Sites Sunday, 31 October 2010-Professional Developers Conference review-Month in space-Windows memory management-Rally to restore sanity-Largest cruise ship-Fractalia

Today’s sites: Fractalia: www.ladimolnar.com/fractalia/ Life Making a Comeback on Mount St. Helens: www.livescience.com MetroTwit: www.metrotwit.com Month in Space October 2010: www.msnbc.msn.com Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed – Part Two: blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/ Mysterious Mars gullies likely carved by carbon dioxide: www.msnbc.msn.com New WordPress Theme – zBench: en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/new-theme-zbench/ Paint.NET v3.5.6 Beta: blog.getpaint.net PDC10 – Day 1: mymicrosoftlife.com/2010/10/29/pdc10-day-1/ [...]

Sites Saturday, 30 October 2010-Messenger homepage-Windows Live+foursquare=photos-Free tools for teachers-Momiga-Charles Petzold’s free ebook-Windows memory

Today’s sites: 1 Billion Entertainment Hours spent on Xbox LIVE every month: majornelson.com 5 Keys to Effective Scenario Maps: blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/ Announcing the Async CTP for Visual Basic (and also Iterators): blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/ Captions in Word for your figures (video): blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/ Exploratory Computer Science Course: blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/ Five Reasons to Switch to Windows Phone 7: www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/ Free E-book [...]

Sites Friday, 29 October 2010-Homepage images on Bing-Pixar on Azure-Windows Phone Connector for Mac-Windows Family Pack for AU-Win 7 themes-Firefox update-Adobe security alert

Today’s sites: Critical vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6: blog.mozilla.com/security/ Discovery’s last crew arrives for launch: www.msnbc.msn.com Extremely Critical Security Updates Released for Firefox and Thunderbird: news.softpedia.com/news/ Getting places faster with Bing Local: www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/ HTML5, Using the whole PC – Sixth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers: blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/ New Bing Map App – “Shout!” [...]

Sites Thursday, 28 October 2010-Bing homepage images-New Bing Maps app: Route Optimizer-Visual Basic, C# get started videos-SHOUT-TakeITGlobal-Imagine Cup 2011

Today’s sites: Bing Homepage Images via Bing Visual Search: www.bing.com/visualsearch Educators share their thoughts on Bing’s Our School Needs: www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/education/ Everybody… SHOUT!: blogs.msdn.com/b/teachers/ Hotmail hijacked? Here’s what to do: blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytipstalk/ Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge: blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/ Indonesian eruption (Slideshow): www.msnbc.msn.com Murrindindi Shire picks bushfire safer places: www.abc.net.au/news/ New Bing Map App – OnTerra’s “RouteSavvy” Route [...]

Sites Wednesday, 27 October 2010-Windows keyboard shortcuts-Saving time-Find WP7 apps-Internet safety calendar-Buying a netbook-Windows 7 libraries-Humour

Today’s sites: 20 PC Shortcuts You Need to Know: www.microsoft.com/windows/explore/20-pc-shortcuts.aspx 30 Ways to Save 30 Minutes a Day: www.marcandangel.com Basics for safer downloading: www.microsoft.com/atwork/security/ Bing and Microsoft Tag make downloading the perfect app a snap: www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/search/ Booming China shows off its 220 mph train: www.msnbc.msn.com Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery: sixrevisions.com/tutorials/ Electronic [...]

Sites Tuesday, 26 October 2010-Windows Phone 7 hardware-Windows tips-New Messenger for Mac-Beware of fake Security Essentials-Locust activity increasing

Today’s sites: Basic right-click tips: www.microsoft.com/atwork/skills/ Create incredible documents more easily using Office 2010: www.microsoft.com/atwork/skills/ Dawn of a New Day – Ray Ozzie’s Memo to Microsoft Staff: ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/ Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone: team.silverlight.net/tips-and-training/ Fake Microsoft Security Essentials software on the loose. Don’t be fooled by it: windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowssecurity/ Help with signing into Windows Live [...]

Sites Monday, 25 October 2010-Kinect, the game changer-Windows Phone Australia-Writing or just practicing-Privacy-Facebook one-time passwords

Today’s sites: Bing – Your Ticket to Fall Football: www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/search/ Facebook Tightens Security with One-Time Passwords: www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/ Texas Gulley Washer: blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/ What? No more dirty cruise ships?: www.msnbc.msn.com What the Internet Knows About You: www.newsweek.com Windows Product Scout: blogs.msdn.com/b/stevecla01/ With Kinect, Microsoft Aims for a Game Changer: www.nytimes.com Windows Phone 7 – Touchdown Australia: blogs.msdn.com/b/windows7au/ [...]

Sites Sunday, 24 October 2010-webDotWizard sites on WordPress-Microsoft Security Intelligence Report-End of Sony Walkman

Today’s sites: ChenieChene – Dr Swamp Murchison photos: cheniechene.wordpress.com Crypto Primer – Understanding encryption, public/private key, signatures and certificates: blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/ End Of An Era – Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans: www.crunchgear.com Gloria’s Family History: glorialennoxmyblog.wordpress.com JBMurch travel – Photo highlights of Alaskan cruise: jbmurchtravel.wordpress.com Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 9 (Jan – June 2010): www.microsoft.com/security/sir/ [...]

Sites Saturday, 23 October 2010-One year of Windows 7-Windows Phone 7 review-Kinect ads-Bing Maps + UNHCR-Visual Basic-Flight Sim-FB+Teachers+Students

Today’s sites: A look back at the year since Windows 7 released: windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/ Awesome Halloween Movie Making Contest from Instructables.com: windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/ Bing Maps Now a Component on UNHCR.org to Help Protect and Empower Refugees: www.bing.com/community/Site_Blogs/b/maps/ Developing Applications with Visual Basic: msdn.microsoft.com/library/k6a6etxs.aspx Flight Simulator – Behind the Scenes look at 737NG Home Cockpit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=irEtGyaQtN4 General Motors [...]

Sites Friday, 22 October 2010-Windows Phone 7 devices available-WP7 review-Messenger for WP7-HP Slate-Kinect videos-REDU-Getting results the Agile Way-Game Store

Today’s sites: 40 Hour Work Week at Microsoft: blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/ Bouncing Circle with HTML5 Canvas: blogs.technet.com/b/softienerd/ HP Slate 500 finally (finally!) official, rings up at $799: www.engadget.com Kinect for Xbox Videos: www.youtube.com/user/xbox Messenger for Windows Phone 7: blogs.msdn.com/b/stevecla01/ Microsoft to Launch Browser-based Game Store: mashable.com Nissan LEAF electric car’s touch-screen Hub powered by Windows Embedded Automotive: [...]