Anith Gopal

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at the 2007 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, he made a point of letting the world know how seriously Apple would protect its intellectual property. Of course, he did it in inimitable Steve Jobs style, quipping “…and boy have we patented it!” Of the more-than 200 features for which Apple applied for patents, the latest approved patent has been unearthed recently by Cell Passion . And this one isn’t for the iPhone, but for the packaging it comes in ! One of many diagrams in the Patent Of the 17 designers named in the patent, “Ive; Jonathan P.

You have to check out the upcoming Azure Services Platform Webcasts: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9652699 Explore the Azure Services Platform, an Internet-scale cloud services platform that provides an operating system and a set of developer services. Participate in a webcast, download a podcast, or step into a virtual lab to see how you can use the Azure Services individually or together, either to build new applications or to extend existing ones.

You can now deploy Services Packages that are hosted in Blob Storage to Windows Azure.  Check it out .

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One of the things which I’ve kind of covered with my MVC posts here and here is the steps for taking an existing ASP.Net Web Application project and getting it to run on Windows Azure as the Web Role. Based on some of the forum questions I’ve seen, I figured this could use a post on its own. I’ll start this off by making a new ASP.Net Web Application – note that there is currently a limitation in that only Web Applications (and not Web Sites) can be associated as Web Roles in the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio – if you really need to use a Web Site, you can do so with the Windows Azure SDK.  If you have a Web Site and are willing to convert it to a Web Application, Visual Studio provides a conversion tool

The Microsoft Semblio SDK is built on the .NET Framework 3.5 and provides the necessary tools for content professionals to create rich interactive learning material. The Microsoft Semblio SDK provides the API’s which enable the packaging and collating exploratory learning activities like simulations, animations, labs, e-books, and more. To learn more about the Microsoft Semblio and download the SDK, visit http://www.microsoft.com/learningspace/semblio/ After installing the SDK, which requires Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 on your workstation, you can find the Program Guide and samples at the default location of C:Program FilesMicrosoft SemblioSDK1.0Samples.

The Live Framework Tools team has announced the January CTP update. This update contains a number of fixes. The update was announced on Live Framework CTP Developer Connection on Connect.

I have been using the Microsoft Arc mouse now for a week and thought I would pop down my thoughts and feedback on it. Things I like about it The overall physical product design is great, and as it is different to most mice

The TechNet forum post Windows Installer Crash  appears to have find a workaround for the issue by using start regedit navigate to HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftSQMClientWindowsDisabledSessions rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling Original credit for the workaround was attributed to http://chris123nt.com/2009/01/18/sqm-client-causing-crashing-in-windows-7/

Per this TechNet article , Windows Installer 4.5 will be in Vista SP2 and Windows 2008 SP1.

Plastic bubbles wraps are one of the chief sources of environmental degradation since our world revolves around the packaging and transport of goods. The Paper Wrap offers the same level of protection but at a very neutral cost to the planet.