The open source ethos is growing fast, and it has finally made its way to website template designs: www.oswd.org. No longer does one have to go to Template Monster or the likes and pay $40-$100 for a cool web design![1]. This guy ROCKS! His name is Francis J. Skettino and he’s from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Do …
Kudos to Microsoft: Visual Studio Express Tools Free Forever!
I just learned that Microsoft has decided to make the Visual Studio Express tools free forever. This to me shows Microsoft’s acknowledgment that people are not willing to invest their time learning a product that they will eventually have to pay more for then they have funds available or earmarked, especially young people. I greatly applaud …
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Next Generation Demo Software with VMware Player
I just spotted the new free VMware Player. This is totally cool. I can envision companies using VMWare Player to demo complete environments, like an ASP.NET & SQL Server Express application; just configure the virtual machine to have everything needed! This basically eliminates most potential configuration problems that could cause a vendor to loose a …
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FolderShare bought by Microsoft, and now (currently) free!
I’ve been using FolderShare for a few months now and love it. But I just heard that Microsoft bought it and that it is now free. Cool! If you normally work on a desktop but need a laptop for travel, FolderShare is a "must have.’ If you need to share files with people who are …
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Google’s Personalized Home Page Feature Request: Dynamically-generated Bookmarks
Ever since I first started browsing the web, I’ve wished for a home page that would keep track of where I surfed and then show me a list of dynamically-generated bookmarks that are in descending order of the ones I use most. For example, if I go to Google News a lot, news.google.com should dynamically …
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Google’s Personalized Home Page finally won me over!
For years I’ve kept an HTML file of links in the My Document directory called "MyHomePage.htm" because nobody ever created a home page service that worked for me. Well, Google finally has and hence I’ve switched all my different machine’s browsers to point to my Google Personalized Home Page: Why do I like it? It’s …
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FREE XDN Professional for .NET Bloggers, Redux
We’re halfway through the month so its time for me to re-post the offer to get a FREE XDN Professional if you are a .NET Bloggers, in case you missed it the first time. You can click here to learn how to get your FREE XDN Professional membership. For those who don’t know about XDN it stands for …
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Long awaited help for PInvokers
A ton of people have already pointed to Adam Nathan’s PInvoke Visual Studio Add-in and related wiki site PINVOKE.NET, but it is very cool and I wanted to add to my lists of free tools and favorites.
Cool Component: LaMarvin Dynamic AutoComplete Tool
For the month of May I’ve signed up a vendor new to Xtras.Net named LaMarvin, and we are offering their Dynamic AutoComplete Tool for FREE this month to XDN Professional members ($99/year.) This component adds auto-complete functionality to WinForm Text Boxes and Combo Boxes just like the auto-complete you get in Internet Explorer’s Address (URL) …
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FREE VB.NET 2003 Standard Edition
Paul Vick posted about VB @ The Movies. Check it out as Microsoft is giving away a free not-for-resale copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to anyone in the USA or Canada who views and rates five of their movies. This is very, very cool. Pass it on to anyone you’d like to get started …