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Show Dynamically Created HTML in Internet Explorer

Code, Code, Code Everywhere has come up with a bookmarklet that works in IE. The Web Developer plug-in for Firefox also does this. Install the plug-in, It’s under “Tools” -> “Web Developer” -> “View Source” -> “View Generated Source”

Youtube on the Motorla Q (Part 2)

An ever prevalent thread here is youtube on this or that. Forum poster Zbop has an updated how-to at Treocentral.

Youtube on the Motorla Q

More info can be found here

Linux on the Palm

It looks like Linux hackers had to do what Palm has been promising for years now; release Linux for the Palm platform. If I had seen this coming, I probably wouldn’t have moved to Microsoft’s Smartphone OS. Of course, if I had known how bad the Smartphone OS was going to be, I probably would’ve [...]

Hitler Gets Banned

Did I already post this? It’s too funny to pass up, enjoy.

SVN for Visual Studio

Recently I’ve been using Visual Studio to write some C# application. I have to say that Microsoft put a lot of work in to the IDE, so much work that there’s actually published books on the use of Visual Studio. For example, did you know that VS was built to work with repositories.Thanks to Dreamhost, [...]

Video on the Xbox 360

So you’ve got an Xbox, now what? You could install MCE on a computer and transcode video on the fly. Joystiq has a few more solutions for you. Even better, I’ll be posting an updated batch file with VLC’s default install location.

The Silverlight Bug

Silverlight is pretty amazing stuff for several reasons. I think it’s ground breaking simply because Microsoft chose to give it a name based on something other than the genre it competes in; i.e. Office, Smartphone, Home Server Edition, Media Center Edition… Apple users can get their fix here, Linux users can get Moonlight; a Silverlight [...]

Microsoft’s Surface, the sarcastic version

Thanks Andrew

Is Vista a Failure?

It’s been going around the office that Microsoft has admitted failure, Paul Grahm even thinks Microsoft is dead, but I’m not convinced. Loss of relevance; sure, but death, failure, I don’t think so. From the Inquirer, Dell announced that it would be offering XP again on home PCs. The second that Vista came out, Microsoft [...]