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Friday, July 18, 2008 3:19 AM

Free technical support on Windows Vista SP1

If you're currently running Windows Vista SP1 and facing some problems with the installation, you're in LUCK! Microsoft has opened up the their technical support for free (which usually might have cost quite some money per incident), unlimited installation
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Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:42 PM

Aggr from ASP.NET Blog: Creating an Outlook Message File with C#

Following's a post I made on my ASP.NET Weblog ( http://weblogs.asp.net/darrensim/default.aspx ) I've been working with a government agency lately, and came to notice that the software system they're using dates back to the stone ages. Many a time, the
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:23 AM

Speed Browser

The war of the browsers had been persisting for many years. First with the Netscape Era, and now the Internet Explorer Era. Of course, not forgetting potential contenders such as Opera, Firefox and Safari! I've been a big fan of Microsoft IE for quite
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 3:48 PM

Microsoft Silverlight Training

It's been sometime since I last blogged about Silverlight light and the landscape has changed quite a fair bit as compared to then (while I was still with MS Singapore). Following's a timeline on how had silverlight has progressed. Version Name Version
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:56 PM

Windows XP SP3 Overview

I guess by now many would have head about the Microsoft Windows XP SP3 pushout. Many might ask, so what is this about? Is this another major fix that is going to break some other applications? The answer is NO! Before we begin describing why not, let's
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:16 AM

Windows Live Free 5gb Storage Space

Many would have been familiar with Microsoft Live offerings such as Hotmail, Messenger and etc. Recently, Microsoft have released another much anticipated service, Windows Live SkyDrive! So what exactly is skydrive? Skydrive offers consumers 5 GB of free
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:23 AM

Free Magazine Article on Custom Controls, Silverlight and ASP.NET 2.0 Reporting

ASP.NET PRO has just released it's PDF version of it's printed magazine for free for all to download. March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 Some really cool articles on the following topics for your reads: Ajax Enabled Services WCF Services ExpertPDF HTML to
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:03 PM

CBS to buy CNET Networks

CNET Networks (owner of CNET, ZDNet, GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com, CNET News.com, UrbanBaby, CHOW, Search.com, BNET, MySimon, and TechRepublic) will be acquired by CBS for at a dealed value of $1.8 b making CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:41 PM

How much are you worth?

Was just chancing across this really interesting tool/survey by ZDNetAsia, which helps IT Professionals identify their real worth with data from industry averages. Are you underpaid/well paid? Click here to find out!
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 4:09 PM

Security Compliance Management toolkit

The Security Compliance Management toolkit provides customers with best practices from Microsoft about how to plan, set, get and remediate a security baseline, along with tools that you can use to verify the implementation of recommended securit y baselines
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:31 PM

IT Workers Among the Top of Wages Chart in Singapore

I was just randomly reading some statistics on the SingGov-MOM site and stumbled upon this interesting finding... Information & Communications employees are earning a mean salary of SG$5018 in 2007! ANNUAL AVERAGE (MEAN) MONTHLY NOMINAL EARNINGS PER
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:15 PM

HP's aquisition EDS

I guess this news on the possible aquisition of EDS by HP might have came as a surprise to some while expected to some. Well, as some would have known that the Singapore government had award EDS (and it's consortiums) a billion dollar project to streamline
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 4:21 PM

Made-in-China Jumbo Jet

(Source: Channel News Asia) China has just announced it's own private jumbo-jet company yesterday, set to potentially rival global commercial jet leaders such as Boeing and Airbus. With recent advancement in chinese Aviation industry (space/commercial
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Friday, May 09, 2008 9:40 PM

BIOR 2008: Presentations made easy and guidelines to using Keynotes

Download presentations slides here... Hello to all! Yes, it's been a really long time since I last blogged about any content. Yes! A WHOPPING 5 months! Apologies to all for this long period of silence. Had been really distracted with other things in life.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:19 AM

Why Men and Women Leave IT Jobs

Source: http://www.cioinsight.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=26301&a=219756&po=13,00.asp
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