Chris Pratley started blogging! He's a Group Program Manager on Win Office and owns OneNote among other things. Anyway, he's already got some greate stuff on his blog! If you use OneNote, or are wondering how a brand new product gets hatched at MS, go...

Anyone who has used a Web Project with Visual Studio.NET source control and GotDotNet is probably very angry. It's just unbelievable how horrible an experience it is. A few weeks ago I converted the FlexWiki Web source to be a real Web Project. In...

Looks like there is an MSN toolbar . However, it's missing two critical features: No forms autofill - I use this quite a bit No Google search Just kidding about #2. However, seriously, forms autofill is cool. Remember, this was a feature...

Well, no he isn't. But if you look in the Microsoft Community, there he is. Of course it's a fake: spoofed. I guess Orkut is no different from the net. Anyone can pretend to be anyone.

Orkut is the first official digital social network I've joined. Robert Scoble (thanks!) sent me an invitation on Friday, and I sent invitations to a bunch of my friends and so the system grows. It's a pretty cool place to hang out. At first I was like...

Recently the BCL team posted : Give me the Short Path/File/Directory names, baby! [Kit George] Keith Hill inquired recently: There are times when displaying long paths (like as a menu item) that you would like to display a shortened path...

Tasks are such a second class citizen in many PIMs. Both Outlook, and Entourage (who's initial PIM model was heavily borrowed from Outlook) don't have a task feature that is compelling enough for me to use them. To make matters worse, we've been pimping...

If you are a 1.3 user, then 2.0 is a free upgrade. I just wrote on some of the cool NewsGator 2.0 subscription features, and have been beta testing for a while now. I keep two machines in sync, along with my Web and mobile subscription. Surfing new RSS...

What fonts do you use? The first thing I do when I set up windows is change the default font to Verdana . I even have a reg key which does this for Win Office, saving me the hassle of clicking through numerous dialogs. I really dislike Arial and Times...

So, I've had my Abacus Wrist.NET watch now for 4 days and it's time for my review. Executive Summary The watch is cool. I'm finding it useful and am happy with my purchase. I find that the Atomic Clock Accuracy, Weather information and Outlook calendar...

A few days ago I found out about the Toshiba Tablet Access Code Logon Utility . This is a product that allows you to use your signature to unlock your Tablet PC. It shipped with the M200 series but works (unsupported) on the 3500 series. Of course I installed...

I think this is the first time I've gotten a brand new Microsoft product so close to launch (usually I'm either dogfooding before, or wait a while like I did with Pocket PC). Anyway, I got the Abacus Wrist Net Smart Watch for MSN Direct (AU4000) ....