watch google video's on your mobile device

I found this article and tried it. It works great! Some of the video's I tried are little dark on my i730 but thats ok.

ISO mounting tool that works in Vista

I know a couple people were looking for a tool to mount ISO images in windows Vista so I thought this would be worth posting as its rumored to work in Vista (I haven't tried it yet):

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

OpenAjax Alliance

I just stumbled upon http://www.openajax.org/, which sports an impressive list of companies participating (from Sun, to Google, to SAP).

It is a little concerning that Microsoft is missing from the list - Atlas is by far the most advanced Ajax framework I've seen to date.

It may be that all the players participating in OpenAjax are java oriented when it comes to the web, or it may be that Atlas is too .NET oriented and Microsoft prefers it that way. Either way - I'm concerned.

Vista RC1

I took the plunge and loaded up VISTA RC1 on my Sager 9860 this weekend.

It warned me upon checking compatibility that the sound card drivers were not compatible. I went ahead and let it do a fresh install - I love the way it backed up Program Files, Windows, and Documents and Settings folders.

The install was flawless - but there were a ton of unrecognized hardware devices afterwords. I installed a driver (XP version) or 3, until I got a BSOD. After rebooting I only have one unrecognized hardware device (which is my soundcard).

I'm now downloading Office 2007 - will go all out ;)

I did try World of Warcraft on Vista and it seems to work perfectly. One oddity though, I tried playing a video clip, but WMP wouldn't play it because the sound card was locked or unavailable (I'll take unavailable for $1000 Alex).

Hey Jesse - you were looking for this

PrintForm Component 1.0 - Directly Print a WinForm


A while back we had a requirement to print a WinForm (designed for a tablet PC no less), it had to print exactly like the display. We found a few options - but even got our MS evangalist involved. We have a solution already - but this might have been easier...

More than I realized

Here is a great post of some free software from Microsoft that you may or may not have heard of.

I was using a few of these (like TweakUI and the Alt-Tab replacement) but there are a few I'd like to play with.

Virtual Keybord and Mouse switcher

I just recently got my Sager 9860 back, so now I have 2 computers on my desk (3 if you count my work laptop). I love dual monitor setups and was looking for a good solution to leveraging the laptop as a second monitor.

I want to work accross 2 monitors, but not necessarily only leverage 1 machine, being I have the laptop their it makes sense to harness its computing power.

This looks like the answer. Synergy allows you to mouse from machine to machine just like you would mouse accross monitors in a dual-display scenario. Whichever display gets mouse focus also gets keyboard focus, and it even centralizes the clipboard so you can cut and paste between machines.

I'm looking forward to trying it out!

InstallPad

Ok - this looks worth trying out:

InstallPad

Designed for setting up a new system, its basically a download manager with some ability to find the latest versions of software.

Confrence Calls and iBox JS

Today was filled with confrence calls, which enabled me to read a few articles out of my blog reading backlock. This lead to this link which is definitely something I would like to try out.

iBox is a javascript library that allows you to overlay items on your existing page - the link above is some excellent key usages: namely photo's (click the thumbnail and see the picture), and login screens (click login and the login prompt is overlayed).

Nice and small, and non-js compatible.

Woohoo i730 goes WM5

http://www.pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73071

I'm *so* excited! Please look for post 246....

RSS as an ESB?

Not a joke...
http://www.rssbus.com/

But I don't think I'll recommend it for enterprise consumption just yet...

Good Links

From the patterns and practices team at Microsoft:
Link

Interesting article on solving XSD versioning: link

Ajax Resource List: link

Managing - Smart Teams & Micromanagers: link

Awesome

Self Chilling Beer Cans!

Very Cool - Onfolio

Onfolio is the blog reader I currently use (Onfolio Professional) - I'm excited to relay an email I just receivied from them (however I am not eligible for the refund):


Dear Onfolio Customer,



We are writing you to let you know that on March 8th, 2006, Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft. As the developers of Onfolio, we are very excited about the opportunity we now have bring Onfolio to a wide audience of PC users. As customers of Onfolio, we are sure that you have questions and concerns about the acquisition. To help answer these questions, the Onfolio web site has been updated with information about the acquisition as well as information about a new free version of Onfolio for the Microsoft Windows Live Toolbar. We encourage you to read through this information and contact us if you have any questions or concerns.



