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Friday, December 31, 2004 9:08 AM

Do Not Deliver Before

My buddy Reeves just pointed me to a sweet Outlook feature that I never knew about called Do not deliver before . In a recent post I commented on how I'm trying to get in the habit of not doing work email on weekends, vacations etc. Well one problem with
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:49 AM

Windows XP File Association Fixes

The other day I was unable to open a .cab file on my PC. I had no idea how the file association got messed up. At the same time my .zip file associates were bad. I stumbled onto this great site that has some registry entries you can download to fix some
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:26 PM

USB Devices

I have always wondered why Windows treats a USB device plugged into one port as a brand new usb device when plugged into another port. My Mac never did this, or at least it was never apparent. However, the fact of the matter is, Windows makes it very
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Friday, December 24, 2004 7:32 PM

RSS in Outlook and Newsgator

I've been using Newsgator Outlook Edition for over a year now and generally think it's a rock solid piece of software. However, today I installed it from all my computers. I've come to the conclusion that RSS in Outlook is not what *I* want. Dare Obasajo
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Friday, December 24, 2004 3:54 AM

Outlook Folder List Weirdness

Sometimes software just baffles me. A few days ago, my Outlook 2003 decided to quit remembering the collapsed state of my mail folders in the folder list. Just like that. Sometime last week. Basically, no matter how I change the folder expand/collapse
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Friday, December 24, 2004 3:38 AM

dasBlog 1.7 progress

Well I plan on spending the next few days getting together a beta of dasBlog 1.7 . I've been slowly doing some work on dasBlog the past few months (emphasis on slowly). To be honest I was pretty close to closing up shop on dasBlog and eventually writing
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:46 AM

Outlook Wish List

Since it's almost Christmas, here is what I want from Santa. A button that will prevent people from including me in the reply to an email (I call this the remove me from thread button) Here in Hotmail you get these ridiculously long threads that you get
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:28 AM

Microsoft DigitalPersona (Biometric Fingerprint Reader)

Who ever said Microsoft doesn't innovate is just full of it. I just picked up the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader . This thing is so utterly cool. The software it comes with is awesome. Basically it works like this. You install some software, reboot, plug
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:42 AM

When ReleaseComObject is necessary in Outlook

Some might tell you that you never need to call Marhal.ReleaseComObject when writing managed code in Outlook. Well there are two very specific situations in which you must call RCO or else you will encounter problems. They are: You create toolbar buttons
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Monday, December 06, 2004 12:52 AM

CD/DVD Burning in XP

<rant> I really want to know why the top two windows CD/DVD burning programs as such big fat junky programs. For many years I used Roxio Easy CD Creator. In fact, I used Toast on the Mac for many years (same company) and was super pleased with it.
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Sunday, December 05, 2004 8:26 PM

CleanSources

A while ago I lamented that the “Clean Project” button in VS.NET did nothing for .NET projects. I thought that it would be nice to have something that would empty the bin, obj, and setup folders of crusty stuff, or just nuke it if you plan on zipping
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Friday, December 03, 2004 5:28 PM

Programming iTunes vs WMP in .NET

I find it creepy that it's a million times easier to write managed code against iTunes than Windows Media Player. That just seems wrong. A few weeks ago when I was playing with the iRiver H320 I wanted to sync meta data from WMP to the iRiver so that
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Friday, December 03, 2004 7:02 AM

Spaces posting API

Folks have been complaining that there is no posting API for Spaces . Not so fast. There is a very lightweight URL based API you can use to post. See Scott's post below. Quote [ Scott Isaacs ] Blog It! Toolbar Button My first tip. The BlogIt toolbar button!
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