I love the new iPhoto and its new features, specially the organize by events feature. Very slick. Unfortunately, I still won’t be able to use iPhoto since it doesn’t support IPTC. I need the tags/keywords/metadata to live with the file and not in iPhoto’s internal database. This is very annoying as […]

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Look ma, no virtualisation window: at Tech.Ed Australia today, Microsoft showed its new “Softgrid” technology today that allows apps to run as if they were inside a second copy of Windows. But unlike traditional virtualisation apps, there’s no second Windows desktop getting in the way.
Microsoft jacks into the Softgrid | APC Magazine
I can’t wait […]

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Here is an interesting article on how to display Gmail-like progress indicator: Matt Berseth: ASP.NET AJAX: Rendering a Gmail-like ‘Loading’ Indicator over a Specific ASP.NET Control
But I have a much easier method to do that, which I use in www.yongazonga.com:
First, add your UpdateProgress control like this:

<asp:UpdateProgress ID=”UpdateProgress2″ runat=”server”
AssociatedUpdatePanelID=”pnlNewUser”
DisplayAfter=”0″ […]

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Check out this site that lets you create a timeline of your blog entries or pretty much any timeline you want…

xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines  [via Blog Posts Timeline]
Related PostsMy Elevator PitchI found this cool site that has a free wizard which helps you build your elevator (15 second) pitch….Defragment your hard […]

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My web site KB Shortcuts was featured on Microsoft’s AJAX web site and my traffic sky rocketed. I went from 1 or so hits a day to averaging around 50 and as high as 135 hits a day. It’s not too much traffic but relatively speaking it’s a 50x to 135x the traffic.

Another […]

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SmartSniff: Freeware Packet Sniffer - Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter
here is a neat little application that is free and lets you view what is going out and coming in through your network card.  I used this to debug a a web service call to look at the XML request going out and […]

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