For you command line guys who think the Google interface is too glitzy, try Goosh. It puts a Unix-style interface in front of Google.  It's not an official product of google, but it returns google search results.  Enjoy!

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The FCC has extended the 'Do-Not-Call' Registry so that numbers will not be automatically be removed.  When it was first set up in 2003, numbers were to be removed after 5 years.  I, personally, have had the experience of numbers being removed after a couple of years, so I still recommend checking from time to time to be sure your numbers are still on there. Read More...

I ran across a cool add-on to IE 7 called IE7Pro.  I use a lot of extensions to Firefox, but this add-on to IE has a lot of helpful features rolled into one install.  Here is a list of some of its features:

• Webpage capturer
• Ad blocker
• Greasemonkey 
• Advanced Tab Browsing Management
  • Double click to close tab
  • Crash recovery
  • Select the external program to view page source
  • Tab history manager
  • Refresh tab interval
• Inline search
• Spell checking of text you enter in forms
• Proxy switcher
• Super Drag Drop

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Access keys provide a way to quickly use a command by pressing a few keys, no matter where you are in the program. Every command in Office Word 2007 can be accessed by using an access key. You can get to most commands by using two to five keystrokes. To discover and use an access key: Read More...

I have developed a new extension for the BlogEngine.NET platform.  It's basically an enhanced version of the BreakPost extension.  It works the same as BreakPost in that you insert "[more]" in the post body where you would like it to break and display a link to the full post.  However, I added a couple new features. 

PostTeaser differs from the BreakPost extension in that it ensures all tags opened before the [more] are closed, so that the post body is still valid XHTML even after it is truncated.  I was having problems with BreakPost not closing my paragraph tags and throwing off my layout, because it was doing a simple substring. 

I also made PostTeaser display the post teasers in the RSS feed the same way that it does for the post list on the default page. 

Click the link below to download the PostTeaser Extension.

PostTeaser.zip

I have a two computers on my desk that I use regularly.  My desktop, which is my main computer, and a laptop.  Whenever I'm doing work on both, burning CDs, downloading updates, etc., I find it a pain to switch between a mouse and a full-size keyboard to a trackpad and mini-keyboard.

Thankfully, there is a program that solved my dilemma.  The solution I found is an open source project named Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/).  It even lets you share between computers with different operating systems, so you could share the same mouse and keyboard between computers running Windows, Linux, and a Mac. Read More...

The Out of Office Assistant in Outlook 2007 is a bit more helpful in letting people inside the company know where you are. Microsoft has included a “Inside My Organization” and “Outside My Organization” message area. For example, if I were to set an Out of Office message for both internal and external, it would look like this: Read More...

Over the past several days AT&T customers have reported a drastic increase in the number of non-spam messages being rejected by AT&T SPAM filters.  Read More...

As I was building a new laptop and begin to work with Office 2007 apps, I missed the little customizable toolbar. When I started looking for it I didn’t even know what it was called. I found out it is the “Quick Access Toolbar.” Also, the toolbar settings are stored in a file for each application, “Word.qat, Excel.qat, PowerPoint.qat (These are the apps I tested, maybe other Office 2007 apps too. OneNote does not have the Quick Access Toolbar.).”

If you save or can recover the *.qat files from your previous work environment you can save them to your new system and be good to go. Here are the file locations.

• For XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Setting\Application Data\Microsoft\Office
• For Vista: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office