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Email "Dump Button"
Type type type type, send. AUGH! WAIT! NO! We've all had it happen. You click Send, type Alt-S or press Ctrl-Enter to send your message off, and 1.3 milliseconds later you realize that you sent it to the wrong person, had a typo, or forgot the attachment. Read More...
Pulling a Facebook RSS Feed via .NET
I wanted to add my Facebook status to my other blog which is running Community Server 2.0. All I needed to do was write a user control to pull the RSS feed and display the text. This seemed easy enough, but it turned out to be a little tricky. First I Read More...
Web Cam Time Lapse
I've done a couple time lapse videos recently, and I think I'm becoming a bit of a time lapse fan. This latest app combines time lapse photography with the skiing web cams that I watch every day (via my Vista gadget !) The app watches a list of web cams Read More...
Macro Defined Custom Outlook Search Folders
I use the built-in Outlook "Sent Directly To Me" search folder as my hot items in Outlook. If my name is on the To or CC line for an email, it's probably something I want to look at fairly quickly. The problem is that I'm starting to get a lot Read More...
Control.DrawToBitmap
Did you know that method existed? I just saw it for the first time in IntelliSense. I did mostly ASPNET development work when 2.0 was released so I guess I never noticed it. This is a great one to keep in the back of your mind. public void DrawToBitmap Read More...
Vista Sideshow
One of the most exciting features in Vista for me is Sideshow. You host these small gadgets on your Vista PC and it gets displayed on any device that supports Sideshow - laptop covers, cell phones, digital photo frames, remotes, etc. I think we're going Read More...
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