Links of the week

Links of the week #110

David Vidmar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:21:46 GMT

Development

Software

Promptu Launcher - Rocket Your Productivity - Promptu is a free application launcher aimed as a competitor to other launchers in the market (such as SlickRun and Launchy) and features a Visual Studio-like feel with .NET integration and flexibility.

Web

Support Details - Simple webpage with basic data about browser and computer.

Software Updates

Links of the week #109

David Vidmar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:19:32 GMT

Development

60+ .NET libraries every developer should know about.
jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)
Miniscrum - Online scrum tool. Simple and free.
SourceGrid - .NET Windows Forms grid control written entirely in C# with managed code. SourceGrid can be used to visualize or to change data in a table format.
VersionControlTools - Martin Fowler writes about version control tools.
What's New in Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Another Talk about Referencing External JS Files in MSCRM Form
CRM 4.0 Distribute Workflow Activity - This plugin allows to execute a workflow for each entity that has a 1:N or N:N relationship to a given entity.
Microsoft CRM 4.0 Widgets - View Cases and Activities open in Microsoft CRM 4.0 right on your desktop.

Software

3RVX
Geosense for Windows - Geosense is a Windows Sensor that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7.
Inquisitor. Instant web search for Firefox.
UPnP Port Works - UPnP Port Works ("UPnPPW") is an all purpose platform independent engine that aids router management. Its framework, pioneered under C is fully compliant with the standard UPnP technology.

Web

Soocial - Keep your contacts in sync. Your phone, your computer and web applications will have the same address book.

Software Updates

Links of the week #107

David Vidmar — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:49:07 GMT

Development

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

Design

Design Stencils - Design Pattern Library - YDN - Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG).
seeklogo.com - Logo Vector Download Free (Brand Logos)

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

Links of the week #106

David Vidmar — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:48:43 GMT

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

25 New High Quality Free Fonts
CSS Inliner Tool - Useful for creating email mailings.
Design And Build Email Newsletters Without Losing Your Mind (and Soul)
Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email - For the best HTML e-mail delivery results, CSS should be inline. This is a huge pain and a simple newsletter becomes unmanageable very quickly. This script is our solution.

Kids

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

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

CRM Web Service Toolkit for JavaScript v1.0 - CRM Web Service Toolkit is designed to help you access Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web Services through the language of your choice.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Administration Console
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Bulk Update and Export tool
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 NotesCount
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Demonstration Tools

Slovenia

Wifi lokali - WiFi locations across Slovenia.

Software

mRemoteNG - Open source fork of mRemote. Fantastic!

Software Updates

Links of the week #105

David Vidmar — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:01:10 GMT

Development

Pebble Reports - Create reports without involving the IT department, using a tool with familiar Microsoft Office look & feel.
sys2 SQL Server scripts by Davide Mauri - Usefull index information scripts

Photography

DIY Gary Fong Lightsphere - Easy flash diffuser made from IKEA drawer lining.

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

Links of the week #104

David Vidmar — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:05:29 GMT

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

Color Scheme Designer 3
Free 3 of 9 - Free barcode font (code 39).

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Custom shortcut keys in CRM 4.0
MS CRM Javascript Intellisense Generator
Remove 'Add Existing xxxxx to this record' button - Hide automatic buttons for many-to-many related entities.
Top 10 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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

Links of the week #103

David Vidmar — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:33:24 GMT

Development

generatedata.com - Sample data generator.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Documentation Generator - An add-in for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 to automatically generate documentation for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
Publishing Microsoft CRM 4.0 through ISA Server 2006

Window Home Server

How to reset Windows Home Server backup database

Fun

One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't... - Ever notice how most Mac users are skinny? It's because of all the calories they burn because they can't shut the fuck up about how great their Macs are.

Software Updates

Links of the week #102

David Vidmar — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:50:51 GMT

Development

Windows Azure in 20 Minutes!

Microsoft Biztalk

BizTalk backup tool

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Adding Dynamic Menu Items
CRM Grid Actions - CRM Grid Action makes it easier for user to do common action from the grid. CRM Grid Action reduces the number of click a users has to make by allowing then to perform action with out opening the entity form. CRM Grid Action allows you to complete activities right from the grid
Streamline the Creation of New Related Records with jQuery

Design

172 final flag icons - 172 final country flag icons which rendered at 256Ă—256, 128Ă—128, 64Ă—64, 48Ă—48, 32Ă—32, 24Ă—24, 16Ă—16 pixels and formats are png, ico and icns.
Iconfinder - Search through 122,683 icons or browse 296 icon sets
WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design Icons

Finance

Detailed Solutions for Interest Rate Formulas

Photography

Reduce Camera Noise in 3 Easy Photoshop Steps

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

LogMeIn Express - Very simple and free way of sharing screens.

Software Updates

Links of the week #101

David Vidmar — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:40:13 GMT

Development

Command Line Parser Library
noda-time - Joda Time is the industry standard date and time handling library for Java. Noda Time is an idiomatic port to the .NET platform.
Simple query to check the recent performance history – T-SQL script to put in your scripts folder.
Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - This had to come up in this list soon or later. :)

Design

2K10 Desktop Calendar

Photography

Mitchell Kanashkevich - eBooks - Two great eBooks about lighting and Lightroom. $12 each.

System

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

Web

Free CSS Templates

Software Updates

Links of the week #100

David Vidmar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:54 GMT

Development

.NET Extensions - The .NET Extensions project is a growing library of C# und VB.NET extension methods.
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 Pack! ;)
jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 - 131 Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets for use with jQuery.
Tools We Use - Wintellect's list of development tools.
URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy - Powerful URL manipulation engine based on the Apache mod_rewrite extension. It is designed, from the ground up to bring all the features of Apache mod_rewrite to IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0.

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

Simple Desktops - Minimalistic desktop wallpapers.

Security

StartSSL - Certificates & Public Key Infrastructure - The Swiss Army Knife of Digital Certificates & PKI.

Shopping

computeruniverse.net

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!