by Ron Bertino on April 27, 2010
As you may have heard, Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). It’s available for download via MSDN, and will soon become available in the retail market.
I had been running the Office 2010 beta for a few months, and thought I would take the opportunity to now upgrade to the full version of Office 2010.
I originally tried to uninstall the Office 2010 beta, and it was taking forever. So I hit the cancel button, and it cancelled correctly…..or so it seemed.
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by Ron Bertino on March 29, 2010
I normally use a screen capture tool called Camtasia in order to create videos.
Even though Camtasia has a built-in video/audio editor, I prefer using a semi-professional video editor called Sony Vegas.
When I upgraded to Windows 7 recently, I decided to install the 64-bit version of Windows 7 in order to get the maximum amount of performance out of my system.
Of course, you want to try to also install as many 64-bit applications on top of your new 64-bit operating system in order to get maximum leverage of the new technology. So I therefore installed the 64-bit edition of Sony Vegas.
The problem I ran into was that when I would try to import my screen captures from Camtasia into Sony Vegas, Vegas would only see the audio track and would not properly import the video track.
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by Ron Bertino on March 10, 2010
Although most people use Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends, Facebook fan pages are a great way for you to keep in touch with your customers.
When someone on your personal Facebook page leaves a comment for you on your wall, by default, you’ll be notified of this via email.
Unfortunately this is not the case for fan pages. Facebook currently acknowledge that this functionality is not currently available.
Do Facebook seriously expect us to have to manually monitor every single fan page we create every single day? This is beyond a joke and needs to be fixed immediately.
There are a bunch of people already trying to persuade Facebook of how important this functionality is in one of the Facebook discussion forums.
I’m adding a helping hand myself, and have created the following YouTube video which explains everything clearly, tells you a potential work-around, and also tells you the two action items we need to take to try to get Facebook to come to their senses and provide us with viable email notification options.
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by Ron Bertino on February 16, 2010
Windows Mobile 7, which has been rebranded to a new name of “Windows Phone 7 Series”, is a completely redesigned system.
Ok, let me voice a few gripes I have with just that initial paragraph content.
Firstly, if you are going to completely redesign something from the ground up, and on top of that you’re going to be choosing a new brand name for what you’ve just built, then you can’t call it “series 7” rather than “version 1.0”.
Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand how most people are nervous about a 1.0 release, and it may be better to tell them that it’s really a version 7 release, but you and I both know that this is BS.
If you look at the interface, it seems that they heavily borrowed code from the Zune HD, so a name such as “Zune Phone” may have been a much better fit.
Secondly, I can’t help but keep wanting to slap Microsoft around every time they come out with one of these awful long-winded names. This would have been a great time to choose a nice and catchy short name.
“iPhone” vs “Windows Phone 7 Series”. The latter really rolls nicely off the tongue, right? I guess I should be happy they didn’t call it “Windows Zune Phone 7 Mobile Edition with Software Assurance”.
For the sake of simplicity, I’ll call it just “Windows Phone” for the rest of this article.
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by Ron Bertino on January 28, 2010
It’s nice seeing demos of the Apple iPad, but you never know if the demo looks great because of being a great product or if the demo looks great just due to the fact that it was carefully prepared.
So if you’re a fellow cynic like me, then you may be interested in watching these two live hands-on demos, recorded by real people just having a play with the iPad.
You can now also watch the full Apple iPad launch event from yesterday.
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by Ron Bertino on January 27, 2010
Today Apple released their highly anticipated tablet device, which they named the iPad. To me, this name is too similar to iPod; iSlate or iTablet would have been better.
In a nutshell, think of this device as a huge iPod Touch.
Let’s go over some of the features of this device.
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