Vineet Gupta

I’ve been away from the blogosphere for a almost three months now. June was spent planning and executing TechMela, Jul is the beginning of a new financial year at Microsoft and I was first taking a bit of break and then was heads down in FY08 planning. Since Aug beginning, I have been on the [...]

This post is being sent using Word 2007. To blog the currently open document, go to Publish->Blog, to create a new blog post, go to New and Choose Blog Post. While registering, I stumbled on the space name part. It stands for the "unique part" in the URL. From the documentation: "Your space name is [...]

Like most people I too have struggled with finding a solution for mounting an ISO image in a virtual drive. My old solution -Alchohol 120% – does not work on Windows Vista and they do not give a date when they will have a solution. So I did some research and found the following:   [...]

Not sure if anyone noticed, but Live Spaces now has a desktop based blogging utility. It is called the Windows Live Writer. I have just started using it (in fact this post is using the tool). Here’s a quick take: Good: – It is extensible, there is an API for plug-ins- Targets not just Live [...]

Kaushal pointed me to http://www.communitybar.net/ – a project by a couple of MS Research guys. The idea is a simple and powerful one – you install a IE plug-in and log on to a website (http://theworkingnetwork.com/). The plug-in opens up a explorer bar in IE that pulls in contextual info from this site for any [...]

It is not every day that history gets created. Today was not every day. South Africa and Australia made cricketing history of the kind which is seldom witnessed. First Australia set a  score of 434 – the highest ever in a one-day match. And then, South Africa chased it successfully. I am not sure of [...]

Check out http://www.oazabir.com. In the words of Omar Al Zabir, the creator of the site,   "This site presents exact Windows 2000™ user interface with all its outstanding UI concepts and user-friendly environment.  This site does not use Macromedia Flash™. It also does not use any ActiveX or Java Applet either and thus keeps you [...]

Let’s face it, the top item in your Start Menu is no longer a Dev Tool. It is more likely Excel or Word. In my case it is powerpoint followed by word, excel and then MSDN. As an evangelist, one tends to live in Beta Land, which is hosted in Virtual Server and persisted in a VHD, [...]