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3/29/2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm

The BBC has an interesting visual flash application that presents a tree view of top internet sites. Below are some static pictures of the application. For the full effect with rollovers visit the url above.

Top Internet Sites

Social Networks

Search/Portal

News

Shopping

By Country (mmm where is China)

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5/28/2009

Build the ultimate digital music jukebox

Nice article at: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/morefun/media.mspx

Included with every copy of Windows Vista and free to any Genuine Windows XP user, Windows Media Player 11 isn't just the newest version of the world's most advanced multimedia storage and viewing program.

It's also the ultimate solution for music lovers looking to assemble, catalog, and enjoy a collection of digital audio tracks that'll have even the world's most acclaimed DJs and recording artists turning green with envy.

Ready to rock and roll? Here's how to get the most from the greatest hits from yesterday and today.

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9/12/2008

Text Fixer – tools to clean up text

http://www.textfixer.com/

This site features online text and html changing, modifying, converting tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing text for web publication. If you've ever needed to capitalize sentences or convert line breaks to <p> or <br /> then this site can save you needless manual labor.

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9/2/2008

Google Chrome - new browser

www.google.com.chrome

Today Google released a new browser. I am writing this post in the browser. My first impression is that I like it. It is quick and simple. I really like the way they de-cluttered the screen. It seems to work well with most of the sites I've tried so far. There are a few here are a few shortcomings. For example this posting form doesn't have the normal dhtml editor available so I have to do my own html formatting. But all in all it's very nice and quick for casual browsing.

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8/29/2008

10 free SharePoint Dev training videos

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/05/20/developers-developers-developers-sharepoint-wants-you.aspx

These look very ineresting. The live events are passed but if you register you can dowload or view thw aeaaions.

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free 3d photo stiching software

http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

Microsoft has finally launched the 3D wonder Photosynth for consumers. Photosynth, automatically reconstruct a three-dimensional space from a collection of photos of a place or an object. "The technology, which takes a grouping of photographs and stitches them into a faux 3D environment, can now be implemented with photos you've taken on your digital camera or mobile phone, and converted right on your computer. Previously, the process of stitching these photos together took weeks of processing on specially configured server arrays."

Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.

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Copy a Single File to Avoid Re-Activating Windows XP

I don't do too many tech tips here... maybe I should. Buut I just spent several days rebuilding my work laptop and this tip from LifeHacker.com would have been invaluable so I decided to pass it along. My suggetion is that you back up this file on your emergence USB key (you do have one of these don't you) today so that you have the file in an emergency.

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The Online Tech Tips site offers up a great tip for anyone reinstalling XP off something other than their original CD—such as a slipstreamed and automated installation—or lacking a net connection to run the activation. Before wiping your system clean, grab a file named WPA.DBL from the System32 directory and save it to a thumb drive or other external media. When you load up your new system, skip registration, enter "Safe Mode" from the boot menu, and drop it back into that System32 folder. Now you're re-activated and free of nagging. Hit the link below for detailed explanation of each step.

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8/24/2008

Mapping a network drive in SharePoint

By now you have probably figured out that you can open any document library in a Windows Explorer window and treat it like any other Windows directory. What you may not know is that you can map a drive to a document library just like file shares on the network. This practice could be useful for teams that want to share documents or for personal productivity. Here's the how to.

For this example I will create a mapped drive for my Shared Documents" folder in my site. That way it is always conviniently available to me as my drive M: The url for my document library is http://mysite.amgen.com/personal/royleea/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx Here are the steps:

Go to the Start Menu in Windows and hit "Run"
In the Open menu type "cmd" to open a command window.
Type this command:
NET USE M: "\\mysite.amgen.com/personal/royleea/Shared Documents"/PERSISTENT:yes
If all went well you will get a sucess message.
Close the command window and check My Computer to be sure you now have the new mapped drive.

The secret is in the NET command. Here is what the parts of the command represent:

NET - is the command
USE - is the sub commant that tells the system you want to map a drive
M: - this is the drive letter you want to use. This can be any unused drive letter
" " - everything between the quotes is the path to the folder notice we use \ not /. The quotes aren't necessary if there are no blank spaces in the path.
/PERSISTENT:yes - tells the system to always map this drive when you reboot your machine otherwise the mapping will be lost when you shut down or reboot.

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7/17/2008

Google Docs adds Templates

http://docs.google.com/templates

Google docs has now added a nice gallery of templates for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. These FREE tools just keep getting better.

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6/8/2008

What’s running on my computer - Svchost.exe and Process Monitor

I am constantly trying to keep my computer running as lean as possible using EndItAll and Windows Task Manager to stay on top of running processes. I have always been perplexed by the processes that run by calling svchost. I found this article (click here) on using this command prompt command to see what processes are running:

tasklist /svc /FI "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe"

The article also pointed to another one (click here) that noted that Microsoft has this free Process Monitor utility to manage running processes at:

Microsoft TechNet Windows Sysinternals
here's a screen dump of the running program.

I highly recommend reading both of the articles mentioned above for insight on how to use both techniques to get control of your computer.

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