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Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:44 PM

.NET Compact Framework Essentials

One very frustrating thing about programming with the .NET Compact Framework is that it's quite limited in how much integration capabilities you have with the device. It's very good if you build a little application that doesn't need to hook into the
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Sunday, September 19, 2004 5:48 AM

KlipFolio

I've been playing around with a program called KlipFolio for a few weeks now. Not to long ago they released a new version, 2.6, and added a Hotmail Klip ! This is a really cool way to keep on top of your Hotmail, w/o having to run a mail client. It allows
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Saturday, September 18, 2004 9:39 PM

RAW Windows Shell Integration

A few months ago I posted about a little piece of software that let you view Digital RAW thumbnails in the Windows XP Explorer Shell. Well, I found something even better. DPMagic has some really well integrated software that lets you: View Thumbnails
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 7:03 PM

Audiovox 4100 PocketPC Phone

Well, it's been a year now since I've purchased a new phone, and well, I've been getting gear anxiety. A few co-workers in the office have the new iPaq h6315 and the Samsung SPH-i700 device. However, they are both to large for my tastes. AT&T has
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Sunday, September 05, 2004 8:40 PM

dasBlog Security Update

If you are running dasBlog, make sure you install the security fix available for all released versions of dasBlog. http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/PermaLink.aspx?guid=92ad6eb7-ee40-4c89-9f1e-a07c83859e63
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 4:25 AM

iPod and MSN Music

One of the more surprising things I found when checking out MSN Music is this statement . How can I get MSN Music downloads to play on my iPod? Unfortunately Apple refuses to support the popular Windows Media format on the iPod, choosing to only support
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:00 PM

System.Drawing.Imaging performance fix in .NET 1.1 SP1

A few months ago I encountered a significant performance problem with System.Drawing.Imaging . I found that by using the new Method performance was 93x faster (on average) for loading jpegs. You can download the update here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8f5654f-088e-40b2-bbdb-a83353618b38&DisplayLang=en
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