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Sunday, February 07, 2010 #

Development

  • MongoDB - Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes.
  • VsTortoise - A TortoiseSVN add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Design

Linux

  • BackTrack Linux - BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Able to crack WiFi WEP security in an hour.

Software

  • Party Booth - Photo Booth Kiosk Webcam Software
  • Vimperator - Vimperator is a Firefox browser extensions with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing. It has similar key bindings and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. For example, it has a special Hint mode, where you can follow links easily with the keyboard only. Also most functionality is available as commands, typing :back will go back within the current page history, just like hitting the back button in the toolbar.

Software Updates

Sunday, February 07, 2010 10:49 PM, 0 comment(s)

Monday, January 25, 2010 #

Development

  • C# FTP Library
  • SharpSort - SharpSort is a free open source plugin for VS that makes it easier Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 developers to maintain their code clean and readable at all times by grouping and sorting source code members. You can also define your own custom code layout or use predefined ones.

Design

Kids

  • Earlyrider - Amazing wooding bikes. I'm getting two for the boys. Rider on!

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Slovenia

Software

  • mRemoteNG - Open source fork of mRemote. Fantastic!

Software Updates

Monday, January 25, 2010 9:48 PM, 0 comment(s)

Sunday, January 17, 2010 #

imageHere is a list of sites, downloads, tips, tricks and hacks for Logitech Harmony universal remote controls, mostly for Harmony One.

Don't use the software that came with remote. Download last version from Logitech.
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/440/3742&hub=1&cl=roeu,en?section=downloads&tabs=1,3,2,5

Print this worksheet when you go hunting for model numbers of your devices.
http://myremotesetup.com/easyzapper/New/ProcAddDevices/DeviceWorksheet.asp?OEMName=logitech

Check if your devices are compatible with the remote.
http://myremotesetup.com

Great database of channel icons for use with “favorite channels” feature.
http://www.iconharmony.com

Some more tips and tricks.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=967841

Use some models on Linux (but not One).
http://www.phildev.net/harmony/

Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:06 PM, 0 comment(s)

Monday, January 11, 2010 #

Development

Photography

Software

  • iCopy - Simple and portable tool for scanning and direct printing.
  • mediarenamer - MediaRenamer is intended for easy renaming of movie and series files recorded from TV.

Software Updates

Monday, January 11, 2010 12:01 AM, 0 comment(s)

Sunday, January 03, 2010 #

Development

  • Json.NET - Json.NET library makes working with JSON formatted data in .NET simple. Key features include a flexible JSON serializer to for quickly converting .NET classes to JSON and back again, and LINQ to JSON for reading and writing JSON.
  • Reporting Services 2005 - Dynamic Parameter List - I have seen developers writing reports in Reporting Services and taking a lot of time adding a section to the report to list all the parameter selection(s) to be displayed in the report.

Design

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Software

  • HashCheck Shell Extension - The HashCheck Shell Extension makes it easy for anyone to calculate and verify checksums and hashes from Windows Explorer. In addition to integrating file check-summing functionality into Windows, HashCheck can also create and verify SFV files (and other forms of checksum files, such as .md5 files).
  • Pismo File Mount Audit Package - Pismo File Mount Audit Package is a Windows application that allows users to mount the contents of ZIP, ISO, Compact ISO, Compact File Set and Private Folder files to the file system as virtual folders.
  • win7utils - Windows 7 ISO Disc Image Utilities - The ei.cfg Removal Utility is a simple tool that will remove the ei.cfg from any Windows 7 ISO disc image, thereby converting the image into a "universal disc" that will prompt the user to select an edition during setup.

Web

Software Updates

Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:05 PM, 0 comment(s)

Sunday, December 27, 2009 #

Development

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Window Home Server

Fun

Software Updates

Sunday, December 27, 2009 11:33 PM, 0 comment(s)

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 #

Development

Microsoft Biztalk

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Design

Finance

Photography

Software

  • NoDrives Manager - NoDrives Manager is a simple, free tool for hiding Windows logical drives by modifying the registry. The hidden drives are still accessible but they are not visible in the Windows Explorer.

System

Software Updates

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:50 PM, 1 comment(s)

Thursday, December 17, 2009 #

Microsoft has release Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.

It’s available at regular places:

I have also updated the MS CRM 4 build numbers table.

Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:40 PM, 0 comment(s)

Sunday, December 13, 2009 #

Development

Design

Photography

System

  • Jolicloud - Linux / Gnome based netbook operating system. Alpha release. It's not Chrome OS!

Web

Software Updates

Sunday, December 13, 2009 10:40 PM, 0 comment(s)

Monday, December 07, 2009 #

Development

Microsoft BizTalk

  • BizTalk 2006 application restart util - "The BizTalk 2006 (r2 also) is a command line utility which you can use to stop, start and restart BizTalk applications. It's also possible to stop all running instances for a particular application."
  • BizTalk Server Pipeline Component Wizard - "A project meant to ease to development of pipeline components used within a BizTalk Server environment."

Design

Security

Shopping

Software

  • FreeMyPDF.com - Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs.
  • media browser - Media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use interface.
  • VirtuaWin – Open Source Virtual Desktop Manager.

