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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 it had to upgrade: You need to upgrade files in use by slimKEYS? Or by xplorer2? I ... ...

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 name collisions, as long as the domains of business are different. Where it hurts a little is ...

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 a lot too. The five nominations were made by Microsoft members upon submission, but one of ...

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 some promises. I was in my office and heard a ''pshit'' sound. It took me a fraction of a ...

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 your technical writers about it!   Tags: OneCare, Online Help

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, or opt-out of their service for particular sites. I only had one account I wanted to handle ...

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

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 that screen. Retrying the search finally succeeded. Now, a few minutes ago, while performing ...

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, maybe because web pages were lean enough. I don't know if it's really page sizes that is now ...

I got a strange problem with my desktop computer today, while returning from hibernation. Though the following hotfix did solve a problem (thanks Scott) where my computer coming out from hibernation returned to hibernation when left idle for a minute, it seems it's still a fragile process. So today, I had my hand on the mouse while the computer ...