carlaschroder : 20 October 2009 - 02:43 PM

You often see documentation with instructions like "you must use different subnets for this to work," or "be sure your hosts are all on the same network." But, you're a bit haz...

By kbnotes : Yesterday, 09:36 AM

In a little over a month, Microsoft will release Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. As a part of Office, Microsoft will offer a suite of Office Web Apps—Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote--that will...

By kbnotes : Yesterday, 04:05 AM

The following excerpt is from the forthcoming Inside Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 by Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, and Scot Hillier: The server-side object model for SharePoint has long been soph...

By zigurd : 10 April 2010 - 07:54 AM

Avoid hierarchy In a previous post called Ten Tips for Android Application Development, which was a compilation of tips by the authors of Android Application Development, I added a bonus tip about nav...

By MikeH : 09 April 2010 - 08:32 AM

I really want my iPad to be a all around utility tool for entertainment, travel, business and pretty much anything I need some computing power to accomplish. So I set out looking for business apps tha...

By LaurelRuma : 09 April 2010 - 02:14 PM

In this chapter from Open Government, Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation discusses a modern-day reading of The Golden Rule. Washington’s golden rule is different from the one we all l...

By adfm : 09 April 2010 - 01:10 PM

Sometimes it's nice to drop down into a command line to get things done. WIth this tip from Wei-Meng Lee's Windows 7: Up and Running, you'll be able to access the command window with minimal effort....

By blackbear : 08 April 2010 - 01:05 PM

There are two ways to look at the new features that Apple announced today, from the end-user perspective, and from the developer perspective. With that in mind, let's talk a bit about some of the mor...

By bjepson : 04 April 2010 - 04:44 PM

Back when the iPad was announced, my friend Morgan and I talked about a concern some people have with the iPad. Because you can't program right on the iPad, we run the risk of depriving kids of wh...

By macslocum : 01 April 2010 - 11:53 AM

Jealousy flowed through the Internet last week as tech review royals received an early look at the iPad. Now, as Saturday's public debut looms, the fruits of that review labor are emerging. And sur...

By adfm : 07 April 2010 - 03:12 PM

Google's URL shortener goo.gl will generate a QR code if you append .qr to any URL. The only bummer thing about this is that you can't just go to goo.gl and create a shortened URL. Apparently ...