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Open Data Protocol (OData) SDK for Objective C (iPhone-Mac) – Download

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Yesterday at MIX10, The Interop team at Microsoft presented about how Open Data Protocol (OData) can contribute to a more programmable web through demos consuming a Netflix OData feed in various scenarios. They also announced a series of new and updated OData SDKs for PHP, Java, Objective C (iPhone & Mac,) and JavaScript (AJAX and Palm WebOS).

Download Internet Explorer 9 – Developer Preview

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Today, Microsoft is making the first developer preview of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 at MIX2010. The developer preview is available for download now. There are lots of demo applications which are built in to test the Speed, HTML5 and Graphics Demos which you can try on the IE9 developer preview edition.

How to Make Websites Indic Aware and accept Indic Inputs?

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The Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool (erstwhile Akshara) is now available for developers to use in their websites. By including a bunch of scripts, web developers would now be able to accept Indic Input for their websites. This transliteration feature helps in places where we need to capture information in the local language without having the respective keyboard.

.toolbox: Silverlight & Expression Studio online learning program

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.toolbox is a structured curriculum-based program that features two core learning tracks with materials that increase in difficulty to build individuals’ knowledge & understanding. In Design Scenarios, designers & developers learn to create dynamically-rich Silverlight applications using Expression Studio.

ZoomIt – An Awesome tool to use while giving Presentations

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People who have attended my presentations would have seen me use a tool more often to zoom into a screen during demos. Few of them have come back to me post event and asked…what this cool thing is? Is it a new feature in Windows 7? How to get it run? What are the keyboard Shortcuts? etc..

I reckon, it would be worth to write a small note about this awesome Tool so that, it would help other readers as well.

Open Source LaTeX Editor for Windows – TeXnic Center

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TeXnicCenter is a feature rich and easy-to-use integrated environment for creating LaTeX documents on the Windows platform. Navigating LaTeX documents is simple due to the automatically created document outline. Errors of the LaTeX compilation can be reviewed instantly. TeXnicCenter features autocompletion and comes with LaTeX templates. TeXnicCenter is available Free for download under Open Source Software (GPL).

Introduction to LaTeX – A Type Setting System

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LaTeX is not a wordprocessor but a typesetting system that achieves beautifully typeset documents without any deeper typographic knowledge. LaTeX is most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, economists and other scholars in academia and the commercial world, and other professionals as a primary or an intermediate format.

msigeek weblog added to the ALLTOP Directory!

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Well, AllTop has all the top headlines on popular topics around the web! You can think of an Alltop site as a dashboard, table of contents or even as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. The msigeek weblog has been featured and added to the Alltop directory in 3 categories (Windows, Microsoft and Tech).

Download Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Videos from the SPC 2009

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While Microsoft can’t publish all the conference content from SPC (Share Point Conference 2009), they have cherry picked the most popular sessions and publish a selection of most popular Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 develop SPC videos and slide decks!

How to Export or Copy Contacts from one Gmail account to Another?

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We all have multiple email ids and use it for different needs! Few of us create and moveon to a new email id, just to get rid of the tons of emails from public newsletters and groups which we would have subscribed to earlier! When we create a new email account, we always want our contacts to stay intact. Now copying each contact one by one is really cumbersome and irritating!

Check out this below tip, which explains you on, how you can export and import contacts from multiple email accounts.

AppFabric LABS Environment from the Windows Azure Platform Team

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The Windows Azure platform AppFabric team has released the AppFabric LABS environment. This is a new environment which the Product Team will use to showcase some early bits and get feedback from the community. AppFabric Labs provide a way for customers to test out and play with experimental AppFabric technologies.

How to Merge Duplicate Contacts on Gmail?

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When you try to import contacts from your other email account or when you sync your mobile contacts with that of your gmail, most of the times you land up having lot of duplicate contacts!

This duplication is really painful and it always troubles you, only when you are in an urgent need. For eg: when you want to contact your friend.. you land up having his Work email and his personal email stored in different contacts.! In this short Tip, lets look at how to fix the same.

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