Merry Christmas…The programmer’s way..
The guys @ Channel 9 (Developer Community site managed by MSDN) had found an ultra cool way to wish people a great Christmas season. Chris Anderson, Don Box and Amanda Silver presenting a special song for you to enjoy the Christmas with a spirit of Programmer.
Song Lyrics are as follows…
‘VS-indenting
Module VB
Dim myvar As Integer?() = {3 * 3}
Sub Main()
For Each i In myvar
Console.Write("Hello VB")
With i
Console.Write(.Value)
End With REM a language so true
If i IsNot Nothing Then
Console.WriteLine()
End If REM
Console.Write(<some>xml</some>)
Next
End Sub
End Module
Personal Email Analytics, People and Attachment Management
This is one such tool, every business user would dream to have in thier Outlook. It fills most of the gaps which could be found by any serious Outlook user.
Xobni Insight is a tool/addon for Microsoft Outlook which makes it atleast 10 times productive. It does a faster email search (Can I uninstall Windows Desktop Search?), Builds a relational database on your contacts, the files and conversations. More to add…It is probably the first “Social” software built on Outlook (I don’t consider Plaxo as one 
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FxLabs aquires Knibble…and you get 10566 games
FxLabs has aquired Largest Online gaming portal Knibble.com last week. And the coolest part of deal is going to make you very happy. You get 10,566 games absolutely free of cost to play online and enjoy.
Play as much as you can @ http://www.fxlabs.com
Windows Vista Codecs for more than 355 movie and Music formats (Free)
This is a gold mine of Codecs for Audio and Video. More than 355 formats are supported in one single installation of Codec pack. This is a good news for all Windows Media Player users on Vista for sure.
Storm CD Perfect Edition 3.0 does the above magic for you.
Track your package using Google
I accidentally found this.
Enter your package number in to google search box and hit submit…
Google suggests you the links to track the package automatically…
Carry your Browsing Experience to anywhere with Google Toolbar now.
I must say “Hats Off” to Google for this. Google Toolbar 5 Beta has been released with very cool features today. One of the best features is “Sync up Toolbar” feature. I have posted recently on a Google Addin for Firefox which can sync up your favourites to any computer using Google credentials. I have search for a similar add-ons for IE but failed to find one. Now this toolbar solves my problem with IE bookmark sync
Install Google Toolbar 5 Beta
One the toolbar is installed, you will be prompted something like this. If you enable this, You are ready to carry all the stuff you do on your computer to anywhere.
With new Google Bookmarks integration, Google has almost challenged del.icio.us bookmarking system seriously. If Google could make it’s toolbar users addictive to their bookmarking system, I am sure everything else will be done automatically.
Sync your browser to any computer (Firefox only)
I use multiple computers at home and office. Some of them are portable and some are desktops and servers too. For me, the biggest problem on this earth is using browsers at different computers with different set of settings and bookmarks. How cool it would be if I can have my browser be with me all the time.
Google Browser Sync addresses this issue by syncing up all of your settings to any computer you intend to use. All you need is a tiny plugin installed on your browser.
Well it doesn’t work with Firefox 3 Beta.
Sync Wizard
Sync Tool Status
Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista is Ready !
Yahoo has released a beta version of their messenger exclusively for Windows Vista with few native look & feel features today.
My first impression is "Cool". But It seriously lacks many features which are expected. It is no where near to the quality of Windows Live Messenger for sure. For some reason Yahoo could not deliver the full featured version in this build. Are they building this messenger right from the scratch?
I did a quick walk-through on UI…and Here it goes…
Startup : Looks a bit decent, but takes a while to start. Could be because of built in instrumentation reporting on Beta software.
Login Windows : Made sleek and smaller than non-vista version. Shows cool animation for logon process. Yahoo may replace that animation with classic smiley face expressions in future. (my wild guess )
Chat Windows : Not very impressive. This is not a fully powered chat windows (at least in this build). Very simple interface. Buzz option was added as a part of smilies collection (very confusing)
Coloured Windows : This is cool. A limited set of color tiles will be displayed to you in a carousal style. Grass is one of them and it’s odd.
Smiley Window: No new smilies for you. The only addition is "Buzz" smiley which has no UI but some action attached to it (looks Odd).
Adding a contact : Very Simple compared to the classic messenger. Very neat.
Display List: Mimics Vista’s explorer list style.
Preferences window has very few features…
Bottom Line…I am impressed but not excited.
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