For the casual Blog reader, you might not have heard of Robert Scoble. Simply put he’s a very well known Blog writer in the tech community and he also happens to work for Microsoft. His Blog, however, has nothing to do with Microsoft – his opinions are his own and he’s not blindly “pro-Microsoft”. If anything, I probably have more blind faith in MS than he does. Having said that, he’s recently posted about how Howard Dean has screwed the respectability-pooch and his impressions of why people should avoid the iPod. Obviously this draws a comment from me.
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Keyboard Remapping: Part II
A while ago, I discovered a blurb about how keyboard remapping would allow me to disable the Caps Lock on my keyboard, without having to use a special keyboard driver, provided I was using Windows XP or Windows 2000. On my desktop I usually have a Microsoft keyboard, so I can use their driver, but on my notebook(s) I didn’t had that option – in fact, with keyboard remapping, I was able to make the Caps Lock key act like a Shift key, which seemed even better. Now that I have an IBM ThinkPad – which does not ship with a hardware based Windows or Application key – I’ve had to take this remapping stuff to the next level.
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Bad Geek Karma: Revisited
A while ago, I talked about something that I called Bad Geek Karma and mused as to whether or not it was a real thing. It is. I’ve spent the last five days living in it. And man does it suck.
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Outing the Competition: BlogJet
I don’t believe in blood thirsty competition when it comes to free software. Don’t get me wrong: I put a lot of work into making software and I get an enormous amount of pride in watching my projects work, especially when they work well. And I do like to have rivalries with other projects, because that helps to drive new features. However, this does not mean that I will automatically hate applications that compete with mine and bash them relentlessly in the support of my own bits… especially when trying to gain market share of a money-less market.
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And I Ask: What DID You Expect?
NeoWin: Seventeen year-old Mike Rowe thought it would funny to add soft to the end of name and register the domain, Microsoft, however, is not amused. It has demanded that he give up his domain name. In November, Rowe received a letter from Microsoft’s Canadian lawyers informing him he was committing copyright infringement.
“I didn’t think they would get all their high-priced lawyers to come after me,” Rowe said.
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SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT 2.1 Official Release
This marks the official release of the 2.1 version of SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT. The feature list and download links follow…
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SharpMT and Pocket SharpMT – 2.1 Beta 6 (RC2)
Release candidate #2! A couple more key things for this release in both the desktop and pocket version. I’ve also added a permalink to the Software page for both SharpMT projects. Lastly, unless someone finds something major, I plan to call this “done” on Friday (I have a new hard drive to install into this notebook and that will knock me out of commission for a day or two) and I’m looking forward to getting this release done.
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How To Know You’ve Played Too Much
How do you know you’ve played too much Halo? When you look at this picture (from BWG’s vaction to Guilin, China) and think, “Wait, did I just hear a banshee go by?” Makes me wonder if some of the Halo coders spent some time here when designing a level or two – quite a coincidence if they didn’t. Or it could just be too much Halo.
RSS Aggregator: In Use
I was talking to a guy at work the other day about how RSS Aggregators are a great idea, yet often suck. The clients aren’t the problem; the publishing is! Of the blogs on my Links page that do support RSS – and not all of them do – half of them only put the first 80 characters of their entry in the RSS document, as a synopsis. Hey blog authors? That sucks!
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iTunes Plug-in
Since Outlook marked it as Spam, I almost missed this: it seems that Bill Zeller (of Zempt fame) has created an iTunes Plug-In that works like the “Now Playing” plug-ins that he’s made for WinAmp 2 and 3. Neat thing is that it is fully supported by SharpMT’s “Now Playing” tag.
SharpMT – 2.1 Beta 5
Um, about that feature complete thing in Beta 3 – I might have lied. You see, up to now, this entire development cycle has been spent coding features for other people and, well… frankly, I was feeling left out, so the latest feature in SharpMT is for me! Also, I’ve opted not to re-package Pocket SharpMT for Beta 5 – that code base is stable, as far as I know.
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SharpMT 2.1 – Dictionary Packs
SharpMT 2.1, and higher, ships with a US-English version of a Spell Checker, but it is extendable to include Canadian English and UK English. Download the Dictionary packs and unzip them into your SharpMT working directory and the next time you start SharpMT you will see two new options for these dictionaries in the Spell Check Options dialog. For more information on the installation process, please read the ReadMe.txt that comes in the ZIP file.
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Happy Starbucks Moment!
Had a pretty happy moment during tonight’s visit to Starbucks – I didn’t have to make a decision. I usually end up getting something different each time that I’m in there – which drives the Baristas nuts because I don’t have a “regular” drink like most regulars do – and that usually involves a bit of thought. Tonight, however, I was introduced to something new and entirely custom: an Almond White Mocha.
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Have People Stopped Reading on eBay?
If ever there was a need for a study! I recently put a notebook up for sale on eBay. I bought it in March and needed some more power and less heat, so I upgraded. Now I wanted to sell it. I’ve sold lots of other stuff on eBay before, but it’s only recently that I’ve become convinced that most people have entirely stopped reading the listings of items…
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We Hates Software
Incessant Ramblings has we hates software because inside everyone is a little software tester trying to get out.
Boy does this hit close to the heart these days… the XML makes me angry alone is reason alone to add a bookmark.