Trying intraVnews, another Outlook Add-in RSS Reader- June 3, 2004 In the past I have been a big fan of NewsGator and pretty much used it exclusively. However, one particularly irritating feature of some blogs is that they only supply the title, posting URL, and date in the RSS feed, forcing one to go to the website to view the body. intraVnews deals with this issue displaying the posting URL content below the blog content. This is a fantastic feature that allows one to still follow blogs that don't provide a body. (This..http://www.intravnews.com/download.htm From Cassette to Digital File with PlusDeck 2- June 3, 2004 Here is an interesting device especially if you already own a Windows Media PC and want to add cassette capabilities. The PlusDeck 2 is an internal cassette deck for your computer that can help convert cassettes to their WMAMP3 equivalent. I have lots of cassettes, especially talks from Willow Creek, that I would love to convert just so they can be digitally organized. I would then listen to the MP3s on my not-yet-existent mini Smart Phone with built in MP3 player (and...http://www.em411.com/show/hardware/188/1/plusdeck_2.html Defining a Component in Software Engineering- June 3, 2004 When .NET was first released I was disappointed by the fact that they had not provided a definition for the term "component." The term was common in the COM days but it was never clearly defined as referring to a particular COM object or the DLL in which the COM object was implemented. Under .NET the definitions remain ambiguous and at this point too many leading engineers have placed a stake in the ground one side or the other so it is unlikely to get resolved any time...http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/archive/2004/05/17/133201.aspx Creating a Toggle Anchor Lock macro for images in word- June 2, 2004 I recently wanted a button or keystroke that could automatically toggle the Lock Anchor state for shapes in Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a built-in Word action for doing this. Using a tip from Cindy Meister I created the following macro that does the trick nicely: Sub ToggleShapeAnchor() Dim newlockAnchorSetting As Boolean If Selection.Type = wdSelectionShape Then ..http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/06/01.html#a608 Viewing MSDN help externally from Visual Studio May 2005 Tech. Preview- June 2, 2004 VS.NET external help didn't work for me until Michael Stokesbary recommended this post from Rob Caron.http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2004/05/27/143485.aspx Comparison Operators not Behaving Equally- June 1, 2004 The current C 2.0 specification includes the following quote: "A comparison operator (==, !=, <, >, <=, >=) has a lifted form when the operand types are both non-nullable value types and the result type is bool. The lifted form of a comparison operator is formed by adding a modifier to each operand type (but not to the result type). Lifted forms of the == and != operators consider two null values equal, and a null value unequal to a non-null value. Lifted forms of the <,.http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=227150 Accident Recovery- June 1, 2004 It has now been one month since my bicycle accident. I would like to say everything is back to normal but there are a few hitches. Mental state I will let you draw your on conclusions based on interactions with me and the following additional data points: Pushed the undock button when leaving work but I ended up forgetting my laptop at work for one night last week. Normally an allergic reaction starts when I get to far from the laptop and I didn't even realize the mistake.http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/2004/06/01.html#a605 |