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My name is Omar Shahine.

I am a Lead Program Manager on the Hotmail Front Door team. Every post on this site is crossposted from my personal blog located at http://www.shahine.com/omar/

The posts on this weblog are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.

November 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:34 PM

PDF SpeedUp

I have previously written about how darn slow Adobe Acrobat 6 is when launching. I don't understand why Acrobat is so darn annoying. Here are some things I don't care for: Don't create a “My eBooks“ folder in My Documents when I have nothing

Posted by omars | 13 Comments

Filed under: Software, Windows Tips

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:10 AM

Hitachi Media Center VFD updated

I've update my Hitachi Media Center VFD . If you happen to be one of the folks using it, this version hopefully fixes some issues for you. This project was written using the Media Center Front Display Panel SDK that I wrote. Fixes: Now works after standby

Posted by omars | 5 Comments

Filed under: Media Center

Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:41 AM

Spyware

A few days ago I got one of those dreaded phone calls from my sister. It went like this: sister: “My internet is broken” omar: “Huh?” sister: “When I launch Internet Explorer it quits right away” omar: “Uh oh.