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System.Blog.Martens.Ben

The Tech Blog of Ben Martens

March 2007 - Posts

Deepfish - Mobile Web Browsing
One of my favorite Windows Mobile apps is now available to the public. Go check out Deepfish if you spend time browsing the Internet on your phone. When you browse to a site via Deepfish, a server at Microsoft renders the page in IE and then sends an Read More...
Signup Email Security Holes
Here's the scenario: I visit a sparkly new website and create an account. Later I find a welcome email in my box with confirmation of my new account. I don't really need that but thanks anyway. The unforgivable part is when that email includes my username Read More...
Path Manipulation in a Batch File
Have you ever typed "help for" at a command line? If you write a lot of batch files, read through it and you'll probably save yourself some time. Today I was trying to figure out how to get just the filename out of a path that may or may not contain the Read More...
So You Want to Add XP to Your Vista Installation (Part 2)
In the first post , I laid out what seemed to be a full plan for installing XP after you install Vista and get them to dual boot nicely. That worked fine for me the first time, but then I reinstalled Vista and couldn't use the same method to dual boot. Read More...
TechFest
We're in the middle of TechFest on campus. Since I just started with the company last spring, this is the first one I've been around for. I meandered through the booths for a couple hours today and wow... there are some incredible things in the works. Read More...
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