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So I have signed up for the free subscription to Fresh Books, a site for in the cloud billing and time tracking.

What I have seen so far has impressed me. The site is very clean, well organized, and highly intuitive. The billing/invoicing functions are down right awesome, and the fact that the client can sign in and view their outstanding invoices and make payments is just excellent!

I would highly suggest if you are in the market for a site to do invoicing, time tracking, support cases, or more… to give Fresh Books a try!

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I didn’t even notice this one pop in, but it appears that Google has added WAVE to the Google Apps subscriber applications. In case you missed it too, head on over to your Google Apps domain administration and add it to your dashboard!

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So after a long delay between updates, B&N has released the latest firmware update for their nook eReader.

Version 1.3 notes are as follows, but the most interesting happens to be that there is a beta web browser now. Interesting!

Our new software update has exciting new features and improves NOOK’s overall performance. Included in Version 1.3:

1. The breakthrough Read In Store experience, now in beta, which allows you to read complete eBooks in Barnes & Noble stores.
2. Sudoku and Chess
3. Wi-Fi® connectivity in more hotspots and a beta basic Web browser. Plus, additional reading and performance improvements, such as faster page turns and an enhanced home screen.

The software update is via manual download, available here or, for NOOKs connected to Wi-Fi®, via automatic download over the next week. (Note: This update will not be distributed via the 3G network.) For an automatic Wi-Fi® update, you may need to ‘Check for new B&N content’ via the My Library area in order to initiate the update.

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Finally: Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps RTM has been released on MSDN!

Done yet? Nope! SharePoint 2010 RTM has now been released on MSDN.

Next: Microsoft Project 2010 RTM has been released to MSDN.

Turning into a busy morning for my Internet connection.

Microsoft released Visio 2010 on MSDN.

MS Office 2010 Professional Plus RTM released on MSDN.

That’s right, it just posted this morning… go get some!

Both the x64 and x86 versions are up.

VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 have just been posted on MSDN…. GO GET SOME!

So today, B&N was to start shipping the nook’s to all those who had preordered early enough for a November 30th ship date. Unfortunately, they have missed that mark, or at least appear to have missed it. As an email suggests, the ship date is delayed for an unknown reason. But it does not actually say it is delayed. It’s like they know it will cause a back lash of complaints, and didn’t want to speak those words!

 

 

They did offer us a $10 gift card and free upgrade to overnight shipping, which as a member you already got expedited air service. But these seem like a slap in the face. They missed the mark, won’t admit or explain why, and send us this email that hints at a delay without saying it is delayed.

 

But none the less, I still sit with my brochure and camera ready to take pictures of it. Assuming it gets here before I leave on my next work trip.

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Time to go complete your Dell Windows 7 Free Upgrade order! Since Windows 7 has officially launched, the Dell upgrade site is most likely inundated with requests. I managed to complete my order and receive a confirmation email of the order. But it took a good 15 minutes to make it through the four page site.

So to add to the misery of Dell, EVERYONE needs to go order their Windows 7 kit. If you registered your system that came with a free upgrade, now is the time, go go go!

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Barnes and Noble have announced their entry into the digital reader market with the nook.

This device is also the first to be released using Google’s Android as the OS. Which also brings to question how long it will take for someone to modify the unit. Or will someone even need to? From the sounds of it, B&N seems a little open to the idea of Android Apps being available for use. Regardless however, this unit shows great potential and serious threat to the Kindle. The specs for the unit are impressive, as well as a few key notes. One is that the unit allows you to lend your books to other users of the software or devices. Two, you can sync between the nook or any other device running the B&N eReader. And finally, the nook can tap into the Google Books project, for access to over 500,000 free books and other publications.

Now if you were sitting around yesterday for the revealing of this unit, you may have noticed that it was available for preorder online before they announced it. Probably a mistake, but that didn’t stop me from placing my preorder and then watching the site get pulled until they were ready ready.

Head on over and view the system specs, and place your preorder if you feel so inclined. Or if you wish to wait for some of the other devices coming, you can do that as well.

 

Technical Specifications

www.Nook.com

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I didn’t even notice this one happen, and only caught it because I was floating around the Google Apps Administration site. Apparently Google has updated the mobile sync to support not only calendar and contacts as it has been for a while, but also email. This was a big hurdle for a while as you would need one sync setup using exchange active sync, and another IMAP setup for your email. The email would not always come to your phone on time and you would have to manually update it.

