The Tip: If your mouse has thumb buttons, they are usually mapped (by default) to "back" and "forward" in IE. Change those to PgUp and PgDown, and give it a test drive in Visual Studio. I never noticed how much of my development time was being spent on...

One of the things I like best about Google is their clean, elegant and functional UIs. Microsoft's web offerings always seem to be a step (or three) behind, or so I thought before running across http://www.start.com/1/ Once again the folks at MSN prove...

I found this article on Slashdot . It is a well written commentary on the state of Unix/Linux, although I'm anot sure how many OSS advocates would agree with the conclusions. My evil twin particularly liked the following passage: I installed Linux on...

The new trailer for Episode 3 is out - http://www.aol.com/starwars/trailer/index.adp?type=lrg <edit> as David Taylor so politely pointed out, that link points to the old trailer from Nov 2004. The new one air will air on March 10th. My mistake,...

I know it exists, but every time I need it I still spend 15 minutes searching. So, once and for all, here it is: ?contents=1 . Appending that to the URL of a web part page in WSS or SPS will display a list of web parts on the page with options to close...

About 2 months ago I asked if anyone was interested in an alternative to the WSS webservices . A few people responded and tried my WssDal library. The general consensus seems to be that while it isn't perfect, it is useful enough to continue developing...

Can anyone else confirm that Sauce Reader doesn't support Unicode RSS?