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Monday, April 11, 2005 11:23 PM

Get to the root of an Explorer window

Found this great tip from Ed Bott . You can take advantage of the explorer.exe command line switches to scope a view to only contain the subfolders. For example: explorer.exe /e,/root,"C:\Windows" will open the Explorer Shell showing the Windows directory
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Saturday, April 09, 2005 3:48 PM

Show/Hide Filenames in XP Thumbnails View

Did you know that if you hold down the SHIFT key when selecting Thumbnails View or opening a folder, the Filenames for the items will not be displayed? I didn't, but just found out because for some reason I had no filenames in any of my Thumbnails view
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:51 PM

Digital Audio Tools

Eric Virro has a great site that covers all aspects of ripping digital audio. Highly recommended reading if you are curios about lossless, transcoding, cleaning, converting etc.
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Monday, March 14, 2005 7:16 AM

Groove Virtual Office

Wow. I installed Groove a few days ago on advice from Dennis and tried the File Synchronization feature. There are few things I will say this about. It's Magic . I can just drag stuff to a folder and it replicates to all my machines, w/o the use of a
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Monday, March 14, 2005 1:55 AM

Guide to ripping CDs

Chances are, you have ripped some of your music. More than likely you chose a lossy encoding. Probably it's in MP3 format. Maybe not. Anyway, I have continually refined my ripping strategy. It's optimized for getting the best audio quality on the device
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:14 AM

Make ico files from png

I found this great freeware utility, png2ico , which will take a png and create an ico file. I wanted to create a favicon for my web site, and this made it super simple. This will also come in handy when I need to make icons for my .NET applications.
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Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:10 PM

Skype 1.1 Install Problems

Jeff is having problems installing Skype 1.1 . I am having the same problems. This is the first time I've ever used Skype, so this is not leaving a good impression. Anyway, booting into Safe Mode allowed me to install it. Not sure why.
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Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:35 PM

Microsoft AntiSpyware

Not very often does a piece of software come along that blows me out of the water. A few months ago I got a very real experience dealing with spyware. Even after coaching my sister through fixing her computer, on my visit home over thanksgiving I found
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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 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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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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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
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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.
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Monday, July 19, 2004 1:51 AM

Nikon RAW image thumbnails in XP Explorer shell

I've been mildly annoyed by the fact that I can't see thumbnails of my Nikon NEF (RAW) image files in the XP Shell. Luckily someone has a product that takes care of this. http://www.softwhile.com/product_nv.html Update: check out this post for another
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