Recent Posts Tagged With 'Asides'

• Tip: kloth.net

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 17:21 in Free, tip, Asides, dns

  Quick Tip: KLOTH.NET has some excellent DNS / IP related services available.  Really handy stuff like dig and whois. Great when you’re mucking about with DNS records or doing a bit of research. Peter has me reminded me twice about this site s...

• Tip on vmnetcfg

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 22:48 in network, vmware, Asides, vmware-player

  Tip: vmnetcfg is a really handy tool to tweak VMware network configs. Just don’t forget to run it as admin if on Vista or Win 7 (I always do…). Tags: network, vmware, VMWare-Player Possibly Related Posts VMware Server Bridging Prob...

• Dichotomy

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 22:27 in asp.net, Asides, xubuntu, thinkpad

  My evening? Installing Xubuntu Linux on (yet another) older ThinkPad while looking over the Microsoft “ramp up” stuff on ASP to ASP.Net. I like to keep in touch with both worlds… Tags: asp.net, thinkpad, xubuntu Possibly Related...

• Readability

  Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 22:53 in Asides, bookmarklet, readability

  Read a lot of stuff online? Tired of all the distractions of ads, links, blogrolls, etc. etc.? Then you just have to check out the Readability bookmarklet. First visit that link to read a bit about it, then head over to the setup page to build your c...

• Web Platform Installer

  Posted on Thursday January 22nd, 2009 at 23:00 in Microsoft, iis, Asides, web-platform-installer

  Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer was released as 1.0 yesterday (see the announcement). Pretty fast work – seems like I first learned about it back in October. If you do any development on the Microsoft Web stack, this is a great utility that wi...

• co.mments.com Shutting Down

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 23:42 in Asides, co.mments

  Bummer. My favorite comment tracking service (co.mments.com) is shutting down within the week. That makes me sad. I recall that last time I looked around for similar services I didn’t find much to get excited about. Any suggestions? Possibly ...

• Android on the Desktop?

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 13:09 in google, Asides, android, netbook

  Fascinating!  The “Google Linux desktop has arrived” discusses some folks who have Android running on an Asus netbook. Possibly Related Posts Zoho Planner and Google Notebook Announcements - And FF Beta2 RC1 (1) Zoho Becomes Even M...

• Gmail Themes for Google Apps?

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 19:46 in gmail, theme, Asides, google-apps

  OK, it has been a few weeks: Where’s our Gmail themes for Google Apps accounts? I’ve grown quite accustomed to my chosen theme with the free Gmail, I’d like to have it on the one I pay for too! Possibly Related Posts Will Googl...

• Web Platform Installer Updated

  Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 07:00 in web, Microsoft, iis, Asides, web-platform-installer

  I mentioned Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer back in early October. It was beta then and a Release Candidate version was announced late last week with some nice new features. No longer is it restricted to just Vista and Server 2008, it now ad...

• Couple VMware Player Resources

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 15:32 in Asides, vmware-player, easyvmx

  Just following up from the today’s earlier post on VMware Player 2.50, here are a couple more useful resources to have around: EasyVMX — From the site, “EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines fo...

• Security Officers…

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 11:23 in Security, Asides

  Just a casual observation… but it seems like a lot of corporate Security Officers are anti-change. Shouldn’t they strive to be Agents of Change instead? Possibly Related Posts Zoho Rolled Out Single Sign-on (2) Zoho Becomes Even Mor...

• REDFLY on Sale

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 20:19 in Asides, ultra-mobile, redfly

  A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I was intrigued by the Celio REDFLY. Since then, I’ve worked up an alternative solution that was almost free (an easy decision to make, right?). More on that later. Today I see the REDFLY is now on sale for $199. T...

• Google’s Tenth

  Posted on Saturday September 27th, 2008 at 16:59 in birthday, Asides

  The Google 10th Birthday Timeline is a fun little time killer. Possibly Related Posts Zoho Planner and Google Notebook Announcements - And FF Beta2 RC1 (1) Zoho Becomes Even More Approachable (1) Yet another run at Google Calendar? (1) Would...

• Dropbox Launches

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 14:03 in Asides, dropbox, online-storage

  Just a quick note: Dropbox has launched today. No more chasing invites. Looks like the Linux client has gone live today as well. This has become my most used online storage and “casual” syncing tool. I’m glad to see it has formally ...

• Internet Explorer 8 beta2

  Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 22:34 in beta, Asides, browsers, ie8

  in IE8 Loosely-Coupled IE (LCIE) separates the frame (the address bar, back button, etc.) from the tabs, and the tabs (mostly) from each other, crashes are more contained and affect fewer tabs than before – Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Availa...