 

Well that is no longer the case, as you can now run all services through the one sync setup. Another note is they have enabled you to modify your calendar sync, follow these directions from your iPhone.

Google Sync allows you to choose up to 25 Calendars with the Calendar app on your iPhone (on iPhone OS 3.0)

To select which calendars to sync to your iPhone, follow the steps below:

1. Open the Safari browser on your phone and go to http://m.google.com/sync.
2. Sign in with your account and select your phone from the list of devices you’ve set up for Google Sync.
3. Bookmark this page so you can return to it easily.

Google Apps alternate instructions:

1. Open the Safari browser on your phone and go to http://m.google.com
2. Click on Google Apps user? at the bottom of the screen.
3. Enter your domain name (e.g., YourDomain.com).
4. Click the Sync icon in your domain area (this section has a green background).
5. Sign in if required.
6. Select your device to configure Calendars.

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As of today, my little program SharePoint® Data Dump v1.1.1.0 has been posted for public download.

It allows mass export of files from binary in the Doc table of SharePoint® to their original format in a directory you choose.
You can run it against a live or restored SharePoint® database.

There are limitations, and bugs, but in time those will become far and few. It may not work on all versions of SharePoint®,
but I will be updating it to test which version and adjust as needed.

Enjoy!

SDD Download

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Xceed has released a new update for their Datagrid for WPF product.  3.2 was released back in June,
and here comes 3.5. What’s new in this release?

Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition v3.5 features a beautiful new view called Tableflow™.
This view offers fast animated smooth scrolling with inertia for impressive UI performance (works with
data virtualization), sticky group headers and master-detail master row and headers, full-column
animated drag and drop reordering. Also new is filtering and status indicator glyphs for datagrids
bound to a virtualizing collection.

So in addition to the new features, below is a list of other fixes.

• The DataGridVirtualizingQueryableCollectionView now fully supports the FilterRow and the automatic filtering features.
• Added a ConnectionStateGlyph property that shows asynchronous activity when fetching virtualized data.
• Added a ConnectionState and ConnectionError property on the DataGridControl and DataGridVirtualizingCollectionViewBase.
• Added an IsConnectionStateGlyphEnabled property on UIViewBase.
• Corrected an issue where FilterCriterion were lost when the data source was changed.
• DataGridUnboundItemProperty corresponding cells are now refreshed when the DataGridUpdateSourceTrigger is set to CellContentChanged.
• Corrected an issue where a LicenseException was thrown when after a DataGridItemProperty was cloned.
• Corrected an issue where not all appropriate property values were cloned when a DataGridItemProperty was cloned.
• Corrected an issue where the first row inserted into an empty list remained in an invalid state.
• Filters are now kept when collapsing the detail’s parent row.
• FilterRow now supports filtering by empty strings.
• Removed a reference to System.Data.Linq that prevented the DataGridControl from being distributed on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Client Profile.
• Corrected an issue where the edit state was not correctly restored after a replace of the item being edited.
• When AllowDrag is set to true and a row drag is initiated, the DataGridVirtualizingCollectionView and DataGridVirtualizingQueryableCollectionView no longer query unnecessary data.
• Canceling a print and re-printing no longer results in an unopenable file or print-out.
• Grouping an empty DataGridControl bound to a DataGridVirtualizingCollectionView no longer throws an exception.
• When a Row’s MinHeight and MaxHeight are defined as the same value, the mouse cursor no longer shows the resize glyph since resizing is impossible.
• Corrected an issue that occurred when a cell’s EditTemplate lost focus when setting e.Cancel to true in the cell’s EditEnding event.
• Opening the DataGridControl in Blend 3 no longer results in an exception being thrown.
• Setting a ColumnManagerCell’s HorizontalContentAlignment and VerticalContentAlignment through a style now has an effect on the Printed DataGridControl.
• The remove filter button is now displayed in a detail grid’s filter row.
• Corrected an issue where the DataGridCollectionView was not accepting items whose types derived from the item type specified at construction.
• The FilterRow can now be navigated to using the Keyboard while using CardView.
• Removes binding warnings from the output window when bound to items implementing IDataErrorInfo and using UnboundDataGridItemProperties.
• Corrected an issue that occurred when toggling the sort direction of a column while multiple columns were sorted

Head on over and snag it now!

Personally, I will be interested to see the new view and will post my experiences with it shortly.

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