This marks the official release of the 2.2 version of SharpMT. The feature list and download links follow…
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I Hate That “Ewwy” Feeling
When someone asks me for an email address of someone that isn’t in my contacts list, I often rely on the “address popup” feature of Outlook to find an address for me. It’s nice enough to keep track of who I’m sending email to, so why not use it to lookup people you’ve recently email? Um, well, a good time not to use it is when someone emails you for the address of an employee of a company that you both used to work at, especially when that you’ve gone on to complain about annoying their inability to complete paperwork on time or to reply to email and phone calls in the body of the original email. Odds are you will do what I have done: accidentally CC the person you’re complaining, which is rather embarrassing even if you don’t work there anymore… and I don’t get embarrassed as a rule, but this is pretty fuckin’ close to it.
Now I just wonder how long it will take for that annoyingly ugly “ewwy” feeling in my stomach to go away, so I can eat lunch without massive agita.
SharpMT: New Icon for 2.2
Thanks to Jessica, SharpMT is getting a new icon! She posted four different options to choose from and I pass it on to you, in case you like one of these other ones better than the one I picked and want to replace the icon on your shortcuts. For me it was a hard decision to make between the four but I went ahead with one and you’ll see it in the final version later this week.
Smoking Ban Bad For Business (NOT)
So lately there’s been a bit of a hubbub about smoking in public places here in Connecticut and New York. I know NY has had different levels of non-smoking in restaurants both in and out of the City, but I think they are smoke free for all restaurants. Right now, CT has banned smoking in all restaurants; smoking in bars is allowed until April 1, 2004, when those too go smoke-free. Do I smoke? No. Do I care? You’d better believe it.
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SharpKeys 1.1 – Beta 3
Couple of new features this time out, both of which are related to the list of keys that are available.
Download SharpKeys 1.1 Beta 3: Install | Zip
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IBM ThinkPad T40/T41: Annoying Beep Fix
This one came from one of the users on the ThinkPad Mailing List and it’s a very welcomed fix! There are a number of key combinations that cause a ThinkPad to beep at seemingly random times. For example, if you hold down W E and R there’s no beep, but if you hold down T Y and U the machine beeps at you (and really has no reason to).
The fix – thanks Deanna! – is simple. Go to Device Manager and “Show Hidden Devices”. Under “Non-Plug and Play Drivers” you’ll see an item named “Beep”. Disable that and the “random beep” disappears. Once done, of course, you can hide the hidden devices again.
Update: Windows 8 no long exposes the “Non-Plug and Play Drivers” as part of the Device Manager, but there is another way to disable the “Beep ” driver/service. In fact, this likely works in Windows 7, Vista, and XP, but I can only confirm it’s use in Windows 8:
To stop the Beep sound for one session, open Command Prompt as Administrator and type:
sc stop Beep
To disable the Beep sound across reboots, open Command Prompt as Administrator and type:
sc config Beep start=disabled
To re-enable the Beep sound across reboots, open Command Prompt as Administrator and type:
sc config Beep start=system
Progress. It’s not every day I get to add value to a 8 year old thread.
SharpMT 2.2 – Beta 6 (Release Candidate 3)
So much for freezing the feature list… made a change to how custom tags work (so you will lose the three that you currently have set – sorry!) and that brought about a change to the toolbar/menu bar that I’ve been using (a new version with lots of internal changes) so here’s a new version with some new stuff…
Download: SharpMT 2.2 Beta 6
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Jeter to A-Rod to Giambi?
Or maybe A-Rod to Jeter to Giambi? Does sound pretty good doesn’t it? The only thing I wonder about is how much better it will sound in during away games at Fenway.
*snicker*
Barbie versus Ken
In a story that seems fitting for Valentine’s Day tomorrow, I have a web page to share, courtesy of MSN: Barbie and Ken Split. Even worse than the story it reports – that Barbie is now sporting a more JLo-friendly image, plans to hook up with Blaine-the-Aussie, and that Ken is moving on to greener pastures – is the fact that this story has been made into a story in the first place. In fact, I only saw it because it was listed on MSN’s home page as a “story to be noticed”.
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SharpMT 2.2 – Beta 5 (Release Candidate 2)
If you’ve installed SharpMT 2.2 Beta 4, please uninstall this version and use Beta 5. Beta 5 includes the new help system and bug fixes that were part of the Beta 4 release and it has removed the pre-compilation enhancements that have proven to be problematic with the code base. Please uninstall Beta 4 and use Beta 5 in its place.
Download: SharpMT 2.2 Beta 5
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Pre-Compiling a Bad Thing?
And from the Oops department: I’ve gotten a couple emails that point to a couple of articles that say that NGEN and pre-compiling is not a good idea for everyone. It could run into problems with newer versions and other types of issues… of course none of this was mentioned on the original MSDN article that I got this from – I know, because I double checked it, to make sure that I didn’t run off without reading everything.
As usual, the typical “speed versus ease of use” trade-off has fucked up a wet dream – and now new versions of both SharpMT and SharpKeys have been released.
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SharpKeys 1.1 – Beta 2
If you’ve installed SharpKeys 1.1 Beta 1, please uninstall this version and use Beta 2. Beta 2 includes the new keys that were added to the original Beta 1 release and it has removed the pre-compilation enhancements that have proven to be problematic with the code base. Please uninstall Beta 1 and use Beta 2 in its place.
Download SharpKeys 1.1 Beta 2: Install
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SharpMT 2.2 – Beta 4 (Release Candidate 1)
A friend of mine could be quoted as summing up a feature list of a 1.1 follow-up release to a 1.0 offering as “Now with error checking”. In the spirit of such a comment, I am happy to present to you 2.2 Beta 4: now with a help system.
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SharpKeys 1.0
SharpKeys is a Registry hack that is used to make certain keys on a keyboard act like other keys. For example, if you accidentally hit Caps Lock often, you could use this utility to map Caps Lock to a Shift key or even turn it off completely. The official release includes support for up to 104 mappings, an extensive list of available keys, and a “Type Key” option to help when managing mappings. As it relies on internal support within Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003, you must be running one of these OS’s for this Registry hack to work.
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Microsoft… The Good Guys?
Had to share this as Microsoft rarely gets press as being the “good guys” of an industry – the fact that I agree with them doesn’t hurt any either. Read about it: RE: Microsoft is good, Nokia is evil – it is that simple