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Playing with Writer
Though hardly breaking news at this point, I'll point folks to the new Windows Live Writer blog posting tool. I've been playing with it for a couple weeks no (we were under quarantine about talking about it) and like it pretty much so far (though I still Read More...

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 2:38 PM by ddysart | 1 Comments

Windows Command Line Auto Completion
Having explained this to a number of people in as many days, I thought I'd share this tip for working with long paths on the command line. The easist way to expalin this is to jump in feet first: Open a command line ( <Windows Key> -R, CMD <Enter> Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:58 PM by ddysart | 8 Comments

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Cool Notepad Trick
This neat trick came across on an internal alias. I hadn't seen this before, but I'm guessing it isn't new. Pretty handy for notetaking (if you're a plain text sort of guy/gal). Open a blank Notepad file Write .LOG (in uppercase) in the first line of Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:11 PM by ddysart | 19 Comments

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