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Take it to one of their retail stores, if you/they live close to one. They should be able to help.

The only problem with that is the follow-up statement(1) from Google indicating that the re-direct was not something that was recently added and that it has always been in place when that has not been the case.

The fact that they made a couple different statements (first it was that Google Maps only works with Webkit-based browsers, and now the re-direct nonsense) that are not completely truthful makes me doubtful.

1) http://www.zdnet.com/google-shouldnt-forget-history-when-blo...

Are you still looking by any chance?

To all those that are doing/have done startups on .NET, do you guys mind doing a few blog posts on the subject? What was working with .NET like? What worked for you? What didn't? What's the story when it comes to licensing, hosting, deployment, scalability, etc.?

I know StackOverflow has a few posts on the topic but I wouldn't mind hearing from some of the other startups.

Yes, C# is definitely the way to go. VB is still supported but C# is now the primary language if you are doing .NET development.

What functionality do the current ASP pages provide? Is this for a website or are these custom applications? Either way, I would recommend switching to MVC but depending on the use, your approach will vary.

I think Orange offers the Nokia Lumia 800. It might be worth a try.

This is unfortunately my main issue with FF. I am type of person that has multiple tabs open in multiple windows for days at a time and FF tends to choke in that scenario after a few days. I was hoping the 64-bit version might fix the issue but it's even worse.

It's still my main browser but this one issue just kills the entire experience.

Given that carriers are only limited to 5 apps and can't make any changes to the Windows Phone OS, I would doubt that there are any Windows Phone devices with Carrier IQ.

Did you switch your GV number to AT&T? Or did you use a new number?

I have been considering switching my GV number back to a cell carrier for a while, but I have heard/read that there might be issue doing that. Primarily with SMS/texting receipts, incoming calls from other GV numbers, etc.

Yes, you can have multiple copy operating running in parallel but the way Windows works, the files themselves are copied in serial order (within an individual copy operation). Whereas with tools like RichCopy, you are actually copying multiple files in parallel.

See here for example; http://msinetpub.vo.llnwd.net/d1/keithcombs/blog/images/Rich...

This is incredibly useful when you need to copy folders with a lot of (smaller) files. Think pictures, music, etc.

While I like the improvements, I am a little disappointed that they are not implementing parallel/multi-threaded copying. It might not be something that a majority of users would need, but it feels like it should be something that should be natively supported by the OS.

RichCopy is always one of the first tools I install on any of my machines. It's an amazingly powerful tool. About the only thing missing with RichCopy is integration with Explorer Shell.

Perhaps I am reading too much into it but why did they not mention that they took down the previous blog post (http://www.thiswebhost.com/blog/2011/08/16/the-reddit-incide...)? They mention that they took down the tweets but why no mention of the blog posts?

According to this report: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-was-interested-in-m..., Microsoft was not interested in buying Motorola. Instead, they were (supposedly) close to settling their patent dispute with Motorola, and signing a cross-licensing deal giving them access to Motorola's patents.

IIRC the new version of Chrome Frame does not require Admin access any more. I think it runs a secondary process that injects Chrome Frame into any new instances of IE starting up.

I don't think you need to be in the US to develop for WP7. It does support other countries. Look at Yalla Apps (http://www.yallaapps.com/) if you are in a country that is not supported.

In addition to what polyfractal mentioned, I would also look at these:

- Adobe Reader

- Netflix

- GoVoice (Google Voice client)

- Speed Searcher

- ShopSavvy

- Tasks (by Telerik)

- Shazam (Once Mango is out, this won't be necessary)

- Project Emporia

- LiveStrong's Calorie Tracker (Normally $2.99 but free until end of August)

Games - AlphaJax, Wordament, Orb, Unity

Would Mono [Touch/Droid] be of any help in this scenario?

There is an existing discussion regarding this topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2688270

I believe Parent is making fun of the overreaction to the Silverlight and Windows 8 news.

> You can find fixes of open-source projects as soon as they are committed.

That might be relevant if it wasn't for the fact that Silverlight is not open source. They are under no obligation to show/blog their fix until they actually release. In fact, they would probably want to withhold it as long as possible if their intent is to damage WebGL.

This is not directly related to fonts but for anyone using Visual Studio, this might be helpful: http://studiostyl.es/

It's a website that collects Visual Studio color schemes, so that people can download and install them rather than spending hours customizing their IDE to look like they want it to. Assuming they like one of the available schemes, of course.

Minor nitpick:

>> - Windows Phone is not, as far as I know, a resource light OS. Putting it on an underpowered phone in order to keep the price really low is likely to lead to an even worse user experience than normal. Again, trash-talking end users would be the result.

WP7 is actually a ridiculously light OS. All of the current WP7 phones uses the older generation Snapdragon processors, but they are still faster then most of the newer Android handsets with dual-core processors. MS went to great pains to make sure that everything was optimized (and the UI is hardware accelerated), which is why their hardware specifications only had support for one SoC.

Microsoft OneNote.

Documents, screen clippings, random thoughts, notes, audios/videos - whatever, really - all sorted and searchable. And I have not found a better tool when it comes to handwritten to text conversion as well as full text searching of handwritten notes.

Don't have Opera and Safari installed on this machine but these are the results on Windows 7 32-bit:

  FF 4.0.1:   240 + 9 bonus points
  IE9:        130 + 5 bonus points
  IE10 PP:    130 + 5 bonus points

Looks like they are also planning allowing developers to get early access to both the emulator and the OS image.

https://twitter.com/BrandonWatson/statuses/58238479439630336

How is that any different from what Google does? or Apple for that matter?

Another great use for the Tags - Summary Pages.

Look at the bottom of the Tags Summary panel when you click on the "Find Tags" button. You should see a "Create Summary Page" option. It's a great way to create summary/wrapup's of meetings and projects.

Here is the most interesting snippet for me:

Facebook, for example, has been working to fashion its own variant of Android for smartphones. Executives at the social network are unhappy that Google gets to review Facebook's tweaks to Android, say two people who weren't comfortable being named talking about the business. Google has also tried to hold up the release of Verizon (VZ) Android devices that make use of Microsoft's (MSFT) rival Bing search engine, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

With Google being direct competitors with Facebook and Microsoft in the online space, they have a lot to gain by knowing their competitor's plans early/by being able to limit their influence.

Putting aside GitHub/Bitbucket, the tools for Git (and even Mercurial) suck when it comes to Windows. This is the case with both the Visual Studio and the Explorer plug-ins. It's a real shame too, because Git and Mercurial are massive improvements over the existing SCM tools for Windows-based developers (CVS/SVN/TFS, etc.)