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Map a Drive to SkyDrive
Update: No need to do this, just download the SkyDrive Desktop app and you’re golden! Microsoft’s SkyDrive is awesome for creating and storing documents that can be edited in the browser, phone as well as on your desktop. One thing I find very useful when working with SkyDrive documents from my Windows 7 desktop is […]
JIV: Phu Quoc Windows 7 Theme
June 12, 2011
Phu Quoc Island Our adventures in Phu Quoc (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6) was exciting and the 600 photos we took were equally thrilling. I was brainstorming of ways to easily share these photos with everyone and thought of a Windows 7 theme. So, I began to filter through the 600 photos and selected […]
Is An App 32 or 64 Bit?
January 23, 2011
If your Windows OS is 64-bit, sometimes you need to know if a running app is 64-bit. The simplest way to determine this is via the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc). In the Processes tab, you’ll see a list of Image Names (running apps) along with the bit-ness indicator of “*32”. If it doesn’t have the […]
TDLOG Files–A Disk Space Hog
January 14, 2011
If you write software in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, you’ve probably debugged with IntelliTrace turned on. With IntelliTrace, you can actually see events that occurred in the past and the context in which they occurred. This reduces the number of restarts that are required to debug your application and the possibility that an error will […]
Mac OS X Dev on Windows 7
January 13, 2011
My main computing environment is Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and I love it! I can do just about everything I need in Windows 7, except develop Mac applications, especially those for the iOS’s iDevices such as iPhone, iPad, and iTouch. For that, the conventional wisdom is to purchase a Macbook Pro or Mac Mini and […]
Is That Ruby In Your Pocket Or …
January 12, 2011
I reached out to my friend, Matt, the other day and we caught up a bit on what he’s been doing. He said he was on his ‘way to enlightenment’. I was intrigued and inquired further to which he told me he was learning Ruby, a general-purpose, dynamic, true object-oriented scripting language that was created […]
What “Windows Product Scout” Could Be When It Grows Up
October 28, 2010
Last week, the Windows Team announced the launch of “Windows Product Scout” which was intended to be a fun and interactive way to explore and discover Windows products for your PC. Each week it would feature new products. Besides some navigational concerns, which I shared with them, the visuals are great and transitions are cool. […]
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February 21, 2012
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