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The home for technology enthusiasts in the Microsoft stable (and my first home with the company), Channel 10, recently launched a beautiful site upgrade.

The revised site looks more polished and is easier to read than its previous incarnation. Duncan and the development team also included a shiny new media player with embed code for spreading your favourite videos far and wide.

In the last week, Laura has recommended a great video compression tool, Sarah found a very cool panoramic desktop viewer, and Max linked to a Media Center DVD library tutorial. Stop over and spend some time poking around 10, and don’t be afraid to feed them back ;)

Beginning tomorrow and running through the end of this month, Jonny Knoxville and the Jackass crew will be available online to entertain and gross out for the grand price of zero dollars (which could mean you’re theoretically being paid half a Euro to watch it). After the initial ad-supported run at Jackassworld, the film will be available for purchase online for the truly passionate fan of absurdity. Thank you Silverlight!

(Tim Sneath)

For those of us who have swallowed the blue pill and accepted Facebook as our online social aggregator, Adam Ostrow writes up a new IE Facebook toolbar for Mashable:

 

…Some third-party developers have built My FB Toolbar, a toolbar with much the same capabilities as the official one from Facebook for Firefox. With the toolbar, you receive alerts of new messages, wall posts, friend requests, and other notifications you would typically receive via email. There is also a Yahoo search box, which I presume is how the developers hope to make a little money from their endeavor.

(My FB Toolbar - Mashable)

Joshua Allen recently dug into the rumor that IdentityMine, one of Microsoft’s most valuable partners, uses Macs for their cross-platform interactive design work.

You can imagine my consternation when I visited the offices of such a great partner, and discovered a bunch of their developers and designers using Macintoshes! In this interview, I try to get to the bottom of things and find out why the heck they are using Macs.

Nathan Dunlap demos how he does his day-to-day work using Vista and Expression Blend on the Mac, talks about his favorite software packages, provides some tips and tricks, and more. Be sure to watch all the way through for a humorous anecdote about his Macintosh overheating and melting (I’m not kidding).

(Joshua Allen)

In the future I imagine we’ll have impossibly affordable teams of virtual architects and coders and testers to construct our flippant software ideas into living, breathing wetware. Until that warm and shiny Tuesday though, we have Angus.

I’m lucky enough to have quite a few developers at my disposal (yay!).

If you have a killer idea and want it built out in the form of a Windows Live Quick App (either new or enhancement to the existing ones) tell me!

Should the feature request make the grade; my developers can built it out and the code will be available in the Windows Live Platform Quick Apps in Codeplex.

Either log a job in Codeplex or leave a comment!

(Angus Logan)