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DutchTab for Windows Mobile is out of beta, and now officially supports both Pocket PC and Smartphone devices running Windows Mobile 5 or 6. This application is a joined venture with my friend Pascal who made an iPhone version of DutchTab at the same...
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What is DutchTab ? It’s a Windows Mobile application I’ve been working on for the past weeks. My friend Pascal Bourque convinced me (pretty easily) to migrate an application I made years ago for splitting lunch bills at Xceed . We decided to make that...
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A new version of slimKEYS is now available . Though the list of new features is slim, it took me more than just a few hours to get through translation of the interface to French, and to finally make slimVOLUME support 64-bit Vista systems. In the first...
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I wanted to upgrade my SmartFTP 2.5 to version 3.0 to overcome many crashes I get on Vista. Not only did the setup told me my maintenance was expired and had to renew it in order to use the upgrade, it told me the following applications were using files...
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I had an agreement . I gave my word. In order to win the book, I had to make a critique of it. I read it. I took notes. I enjoyed many topics, considering the book as a very good read for someone like me who's starting with web development and ASP.NET....
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This morning, my Google alerts pointed me to this page , a Russian web site talking about a product called SLIMCODE. Google Translate tells me it's a box of capsules for a weight loss program. I'm fine with that. It's normal, on this planet, to have some...
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I'm getting crazy. Totally. I'm now convinced aliens kidnapped me in my sleep and changed my Vista installation. This morning, I tried to open a Command Prompt as administrator. I pressed Win-Z, typed "cmd", pressed Ctrl-Enter to get to the slimKEYS extended...
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I bought myself a nice gadget lately; an HTC P4000 mobile phone . While everybody is getting all excited (for good reasons, I admit) about the iPhone SDK, I decided to stick with Windows Mobile, a platform I was used to (both using and developing for)....
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With Scott's Visual Studio's theme rundown , I'm getting requests for my VS Settings file for my older example . I can't give you the exact same colors, as I've tweaked them a little. Fear not, the look is almost the same, but I did change the font. Here's...
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My very good friend Pascal Bourque is one of the lucky 5 nominees for the MSDN Canada Code Awards 2008 , for his key role in the creation of the Xceed DataGrid for WPF . I often compare Pascal's technical skills with Scott Guthrie , who I happen to admire...
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I just updated the web site and slimKEYS package for the newly released version 1.2.8069... 8069 you say? What's that? It's my new version numbering. Well, not that new, I stole the idea from Xceed , but it's partly my fault anyway if they use such a...
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I just did something really stupid. I don't know where my mind was. I have to say I'm loaded with work because I accepted two contracts, and I'm a part-time daddy at home since my son is only attending kindergarten 3 mornings a week. I even had to postpone...
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The second beta of slimKEYS 1.1.3 is now available for download . With this last beta before the release, I urgently need Vista testers. If you look at the list of changes , you can see a few pending or new Vista features. slimVOLUME Two main things have...
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I'm beta testing Windows Live OneCare 2, and this morning, the automatic update failed, with a message redirecting me to this web page: Hello? Who's telling me this? A web page!!! If you decide to move your help and documentation online, at least tell...
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I did it again. It's not the first time . I created something that looks very interesting, but I have yet to decide if it's useful in the first place. I called it slimSMOKE, and you probably guessed by its name that it's a slimKEYS plug-in. Does it happen...
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A few weeks ago, for the release of slimKEYS version 1.1.0 (which quickly became v1.1.1 ), I decided to try submit-everywhere.com , to see if it could drive some more traffic. Before submitting, you must provide your existing download site credentials,...
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While submitting a ticket to Roxio about a crash I can reproduce with Easy Media Creator 10 and its MyDVD component, bad luck continued to hit: Do you think I should open a ticket about this? q;-) Tags: Roxio , Support...
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I was looking for a free and simple application to convert icon files containing multiple resolutions, to multiple PNG files. I'm sure there must be such an application out there, but the few I checked were too complicated for my needs. I did what too...
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Something very strange just happened to me while searching on Yahoo!. First, a prelude: Half an hour ago, while performing a search on Yahoo!, I got an empty result, with a message telling me there was a problem, and that I should retry. I did not capture...
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I've been a FireFox user since version 0.8 or something. What drove me to FireFox was add-ins. The huge amount of tools I could add was calling me, and the tabbed interface was for me a great advance. It wasn't speed. Back then, browsers were fast enough,...
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Scott's post about a blog's heartbeat , and his Paint.NET template to create your own heartbeat image tag gave me the idea to try creating my own custom web control. For a non-web developer like me, that was fun. The following zip file contains the control,...
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For those interested in developing plug-ins for slimKEYS , I've updated the slimKEYS SDK to match the latest version. I added a slimSEARCH sample, which performs arithmetic operations when you enter something like "=pi*2" as the search term. This sample...
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Just found out that Google allows you to search for pages that appeared either the past day, week, month and more. For example, you can search for "slimKEYS" only in the past day using this URL: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=slimKEYS&as_qdr=d...
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I've said it in the past; developers must stay humble . Humility just hit me again. Have you heard the news? slimKEYS 1.1.0 is out! You're already using slimKEYS? So you may already know it uses an auto-updater to periodically check for updates. If you...
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Since Scott is writing his blog posts using speech recognition , I decided it was time for me to try this out. I even bought myself a new USB head phone with a microphone. I must admit I'm having a lot of difficulty with it. The first time I was with...
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