22 Aug 2008
Track Your Twitter Popularity With TwitterCounter - Twitter equivalent of Feed Burner, automatically generating a counter for your site and giving you access to some fairly reasonable statistical data. Screen2: Share Your Browser View -...
21 Aug 2008
A few of you have emailed asking if it is possible to change the icon that Desk Drive puts on the desktop. Well, the answer is yes with qualifications. There is no option in Desk...
19 Aug 2008
Desk Drive 1.4.7 includes two new features: Simplified Chinese translation Bring settings window to foreground The Chinese translation looks cool. Anyone up for doing traditional Chinese? It’s easy. Just edit the DeskDrive.exe.xml file in the...
17 Aug 2008
My 9 year old son is nuts about NASCAR. Who knows where he gets it from. I certainly have (make that had) no interest in it. Still, it’s what he likes so I do my...
15 Aug 2008
7 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...
14 Aug 2008
Desk Drive 1.4.5 includes two new languages, Japanese and Finnish. Keep those translations coming. The installer now adds the correct icon to the start menu application shortcut. This was a simple fix but understanding the...
13 Aug 2008
When it comes to computer desktops, most people fall into two categories. Those who keep their desktops virtually clear of any icons, and those who throw icons on it like a toxic waste dump. I...
12 Aug 2008
Visual Studio 2008 includes a setup project that can build MSI installers for your products. The authoring interface is a bit clunky but it incorporates most of the features one would want in a robust...
11 Aug 2008
I was still receiving reports of Desk Drive crashing when “Minimize all windows” was active. I talked about this problem in an earlier post titled “Using C# to Interact with the Shell Gotcha”. Well, I...
10 Aug 2008
A Desk Drive user sent me a bug report complaining that his settings were not maintained when he upgraded from one version to the next. After checking into it I discovered he was right. The...