I recently blogged about my new productivity device (AKA my new toy), an AT&T Tilt. I’ve been using a Motorola Q for years and missed the capabilities of a PDA phone (like the Tilt) versus a a smart phone (like the Q). The Q had superior voice quality and a better overall phone experience but […]
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Google and MSN both have a streetview product on their maps now. They have these little cars with 360 degree panoramic cameras driving down various streets taking digital pictures and then you’re able to view these street level pictures online. To see an example of this take a look here: That’s the main entrance to
Crime Stoppers meets Web 2.0 with Google Maps Read More »
#1 – Aptana.com – Has two interesting products, Aptana Jaxer, is an opensource web server optimized for AJAX pages and applications. Aptana Studio is a free and opensource development environment for AJAX based applications. I love free afterall and these are both cool tools. #2 – Xobni.com – I haven’t mentioned this earlier but I’ve
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Have you ever sat in a presentation and saw a command execute that you never knew about and was just blown away? Yesterday was one of those days. I was watching a demo of a new SAN solution and the presenter created a new volume on an NTFS drive but didn’t use the full drive
Extending NTFS Volumes Quickly. Read More »
How often have you had someone come up to you and say “Hey, you know computers. I think my PC is infected what do I do?” Generally, their AV is out of date or non-existent. Today it was pointed out to me that Dr. Web has a free cleaner called “Dr. Web CureIt!“. The application
Free Virus Cleaning Software from Dr. Web Read More »
It’s been a while since a wrote a blog post for the cool stuff category. I’ve got 3 or 4 different things I’m dinking tinkering (this was updated as it was pointing out dinking has a pretty negative meaning in the urban dictionary) with these days so I thought I’d just write a quickie blog
Cool stuff, I’m TINKERING with these days. Read More »
Steve C. Orr – Defend your ASP.NET sites against evil bots with this free CAPTCHA web control. (tags: asp.net captcha)
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I’m Vegas bound once again. . . . Seems I was just there in November?!?! This trip though is all business (yeah.. uh huh in Vegas . . . Keep telling yourself that Jess). Anyway, looks like MIX has sold out once again but if you’re heading to Vegas and want to meet up feel
Heading to Mix 08 Next week! Read More »
Like any die-hard computer geek/junkie, when Vista was first released I moved to a new desktop running Vista. The downside to going to a new desktop is that same old problem “what do I do about my old desktop? I don’t want to (or I can’t) re-install all my programs, documents, etc?”. So for the
Migrating your old workstation to your new workstation with virtualization. Read More »
Microsoft has recently started providing a series of websites to help with adoption of their development tools. We’re all familiar with the ASP.NET and IIS.NET but there’s a couple other new sites I thought I’d point out, MSDN Code Gallery and CodePlex. The MSDN Code Gallery The MSDN Code Gallery is a brand new resource
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth – Microsoft Code Samples Read More »