Windows Share, a New Data Exchange Mechanism in Windows 8

Pretty interesting feature of Windows 8 that allows applications to exchange data directly. full story over on InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Windows-Share Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. …

Facebook rolls out updated interface.. do you love it or hate it?

Just read this on Fox News website.. if you view the comments people made about the recent update, you get the picture that people pretty much dislike what they have rolled out. Maybe they should take a note from yahoo and give users the ability to select which interface they like. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/22/decided-report-facebook-users-incensed-over-updates/   another interesting …

Want a windows 8 tablet now? can’t wait till they are released? ebay to the rescue!

check for yourself! http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l2736&_nkw=windows+8+developer+tablet   from the time of writing this they lowest buy it now price was 3000 and one is going for 3500 buy it now! Not sure its worth it, but i’m guessing these people attended the “Build” developer conference and they wanted to make some extra money.         …

Why Amazon’s New Tablet May Pose A Greater Threat To NetFlix Than To Apple

I read this on Forbes about an hour ago, and i think they have it spot on. Amazon may indeed able to give Netflix a run for its money. Maybe Netflix should buy the HP Webos tablets and sell them cheap =)   anyways, here is a quick highlight from the story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/09/19/why-amazons-new-tablet-may-pose-a-greater-threat-to-netflix-than-to-apple/ I see …

Odd Behavior: Launching seamless applications in Citrix which terminate after launching another program disappear from the Management Console

Ok i saw this recently and wanted to post the solution to those of you who have this issue. What is the behavior: a published application in seamless mode may present you with a logon screen (this published app could be application1.exe) once you logon you are send to the actual program executable you use …

Mirror data from one server to another for an ADHOC backup or to stage DFS folders prior to replication setup.

If you need to replicate data between windows machines you can use Robocopy to handle this task. i wont go into too much detail, but windows 7 and server 2008 includes robocopy as part of the base install. Try it out and let me know what you think. —————————————————————————– @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL SET _source=\\FileServ1\e$\users SET …