I recently setup Lync for Mac and tried to get it working with Office 365. Epic fail. Luckily this was easily remedied by a couple well place bing searches. 1. Install the Update 2. Manually Configure Unfortunately for non-expert users this would be a huge cliff for them to fall off. I hope the Mac … Continue reading Lync for Mac 2011 and Office 365

While researching Windows Phone 7’s design metaphor “Metro”, I ran across this blog article which included as an attachment a Slide Show by Mark Simonson about Adrian Frutiger. Not being at all educated in typography I still found it immensely informative and interesting. I would highly recommend it.

Check out my new laptop. Downloading VS2010 so I can put the new Silverlight 4 bits on it tonight!

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentations on “Expression Blend+SketchFlow” and “Silverlight: Beyond the Flying Shoe”. I sincerely hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed giving them. I posted my decks and demo solutions on SkyDrive. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or want to talk … Continue reading Columbus Dog Food Conference 2009 Presentation

Please join us for the 2nd Annual Dog Food Conference; sponsored by the partner community.  We will have MS speakers, MS partners, ISVs, MS MVPs and community leads presenting over 40 topics.   Around half of the speakers are community leads; and half are MS specialists. As seating is limited, we encourage you to knowledge share … Continue reading Columbus Dogfood Conference

I excitedly downloaded and installed iPhone OS 3.0 and all was well in the world. Until about 3 days later, everything on my iPhone began to slow down. The animations that were once fluid and elegant were now choppy and rough. It might have been that I installed an iPhone settings profile which enables tethering … Continue reading iPhone OS 3.0 = Sluggish Performance on the iPhone 3G

So I saw a new version of Google Earth was released when I went to Google maps tonight to find a restaurant and when I went to download it a Google Updater program started and began downloading Chrome and Google Earth. I never was prompted whether I wanted Chrome or not it just seemed to … Continue reading Google Earth…sneaking in Chrome