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Updating Twitter from Windows Live Writer

I’ve seen folks who have automatic updates to their Twitter accounts when they blog, but wasn’t sure how they were doing it. Thanks to a cool plug-in for the current Technical Preview release of Windows Live Writer, now I can do it, too. The twitter notification Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 4:35 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Chris Bowen's Blog : Tips from My Technical Presentations

I've posted some presentation tips in the past , so figured it would be a good idea to link to some really good ones posted by my fellow DE Chris Bowen . I really like ZoomIt (though it can be overdone), and it's even easier to use now that all of the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:56 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Running Code Camps

Some great advice from Dave Noderer : A week or two ago a few guys wanting to get some ideas about running code camps. It has taken on a life of it's own but here are some notes I made based on running code camps in South Florida. I'll edit and add to Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 9:04 AM by gduthie | 2 Comments

Zune Media Collection Reset Tool

If you have been seeing issues with your song/album metadata after upgrading to the V2 Zune software, you may want to try the Zune Media Collection Reset Tool . I was able to resolve the few issues I had with my collection by wiping and re-syncing my Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 12:05 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Hearing Line-In input on Vista on Dell laptop

Admittedly, a somewhat esoteric topic/tip, but I ran into this recently, so I figured there may be other folks who can benefit... I've got a Dell Latitude D820 laptop, running 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate, and I've occasionally wanted to be able to use Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:02 AM by gduthie | 8 Comments
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Halo 3 How-to on Bungie.NET

http://www.bungie.net/projects/halo3/content.aspx?link=h3howto Great set of how-tos for things like Saved Films, using Forge mode, Networking, Matchmaking, and more. Technorati Tags: Halo 3 , Tips and Tricks Bungie.net : Projects : Halo 3 : Content Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:05 PM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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CSS TOOLBOX: 20+ Tools For Working With CSS

Via Frank , some good resources for working with CSS : Have you always been reliant on others’ templates for your blog or website? You’d like to customize them, but you’re just not sure how? Perhaps it’s time to finally wrestle with the secrets Read More...
Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 12:06 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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White Space around the Silverlight 1.1 Root Canvas

Figured since I just spent a good bit of time chasing this down, it would make sense to post a tip about it... I'm working on updates to the web site for ReMIX 07 Boston , and I'm in the process of adding a Silverlight-enabled Session/Speaker/Bio page. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:03 AM by gduthie | 3 Comments

Copy as XAML in Expression Design

Very cool Expression tip from Frank : Here's a quick tip for all you Expression Design users out there. If you have a graphic and instead of exporting the entire image to XAML, you can select what you need and, from the Edit menu, choose Copy XAML. Copy Read More...
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 9:05 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

More Client-side fun, and a thank-you

So as I mentioned in my last post , I've been playing around a bit with Virtual Earth and client-side javascript, and being somewhat rusty in this area, ran into a few issues. One of the areas I initially had trouble with was wiring up my javascript functionality Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:03 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Multiple Accounts In Outlook

A few months ago, my colleague Peter Laudati posted the following as part of a paean to Windows Live Mail : So why do I think WL Mail is so great? There are a bunch of reasons. Reason #1: It lets you easily manage multiple e-mail accounts. Okay, that Read More...
Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 12:07 PM by gduthie | 1 Comments

Volume Shadow Copy Tip

My colleague Brian Hitney (creator of WorldMaps ) offers a great tip on Volume Shadow Copy , and how to get back some of the space it uses for backing up files (the usual caveats about risks of disabling such features apply): I've spent a lot of time Read More...
Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 9:02 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

Required Reading: Write a perfect email

This should be required reading for anyone with an email account: Email, not the web, is the most-used Internet application by transaction volume. It’s also the most misused. Since it’s such an important and often overlooked component of our online lives, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:05 PM by gduthie | 2 Comments

Windows Live Platform tidbits

Here's some great Windows Live info from Catherine Heller , including a nice shout-out to my brother DE from Florida, Joe Healy : I was out of the office last week on vacation (check out our awesome seaplane ride to Victoria !), and a number of things Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:08 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments

Moving to WorldMaps

One thing that's interesting about blogging is the fact that it allows you to instantly reach people around the world. Anywhere that someone has an Internet connection, they can find and read what you've written. It's a very powerful concept. But it can Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:10 PM by gduthie | 5 Comments
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