Jonathan Oppelaar

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Name: Jonathan Oppelaar
Date registered: July 26, 2011

Latest posts

  1. Where did the multiple windows go in Excel 2007? — August 11, 2008
  2. Smart Routing — May 6, 2008
  3. Facebook Talk — March 4, 2008
  4. Microsoft Dream Spark — February 20, 2008
  5. Multimodal Binding Capacity in Working Memory — January 30, 2008

Most commented posts

  1. Where did the multiple windows go in Excel 2007? — 5 comments
  2. Multimodal Binding Capacity in Working Memory — 2 comments
  3. Reference Manager add-in for Word 2007 — 2 comments
  4. Automating MapPoint in C++ with the built in GPS enabled — 2 comments
  5. GPS traffic communiation — 1 comment

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Aug
11

Where did the multiple windows go in Excel 2007?

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I have recently realized that when I open multiple documents in Excel they all show up separately on Taskbar but show up in the same window of Excel. This can be very aggravating for anyone who works with multiple documents and multiple monitors. After becoming fed up with Excel I did some research online and …

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May
06

Smart Routing

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If you haven’t heard by now Microsoft’s http://maps.live.com has updated their routing algorithm to account for traffic. Check the box next to “Choose route based on traffic” to recalculated a route with traffic added into the equation. The technology behind this is called Clearflow. Microsoft’s Adaptive Systems and Interaction group has created traffic models to …

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Mar
04

Facebook Talk

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Last Wednesday, 2/27/08, i gave a tech talk on Microsoft’s Facebook SDK. The Facebook SDK allows developers use and .Net language to create Desktop apps, Web apps, and also embed them within Facebook. Why has Microsoft done this? Here are some statistics on Facebook… Facebook has become the 2nd largest social networking app It is …

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Feb
20

Microsoft Dream Spark

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“Microsoft announced an unprecedented software program that we believe will help change the lives of millions of students around the world. The program, Microsoft DreamSpark, is focused on providing millions of college and high school students with no-cost access to the latest Microsoft developer (i.e., versions of Visual Studio, XNA Game Studio), designer tools (Expression …

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Jan
30

Multimodal Binding Capacity in Working Memory

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Today, Jan 29, 2008, I was a participant in a psychology experiment which is trying to understand working memory. The experiment consisted of me sitting in front of a computer screen with head phones while different images with sounds appeared. Then one of the images and sounds would appear again and my jobs determine if …

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Dec
09

Reference Manager add-in for Word 2007

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I have been working on my thesis proposal and i am using Reference Manager 11 to keep track of my references. Ian Cassias posted a Power Point tutorial on how to get started with Reference Manager. However, for anyone who upgraded to Word 2007 , here is the link to add Reference Manager as Add-in …

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Oct
30

Halo 3 party

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On October 9th, i hosted a Halo 3 party in Kingsbury Hall at UNH. There was a turn out of 30+ students. I gave a quick presentation about Microsoft new XNA technology which allows hobbyists to create video games for XP/Vista and for the first time ever the Xbox360 platform. XNA is a managed graphics …

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Oct
30

MSDNAA Access

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As part of being a MSP( Microsoft Student Partner) i was able to get grants for the IEEE, Project54 and the ECE department at the University of New Hampshire. The MSDNAA is free for three years and gives access to all students and faculty to almost all of Microsoft products except for Word. Some thats …

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Oct
19

GPS traffic communiation

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A company called Dash has come out with a car GPS unit equipped with GPS,WiFi, and cellular communications. With these features a network is formed from all the Dash units and live traffic information is shared. In addition to live traffic data, they have database of historic traffic patterns for metropolitan areas. This sounds great. …

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Oct
12

Jim Miller Talk

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On Tuesday October 9th, Jim Miller from Microsft came to speak at UNH. Jim joined Microsoft in 1998, leading the program management team for the kernel of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). His responsibility included garbage collection, metadata definition and file formats, intermediate language (IL) definition, IL-to-native code compilation, and remote objects. The talk …

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