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because everyone always wants more documentation...
September 2004 - Posts
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Today's playlist: Fast Company's The Soundtrack to Success . I've finally gotten around to posting a new Rhapsody playlist. My older ones (very much older) were longer than Rhapsody allows now, so I removed them (they were quite ridiculously large, I'd Read More...
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According to this story , sometime next spring I will have to choose between paying $20 a year for Hotmail or giving up Outlook access to my hotmail account. I only access Hotmail from Outlook, I have disliked hotmail's web interface for years and it Read More...
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I am not the average home user in any way, shape, or form and that useless GDI scan tool MS offers left me confused, uneasy, and angry. This letter captures my thoughts exactly: Your “GDI Scanning Tool” is worse than useless. Run it, and it tells you Read More...
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This is a HUGE list of added/updated features. The Access database support alone greatly increases the number of places LLBLGen will be used. Thanks and congratulations, Frans. Read More...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is out on DVD Tuesday. I refuse to buy Lucas' revisionist DVDs but Eternal Sunshine's revisionist technology is the centerpiece of one of the best movies I've seen this year. Save the money and don't bother renting Read More...
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Microsoft has a scanner you can download that supposedly tests for the vulnerable GDI+ dll on your computer but I used it and don't think it was worth the few seconds I wasted downloading it. It claimed that my install of Office was vulnerable and needed Read More...
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If you do Windows-based web development of any kind and don't have to deal with shared hosting, you are extremely lucky. If you're not in that fortunate minority, you should download the Shared Web Hosting Deployment Guide. I would love to think that the hosts I have (and am) working with have all loved it, learned it, and lived it, but I fear that isn't the case. Read More...
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First, my favorite pillar was knocked down and now this. With Indigo and Avalon (if it ever happens) ported to XP, the reasons we've been told to "just wait til Longhorn" are gone. Scoble should be earning his pay and telling us why Longhorn still matters, why we should wait, what IS going to be in it. I haven't heard a single word from him about that very important detail yet. When people (and/or zealots and/or trolls, as the case may be) were saying that WinFS was going to be cut and Longh Read More...
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This post at No Fun Intended points to a $30 program you can use to record streaming webcasts. I require a tool like this because those webcasts are so insanely slow that I can not sit through them in real time. It drives me crazy. Instead, I download them and half watch them, rewinding when something interesting happens. ADD indeed.
I don't believe in paying for tools for things like this, luckily you don't have to. I've been using SDP (the Streaming Download Project) for about a year a Read More...
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I have been suggesting BlogLines to most people who ask about RSS clients. Everyone who has taken that suggestion and then reported back to me has said it was a good suggestion. Last weekend, I finally signed up and am trying it myself. I uploaded my Read More...
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Although the new .NET Show claims to be about Smart Clients, it is mostly about Office applications. The first half does discuss Smart Clients but too much of the discussion revolves around the new Office functionality and extensibility ("Visual Studio Read More...
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Let's say I was a small business and I had a semi-struggling product that should be huge. Let's say I wanted to piss off as many developers who were helping promote the use and usefulness of that product. How would I go about that? Well, as always, I Read More...
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My first impressions of ActiveWords were almost all somewhere between "good" to "giggling like a schoolgirl" but then a terrible thing happened. I went to Philly/NJ for a long weekend. I left the morning after installing ActiveWords and didn't return to the computer until almost a week later. For someone who lives at this thing, that is a long time. It took a couple days to remember what the internet was, let alone how to use it. So it took me about a week to get back to where I was Read More...
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4 years to the day after the project was started, SharpDevelop 1.0 was released. SharpDevelop (aka #develop) is a free, opensource IDE (written in C#) for C#, VB.NET, Managed C++ and ILAsm projects. Read More...
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The Gourmet Geek has a great idea: a geek commune. Sounds like a good idea to me. Read More...
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I have a couple to give out, will take down this post when they're gone. If you want one, send an email using the contact me form. Read More...
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There were only a few problems here after installing SP2. [cont] Read More...
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Rick Brewster has continued his work on the extremely impressive Paint.NET application and has now posted a link to a Beta of v1.1 . Paint.NET is a more-than-capable replacement for MS paint with some added functionality that makes it worth using (something Read More...
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You know Mr. X, right? Surely you've seen his photo. Apparently, Microsoft cut some sort of promotional deal and his portrait is (apparently) permantley plastered on the toolbar of my shiny new installation of Windows Media Player 10. It's a shame when Read More...
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One of the blogs I subscribe to (via SharpReader ) is Philipp Lenssen's Google Blogoscoped blog. It is a pretty good site for unofficial Google-related news and madness. There is an unofficial GMail FAQs page there you might want to check out, too. Philipp Read More...
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Longhorn has become Shorthorn. During the Whistler Betas, the MS OS road map was this: Whistler (which became Windows XP) was a bit of a warm-up for the time being and Blackcomb was to come a few years later and would shake the world. Blackcomb and Whistler Read More...
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What is cool about GMail:
The Labels rock.
The 4 mail states (inbox, archived, trash, deleted)
The search functionality
The threaded view of messages
The speed
The keyboard shortcuts
None of this is apparent until you've used it for a while.
What is not cool about GMail:
No Outlook support (3rd parties don't count, as far as I'm concerned).
Can not save a draft.
No delayed sending.
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