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Karen Cheng’s Snippets of Life » Blog Archive » Life’s Sweetest Word Source: www.karencheng.com . My husband was battling cancer and underwent his first round of chemotherapy. It was an aggressive form of cancer, resistant to chemo, and there was no guarantee of success. We had a 2 year old kid, and we just got news that we were expecting another baby. Very touchy...

John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day) to something interesting. You can specify which pictures to choose from: Individual pictures on your computer. Folders containing pictures on your computer such as ‘My Pictures’. Flickr photo sharing - selecting pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random. You never know what you’re going to get next! Phanfare web albums - keep up to date with your friends and family. smugmug photo galleries - yours, your friends, anybody’s! Picasa Web Albums - choose from specific albums or any search text. Facebook - your friends photos on your desktop! Yahoo! image search - the internet is your oyster! Direct link: http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher

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TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook is an Add-In from Ekobit for the Microsoft Office Outlook. It integrate e-mail and Microsoft Outlook with the Team Foundation Server. The TeamCompanion improves your project communication and removes friction from it. With the TeamCompanion you can access project related information using Microsoft Outlook without having to switch between applications. It enables accessing some of most important artifacts in your Team System environment, such as team projects, work items, etc., without the need to use the Visual Studio Team Explorer or Team System Web Access. More on their website at http://www.ekobit.com/ProductsDetailView.aspx?id=1 Cost so much though... TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook single user license $139 TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook 5 user license $659 TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook 10 user license $1249

Telerik announces the Q2 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, WPF, and Silverlight, and its .NET Reporting solution. More at Telerik Announces Landmark Q2 2008 Release

Microsoft is offering free media streaming for up to 10 GB video. You can create your free account at http://silverlight.live.com/. Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live offers a free streaming and application hosting solution for delivering high-quality, cross-platform, cross-browser, media-enabled rich interactive applications (RIAs). With the ability to author content in Microsoft Expression Encoder and other third-party editing environments, Web designers maintain complete control of the user experience. They are currently running a new Exclusive trial: Make money with Ads! This pilot program will allow a control group of Silverlight Streaming account holders to take Silverlight videos and automatically insert contextual advertisements into the end-user video playback experience. Additional Resources About Silverlight Streaming: To learn more about the benefits of Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™, visit the Silverlight Streaming page on microsoft.com/silve

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Knol - http://knol.google.com/ A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic. Here are some examples of knols. Google Knol is designed to allow anyone to create a page on any topic, which others can comment on, rate, and contribute to if the primary author allows. As said, the service gets its name from the word "knowledge." A "knol" is a new term that Google has coined to stand for a unit of knowledge, and they're also using that word as the name for pages within the service and the service itself. Knol pages will be hosted by Google. Authors will have the option to enable Google ads and share in revenue. The pages will be made available to be found through a Knol-specific search as well as through Google itself or via other search engines, as they won't be blocked from spiders. It's likely the service will be found at knol.google.com or some similar standalone address, if it indeed finally launches. As said, a launch might not happen at

Microsoft just released there version of Q & A website. So thought to compile a list of other available Q & A websites. Microsoft Q & A - http://qna.live.com/ Punchline - Show the world what you know — and find out what you don't. Get answers to your most burning questions... share info on your area of expertise...earn fame and glory — all compliments of the QnA community. Yahoo Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com/ Punchline - Share knowledge, Help others, Earn points. Check this post Yahoo's Big Win at Tech Crunch . This post was written back in Nov 2006. Yahoo! Answers Web Services - http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/ Answers Web Services APIs - Search for expert advice on any topic, from within your very own site. Wiki Answers - http://wiki.answers.com/ Punchline - WikiAnswersTM harnesses people's collective knowledge to give you useful answers about anything... with a wiki-twist. Answers.com - http://www.answers.com/ Answers.com offers free access

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Microsoft recently released a ".NET StockTrader Sample Application" which could be of your interested. Atleast the code and to see how is their approach. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9A60F0C0-007E-4D49-B061-FBE26C28302E&displaylang=en Overview from Microsoft website: This application is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0) and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications. It is designed as a benchmark kit to illustrate alternative technologies within .NET and their relative performance. The application offers full interoperability with J2EE and IBM WebSphere's Trade 6.1 sample application. As such, the application offers an excellent opportunity for developers to learn about .NET and bui

Here is a comprehensive list of open source software... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages

Des Cummings is the Executive Vice President of Florida Hospital and Chairman of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce. Hear Des talk about building a business on a foundation of love, ethics and spirituality. His profile is at Growing Bolder website.

Following blogs are nominated for the Best Blog Design . Please vote for them if you also find them useful. http://www.karencheng.com.au/category/parenting-kids/ Karen Cheng's Snippets of Life is about food, fashion, parenting, art & design, online shopping and finding inspiration in the beautiful quirks of life. This blog has also been nominated for : Best Blog of All Time , Best Parenting Blog , Hottest Mommy Blogger. http://www.tysonandjulia.com/blog/ A newlywed couple figuring married life out! They hand-coded the site themselves - no dreamweaver, blogger, wordpress, etc!". This blog has also been nominated for: Best Blog of All Time, Best Photography Blog, Best Travel Blog .

1. One board game every week. 2. One Lego blocks building activity 3. Hide and seek - may be twice a week 4. Helping Vedic learn organizing and decorating his room - Once a week 5. Discussing on one topic using http://www.howstuffworks.com/ or MS Student or Google search. 6. Everyday book reading 7. One physical activity game like Tennis, Soccer, Cricket or Bicycle 8. One kid or family movie 9. One family (bolliwood) movie 10. Shopping Mall

We have weekly devotion in our office. Today's devotion started with a question "What's So Important?". What's so important to you Today? What's so important to you at this time? Many of us answered Kids, Family or work related stuff. Next he show us some of the famous people around the world and whats so important for them. Their business, their people, their family, their friends. Most of the peoples do great in one or two things in there life but they forget about other things. Some people do well in their business or at work or at politics but what about the family, friends or their own life? There are many small things in life that we ignore like our own growth from childhood to adult. We just want to grow so fast. Do we care anymore about "Sound of Rain"? Sound of slap on ground? Sound of bird? Probably not anymore. We need to slow down and think about our family, our friends, ourselves. The devotion was so impactful that I prepare a l

We recently bought the 3 months subscription of the www.ventrian.com website for $25. We used their blog (News Article) module at our physician portal and will probably use on internet template too. We found it very useful and better then Dotnetnuke default Blog module. One feature that we were looking for was capability of positing on the same blog by multiple users so that marketing director or seceretory can post on behalf of the CEO. Their module and skin download page is as bellow: http://www.ventrian.com/Download.aspx They also have a URL re-write project that we considering for our template along with other vendors. http://www.ventrian.com/Resources/Projects/FriendlyUrls.aspx

We had our office pot-luck on last Friday where we were discussing about Wall-E movies and one of my colleague talk about his idea of Friday night movie. On every Friday they either go to a movie theater or rent a movie and watch together as family. I really liked the idea of setting up a fixed time for which everyone in family wait and plan. We will do the same in our house too.  You can try Blockbuster Free for Two Weeks, then plans as low as $3.99 per month  

Vedic started learning tennis while soccer is on hold due to Summer. It was funny to see him hitting the ball like he do in Cricket :) Slid show - Day 1: Slid show - Day 5:

Vedic attended the Science Center summer camp "Science Mania" during 14-17 July 2008. He enjoyed the time and learn about geology, whether, animals and sea. Click at Orlando Science Center Classes & Camps for complete details on upcoming classes & camps.