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Entries for May, 2008

Windows Update Crazy Error (on XP)? This Might Fix It

This weekend I decided to put XP on my laptop for a day to see how it ran. I hated it. Yeah it was fast. But it just seems… old.. Anyways, Vista is back on now (I still might go back to Win2k8). But.. while I had XP installed for 4 hours, I tried to [...]

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Firefox 3 and Google Apps Email – Default mailto Handling

Firefox 3 has a cool new feature to allow you set default mailto handlers from the preferences. Here is how you can use Google Apps (GAFYD) as the default mailto handler. 1. In Firefox’s address bar, copy and paste the following and hit enter: about:config 2. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!� when the warning [...]

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An Update about Jobs, Games and Phones, Car Radios, Oh, and Who Moved My Cheese?

Just an update and some rambling. I haven’t blogged much lately because, well the blog material is in low quantity. Why? Because I just changed jobs! Previously I was a Independent Contractor (for W3i) and now I am a consultant with a new company (Stratagem) here in Madison. As always when you wind down a [...]

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SQL Server Reporting Services: Quick way to get 10 digit year (all the zero’s) using String.Format

Dates are fun. See, by default most dates come out like 5/6/2008. But computers, and programs like them formatted as 05/06/2008. That way, all the dates, no matter what month or day, are all the same length, cool huh? Well, in Reporting Services, if you have a date field coming back in a dataset, and [...]

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Hacking Microsoft Pro Photo Tools – Using Reflector to use MapPoint Lat Long Lookup (for free!) in C#

The other day, Microsoft came out with “Microsoft Pro Photo Tools” which allows you to geocode your photos. It is a pretty cool app, but there are some things that I wonder, like why didn’t they just build this functionality into Windows Live Photo Gallery? Anyway’s, with any new thing I download and play around [...]

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links for 2008-05-01

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