Friday Links #18
26 Sep 2008
| [Make Beautiful Online Presentations With Sliderocket | MakeUseOf.com](Make Beautiful Online Presentations With Sliderocket | MakeUseOf.com (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ make-beautiful-online- presentations-with- sliderocket/)) - Web app that allows you to do pretty much everything you can hope to do with a presentation and much more. |
Ping - Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. - NYTimes.com – Excellent article rebutting a recent Atlantic article on how technology makes us dumb. Great read.
CodeProject: Cosmos - C# Open Source Managed Operating System – Not so much an operating system as it is an operating system kit. Really interesting idea.
CodeProject: Seperator Delimited ToString for Array, List, Dictionary, Generic IEnumerable – In C#, there is an easy way to do ToString with separator delimited for Array, List, Dictionary and Generic IEnumerables by utilizing extension method in .NET.
| [Unnecessary Knowledge: Entertaining Facts For Your Leisure Time | MakeUseOf.com – ](http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/unnecessary-knowledge/)My wife would just groan if she knew I had a new source of useless information. |
Sara Ford’s WebLog : Did you know… You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception – Sara, you make me so hot with these cool tips.
| [SemantiFind: Give Meanings to Your Google Searches | MakeUseOf.com](http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/semantifind-give-meanings-google-searches/) – Nice idea but the execution leaves a little to be desired. If they do get it right, it will be way cool. Worth keeping an eye on. |
I think, therefore I Code…: Replace/Remove Blank/Empty Lines in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions – So simple and yet so annoying to try and remember.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs – Google finally puts to rest the false notion that rewriting your Url’s some how improves your site rankings.
| [A less crazed way to search all of Craigslist | Webware](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10048094-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5) - There will never be enough ways to search through Craigslist. To help in the hunt, there’s a new tool called Search All Craig’s Lists that does the dirty work for you. |
Countdown to PDC 2008: This is the Software + Services PDC - Plus……we’re announcing the very special gift that all PDC attendees will receive: a 160GB external USB2 hard drive with all of the bits! Could “The Goods” get any cooler? They just did!
Aeronet Bandwidth Speed Test – Probably no better than any of the other speed tests out there. I just like the way this one looks and works.
The Coolest FireFox about:config Tricks – One of more useful collections of tips.
FoxTab – Not sure how useful it is but it sure is entertaining.
| [Lightning Fast PC Searches With Locate32 | MakeUseOf.com](http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/search-for-files-lightning-fast-with-locate32/) - If you want to search and locate files on your computer fast, and by fast I mean lightning fast, you must try Locate32. I have – and I agree. |
| [Tweader: Easily Read Twitter Conversations In Threaded Form | MakeUseOf.com](http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/tweader-easily-read-twitter-conversations-threaded-form/) – Easily see conversations in threaded form. Great tool! |
| [Tesla’s ‘Bluestar’ to be all-electric family car | Green Tech - CNET News](http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10049993-54.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5) – All electrics are coming. Here’s hoping my old clunker will hang on a few more years so I can replace it with an all electric. |
Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 34 - The Rise of F# – I spent some time this week getting acquainted with F#. You can actually write a Windows forms program in three lines of code (well two if you don’t count the required #light directive). I’ll post about this later.
| [MUO Games - Analyze Your Computer For Game Compatibility | MakeUseOf.com – ](http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/muo-games-analyze-your-computer-for-game-compatibility/)Useful for those with lame laptops (like me). |
| [Defragment Server and PC | Smart Defrag | Enterprise Server Free Defragmenter](http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html) – The World’s Most Efficient Defragmenter? Don’t know about that but it’s free and has a scheduler which works for me. |
What is the Managed Extensibility Framework? - Glenn Block – Just when you think you’re starting to catch up on all the newest software development trends, stuff like this comes out of the woodwork and sends you in a new direction. Ok, so we no longer write programs, we compose them. My head is going to explode.
| [Amazon Discount Finder | MakeUseOf.com](http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/amazon-discount-finder-2/) – First it was coupon finders, now it’s this. Is there no where for a good discount to hide? |
CodeProject: Towards Cleaner Code, A C# Asynchronous Helper – This is a cool idea with a so-so implementation. I plan to use it in some of my work but it has to cleaned up and automated tests added. I’ll post it when I’m confident my changes work.
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