I recently got a few Microsoft DreamSpark invites, and since I’m already an MSDN subscriber, I couldn’t find a good use for those invites. So I’ve planned to give them away on a weekly bases. Although DreamSpark is available for free, you wont be able to get access to it unless you’re educational institution is a part of it! My university is an MSDNAA partner but not a DreamSpark one, so I know how that feels. But this is your chance to change your luck!  Read more...

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Zack from iGeneration has his ways of getting a peak at all the good stuff earlier than most. How he does that? I have no idea. He’s done it again by posting some never seen before images of Office 2010 again ( he had posted an image of Word 2010 splashscreen earlier). This time he has provided a logo, about box image, a screenshot of the new energetic UI that includes a new start page, and finally a screenshot of Outlook 2010 with its new Ribbon UI.  Read more...

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*chirp just got updated and renamed to blu. TinyURL integration is available in the new version. Just paste in the URL and it’ll convert into a TinyURL. It’s really that simple. The performance also seems noticeably faster in blu than chirp. chirp used to hog around 110 MB of memory for me, where as blu just uses 36 MB.  Read more...

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