9/25/2006

Windows Live Alerts

Filed under: Common interest — Guus @ 12:31 pm

Last week I was reading an article about Windows Live and all the services it provides. Most of them I knew about, except a new services called WL alerts. Alerts basically enables MSN Messenger to subscribe to RSS feeds. It’s also possible to forward the notification toward you mail/cellphone.

When a new post is made MSN messenger pops up like this:

For bloggers there is a nice new button designed:

Windows Live Alerts

(See also top-right corner of TDG.)

 

Unfortunately the service was down last friday, but that’s what beta software is for, right? Today I tried it again, and it worked!

This is my first post which will be forwarded to my MSN… fingers crossed!

9/6/2006

Music evolution

Filed under: Common interest — Guus @ 10:46 am

Currently Gnarles Barkley is topping the hit charts with the song ‘Crazy‘. I found a nice page that describes the evolution of “Crazy”. It mentions the original track and artists that covered Barkley’s song. Some of the covers are better than the original, I especially like the one from Ray Lamontagne.

"Does that make me crazy...
Probably"

Video: 2006 MTV Movie Awards - Gnarls Barkley

9/4/2006

Guess-the-google

Filed under: Humoristic — Guus @ 5:11 pm

A great game using the Google Image API: Guess the Google. It’s a very addictive game.

Guess the google screenshot

I’ve scored a lousy 96 points.

MOSS 2007

Filed under: Common interest — Guus @ 2:23 pm

Last week I went on a seminar called MOSS 2007. It stands for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server. It the successor of MS SPS 2003 and replaces also MS CMS 2002. When browsing various websites a found a couple of them worth mentioning: