Visual Studio 2008 out end of month!
It will be available for download (via a MSDN) subscription by the end of the month. Go here for more details.
TouchPal - Virtual Keyboard for Pocket PC
As some of you may or may not know I have a MDA Vario II from T-mobile. About a week ago I installed a new virtual keyboard for it from Cootek. What can I say… IT IS BRILLIANT. I can finally do 1-handed-texting with my phone. Something you can’t do with either the regular or the slide out keyboard. I have stopped using the slide out keyboard as I am faster… must faster on the TouchPal keyboard.
It is free… so go download and install now!
That means you Peter and Liam ;)
Making use of "Send To" in Windows XP
One of my favourite utilities is Lutz Roeder’s Reflector. But I didn’t like the way I had to always open it then copy the DLL I am trying to reflect on into it (I’m lazy ok!). So adding a link into the “SendTo” folder enables me to right click a DLL and send it to reflector.
This is how I did it:
1. Open the SendTo folder:
- Open the run dialog box (Windows Key + R) and type “SendTo” then click enter.
- OR manually, it will be in the “Documents and Settings\Username\SendTo”.
2. Find the Reflector DLL:
- This is wherever you decided to put the Reflector DLL. I have mine in a Reflector folder under Program files.
3. Right Click drag into the SendTo folder. Click “create shortcut here” and you’re done!
Microsoft Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer has been released and this blog has been written with it. I think I prefer Word 2007 because of the inline spell checker and other more advanced features that I can’t remember at the moment. But for a free blog editor its pretty good!
One of the things that I really do miss is the ability to download older blogs and edit/update them.
Inserting images was simple. I was even able to align the image and the text without editing the HTML.
One other thing I noticed was the Windows Live Map which was pretty cool! Not sure if that option is available in Word 2007. This allows you to insert an map as an image.
