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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...

Looks like our neighbor’s had an invisible fence put in today. Nice, but one unfortunate side-effect was that the installer cut my cable. Miss Dig (the service to call to notify underground facilities of excavation)...

I was checking the download numbers this morning and noticed that Desk Drive has exceed 100,000 downloads. I only track the downloads from my site so the number is likely much larger given the number...

Desk Drive 1.6.5 adds Dutch (Belgium) to its growing list of languages. This latest translation forced me to widen the program’s window size to accommodate the longer strings. And I thought German had long phrases....