So I wrote a quick post about Money Plus a few days ago.  My main complaint on that post is that I could hardly find anything new that is worth upgrading for.  According to Money’s web site, all the “new” features are “Insight” this, “Insight” that.  It turns out insight is a separate executable that […]

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note: don’t forget to read part 2 (link below).
I just upgraded my Microsoft Money Home and Business 2007 to the new Microsoft Money Plus (a new name for Money 2008). I got the Home and Business version as well and so far it looks identical. I actually had to go the help > about screen […]

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Here is the perfect windows switcher for windows Vista.  It has everything you could wish for in a windows switcher. 
It tiles. 
  It docs. 
  It grids. 
 It searches. 
 It supports multiple monitors

Do you want it?  Go get it at http://insentient.net/
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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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I love free software (legally free). Here is a great utility that defragments your hard drive at blazing speeds and for free. I love it.
The software is Auslogics Disk Defrag and it works in Vista. Get it at http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/

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Here is a great utility for visualizing your hard drive to find what’s taking up all the space - WinDirStat and you can get it from http://windirstat.info/
I have tested it in Vista and it works very well and is extremely fast and did I mention that it is FREE…
It displays folder sizes, file sizes and […]

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I just got my first mac ever. It’s a mac mini which I bought refurbished from Apple’s outlet store and paid $550 for it. I will be blogging about my experiences as I play with it. It’s hard to believe I am using mac, because I am a .net developer and a […]

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I start reading the Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book and doing some research online about GTD. I love the concept which is really common sense (at least to me) and in one way or another I have been doing that all along. Anyhow, I needed to implement GTD using […]

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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

Type “/callto:0017039891092″ in […]

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