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I just can’t resist a good add on. Gaston Milano’s CoolCommands is one of those Visual Studio addon’s that just fits. The one feature I really like is the Collapse All Projects in the solution...

Yep, it’s true. You can now run Apple’s Safari browser on Windows. One quick little 8mb download and you’re on your way. This is by far the easiest installation of a browser I’ve seen to...

Mads Kristensen writes an excellent blog called .NET Slave. Recently, he posted an article on how easy it is to enable HTTP compression in ASP.NET 2.0 without having to touch IIS. This is a handy...

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 is out. Others have blogged about it’s many new features. To be sure it’s one of the nicer off-line blog editors available today. But alas, with all the new features...

I completely stole this article from __here_. It’s such a useful bit of information I’m blogging it so I can “Google” myself later._ I still do the occasional batch file solution for tasks, and sometimes...

Another, month, another alpha. Don’t know if anyone has noticed by I’ve been hitting alpha releases at about one per month since October. Bloget™ 0.8 is here and it has some cool new features. Perhaps...

Check out my new podcast. Get this widget! If you don’t see the flash player widget above (IE sometimes has problems with it), click this link to use the Feed2Post player (which is also very...

Here’s a fun little find. Gliffy is an only drawing program. It’s very much like Visio but without the headaches. I always find myself a bit lost in Visio but with Gliffy I’m in productive...

I love chocolate. I also feel guilty sometimes because I perceive it as unhealthy. Well bucko, this site dispels some of those myths about about the dark side. According to AllChocalate.com chocolate has about as...

This poll from today’s MSNBC Live Vote is very telling indeed. What’s interesting is the forcefulness of the question. It’s not do you approve of the job the President is doing but should he be...