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Friday, June 06, 2008

Upgraded Live Writer to Technical Preview Edition

Had upgraded the my Microsoft Live Writer to Technical Preview edition, below are some of the new features.

SDK Updates

This release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, which now includes hooks for pre- and post-publish events. These updates are still experimental and these APIs are not stable--we may make changes based on your feedback that break plug-ins that use these new methods. However, we’re really excited about the new set of scenarios have been unlocked and look forward to hearing feedback from all of you Writer plug-in developers out there.

For more details about the SDK, please see the blog post on Windows Live Dev.

New Features

You’ll also get an early look at some improvements and new features we’ve been working on:

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements

Upload videos to Soapbox

Image cropping and tilting

Additional border styles

Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)

Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements

Auto Linking

Smart quotes/typographic characters

Word count

UI Improvements

Revised main toolbar

Tabs for view switching

Improved category control with search/filtering

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Adobe ConnectNow

Meet live over the web and share your screen with anyone

Adobe ConnectNow is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work together — all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that is easy to access and simple to use. It's free, so sign up now.

http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/ another big player who start to offer web conference services. According to the web site it offer following features. Will give it a try and provide some feedback if time permit.

Unique meeting room URL
Screen sharing palette
Video conferencing
Chat pod
Screen sharing
Whiteboard
Integrated audio choices
Remote control

Basically all the features offered by Microsoft Live Meeting and WebEx.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Posting of link in SharePoint Services

If you like to include attachment links in Windows SharePoint Services posting I would recommend you post it as relative link instead of the whole URL link. Doing it using relative link will make sure it work if your administrator decided to extent the SharePoint site. Below are how a relative link looks like as compare to the full URL link.

Full Link
http://<server-name>/SiteName/attachment.jpg

Relative Link
/SiteName/attachment.jpg

WSS Insert Hyperlink