VT's Blog
The Blog of Viral Tarpara A Smart 27 year old's thoughts on Windows, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, and Productivity
Tip of the Day - PowerPoint 2007: Creating Custom Slideshows
2003 to 2007 Custom Slide Show Does showing the same Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003...
Author: viralta Date: 08/23/2008
Tip of the Day - Outlook 2007: Simply Sending an E-mail Message as an Attachment
Simplify Sending an E-Mail Message as an Attachment Here is a simple way to avoid having to...
Author: viralta Date: 08/22/2008
Understanding Privacy in Cloud Computing: An Interview with Syncplicity
Back in May I did a write up on online storage companies that take information sitting on desktops...
Author: viralta Date: 08/21/2008
Microsoft Relaxes Virtualization Licensing Rules - VMWare Stock Still Tumbles
Microsoft is taking virtualization extremely seriously. Microsoft is now the only company that...
Author: viralta Date: 08/21/2008
Tip of the Day - PowerPoint 2007: Reuse Slides from a Slide Library
Reuse Slides from a Slide Library When you create a presentation, you may want to reuse...
Author: viralta Date: 08/21/2008
Bringing the Soul Back to PowerPoint
Office Labs has recently released a PowerPoint 2007 add-in called pptPlex. For those of you...
Author: viralta Date: 08/21/2008
Attend Microsoft 'After Hours' Consumer Technology Showcase in London
Overview: We believe technology should be fun. We believe that no individual should have to be...
Author: viralta Date: 08/19/2008
140 SharePoint Professionals at Microsoft London Eat All My Pizza
A key theme at today's SharePoint User Group UK meeting at our Victoria office was, " WE...
Author: viralta Date: 08/14/2008
Funniest Yahoo Related Prank
What can only be described as a genius web app suitable for the likes of Ebaum's World, I was...
Author: viralta Date: 06/21/2008
BBC Mashable 2008 - Morning
Arriving at 9:30am at Alexandra Palace in north London, awe and amazement are two words that...
Author: viralta Date: 06/21/2008
Documentum and FileNet Connectors for SharePoint Released
The links went live on May 23rd: - Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC...
Author: viralta Date: 05/29/2008
Facebook Going Open Source
According Techcrunch, Facebook will be open-sourcing the four major components of the FB...
Author: viralta Date: 05/27/2008
TechED EMEA and Office System Track Planning
So I found out last week that I’ll have the huge responsibility and honor of being the...
Author: viralta Date: 05/23/2008
Small Business Server and Essential Business Server 2008 Pricing
Mr. Senior has beat me to the punch, maybe because he’s a partner evangelist. Microsoft...
Author: viralta Date: 05/15/2008
Microsoft Hack Its Own Website…Awesome
“Live To Code.” This is what user’s will be greeted by when they go to Microsoft UK’s website. Is...
Author: viralta Date: 05/06/2008
Masses Rejoice: Xobni Goes Public Beta
Xobni, the small San Francisco Bay start-up, has gone public with their Outlook, and now Yahoo Mail,...
Author: viralta Date: 05/06/2008
How To: Fix Outlook Data Corruption
So I had a weird morning today. My computer woke up from sleep a little grumpy, definitely not the...
Author: viralta Date: 05/02/2008
Did You Know: You Can Tab “Backwards” with Shift+Tab?
This is a very useful tip that most people who use Windows don’t know about. In fact...
Author: viralta Date: 04/07/2008
Spoon Feed Your Geek Brain With April Webcasts
Here are a list of interesting Webcasts in April! TechNet 24 Hours of Windows Server...
Author: viralta Date: 04/07/2008
Create Hollywood Quality Music Videos Cheap
It's been a really hectic month for me this last March, hence the utter lack of regular blog posts....
Author: viralta Date: 04/03/2008
A Better Way To Defrag
What year is it? It’s 2008 and I’m still writing about how to defrag my Windows...
Author: viralta Date: 04/03/2008
Documentum and FileNet Connector Testers Needed
For those of you who have deployed or planning to deploy SharePoint Search or Search Server 2008 AND...
Author: viralta Date: 03/25/2008
MiniBar: London's Premiere Web 2.0 Geek Night
Browsing Upcoming.org for some interesting social events, I came across fun little event called...
Author: viralta Date: 03/10/2008
Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Sneak Preview (Video)
TED has a great 6 minute video showing off the WorldWide Telescope's interface! Dr. Roy Gould...
Author: viralta Date: 02/28/2008
The Universe Like Never Before, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Blasts Off
The 27th of February 2008 will be a day ingrained into the head of every man, woman, and child...
Author: viralta Date: 02/27/2008
Office Binary Formats Released to the Public under Open Specification Promise
Finally what the open-source community has been asking from Microsoft has come to fruition, we've...
Author: viralta Date: 02/20/2008
Two Interesting Vista Myths Busted
James Senior busts two interesting myths that uninformed IT guys seem to harbor. Vista Myth #1: I...
Author: viralta Date: 02/19/2008
An Inside Look At Microsoft Research's New Building
Scoble has a pretty interesting writing up about Microsoft Research and some of the projects they...
Author: viralta Date: 02/14/2008
How To: Create a Vista SP1 Image Using ImageX.exe and WIM Files
My colleague James O'Neill has a really simple step by step blog post on how to use the new...
Author: viralta Date: 02/14/2008
Who Cares About Computer Stuff?! Indy's BACK!
The decades long wait is finally at an end. Nazis, monkey brains, arks, snakes, and all. ...
Author: viralta Date: 02/14/2008
Vista SP1 RTM Released to TechNet Plus and MSDN Subscribers!
I won't get into this whole SP1 mine field as I think there has been enough back and forth on the...
Author: viralta Date: 02/14/2008
Microsoft Boy Launches Plans to Submit Homework
Everyone knows the basic Microsoft drill when products are announced. step 1 - build a website...
Author: viralta Date: 02/12/2008
Sony Ericsson Hooks Up With Windows Mobile 6...That's Hot
Engadget has a great article on a new next-generation device coming out of Sony Ericsson called...
Author: viralta Date: 02/10/2008
Burton Group Responds to ODF Alliance's Critique
This is what I call a healthy and civilized debate unlike much of the garbage and FUD being released...
Author: viralta Date: 02/08/2008
Meet the Man Who Met Bill Gates
My colleague and friend, James Senior, has had a unique opportunity to spend 45 seconds in the close...
Author: viralta Date: 02/07/2008
If Your Organization is Still Running Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), READ THIS!!!
This is going to be one of those months. Most of you all knew it was coming with the...
Author: viralta Date: 02/05/2008
Microsoft Goes Yahoo!
Eileen beat me to the punch on this one. I am excited by this announcement because some of my...
Author: viralta Date: 02/01/2008
MacWorld - Office: Mac 2008 Excel
Excel is an application that most people identify with in someway. It is such a versatile...
Author: viralta Date: 01/28/2008
Really Interesting Zune Hack
I recently had the opportunity to play around with the new Zunes at Best Buy while attending...
Author: viralta Date: 01/22/2008
All You Need To Know About Vista SP1
TechNet Resource for Windows Vista SP1
Author: viralta Date: 01/21/2008
MacWorld - Office: Mac 2008 Word
To continue with a deeper analysis of Office for Mac 2008, I'd like to share with you some thoughts...
Author: viralta Date: 01/19/2008
MacWorld - Introducing Office: Mac 2008
The Story Office 2008 is the first application from Microsoft that is released as a Universal binary...
Author: viralta Date: 01/15/2008