A few months back I’ve started working with Giorgio Sardo on a Facebook IE8 Web Slice. In fact there were a few people that already were aware of that and have been bugging me for the download link ;-) since my TechEd 2009 interview and my IE8 talk at Microsoft Dev Days where I’ve shown just a glimpse of it. Well your wait is over, yesterday Microsoft officially released a set of very useful IE8 addons that target Facebook at the IE addons site that include the Facebook Web Slice. I can’t...

I’ve just rebooted from a Windows update only to find at my startup screen the following window.   And I am wondering do other OSes have something similar …

I guess that everyone is already downloading Windows7 and you all probably use Micosoft File Transfer Manager, What most of you haven’t noticed is that there is another link at the MSDN Top Downloads page which is delivered via Akamai. Usin that my download speeds jumped from 50KB/s to 1MB/s when I switched to it. So if you’re in a harry (like me ;-) use that link.

Back on February 2007 I blogged about a prototype project of Human Productivity Lab, code named Bumptop and was claiming that we’re really not that far from seeing something like that becoming available for end-users. Well today I found out that I wasn’t wrong. Bumptop is officially released and available in two versions a free one as well as a Pro one for a small fee. Check it out in the following video. Now imagine that desktop running on Windows 7 at a multitouch screen ;-) Unfortunately I’m using the default windows 7 beta graphics...

I’ve been wanting to write about Windows 7 for some time now but waited to try them more in order to get a clearer picture for Microsoft’s new operating system. So here’s what I found out so far: Advantages: Really really small footprint which results in great performance. I’ve even tried it to a small netbook I’ve got and it works really really well. New and improved taskbar allows program grouping. One of my greatest features. Windows 7 new taskbar groups all the programs that are running into a single icon...