By Soul Solutions on Friday, 31 August 2007

Yesterday we mentioned Parnter Maps had been released with Virtual Earth support.  Check out a few other people who have been blogging about it:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/08/30/new-find-a-partner-site-virtual-earth-enabled.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/08/30/find-a-partner-in-australia-with-virtual-earth.aspx
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By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 30 August 2007

I was playing today with some logos in Photoshop and noticed our graphic design team had inverted our gold logo on a black background to be a nice blue logo on a white background. For fun, I happened to have a Virtual Earth project open at the time and I inverted the default road map in Photoshop.


Wow now thats actually pretty cool, not sure what the usages would be but I wonder how to do this on the VE control?

I know that IE provides filters that can be applied in CSS and this got me thinking about what effects could be acheived.
The syntax I used was to apply the filter to all &am ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 30 August 2007

One of our latest projects went live yesterday... the new version of find a partner.  It allows users to find Microsoft Certifed, Small Business Specialist and Gold Certified partners and visually see them on a Virtual Earth map.  Users can also filter by certification level, competency, postcode and company name.

This was done by our new company Aptovita.

By Soul Solutions on Sunday, 26 August 2007

Having installed our Panasonic 720p projector over 12 months ago I’ve always been struggling to get HD content. For my Birthday my Dad bought me the Pioneer BDC-S02.

The drive can’t write to Blu-ray but the trade off is it is half the price at around AU$400, at this time this is the cheapest Blu-ray part I have found. For the media centre this is perfect as I should be able to simply swap out the DVD writer for this.

Having shopped around we bought it online from www.auspcmarket.com.au, these guys are really good at being accurate about stock levels and including postage in the cost. I ordered on the weekend and had the drive ready to install ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 23 August 2007

When I built these two gadgets they never looked like this:

Yes it is raining in Brisbane.

You can add them to Vista sidebar too, download them from here:

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=558b2088-0106-422c-8b67-da067db2360a&bt=1&pl=1

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=fd7fd7af-32e4-43b9-bbf3-3cf9233f0117&bt=1&pl=1

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By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 23 August 2007

I came across this today when setting up a Virtual Earth map to run in an Iframe on another site. The issue is the content of the Iframe is on another domain and any calls to the ajax helper function "Sys.UI.getLocation" under IE will throw the error as it attempts to access "top.document.documentElement.scrollLeft".

The solution was posted back in Jan:

http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2007/01/31/how-to-work-around-the-quot-access-denied-quot-cross-domain-frame-issue-in-asp-net-ajax-1-0.aspx

Basi ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 22 August 2007

After John won 2nd in the Mark.Ed competition at Tech Ed we received a shiny new HP 19" widescreen monitor.

I used it for a day..and while it was a sweet screen I found the 900px high a bit restrictive and the colour difference between it and my laptop monitor too different and distracting.

So John plugged it in..but it doesn't really work well with his 24" monitor...so what to use it for?

We had a crazy idea late Sunday arvo...we could get a settop box and turn it into a TV for the bedroom.  So we ran off to JB hoping they were still ope ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 22 August 2007

John was awarded 3rd Place in the Vista Gadget Competition on Tuesday at the Brisbane MSDN User Group Meeting.

Full Webcast on how to build the gadget can be found here.

 

By Soul Solutions on Friday, 17 August 2007

Have you been trying to sign-in to Skype and it just won't connect?  Have you tried rebooting, an getting the latest update?  You're not alone....

Skype is having a "software issue".

By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 16 August 2007

Some great news...Windows Live ID Web Authentication 1.0 has just been released!  So for anyone who was using the Alpha this is great news...it means you can now access your liveid in production accounts (the ones you use everyday for msn etc) rather than the int accounts.

Check out the download of the SDK here

• Onliine doco for sdk