Check out this WP theme generator. I haven’t used it on this site, but it looks very cool and easy to use. Have you used it before? Is it any good? Let me know. Check it out at http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

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I added a macromedia flash animation (swf) to my asp.net website and it would work fine but when it came to display video it would stop. I figured it had to do with the video files i.e. the FLV file. It turns out that I had to add its MIME type to IIS

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You can setup a wakeup call using Skype in Vista (and XP too)…

Start Task Scheduler

Click on “Create Basic Task” on the right hand side

Go through the wizard

Setup a name e.g. Wakeup for Bootcamp

Setup the frequency e.g. Weekly

Select schedule e.g. 6 AM, Monday through Friday

Select “Start a program”

Type “c:\Program Files\skype\phone\skype.exe” in the program/script textbox

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One of my favorite features of Microsoft OneNote is it’s screen capture. You can capture parts of the screen by selecting with your mouse and it will be copied to your clipboard and also added to your OneNote notebook:

Click the Clip button in the OneNote Toolbar

Or you can get to it from the menu

Or […]

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Check out this site which lets you create HTML formatted with syntax highlighting for your code snippets. Very helpful when posting to your blog or creating HTML versions of your code. It supports all kind of languages, xml, php, c#, vb.net, css, html and others - even XAML. The site is http://FormatMyCode.com

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Almost everyone knows about http://tinyurl.com it’s a great idea but I hate copying the URL, going to tinyurl.com pasting it and then creating the short one. There is a nice plug-in/extension for FireFox that lets you do this very easily:

You can get the FireFox extension from http://www.dwarfurl.com/firefox

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I have 3 Joost invitations. If you are interested let me know through a comment or e-mail. Also check out my mini-review at http://emad.blogstogo.com/2007/04/05/joost-launched-review
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I found this post by Eric to be very helpful and I plan to use his suggestions when creating my next web application. This helps you resent all the styles to a preset so that your site looks the same on all browsers. Remember to read the comments for more useful suggestions. […]

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I have a sql table that looks like this

Id

Name

Value

1

First name

Bob

1

Last name

Johns

2

First name

John

2

Last name

Smith

3

First name

Bill

3

Last name

Gates

I want to return the data like this:

Id

First name

Last name

1

Bob

Johns

2

John

Smith

3

Bill

Gates

 
I am completely lost and don’t even know where to start or what to search for… Any ideas?

For the time being, I used code to generate the required results, here it […]

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This post is for me. I always forget where Windows installs sidebar gadgets. They are at C:\Users\Emad\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets
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