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Pixel Meadow
http://www.pixelmeadow.com
Life, mods and code! Pixel Meadow is a personal weblog by Chris McLeod
Recent Posts
ReSharper, var, and You
After many, many, recommendations I finally got round to trying out ReSharper (aka R#). R# is an awesome plugin for Visual Studio designed to make writing code better, smarter and easier. It also tries to make refactoring as painless as possible by g...
Ninite Makes Installing Essential Apps Super Easy
Following my essential software for a new Windows 7 install I’ve come across Ninite, which promises easy installation of a wide range of applications. The premise is simple – you choose from a list of available programs, click a button, ...
My Essentials for a Fresh Windows 7 Install
Thursday saw the public release of Windows 7, and as with any OS upgrade, it’s a chance for a fresh start, a chance to pair our software installs back to the minimum we need. It’s all with the good intention to keep our computer leaner an...
When is an OS Not an OS? When it’s Jolicloud.
Jolicloud is billed as a new OS for Netbooks. I gave it a try and found it didn't quite live up to its billing....
A Better Netbook Web Browser?
I love my Dell Mini 9 Netbook. For the size and price of it, it's a fantastic little machine. Netbook screens are particularly limited in vertical height, so it's unfortunate nearly all browsers waste a lot of screen space with various bits of "chrom...
“Good Enough” Isn’t
A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of ok for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost ten dollars… …But the thing was that good boots lasted...

