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I love the Vista unzip

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I love the Vista unzip dialog. Just two steps to unzip a file. Although XP first added the unzip to Windows, it was crudely done. It always went through the ...

Microsoft Innovations

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Is Microsoft Innovative? A fun debate between Robert Scoble and Dave Winer on the Wall Street Journal online. What’s even more interesting is this comm...

Manage your passwords

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Another program from my ‘Must Have’ folder. KeePass stores all my privata logins in a safe, secure encrypted file. It’s open-source, s...

Office 2007 UI Licensing

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Microsoft this week announced the licensing of the Office 2007 User Interface (i.e. the Ribbon bar) to the partner community. The licensing is royalty free, ...

XML Notepad 2007

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Have I been living under a rock? This is one heck of a tool. No more XML Spy for me. Incremental search (CTRL+I) in both tree and text views, so that ...

One tool to bind them all

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Or just two on this occassion. But man what a tool, Filemon and Regmon have been mashed-up into one. Better yet not just a mashup it has been written from th...

Ready for a new day?

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Get your hands on all the brand spanking new releases from a single location at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/devsolutions/ Includes download links to t...

Gmail Mobile

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Google has released Gmail Mobile, a new cell phone client application, for everyone's favorite web-based email service, Gmail. In general the new Gmail Mob...

SQL query optimization

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Wow. Two SQL posts on the same day. The SQL query processing team blog is quite a gem. I wonder how I missed this. The query processing team - query optimiz...