Archive for 'Windows'

Windows 7 Preview Pane

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by bryan.

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First off, I didn’t even realize that Vista had a Preview Pane feature, but today I had the need to quickly glance through several Word documents and was trying to find a way to quickly preview the contents. I noticed an icon within Explorer in the upper right that looked like a preview button [...]

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Free Expression Encoder 3 For Up To 10 Minutes

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by bryan.

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Microsoft has released a free version of Expression Encoder which can be used to create screencasts up to 10 minutes in length!  You can include video and audio with the screen cast recording.  I played with this a bit this week and the performance and quality of results are very impressive.  Download it here.

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A.D.D. Be Gone!

Posted on 14. Jan, 2008 by bryan.

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Working with SharePoint, particularly within VPN environments, can be a focus-challenging task. Write new master page, compile new web part, wait for SharePoint to recompile (okay, more specifically ASP.NET), lose focus, fire up FireFox, browse net for 15 minutes, forget what you were working on, remember, and continue work. Now I am a [...]

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Life Under a Rock

Posted on 10. Aug, 2007 by bryan.

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My family and I are having a new house built.  Seems appropriate, as my former abode was located under the following:

You think I’m kidding?  I assure you I am not.  And I offer as proof this tidbit:
Did you know that since Windows 2000 one could mount drives to a folder?  Chances are, you did know [...]

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Just When You Thought You Knew RDP …

Posted on 23. May, 2007 by bryan.

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So you have probably used RDP about 5.1 gajillion times, but then you learn something new that shakes your foundation. Well that is what happened to me this past week when I learned 2 new things with RDP, and I am not ashamed to admit it either! Here goes nothing:

What we are looking [...]

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