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Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:58 PM

MobyDock (Mac OS X style dock for Windows)

MobyDock is a cool application. It's the best Mac OS X dock knock off I have used on Windows. The animations are smooth, and the application is just pretty. On top of that they have a nice product web page which is good sign of quality software. Crappy
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Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:21 PM

dasBlog feature: Search Result Referrers

I have to admit, one of the more fascinating aspects of having a blog are the ways that people find it. I'm constantly amazed at how people get here. Having a good amount of Google Juice helps put some of my posts pretty high in google's results. Well
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Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:20 PM

dasBlog support for Newsgator Ratings

I uploaded a patch for dasBlog 1.6 that allows you to utilize the NewsGator ratings system . This patch adds support for a new PermalinkUrl Macro. You can use this macro by adding: <%permalinkUrl%> to any of your templates. To add the rating system
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Sunday, October 31, 2004 6:51 PM

Rio Carbon vs iPod

The Rio Carbon was a device I didn't want to like. My main reason for not considering it was that it's only 5GB and I was looking for an iPod replacement. However, as I've used this device it's really grown on me. I was able to transcoded all my WMA lossless
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Sunday, October 24, 2004 8:20 PM

iRiver H320 vs iPod

I was really excited to see a device like the iRiver H320 . However, upon opening the device the experience turned out to be an extreme disappointment. I believe that iRiver built the Kitchen sink here. This device tries to be too many things to too many
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Friday, October 22, 2004 5:12 AM

iPod Replacement Criteria

In my quest to find a suitable replacement for my iPod I plan on reviewing any device I purchase till I find a device that meets my needs 100%. My needs are defined below, but basically map to what I get today with my iPod plus some things I think I deserve.
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Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:16 AM

PlaysForSure

I want to talk a bit about PlaysForSure which is a new logo program for portable media players that Microsoft announced a few days ago. First some background. I have owned every generation of the iPod. I am currently the owner of two 3G iPods. I have
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:54 AM

Mouse goodies

This past weekend I picked up the new Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse . This thing is very cool. Has a little wireless transceiver that attaches to the mouse and turns off the optical part so you can transport it. Another recent discovery is that IntelliPoint
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Monday, October 11, 2004 3:38 AM

Favorites Synchronization Software

For the longest time I wanted a program that would easily and seamlessly synchronize favorites across multiple machines. The fact that each machine has its own favorites store has made the feature rather useless to me, and I've started resorting to less
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Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:06 PM

Virtual PC 7

Well I am really late to the game here, but I never got a chance to shout out that Virtual PC 7 is available. I don't think folks outside the product team will appreciate just how difficult it was to get this product out the door. It took a bit longer
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