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Friday, March 30, 2007 12:15 AM

Yahoo! Mail Web Service - interesting business model

Dare posted some thoughts on the limitations of the new Yahoo! Mail Web Service . One thing he missed to mention though, is how that Web Service ties into Yahoo! Mail subscription model: "Yahoo! Mail offers an incentive for developers to build applications
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:08 AM

Windows Live Toolbar build 130

We just released the latest build of Windows Live Toolbar. There are no new features in this release, it's fucosed mostly on stability and performance improvements. If you use the toolbar, I'd suggest you upgrade. And if you're not using WLT, well, be
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:02 AM

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 RTW

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 (formerly "Atlas") has been released to the web. You can read more about the framework and the control toolkit at http://ajax.asp.net (including some really nice viedeo demos), or grab the bits from here and the toolkit from here .
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:19 AM

Google Maps

Google Maps is one slick web application. It's very fast and the interface is quite intuitive. On the other hand, searching for One Microsoft Way is definitely showing the wrong place. :-) Couple more complaints: Searching for my home address shows nearby
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Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:13 AM

Google Desktop - Part 2

Nathan Weinberg apparently spoke to Google's Marrisa Mayer and comments on my concerns . Nathan claims that #10 and #1 are by design. Yes, apparently they are by design - it would be quite hard to incidentally hook up the WinInet.dll or to install a BHO.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:59 PM

Some "interesting" reactions to my Google Desktop concerns...

Overall, most readers that commented on my Google Desktop post took it for what it is - a list of my personal concerns with it. However, there are two "interesting" posts I'd like to comment on. Lazyboa thinks (post in Russian) I posted it because I am
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:19 AM

Google Desktop

There are lot of people that think the new Google Desktop is great and revolutionary. However, there are several things wrong with it that make me stay away from it. Here's the short list (in no particular order): It hooks up WinInet.dll. Hooking up system
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Friday, October 08, 2004 2:34 PM

Indigo Belote - Part 1

George posted the first part of of multipart article on Indigo Belote. Go read it here ... Steve , does this post count or do I have to post something else? :-)
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:21 PM

Why I don't play with Linux...

It's not because I work for Microsoft. It's because I am not able to install Linux on my home machine. [Waiting patiently for all the laughing to die...] So far I've tried two different distros. Both of them died before the install process even started.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:42 AM

"Two Things I Hate" or "Macromedia, please help me!" - Part 2

John Dowdell from Macromedia has a very good point on my post about Flash ads . Bad ads and bad pages are indeed a problem, regardless of delivery format... GIF ads blink just as much, in-page MP3 are fortunately an aberration whose time has gone. The
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Friday, May 14, 2004 9:21 AM

'They shoud not be making money out of it!'

'I have about 20 authors with twice as many blogs and I don't make money from this site. I can't afford to pay for MT.' 'I love it, it's good product, but there's no way I am paying for it.' 'They want us to pay for it? It's outrageous!' 'SixApart are
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Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:38 AM

The Ten Rules of Performance

Check out Paul Vick's ten rules of performance . It's very interesting read, even though it won't tell you how exactly to speed up a particular chunk of code.
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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:41 AM

Paid drivers?

If you have Pocket PC or Palm, chances are you've seen the Pocketop wireless foldable keyboard. At a very reasonable price you get a great product. If you use your PDA everyday to enter a lot of information, you will find it probably the best $79 bucks
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Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:51 AM

Security Readiness Kit

Another great tool to have handy - Security Readiness Kit. Here's what TechNet says about the tool: “The Security Readiness Kit (SRK) CD and its companion web site at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/readiness are designed to give you easy
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Friday, January 16, 2004 8:59 PM

Can a printer be a security threat for your computer?

Everybody has printer at home. Well, mostly everybody. Chances are if you have computer at home, you most probably have a printer as well. It is just sitting there on the shelf or on your desk and silently (or not so - depending on the model) waits for
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