Windows - Quickly launching commonly used programs
A nice feature introduced way back in Windows Vista is being able to "pin" programs to the taskbar and then launch those pinned programs by pressing the...
A nice feature introduced way back in Windows Vista is being able to "pin" programs to the taskbar and then launch those pinned programs by pressing the...
Here's a simple but maybe not so obvious tip. In Visual Studio 2010 the HTML Designer is not enabled by default.
 For Mac users, one of the most popular ways to use Windows is through a...
Microsoft has added paid storage options to its SkyDrive cloud service. As a result, brand new SkyDrive users get 7 GB of storage for free.
Being a heavy keyboard only user in many instances and having written desktop applications that focus heavily on keyboard tab order, hot keys, etc.
Now that our kids are in school my wife and I wanted to setup a family email account that we could give to our children's teachers that would forward to...
What is Code Metrics Viewer? - Matthias Friedrich highlights his Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Viewer extension which plugs into VS 2010 Professional...
Yay!! Microsoft has released a Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 that adds full support for HTML5, CSS3 and new Javascript features like...
I recently was looking for a way to setup a Wordpress Page that actually was just a link/placeholder for an external site.
I first got started with computers back in the 80's with a Tandy 1000 Series computer and used MS-DOS quite a bit.
I recently came across this article from Scott Mitchell, that shows how to use DotNetZip to create and extract ZIP files in an ASP.
The iPhone 4 is an awesome smartphone. It truly has started to replace my desktop and laptop computer for many day to day tasks.
Visual Studio 2008 is not without its faults. They did however add some nice features in the 2008 release such as JavaScript debugging.
If you've used a computer before you've undoubtedly scrolled through and agreed to some sort of agreement.
It's been one of those weeks :( !visual-studio-wait It should be noted that I was able to take a screen shot, upload it to Wordpress and make this blog...
You can get an early build of Google Chrome for Mac here. Use at your own risk! I'll let you know if it blows up my Mac in my next post...
Google's Gmail Notifier system tray application for Windows can't launch Google Chrome when it's not setup as your system default browser. Uh, hello?
One of my co-workers asked us (the IT department) how she could print a certain page number or range of pages using Microsoft Outlook 2007.
We've had an open support ticket with Microsoft due to some bugs we're seeing with SQL Server Reporting Services 2008.
As I mentioned in my last post, I had to figure out various ways to make my latest project's ASP.NET application run faster.
Since we have been developing with SQL Server 2008 here at work on my latest project I have been keeping an eye on its available updates and fixes (at...
Microsoft is offering free downloads of Windows 7's Beta release. You can get your copy here.
Google has finally released a version of their Picasa desktop application for Mac.
If you looking for a great program for managing your personal finances, you should check out Mint.
Mozilla today released Songbird, a new cross-platform open-source media player to rival iTunes.
Not that I think I'm breaking any news here, but SQL Server 2008 has been officially RTM (released to manufacturing).
Wow, it's been quite a while since I've posted. It was just into 2008 back in January. Wow how time flies!
Happy New Year! While this tip isn't my own, it still seems as though it will be very helpful.
Use FxCop to write better code. I've been using it for a little while now and it definitely has helped me out. This article tells you how and why!
A co-worker of mine shared this with me recently. It was one of the biggest annoyances in Visual Studio 2005 if you ask me!
While bragging to my buddy Bill about how cool this new open source remote desktop app Terminals was, he showed me an even better tool, visionApp Remote...
I recently reformatted my Dell Laptop and put Windows XP back on it. My wife had been using it for the past year or so and I found that I was wiping it...