NLarge is a free little utility for technical presentations. It magnifies the screen (via a smooth animation), and allows you to pan and zoom around the magnified image. You can annotate the magnified screen using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen. NLarge...

Firefox 2 was released yesterday and it turns out the Internet Explorer team sent them a cake . Reports are it was a tasty chocolate rum cake :) As I said yesterday , between IE7, Firefox 2, and an arsenal of add-ins, the web's a better place these...

The Internet Explorer 7 Team posted an amazing list of must-have Add-Ins for IE7 . Some I'd seen, some were new, and I'm using almost all of them now. If you're not surfing the web with IE7 yet, you can get it here , or Automatic Updates will push...

What does Windows Live have to offer Developers? Have you ever wanted to... ... add Virtual Earth to a website? ... use the Live platform to build Messenger activities ? ... build Search on your site? ... write your own Gadgets ? .....

There's a fresh wealth of design ideas in this month's Where Design Comes From newsletter . My favorite piece is Jonathan Yuen's design portfolio , which he's delicately sketched with ink and innovation. Interacting is a joy and gives a...

I've written before about how to ease the challenge of scripting your data to move it from a local SQL Server 2005 .mdf database to a hoster. Things got a little easier today with the SQL Server Hosting Toolkit , which, in its first incarnation, is...

Last Wednesday I gave a presentation to SkyNet , the University of Limerick Computer Society. About 30 undergrad and graduate students turned up for Atlas, Vista and pizza, in that order. What I showed them was basically a riff on my ASP.NET "Atlas...

Windows Vista RC2 (build 5744) was available internally late last week, and I'm writing to you from it right now. It's available for download to technical beta testers, Customer Preview Program participants, TAP Testers, and MSDN/TechNet subscribers....

Launch is coming soon, not just for Windows Vista and .NET 3.0, but also the 2007 Office System and Exchange 2007. We're looking for a few great Partners to be involved in this very significant event. Over the past two weeks, I've met with local development...

I was asked today how to add a hyperlink to an image in an ASP.NET 2.0 GridView column, so that clicking the image will cause the browser to navigate to a different page. I thought I'd post it in my blog, just in case anyone else is searching for this...

In Windows Vista, the Event Viewer user interface now allows you to quickly attach tasks to system events - in fact, Application, Security, System, Setup and Forwarded events. For instance, in the image below, I am attaching a task to the System event...

Vista's Reliability and Performance Monitor provides you with insight into how well your system is performing. In previous versions of Windows client (and server), your system collected a variety of information about events related to system reliability...

The Galway ICT Productivity Conference, which will take place on Thursday October the 12th, promises top-class speakers for Developers, Architects and IT Professionals . The theme of the day is ‘Increasing Productivity through Technology,' which is looked...