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I decided to jump into the netbook arena when I saw a nice brown (yes, I also have a brown Zune) Acer One for under $300 (got mine for $270 before they became more popular). With 1gb RAM and a 16gb SSD for a hard drive I figured I'd see what it could do. It came with XP home and an Office 2007... [More]
Thursday, 30 July 2009 07:12
I recently got my invitation to try out Google's new Voice service. Once again, the price is free and you can get your own invitation here. Setting up yet another dependency on a free beta product from Google concerns me but not enough to keep me from trying it out. Getting setup is pre... [More]
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 05:47
I frequently use the RSSToolkit to consume and display RSS feeds from other blogs. Recently, I've noticed problems with the RSSToolkit not being able to display feed from some external sources. In particular, I've been having trouble consuming feeds from external blogs like Blogspot a... [More]
Thursday, 24 July 2008 13:16
Recently, I blogged about my favorite file upload technique for web applications--the free flash/JavaScript-based SWFUpload. While this library is not the perfect solution for all circumstances, it certainly provides a very nice user experience and is worth seeing if it matches your project... [More]
Friday, 25 April 2008 16:28
I recently happened upon this intriguing little API that provides a nice interface for displaying events on a timeline. It was pretty easy to get my head around it and it's pretty easy to setup and use. It's got a Google Maps-like scrolling interface that is very intuitive. If you... [More]
Monday, 17 March 2008 13:25
Apparently not much. According to the product pricing page, all you need is "Any other developer tool". Here is the full eligibility statement found at the bottom of this page: Upgrade Pricing Eligibility To qualify for upgrade pricing, you must be a licensed user of one of the followi... [More]
Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:52
UPDATE: This is now available as a free ASP.NET control.
Recently, Joe Stagner created some videos and talked about 4 upload scenarios that provide an AJAX-like file upload experience. I've used or looked at all of those options at least once or twice in the past, but they were ... [More]
Friday, 22 February 2008 11:53
This MS Word Document flyer sums it up, but it looks like Verio is providing free web hosting for members of Microsoft User Groups through January 2010. These are regional groups that regularly meet and are a great resource if you have one near you. The hosting plan is a little limited (100m... [More]
Thursday, 10 January 2008 14:43