Chris Leong

Disoriented views from the rosy lens of an optimistic realist.

Month: February, 2009

The Changing Faces of Marketing

There is this interesting video that I found about how the “conversation” between the Advertiser and Consumer has changed. In the short film, Bring the love back, a smooth-talking male lead found that grandiose statements and superficial understanding were no longer enough to win the heart of his “consumer”. The movie was a word-of-mouth success, [...]

Updates for Windows 7 Client Beta

Windows 7 Beta users. Just found out there are some updates that you need to install manually. Install this update to resolve issues with non-compatible applications for Windows 7 Beta. Get it here Update for Windows 7 Client Beta (KB967062)

Visual Studio Flex Add On (Amethyst)

Received an email from Huw Collingbourne highlighting to me the availability of another Visual Studio Flex Add On. For more information about this. Checkout the following sites: Visual Studio Flex development: Amethyst update Adobe Flex Visual Designer – Amethyst Professional Preview Amethyst IDE For Flex – Latest News In my previous post I’ve also blog [...]

Harvard Reference Generator for Free

I found this useful tool to assist me in generating references for my assignments. This really makes my life easier and I thought it would be beneficial to share this out. In this tool, you can reference your source by: Referencing a Book Referencing a Chapter of a Book Referencing a Journal Article Referencing a [...]

Twitter with Blu Powered by WPF

Just fell in love with this Twitter tool (blu) that is powered by Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF). It leverages on the goodness that WPF brings like great graphics, cool animations and a kick ass user interfaces. Check it out blu. It offers many cool features but there is one feature that really makes my life easier [...]

Windows Mobile 6.5 Officially Announced

Microsoft just announce Windows Mobile. I have copied some of the comments from a post in Channel 10. The New Look of 6.5 The Windows Mobile 6.5 software features a brand-new home screen with improved touchscreen interface. The interface resembles a “honeycomb” with hexagonal tiles for each program – a UI that promises to be [...]

Obama is a PC??

Read an interesting article that says that President Barack Obama is a PC. Don’t know whether that’s true, but it sure is interesting info to share.   Some excerpts from the article. Exhibit A: "He sees the Intel logo every morning." (Okay, it’s the only exhibit. But I’ve always wanted to say "Exhibit A," and [...]

The rise of citizen journalism

Citizen journalism according to Wikipedia Citizen journalism, also known as public or participatory journalism or democratic journalism[1], is the act of non-professionals “playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information,” according to the seminal report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, [...]

Microsoft Launched “Wonderwall” in MSN site

Microsoft just launched “wonderwall” for readers to have a fun place to check out the celebrity gossip. Basically it runs on flash and allows people to scroll and browse through their favorite gossip. Personally i think that this is a good idea but I’m not too thrill about it. To me, this is only a [...]

Microsoft Community Day – 13th Feb 2009

Microsoft User Groups is having a community day on the 13th February. They are lining up cool and exciting demos about Microsoft Sharepoint, Visual Studio Team System, System Center and Microsoft SQL server. Do sign yourself up via Facebook