SmartToolkit adds quick access to the My Documents folder, a few control panel items, a text editor, and a lot more. Plus it’s free. For now it’s comes as an .exe . In this case I’m not sure what the difference is between a .cab and a .exe, but it goes on your phone either …
I could make some sort of pun out of GrandCentral, cell phones, and terminals, but I’ll spare you the grief. Looks like GrandCentral now sports a mobile interface so you can check your in-box from your phone. If you don’t know what GrandCentral is David Pogue sums it all up pretty well here.
With Microsoft’s attempt to incorporate pdf’s, Microsoft’s Picture It, and now Microsoft’s Silverlight, it’s no secret that Microsoft has Adobe square in it’s sights. Silverlight presents a particular challenge, it does HD, is vector based, and works on both the PC and Mac. What’s Adobe to do, how about open sourcing Flex; Adobe’s SDK? Sounds …
Most people have probably never heard of Sgt. Alvin York, the man who singlehandedly captured 132 Germans. “The Argonne Forest, France, 8 October 1918. After his platoon suffered heavy casualties, Alvin York assumed command. Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon …
SideWindow uses your Microsoft PPC in a Vista sideshow like fashion. It doesn’t appear to provide full Sideshow functionality, but looks pretty useful if you already a PPC. Pocket PC Thoughts has a pretty in-depth review here.
Between Mike (from Techdirt), Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame), and James Ledbetter (CNN Money’s Deputy Managing Editor) it’s a veritable game of King of the Hill. Who’s the reigning champ, for now, looks like it’s Mike. Which Mike we’re talking about here I have no clue. Scott starts us off, Mike pushes him off, Adams …
Kudos to Microsoft’s mobile team. On the Windows Mobile Team blog they’ve been asking developers what they would like to see in the smartphone, and producing personal programs they needed on their phones. Now the developers are even addressing negative feedback they’ve received from WM5 AKU3. Specifically, people want to know why Bluetooth DUN has …
You might be wondering why I’d even want to link a shell script to an Automator action. Good question, I have no idea. It’s there, I have shell scripts and a Mac, seems like an obvious decision. From the tutorial The Run Shell Script action in this simple example runs the find command in the …
Microsoft’s answer to the home server void seems pretty damn cool. You have to hand it to who ever names Microsoft’s products, there’s nothing like naming your product with it’s own description. Want a home server, but don’t want to waste time learning Linux, comfortable with Microsoft products? This might just be for you. Interestingly …