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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:25 PM

I feel famous :)

The Daily Grind 892by Mike GunderloyMonday, May 29, 2006 On this Memorial Day, I'm especially remembering my good friend (and veteran) Jim Middleton, who passed away over the weekend. Thanks for everything, buddy. pbwiki - "Make a free,
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:20 AM

USB air freshner

Aroma therapy is one of the latest fads which makes this USB air freshner a must have. This gadget plugs right into your PC’s USB port and can generate three different aromas. Now here’s the cool part, you actually get to choose what scent
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Monday, May 29, 2006 4:47 AM

Phoenix RDK 5

“Phoenix is the code name for a software optimization and analysis framework that is the basis for all future Microsoft compiler technologies. The Phoenix framework is an extensible system that can be adapted to read and write binaries and MSIL
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 12:36 PM

Windows Server "Longhorn" Sharing Folders

Finally, in Windows Server “Longhorn” in case a remote user delete a shared file/folder, you can simply mark a checkbox to put deleted items in the server’s Recycle Bin! Cool!!! Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelso
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:12 AM

new MMC for IIS7

The new MMC for IIS7 (This is fully managed code!) Writing MMC was never as easy! Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:02 AM

Life's too short for the wrong job!

A set of a very creative posters   Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:58 AM

MIT’s $100 Laptop

This $100 laptop features a 500mhz Processor, Linux OS, 1GB Memory, and a Two-Mode Display (Color and B&W). It’s powered by AC or handcrank — users get approximatley 10 minutes of use with 1 minute of cranking. Lots of pictures after
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:13 AM

Cozy Tunes Speaker Pillow

Simply plug in your MP3 player and fall asleep to the sound of music with this “Cozy Tunes Speaker Pillow“. The pillow comes in four different colors and is compatible with any device that has a standard audio jack. It’s available
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:04 AM

Amazon introduces new Online Reader

Nnew AJAX-powered Online Reader for previewing books. Amazon Online Reader Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:59 AM

Gmail Remote Command

Windows only: Freeware program Gmail Remote Command lets you send commands to open files or shutdown your computer through your Gmail account. Gmail Remote Command Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:42 AM

"It always rains in Seattle"

Since Clemens is moving to Seattle pretey soon, he starts being very interesting in the weather there. By his last post here, you can see how he checks the weather (4 day forecast). Further, he doesn’t feel so good not having a sun Well Clemens,
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:19 AM

Is Remoting Dead? Clemens asnwers

Clemens just posts an answer he wrote to an email question regarding the very common question is Remoting dead? Here is the answer he put: Peter, Nothing is “dead” until it doesn’t ship anymore and then subsequently becomes unsupported.
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:51 AM

GBW-H10N Blu-ray disc burner

“LG has announced that it will begin shipping its GBW-H10N Blu-ray disc burner in June at the price of $1,020. It writes BD-R/BD-RE at 2x speeds and reads BD-R discs at up to 4x — 4.8x for single-layer BD-ROM/BD-R. Plus, it’s backwards
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:33 AM

The cool and new stuff in Windows Vista Part 2

Windows Sidebar – pane on the side of your desktop. The Windows Sidebar contains Gadgets which are small applications that can display a veriaty of information such as Weather, RSS, Stocks, Photo Slideshows, Radio/Video Streams, Traffic maps, etc.
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Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:32 AM

The cool and new stuff in Windows Vista Part 1

Instant Search – In Windows Explorer you now have an integrated Instant Search. You can instantly search filenames, files metadata and text file contents. Further, you will be able to find the Search textbox in the Start Menu   Aero –
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:30 AM

Windows “Longhorn” server beta 2 explorer crashed becuase of a DEP violation.....

Just while working on the new Windows “Longhorn” server beta 2. The Windows Explorer crashed because of a DEP violation... " src="http://snick.homeip.net/blog/CropperCapture_small2.jpg" border="0" /> Faulting application Explorer.EXE,
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:12 PM

Red-Gate SQL Query Intellisens tool

SQL Prompt provides Intellisense® style auto-completion for Microsoft SQL Server editors. It will tell you the exact formatting you should use for your SQL commands, while you are writing them and will therefore help you write fast, perfectly formatted
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:09 PM

  Steed.net is a new way of doing .net development in Visual Studio. You can create state machines in Visual Studio using a graphical designer. The graphical designer uses VG.net vector graphics. A list of features: This looks COOOL!!! (Although
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:03 PM

Just Released - Updater Application Block for .NET 2.0

We are pleased to annouce the release of Updater Aplication Block for .NET 2.0 which includes adjustments to use the latest version of Enterprise Library (January 2006 Release). We suggest you should always evaluate ClickOnce as the peferred technology
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:57 PM

New on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Office System 2007 Beta 2 Windows "Longhorn" Server Beta 2 Windows Vista Beta 2 Hopefully I will have time to view the “Longhorn” server new features… Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:55 PM

IIS7 Community

Microsoft has just announced a new community solely centered around IIS. IIS.net is THE place to go to find out all the information you need about Microsoft's next-generation web server. Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Sunday, May 21, 2006 2:03 PM

Keyboard and mouse gadget

This is absolutely something that has poor human engineering design. Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:52 AM

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta

Windows only: Microsoft's released a free utility that evaluates your current PC and tells you whether or not it's ready for the upgrade to Windows Vista, due out some time in 2007. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelso
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 5:20 PM

Microsoft introduces 'Microsoft Feeds Directory'

 “Microsoft has introduced a one-shop-stop for searching RSS feeds from the company, including feeds from MSDN Blogs, TechNet Blogs, Microsoft Dynamics and others.”http://www.microsoft.com/rss/default.aspx Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelso
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:52 PM

.NET Delegates interoperability with C++

This is going to be a very technical / hardcore of interoperability post, sorry for that  (I’m not going to explain interop basics, you should be familier before you read this post). In a project am currently managing, there is a need to pass
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:21 AM

Tech-Ed 2006 Eilat party

By all means every foreign individual that came to this party said it was the BEST party of all the Tech-Ed he has been to, and definitly he will return the next time. I heard this sentence from every one I spoke with. As for how was the party for me…You
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:58 AM

The 200GB Blue Ray Disc Completed!

