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Microsoft has published a site, PC vs Mac There is only one thing you have to know, everything else is fluff. You will never get a blue screen of death on a Mac. Oh, I got one last night on a Windows machine. With an xlsx half way open and not done yet. Lovely. done. [...]

Love the iPhone, really do. But I am pretty hardcode when it comes to apps and loading things and making it “work” hard. Every once in a while some rogue app goes off the wall and starts draining battery like crazy. Usually the only thing to do is restore phone. I have had to do [...]

Funny how you might not EVER use a given tool, and some days you might end up using it twice. Sysinternals Procmon was that tool today. It is the successor from old utils from Sysinternals – Filemon and Regmon. What does it do? It monitors all processes and services and watches what they are doing [...]

What’s one of the first things that developers want/need/can’t live without? Multiple Monitors. In most cases this starts of with 2 or Dual monitors, but this should be a standard. More monitors means more screen real estate which means you can more things up in front of you which means you can get more done. [...]

Virtual Machines have been around for years. VMWare and Microsoft have been the main competitors for a while, both offering somewhat similar products. Parallels for Mac is another, and Virtual Box for pretty much everything. I have used them all. When it comes right down to it, VMWare, to me, is ahead of the rest, [...]

I recently blogged about the Facebook Graph API and if you have the Facebook C# SDK you can start making applications. After I had my Facebook app set up, I started making a C# Console application to just get my friends and see what I could do. Here is a snippet to get my friends [...]

Not sure why I didn’t look into this sooner. OData. Open Data Protocol. Not many providers, but this has huge potential. First off, PowerPivot can consume OData feeds! See the “From Data Feeds” button :) I used it to download Netflix’s whole library. I tried to download StackOverflow’s data (http://odata.stackexchange.com/) but had no luck. Either [...]

I still love it. Like I said, I don’t use it as a phone. But I have noticed something different (And I blame AT&T for this – working for cell phone company for 5 years, I blame the carrier :)) In Madison/Sun Prairie, I get 3G ,works great, no issues. When I drive out to [...]

Lazy Sunday afternoon, so I decided to dig a bit into the Facebook Graph API. What is the FB Graph API? Well it allows you to create an application and use OAuth to connect and then get information about yourself and your friends and do things in Facebook using JSON objects and requests. Easy way [...]

So, I previously blogged about using PivotViewer in your Web Applications, but you can also just consume Pivot collections using the “Pivot” tool from Microsoft Live Labs You can download it here What does this tool offer? Well first it has a library/homepage of collections you can browse You can do some slicing and dicing [...]