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I just came back from the post-event dinner, and here some picture of the presentation on Vista Gadgets running on a MacBook.     Not many people attended the presentation: too close to the end of…

Tomorrow evening I'm going to do a presentation about Developing Gadgets for the Vista Sidebar at the XeDotNET user group in Venice. What are Sidebar Gadgets Why developing Sidebar Gadgets Structure…

A few months ago I released a rough first version of an ASP.NET control to display text-links served by LinkLift. Since then the control became the "de-facto" official control for ASP.NET (Italian,…

What is the Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM)? Every Unicode string starts with a "zero-width no-break space"; depending on its actual byte representation, a text processor understands the endianness of…

Yesterday Steve Jobs announced the new version of the iPods (new colors for the Shuffle, 3G Nano "fatty", iPod "classic", iPod Touch). There are a lot of posts about this, so I'm not going to increase…

Just a quick note as tribute to the great Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, who died this morning at the age of 71. The World just lost one of the best singer ever. We will miss you. Here is a link to…

Silverlight 1.0 has been released tonight, and it will natively support Windows and Mac, and will officially support Linux via a partnership with Novell and Moonlight, which is part of the Mono…

Thanks to Janky, I found out Simpsonizeme, a web app that analyze a picture, and makes a Simpson character based on it.Here is me if I lived in Springfield: Technorati tags: Simpson, Simpsonizeme…

Google, together with other 1100 users, released a "behind the scene" video showing us how an email sent from gmail reaches its destination. Ok, not really what happens, but nice to see this…

There has been a lot of speculation in the last month after some mock-ups and UI video of the new iPods leaked. Today many sources reported that Apple will be holding an event on September 5th to…