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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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