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[tool] DiffDoc - Show differences between Word documents (and PDF, XLS, PPT, RTF..)
I just read about DiffDoc on Buck Hodges' blog. This thing's amazing - it shows differences between all sorts of businessy document formats - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wordperfect, PDF, RTF, and HTML -
[fix] Killing the F-Lock on MS Keyboards (even under USB)
None of the normal hacks to disable the F-Lock key on Microsoft keyboards work if you're connected via USB. The XML file at the end of this post corrects it.
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[tip] (Re)installing Windows on a SATA drive
I recently bought a Dell Dimension 9100, mainly due to the 24" LCD bundle. I blew out whatever goofiness had been preinstalled and went to intall Windows XP SP2. Well, it has a SATA drive and Windows still doesn't include SATA drivers.
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[wish] Windows MCE TV / Video Playlists
I'll confess - my kids watch the occasional TV show. At least with our Windows MCE setup, they watch shows my wife and I preselect instead of whatever happens to be on at the time, but that brings with it the annoyance of having to change the shows when each one ends.
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3D Pie Chart
Here's a nice free3D Pie Chart class on CodeProject. Version 1.4 (just released) includes some bug fixes and a demo app. Purty.
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[FIX] BizTalk 2004 - Failed to generate the master secret (error code 0X80070005)
The BizTalk Server 2004 installation fails on XP SP2 with an error message that doesn't give much of a clue as to what the problem is: Failed to generate the master secret (error code 0X80070005). As Marco says in his post, it's easy enough to Google it if you know that XP SP2 caused the problem, but otherwise it's not easy to figure out.
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[tip] Use the Coral Distribution Network to save bandwidwidth
A family member called me about the bandwidth on his site due to MP3 downloads lately. The host company said there had been 40GB of downloads this past month, which required extra fees since the hosting plan doesn't allow for near that bandwidth. I changed the offending MP3 links to use the (free) Coral Distribution Network , and thought it would be good to share the information on this service since it's bailed me out more than a few times.
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[OT] 300th post
Well, hey, look at that! This is my 300th post. Hooray for multiples of 100!
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Best free VistaDB post - "If VistaDB was a woman... I'd marry it."
...or rather... if VistaDB was a woman... and I wasn't already married... and I was into chicks who were thread-safe and crash-safe.... then I'd marry...
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NSurvey goes 2.0, shifts to mixed license model
NSurvey V2.0 is finally available along with new licensing terms from the member section. A a FREE community license is still available for small to mid size surveys.
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E4X - XLINQ in Javascript, but when?
With all the AJAX / Web 2.0 hype lately, I've been thinking about what's next for Javascript (the J in AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XML), a.k.a. ECMAScript.
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[link] C# 1.1 Project Templates for VS 2005
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DotNetRocks San Diego Show
I saw the the DotNetRocks Roadtrip in San Diego Thursday night. It was a fun and informative time. Carl Franklin's info on VB.NET 2005 was interesting. Most of it was just general VS 2005 / CodeRush info, which was just great for me. Richard Campbell is a hilarious speaker and gave a great overview of the Windows Mobile platform and devices, which helped make some sense of a pretty disorganized space (Smartphone 2003, Smartphone 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, etc.). I went home played with wrote VS2005 / Smartphone apps for my Audiovox SMT5600. Fun stuff.
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Let's get the Blog Worth thing out of our system
Here's the blog worth of every feed on the weblogs.asp.net OPML, with code included to keep it on topic (webrequest, xml, and regex). We can be done with this now.
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DevAge Source Pack 1.0.0.0 - SourceGrid 3 and more ...
I blogged about the DevAge Source Pack this past summer when it was in Beta 1. The DevAge Source Pack 1.0.0.0 has just been released now - download it and try out the demos.
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internet explorer tab within firefox
Great new extension for Firefox that opens an IE Tab. Comments indicate it may be a bit quirky, which shouldn't be surprising since it's kind of a hack. It's working great for me in Firefox 1.5. I just ran Windows Update with no problems. Of course you're really running IE embedded in a tab, but fewer open windows means less clutter on the screen and on the taskbar, which is all good news.
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Why not an Expression Query Language?
Regular Expressions are extremely powerful and ugly as all hell.[1] Even with comments and a good RegEx IDE like the Regulator , they're total gibberish. Why not a RegEx 2006 with a more readable syntax?
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"Firefox support - available soon!" means you're doing things the hard way
I am disappointed to see that Windows Live is not working right in Firefox.[1] Not because I'm all religious about browser support and all that, although Firefox has been my default browser for quite a while. I'm just as dismayed when I see sites that only support Firefox, Safari, or Lynx and say they're adding IE support soon...
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Windows Live - I think I get it...
Scott Hanselman's response to Windows Live: I just don't get it. That was my response today as I read about 50 different announcements on it. But after reading Dare's explanation, it starts to make a bit more sense:
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[quote] Play a Sony CD, Get a Rootkit Installed
Nice. Oddly enough, you may be safer with illegally copied music. I stopped buying music from online stores due to DRM restrictions preventing copies to more than 3 computers. I've got 5 CPU's just in my house right now.
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Firefox Web Developer Extension Beta 0.9.9
I recently upgraded to Firefox 1.5 B2. It's been working great, except the Web Developer Extension stopped working - it showed it was installed, but the toolbar and menu item were disabled. Fortunately, Chris just released a new beta of the Web Developer Extension that works great with Firefox 1.5 and has a ton of new features to boot . Yippee!