Friday Links #12
15 Aug 20087 Beautiful Themes (Visual Styles) to Customize Windows Vista - Cools Vista themes for, get this, Vista. Who knew?
What’s New in .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 - WindowsClient.net - Nice summary of new .NET 3.5 service pack features.
The Most Powerful Computer on Earth - IBM has broken its own record of computer processing speed by pushing its newest supercomputer past the petaflop barrier.
Sumatra PDF viewer by Krzysztof Kowalczyk - Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. It’s small and starts up very fast. I love it.
Twingly: Revised Blog Search + Awesome Screensaver - Spam free blog search engine. Screen saver is interesting.
Make Your Desktop Icons Smaller or Larger with the Mouse Wheel - Works on Vista but not XP.
Warplanes: The Rise Of The Droids - Air Force’s first ever unmanned combat fighter wing.
Brad Abrams : Some Results from Visual Studio and .NET Framework Developer Documentation Survey - t seems that the the majority of developers in our community are using the latest (3.5) version of the .NET Framework.
Sara Ford’s WebLog : Did you know… How to optimize your code for a build? - Interesting gotcha about code optimization settings.
Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in - VS 2008 add-in that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view.
Extra-Wide Contacts = Anime Look - Real-life Anime look. Creepy if you ask me…
Cool Tool: Ty-Rap Zip Ties - Super high-quality zip ties from the inventor himself.
Shoes, a Tiny Toolkit - Window toolkit for Ruby.
Set Browser Specific ASP.NET Server Control Properties and Taking an ASP.NET Site Offline - Neat feature for changing server control properties based on the target browser. Who knew?
Brad Abrams : .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows managed code to be launched from a network share! - Finally!
Physicists Spooked By Faster Than Light Data Transfer - Can FTL drives be far behind? (probably)
| [BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘Slow’ light to speed up the net](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7557280.stm) - A huge increase in the speed of the Internet could be produced by slowing parts of it down, say researchers. |
Windows Live Writer Tip: Insert Pictures in your Blog via Zemanta - Live Writer plug-in helps you find content related to your post.
Use FTP Online Without a Installing A Client - Review of Web based FTP clients.
Newest Video Phones are Free - The latest video phones from ACN are simply awesome. And they’re Free for a limited time. Access through our rep site at http//:mikejean.acnrep.com. This changes everything!