Information about the Acquisition

Go to this page for frequently asked questions about activation, customer support and other details related to the Microsoft acquisition.

http://www.onfolio.com/company/acquisition_info.cfm





Information about the Onfolio Add-in for Windows Live Toolbar

Use this page to learn about the new version of Onfolio for the Windows Live Toolbar. Note: Please uninstall previous versions of Onfolio prior to installing the Onfolio Add-in for Windows Live Toolbar.

http://www.onfolio.com/product/toolbaraddin





Information about Refunds

Since Onfolio is now free, people who purchased Onfolio on or after December 8th, 2005 are eligible for a refund. To sign-up for your refund, please fill out the refund request form below before May 1st, 2006.

http://www.onfolio.com/purchase/refundrequest.cfm





All of us at Onfolio want to thank you for purchasing Onfolio, and for helping us make it better though your comments and feedback. We look forward to taking Onfolio forward as a Microsoft product and continuing to make it better. Please send questions or comments to info@onfolio.com.



Regards,



-Sebastian and the Onfolio Team

Vail, Colorado

I'm excited to share I'll be attending the Microsoft National Architects Confrence in Vail, Colorado the week of April 18th.

Todays Topic: Usability

Good links:

The Good in Email
Sample Chapter: Don't Make Me Think


**Posted to internal blog as well - appologies to dual subscribers.

get windows update back

New work machine. Windows update blocked by policy.

I'm taking control back, little by little.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_winupd_netpolicy.htm

nice little vbs script.

All about the pretty's

Here's some nice food for though when developing applications and selecting icons:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000523.html

Snippy

not to be consfused with Clippy....

This seems to be fairly useful for VS2005:
http://http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/snippy

New Machine

Got some upgrades for Jess and a new desktop for me for at home.

Jess's upgrades:
Samsung 21.3" 214T montior
GForce 6600GT 128mb video card
Logitech Wireless Trackball

My New PC:
Samsung 21.3" 214T montior
Antec SonantaII case
Asus A8N-E
AMD 64 3700+
Gforce 7800GT CO
1 GB X 2 Ram (total 2GB)
300Gb SATA2 HD with 16MB Cache
Logitech cordless desktop MX3100
NEC DVD+/-RW

Got everything running this weekend - no issues at all. The monitors are amazing.
The Antec Case is very nice and has everything running very cool (CPU ~30-35 degrees Celcius).

We may utilize EVGA's upgrade window on Jess's video card. Its not quite enough to crank up WOW at 1600X1200 with high detail. I'll try tweaking it some more before we go that route though.

Sager 9860

Recently I've had a few issues with my Sager 9860.

While doing anything significant the laptop began to freeze or simply reboot. I didn't update any drivers so I guessed heat was the issue.

Opened it up and cleaned it out mostly corrected it (lots of crud on fans and heatsinks - yuck!).

Its really nice to work on - easy access to everything, even under the keyboard. Wow.

Still it was rebooting (although much less frequently).

Opened it up again, cleaned it more throughly, and new ArticSilver5 on the CPU and GPU. Then it didn't want to boot. Yikes!

Next day I opened it all back up, redid the thermal compound on CPU and GPU, and its back to booting. Bluetooth is now not working reliably.

Installed Mobile Monitor during this process - it reboots if the CPU hits 71 degrees celcius or so. After the first cleaning it was getting up there, but after the second its mostly staying around 50-55.

However now it reboots if it gets jarred at all (a quarter inch drop when setting it down will cause a reboot). And since the internal bluetooth isn't working (finds the BT mouse and looses it 30 seconds later) I beleive I'm going to have to send it in for service.

Kudo's to the machine though - its been used about 10 hours a day (work, school, and gaming) for over a year before any problems. We'll see how the warranty service is.

Wilson ORMapper update

Version 4.2.1.o was released last week!http://weblogs.asp.net/pwilson/archive/2006/01/24/436388.aspx

CSS replacement for table with borders

I like this approach:

http://donxml.com/allthingstechie/archive/2005/12/28/2392.aspx