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Share Favorites across different users on the same machine

If you have a dual boot machine like me (I installed Vista and Windows 2008 on one of my desktops in office) and you’re tired of synchronizing your Favorite folders like I was, here’s a quick trick: open the registry editor (as usual be careful!) Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:33 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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Posters, posters and again posters...

First link-only post on this blog, it was supposed to happen sooner or later, I guess... Here is a list of technology posters you can download, my favorites are the keyboard shortcut ones! By the way, thanks to Paulo for collecting the links! Developer Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:09 AM by Carlo Cardella | 11 Comments
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SyncToy not working on Vista x64?

I've been using SyncToy for quite a few months to keep in sync some folders between my laptop and the other two machines I have in office, and it always worked just great for me (I know, I should be using Groove instead but I'm not happy to have services Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:35 PM by Carlo Cardella | 3 Comments

Process on Vista: Administrator or user?

This is an easy (and maybe already known) one for this hot summer day: how can you know if a process on Vista is running as ad Administrator or as a user? Process Explorer will tell you:   Carlo Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:45 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Google uses .NET...?!?

Have a look at this link: https://survey.google.com/wix/p0986235.aspx Uhm... let's have a look at the source HTML of the page, and we'll not find the "_VIEWSTATE" hidden field (it should be there also if we disable the viewstate in the @Page Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:31 PM by Carlo Cardella | 13 Comments

Blog addict?

Uhm... should I try to improve or somehow "worsen" this figure? Carlo Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:02 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Spell checker missing in Windows Live Writer beta 2

A few days ago I installed the newly released beta 2 of Windows Live Writer , and immediately noted (with a bit of disappointment) that the spell checker was missing... After various tests (reinstalling on other machines I have, checking that all assembly Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:53 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments
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How Fast Can You Type?

Here is some OT fun to start the day Fingerjig is a fun little typing game that tests your accuracy and speed for randomly selected words (each level tests a different typing skill). From How Fast Can You Type? Direct link to the test: http://www.jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjig.php Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:40 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Murphy's law (i.e. never play with your demos right before a presentation!)

Or at least if you do, just make sure to have a backup copy of the working demo in a safe place for a quick last minute restore! (if you are just curious, you can learn more in Wikipedia and on the Murphy's law site ) Carlo Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:38 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Caution: I'm an INTJ!

As Mike , I'm also interested in the psychological and unconscious side if human beings... and after reading this post I took the personality test based on the Myers-Briggs personality tests . Well, it turns out that I'm an INTJ (and here ) . Preferred Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:58 PM by Carlo Cardella | 8 Comments
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Vista and CHM

Now I understand why I have troubles viewing the electronic MSDN Magazine , have a look at this post from Chris Crowe... But I have to say that usually when I'm in that condition, expanding the content tree on the left and clicking on another topic solves Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:32 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments

I've been tagged :-)

So... this seems to be the game of this New Year (not really sure when it started, though)... Doug tagged me, so I'm now supposed to tell you 5 things you don't know about me... here we are: I come from a completely different background: I studied Organ Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:02 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Sometime is obvious, but not for everyone

I just realized that my last post is 20 days old... I spent this time working on support calls I own (or course, that's my job!), reading documentation and playing to get ready for the upcoming releases I'm quite sure you already heard about ( Vista , Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:20 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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