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WIX - Design flash web sites with drag and drop ease. A little too cute for my tastes but some of the templates do look cool. Currently in beta by invite only. Applied and was...

The Vista Stopwatch gadget I wrote about earlier has been updated with a new color scheme that is higher contrast. It’s also vertically smaller to take up less space. Same easy functionality, just prettier. You...

In reading Scott Hanselman’s blog this morning, I ran across an interesting tidbit. ASIDE: Not enough people use “Solution Folders” in Visual Studio. Seriously, folks, just right-click and “Add New Solution Folder,” start dragging things...

I posted my little Stopwatch Gadget on Windows Live the other day. The response has been interesting. The early adopters gave me high marks averaging 4 and 5 stars. Now that John Q Public has...

I use Amazon’s S3 service to serve images for this Web site. It’s a great service, especially for high volume site (don’t I wish) because it scales automatically. It’s also a pay as you go...

Everywhere I read, Twitter is a must for bloggers. So I’m giving into the dark side and setting up shop on Twitter. You can follow my tweaks or twips or whatever they’re called at http://twitter.com/mikeward_aa....

Vista has gadgets similar to what is found on the Mac and in Yahoo Widgets (formerly Konfabulator). For some reason, they have not been well received which (again) is a bit puzzling to me since...

After replacing about 100 strings with resource references recently, I began to wonder why Microsoft did not include a refactoring tool extract strings in code to resources. To do it currently requires switching back and...

One of the things I really like about programming in .NET and ASP.NET is all the cool built-in functionality in the framework. The ASP.NET health monitor is an excellent example. ASP.NET health monitoring gives you...

There’s an interesting comparison of operating systems by from Computer World as described by four experts in support of their desktop operating system of choice. It’s an interesting read in that only one advocate has...