This sweet sweet disc has not one or two layers but SIX layers!!! This is JUST COOL!!! (but personally I prefer HD-DVD…) Read more about it here Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:38 AM

Managed Stack Explorer (MSE) 1.0 Release

“Do you ever need to get stack traces for your .NET 2.0 applications? Want a quick and easy way to monitor managed processes and threads? Need a way to view a thread's stack trace to investigate an application hang? If so, Managed Stack Explorer
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:33 PM

Windows Media Player 11 beta

WMP 11 Beta is available for putlic download here. Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:45 AM

Tech-Ed the fun...

I took a part in the “Ask the experts” session in Tech-Ed. While mingling and chatting about .NET my eye caught Ori Amiga coming with some cool gadgets. I immidate ran, grabbed and from that moment “owned” a cool new Origami prototype
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:19 PM

What would you do with a trash can?

I’ve browse today and found this cool picture:   Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:15 PM

CodePlex beta

On May 15, Microsoft went live with the beta version of its CodePlex site. The site, which is coded in C# and is built on top of a hosted version of Microsoft Team Foundation Server platform, includes support for wiki-based team communiction, to RSS feed
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:10 PM

Taskbar Shuffle v 1.0

Have you ever wanted to be able to drag-n-drop icons on your taskbar in order to arrenge them? It is possible now with Taskbar shuffle. I was looking for this kind of app for a long time, the only one I found so far was for Windows 2000 by PC Magazine,
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:54 AM

Download of the Day: Visual Task Tips

Loved the window thumbnails in Windows Vista? why not getting it for Windows XP? Visual Task Tips:  Windows only: Freeware program Visual Task Tips displays thumbnail images of your taskbar windows when you hover your mouse over
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:21 AM

DD-WRT v23 SP1 final is now available

“DD-WRT v23 SP1 final is now available for download in the following distributions: micro - made for low memory and flash space devices. its does support the WRT54G/GS v5 too. but you need a jtag adapter to get it on this unit for the first time.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:09 AM

Visual Studio 2005: Domain-Specific Language Tools: Model-Driven Development of .NET Enterprise Applications

“Model-Driven Development represents the next logical step forward in software development methods and practices. It aims to facilitate the automatic construction of a software solution from a high-level domain-specific specification. This approach
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:04 AM

Expression Web Designer - 1st CTP available now

EWD is a new professional design tool for creating HTML/CSS based web sites and applications.  One of the great features is the deep support for web standards - something that is more important today than ever in the designer community.  
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Monday, May 15, 2006 1:54 PM

The fun way of shorcuts

Everyone is using shortcuts, why writing a meaningful name for a varible if we can write a shortcut for it? In a code review I just did I found the following shortcut: string assPath = ConfigurationManager.Get(”ICDAssemblyPath”); What
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Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:46 AM

Symbolic link in Windows Vista

Here is a great post about Symbolic link in Vista. Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Saturday, May 13, 2006 12:28 AM

Configuring WCF for NATs and Firewalls

Nicholas Allen posted a good article on configuring WCF forn NATs and Firewalls. Although if you have some experience in networking this should be ovious it is still a good post to read and keep (mainly the table in the end). Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelso
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Friday, May 12, 2006 7:29 PM

dd-wrt v23 sp1 rc3 is out!

If you are not familier with DD-WRT it’s a good time to get familier with. “DD-WRT is simply a project which was originally based on the official GPL Sources of Sveasoft Alchemy. but turned later to a OpenWRT Kernel vase firmware variant.
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Friday, May 12, 2006 7:56 AM

New LINQ Community Technology Preview released!

download the current state of all the LINQ technologies. “In case you haven't been following the LINQ project, it provides a common programming model for the most common types of data, including objects, relational, and XML. It is fully integrated
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Friday, May 12, 2006 7:47 AM

Service Factory

May Community Release Now Available “The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that have been build with the primary goal of helping you build high quality connected solutions in a more consistent way with less effort.
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Friday, May 12, 2006 7:43 AM

Halo3 Trailer available.

News from E3:  XBox.com has the Halo3 Trailer available to watch. AWESOME!!!  Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:53 PM

Tech-Ed 2006 Day 2

I am staying in the Royal Guardian Hotel, and breakfast was excellent, great food and great sweets. Presenations starts at 8:00 so I went directly to Clemens' presentation about "Windows Communication Foundation Part 1 - Introduction". I know that
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:43 AM

Tech-Ed 2006 Day 1

Let me start with taking GOD that am still alive. The flight was just horrible, twist and turning in the air is not an idea of fun. My flight was in the evening so I miss the opening and a part of the 1st presenation. But I was informed that my previous
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:33 AM

Tech-Ed 2006 is TODAY!

Tech-Ed 2006 in Eilat, Israel will start today! There is a lot of excitement here about this great event. I hope to have a great time there, further to blog about the presentation i’ll be at. I’ll be in the Developers - Ask the experts.
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:05 AM

cross post test

testing Cross-post from http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/samuelson
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