Chris Leong

Disoriented views from the rosy lens of an optimistic realist.

Month: October, 2008

What is Marketing?

An old forwarded email that uses a very funny way of describing marketing. What is digital Marketing? I guess it will be something like this. I wish they use this kind of simple examples when i’m doing my marketing class.   You’re at a party and see a gorgeous girl. You walk up to her [...]

US Elections – If the world could vote?

Just saw this interesting website that tries to get the world’s opinion about the US election. If the election is decided by us, Obama will sweep McCain. Check out the result in Iftheworldcouldvote.com. Up to date 600,000 people have voted. It will be interesting to see whether Obama can really win….

Microsoft Office On The Web

Microsoft just announced that the next version of Microsoft Office will be available as browser-based tools . The online apps will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote and will run on your browser. From what i read, the office web applications are a lightweight versions of the desktop version. It will be shipped as Office [...]

Impression does counts!!

A couple of weeks back, Microsoft announced an USD300 million advertising campaign to change its brand perception. This got me thinking, can you ever change people’s perception? Does it matter that a company would be willing to spend USD 300 million to change perceptions? Being a person who likes to poke into things, I went [...]

OutLook 2007 Tips – Recovered Deleted Email

Accidentally deleted some emails? Here’s how to recover them:   1.       Navigate to the folder that you have accidentally deleted the email (ie. Inbox/Sent Item/Deleted Item) 2.       Go To Tools -> Recover Deleted Item 3.       Select the email that you want to recover and select Recover Selected Item.  

New World Map (The Facebook View)

Just browse through a friend’s blog (Ali Tehrani) and found an interesting post about the social bookmarking landscape. So would like to share this out. Looks like a map pick up from the book of Romance of the 3 Kingdom. Used to love that game. But i guess the folks in Facebook will be viewing [...]

MSP Bootcamp & Innovation day Slides

I’ve just recently did an event for Microsoft Student Partner Program (KLCC) and Microsoft Innovation Day at Cyberjaya. Both events are fantastic, there were a lot of response and interest regarding Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) & Silverlight. As promised, here are the slides for both events. Here are some links that you could take a [...]

MS Word 2007 Tips – Automatically saving files as an older version

I don’t know about you guys. But sometimes i find it very troublesome when i need to send files to someone with an older version of office. I need to frequently remind myself to save it in an older version. But recently i found 2 ways to overcome this. Tip #1 Click the Microsoft Office [...]