Live Map of London Tube Created In PCB and Lights

If you’re a frequent traveler on a public transit system, it can be helpful to know when the trains or buses are arriving and if there are any delays. We might reach for a tablet to mount on the wall, but that relies on keeping the OS, the software, and …read more

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Date Clock Requires (Almost) No Interaction

A lot of commercial offerings of technology aimed at helping the elderly seem to do a good job on the surface, but anything other than superficial interaction with them tends to be next to impossible for its intended users. Complicated user interfaces and poor design consideration reign in this space. …read more

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Download the Microsoft Ignite Apps to Prepare and Maintain Your Schedule for This Years Conference

If you are attending Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida in late September then now is the time to begin organizing your schedule of sessions.

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Schedule Meetings the Easy Way by Using Microsoft FindTime

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you an easier way to schedule meetings using an add-in for Office 365 called FindTime.

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A ‘Do Not Disturb’ Digital Assistant

Flow requires a certain amount of focus, and when that concentration is broken by pesky colleagues, work can suffer, on top of time wasted attempting to re-engage with the task at hand. The Technical Lead in [Estera Dezelak]’s office got fed up with being interrupted, and needed his own personal assistant to ward off the ‘just one question’-ers.

Initially, [Grega Pušnik] — the tech lead — emailed the office his schedule and blocked out times when he wasn’t to be disturbed, with other developers following suit. When that route’s effectiveness started to wane, he turned the product he …read more

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Microsoft Shuffles their 2017 Conference Lineup; Merges and Date Changes for Envision & Build

In 2017 Microsoft will merge another conference into Ignite and shift the dates back for their annual developers conference.

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Microsoft Shuffles their 2017 Conference Lineup; Merges and Date Changes for Envision & Build

In 2017 Microsoft will merge another conference into Ignite and shift the dates back for their annual developers conference.

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