CKS: World Clock and Weather WebPart with Proxy Support
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
I recently had to add proxy support to the Community Kit for SharePoint: World Clock and Weather WebPart.
IT Teams usually like to lock down the proxy server and are not happy when they need to allow anonymous access for outgoing requests.
Looking around none of the the free ones seem to support this. Not even the [...]
Tags: SharePoint, weather
Taking notes with Evernote
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
For a long time I’ve been searching for the ultimate note taking application. OneNote used to be my favorite but since I became a consultant and needed to move between different workstations it became a strain to keep things in sync.
The ideal note taking application needs to meet the following criteria for me:
- Web Access: [...]
DasBlog to BlogML Converter
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
A couple of people have emailed me asking for the GUI version of the dasBlog to BlogML import / exporter, so I thought it best to share it with everyone. You can now download this from the MSDN Code Galley at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DasBlogML
Please let me know if you find any bugs and remember that I've [...]
Following friends on Twitter
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
The twitter web UI has a bug when you try to follow friends.
The simplest workaround is to add friends by typing the ‘follow username’ command in the twitter.com site or sending it as an sms.
Share/Save
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
I just tried twitter last week and was blown away! This is one really really cool service.
For me the coolest part about it is the SMS/Texting feature. For those who haven’t used it yet, think of it as a service which lets you SMS/Text all your friends by sending an SMS to just a single number that twitter gives.
Twitter [...]
Free Outlook 2007 Preview Handlers (PDF, XML, ZIP, MSI, BIN, CSV, XPS, and XAML files)
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
If your using Vista or Outlook 2007 then the free Outlook Preview Handler in this MSDN article by Stephen Toub gives you a whole bunch of new files including PDF and ZIP support.
Go get the install directly from here.
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I LOVE open source software like this
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source, Utilities
I’ve got a great many videos that I’ve captured in .wmv but haven’t had the time to figure out resolutions, formats and burning them to DVDs, yet.
That’s all changed now that Lifehacker has a a great post on Burning almost any video file to a playable DVD using DVD Flick.
I was fascinated by ffmpeg when [...]
Window Clippings
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
I take a lot of screenshots and Vista posed a problem with it’s window shadows. My workaround was to place the screen behind a Notepad background before taking the screenshot.
Enter Window Clippings from Kenny Kerr, includes taking the shadow background and supports a whole lot of formats including smaller file sizes with .png
The Snipping Tool [...]
BlogJet 2.0 and Live Writer
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
BlogJet 2.0 has been released. I’ve tried it out but I think I’m going to give it a pass and stick to the old version.
IMO BlogJet 2.0 suffers from the same problem as Windows Live Writer, the key word here being ‘clunky’.
Hmm.. Just checked out the Live Writer Gallery, looks like the Live Writer team has [...]
Free Download Manager
Posted by merill | Filed under Utilities
I’ve been a long-time user of LeechGet for managing my downloads but had problems running it under Vista.
Internet Download Manager was a good choice until I ran out of the trial period.
Today I found out about Free Download Manager which is free, no ads or spyware and is not hobbled by any maximum limit on [...]
