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I arrived in Los Angles around 2:00 pm today for Microsoft’s Professional Development Conference. After a 26 mile cab ride from the Airport to the hotel, I scooted over to the convention center to pick...

Calendar Gadget is an experiment in window-less controls I started back about 3 years ago. Things were humming along pretty nicely when I got distracted with this whole ASP.Net and blogging thing. I really didn’t...

ePrintableCalendars: Free Printable Calendars – Sometimes you just need a blank calendar. Simple and to the point. Ungeek To Live: Go Local for Custom Letterpress Work On-the-Cheap – This is such a cool idea. I...

Desk Drive 1.6.7 adds one minor but useful feature. Many of you have asked that the “X” button in the upper-right corner of the dialog hide the program rather than close it. I have to...

Calendar (not to be confused with Calendar Gadget) was one of the first .Net applications I wrote years ago. It started out as a C++ application named FreeCal and then later as a .Net 1.0...

I spent the morning at the Ann Arbor Day of .Net (AADoDN). What are Day of .Net events you ask? The Day of .NET’s are a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers...

[FeedIcon20: Generate Feed Icons For Your Website or Blog MakeUseOf.com](http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/feedicon20-add-feed-subscription-icons-website/) – Produces a feed icon by simply entering the URL of the feed. Simple and efficient. Sara Ford’s WebLog : Did you know… How to...

Desk Drive 1.6.6 adds language support for Dutch (Netherlands). The Dutch (Belgium) release a few days ago proved to be quite popular. The Netherlands may be small but they sure are mighty when it comes...

I’m a fan of Windows Vista and I like the extra security measures. At home, I run my laptop full on with UAC and logins. It rarely causes me an issue. But even a die...

A few days ago my neighbor’s invisible fence installer cut through my Comcast cable. A quick call to Comcast and they had a service truck out the next day at 9:30 am (as promised). I...