System

  • namebench - DNS server benchmark. Forget Google DNS in Europe/Slovenia. Arnes and T-2 DNS servers are WAY faster!

Software Updates

Monday, December 07, 2009 12:00 AM, 0 comment(s)

Monday, November 30, 2009 #

Development

  • Apex SQL Refactor - Free add-in for SQL Server Management studio that reformats your SQL code. Useful until Mladen builds it's own code reformatter in SSMS Tools! ;)
  • JustCode - Code Analysis Tool, Refactoring, Visual Studio add-in from Telerik.
  • Why Git is Better Than X - "This site is here because I seem to be spending a lot of time lately defending Gitsters against charges of fanboyism, bandwagonism and koolaid-thirst. So, here is why people are switching to Git from X, and why you should too. Just click on a reason to view it. "
  • Windows Ribbon for WinForms - .NET wrapper for Windows 7 Ribbon control.

BizTalk

Software

  • How to Know when Power Pack 3 is Installed - Windows Home Server was just upgraded. This is how to check the version.
  • Locationbar^2 - Firefox URL textbox enhanced.
  • SpeedCrunch - Serious calculator. Free and portable.
  • TheGun Text Editor - Minimalist (6 kB!) text editor useful for opening huge text files.
  • touchfreeze - Utility for Windows that disables touchpad automatically while you are typing text.
  • txt2tags - "Txt2tags is a document generator. It reads a text file with minimal markup as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the following formats."

System

Web Design

Software Updates

Monday, November 30, 2009 9:53 PM, 0 comment(s)

Sunday, November 22, 2009 #

Development

  • Dokan - User mode file system for windows.
  • DotNetZip Library - "DotNetZip is an easy-to-use FREE class library and toolset for manipulating zip files or folders. Zip and Unzip is easy: with DotNetZip, .NET applications written in VB, C# - any .NET language - can easily create, read, extract, or update zip files. It works on Mono or MS .NET."
  • Entity Code - A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Entities Codes.
  • Introduction to Indexes - Great multi-part article about MS SQL indexes.
  • jqPlot - Charts and Graphs for jQuery.
  • Putting log4net.config Outside of Application Configuration - Nice log4net trick.
  • .NET DiscUtils - "DiscUtils is a .NET library to read and write ISO files and Virtual Machine disk files (VHD, VDI, XVA, VMDK, etc). DiscUtils is developed in C# with no native code (or P/Invoke)"

Design

  • Iconza - Free customizable (!) colored icons for your web site and blog.
  • LED Icon Set - 512 Web Icons

Microsoft Dyanamics CRM 4.0

News

Software

  • Actual Multiple Monitors - "comprehensive solution to improve the functionality of Windows® user interface for comfortable and effective work with multi-monitor configurations". UltraMon killer?
  • CrystalDiskMark - Measure the performance of storage devices (HDD, SSD, Flash,...)
  • win7shell - WinAmp plugin for Windows 7 shell integration.

System

TV

  • Online TV Database - "An open directory of television shows for HTPC software", with API.

Software Updates

Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:54 PM, 0 comment(s)

Friday, November 20, 2009 #

If you go to gdgt you can download compiled version of Chrome OS pre-release in shape of virtual machine.

Don’t expect too much, since it’s quite unstable, slow and it freezes a lot. If I didn’t miss anything it’s just Chrome browser that boots on it’s own. So, it’s far from XP/Vista/7 killer for now.

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So what would you rather do? Read more about Crome OS or try for yourself?

 

Here are quick instructions for running Chrome OS in VirtualBox:

  • Download and install VirtualBox or upgrade to latest version if you have it installed. If you have VMware, even better.
  • Download Chrome OS VMware image (don’t bother with VirtualBox image, it doesn’t work for many and it didn’t work for me).
  • Create new machine and
    • attach existing VMDK image as primary hard drive,
    • give it 1 GB of RAM,
    • leave network as it is (NAT),
    • give video card more RAM, I simply went with max - 128 MB.
  • Boot it! It should be up in seconds.
  • Login with Google Account.
    • If you get “wrong password” error message, remember that you have US keyboard!
    • If you get “no network” error message, turn network off/on, reboot and it will eventually start working.
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:13 PM, 0 comment(s)

Sunday, November 15, 2009 #

Development

Design

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Office

Software

System

  • Event Viewer - Email Notification - Vista Forums - How to Setup Event Viewer to Send a Email Notification in Vista+ and Server 2008+.
  • vboxweb - Open source project implementing an AJAX version of the popular VirtualBox user interface. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances.

Software Updates

Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:25 PM, 0 comment(s)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 #

A lot of developers don’t know that “Duplicate Line” DOES exists in Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio. You don’t need CodeRush or ReSharper to duplicate current line.

Don’t select any text, just position cursor anywhere on the line you would like to duplicate. Then press CTRL+C followed by CTRL+V and current line will get duplicated.

Today I accidently found that default duplicate line in Visual Studio is also smart! If you do CTRL+C, the select part of line, and press CTRL+V the line will get duplicated, but the selected part will be removed. That’s fantastic, since you really don’t need exactly the same lines, right? They’ll eventually be different and this trick will surely help you.

Check the video demonstration:

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:59 PM, 2 comment(s)