If you've ever used Microsoft Visio to mock up a GUI prototype, then you really need to check out the Pencil Project - it's a free add-on for Mozilla Firefox 3.
Using XULRunner, you can also run it independently of Firefox. This is well worth you taking a look. The layout and positioning of elements seems very slick - you won't be micro-managing the layout like you would in Visio.
[via Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Tools List]
Users of FeedDemon on Windows and NetNewsWire on the Mac using Newsgator synchronisation have a month (until the end of August) to update your software and migrate your OPML feed list to Google Reader. Alternatively you could find some other means to manage your feeds. For help on transferring your feed list to Google Reader, check out the instructions here.
Personally, I use the client tools across all three of the supported platforms, Windows, Mac OSX and iPhone. I'm hoping that the transition to Google Reader will "just work".
Read more at Newsgator Daily and Google Reader blog.
If you are busily diagramming your latest enterprise application in Visio, and you want something to represent your web service, there is a shape that you can use. Popularised by Microsoft a number of years ago, it has proved particularly difficult to get a hold of for Visio.
However, if you want it you can grab it as part of the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Visio Stencil pack. There are a few other handy shapes in that stencil as well.
Check out the Apple Blog for easter eggs hidden in Apple icons. Is there anything equivalent in Windows icons?
A personal favourite is the pointed message to Windows users, with a dreaded BSOD...
A: When you’re running an iPod Touch v2.2.1!
I had a situation the other day, when I had an alarm scheduled for a specific time, and prior to it firing, I received an updated Meeting Invitation courtesy of my Exchange link over Wi-Fi.
Because the Touch was displaying a popup on the screen, the alarm notification couldn’t appear and play the sound until after I had dismissed the popup – 30 odd minutes after the alarm was to fire!
Something to be aware of if you want to use your iPod Touch as an alarm clock to get you up in the morning…
There are times in every TFS installation where you need to make sure that all your files are checked in. This could be when you are migrating servers, or even if you are leaving the company and want to clean up everything before you go. If you ever have a need to find all checked out files across all your Team Foundation Server workspaces, you should run the following command line program (assuming you have Team Explorer 2005 installed):
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\TF.exe" status /server:<SERVERNAME> /workspace:*
The same command should also work for Team Explorer 2008:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe" status /server:<SERVERNAME> /workspace:*
Following my earlier post about setting a custom label for removal drives, I have taken this a step further and added custom icons.
To add an icon, copy the icon you like to the flash drive and then specify in the autorun.inf file:
[autorun]
icon=<local path to icon>
I have a number of flash drives laying around, so I made some variations of the icons in different colours. This way I can identify the drive I want by the colour of the icon. I have created five versions: red, blue, brown, cyan and green.
Download
The original icon came from Frédéric Bellaiche at Quantum Bits and is licensed under the GNU GPL. This version therefore is also GPL’ed.
Apart from having a cool icon, the software Music Rescue from KennettNet is one of those applications that you don’t realise you need until it’s too late. Basically it supports recreating your iTunes library when it gets toasted.
To do this, it is capable of actually recovering all the music on your device and placing them back into your iTunes Library. This can be useful if when your computer dies on you.
I’ve tried this software out, and it does what it says it does. It’s also a very easy program to pick up and use without having to wade through pages of instructions.
If you have an email profile on your iPhone or iPod Touch talking to Exchange, your email folders might not synchronise correctly after you make changes. New folders seem to come through fine, but deleted or moved folders don’t seem to automatically refresh.
You’d think that deleting the email profile and recreating it (as a last resort) would sort out the issue, but it doesn’t.
In order to get your revised folder structure in the Mail Profile, follow these steps:
I hope this helps someone, as I had to search the web and experiment to get this working. Based on the evidence, it suggests that deleting a profile doesn’t actually remove the cached information from the device, so if you recreate the profile it stills picks up the information retained on the iPod Touch.
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