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William Stanek has over 20 years of hands-on experience with advanced programming and development. He has written nearly 100 books.

Tony Northrup , a Boston-area network security consultant and technology author, developed his interest in home automation after renting an apartment where every light was controlled by pulling a string. Tony's wife, Erica, ensures his home hacking projects are user-friendly and reliable, while his cat, Sammy, mangles every project within paw's reach.…

Todd Ogasawara is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

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What's New in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

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• How to Make Quick, On-the-Fly Backups in Windows 7
• Using Windows PowerShell for Event Monitoring
• Getting Started with Windows Azure
• Mastering Window Management with Windows 7 Tricks
• What's New with Windows Search?
• Get to Know Windows 7's System Support Tools
• How to Decipher a Blue Screen of Death
• A Grab Bag of Visual Basic Form Tips
• How to Enable BitLocker on USB Flash Drives
• Get Quick Access to Windows 7 Control Panel

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David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual Is Here! - Ingenious Tips and Tricks, Disarming Humor

"Already it's clear that Windows 7 is the best-reviewed, best-loved, and just plain best version of Windows ever," notes David Pogue, bestselling author and personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. "I thought it deserved the full Pogue treatment: ingenious tips and tricks, disarming humor, 500 illustrations, outstanding index, spectacular clarity of writing, and, of course, complete modesty." Learn all about Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual here.

How to get started with Windows Phone Programming

The all new Windows Phone 7 Series holds a promise to be an amazing personal mobile phone with new innovative user interface and functionality, as well as a great development platform on which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. I hope you are ready to start coding your first Windows Phone (WP) application and get hands-on experience with the platform. Learn more about Windows Phone programming now.

Inside the E-Wars: So Long Twitter You're a Fad Going Bye-Bye?

Twitter has been a fun experiment for me the past few months as I take a break from tech writing and focus on my creative side. Interesting, Twitter usage study out from Barracuda Labs. This annual report follows their 2008...

Automatic Memory Management (Garbage Collection)

Jeffrey Richter shares a section from Chapter 21, "Automatic Memory Management (Garbage Collection)," of his new book, CLR via C#, Third Edition. This section discusses a new .NET 4.0 class called ConditionalWeakTable and explains how to use it along with C#'s extension methods in order to associate an arbitrary piece of data with various objects. In effect, providing Object Local Storage. Read more.

Windows Phone 7 Preview Makes Waves

Microsoft provided an extensive preview of its upcoming replacement for the aging Windows Mobile platform at the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, Spain today--and by most accounts, they've come up with a big winner.

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