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Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:32 PM

[Utility] TeraCopy removes the file copy pain from Windows Vista

Last September, I asked why aren't Windows file copies restartable ? It's a huge productivity killer - and very frustrating - when you're copying a large file from a network share or over a VPN and the copy fails when it was 80% complete. At that point...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:49 AM

Inkscape to support XAML export

Today, Adam Kinney gave me the tip off to some cool news: Inkscape is adding XAML export . Great, what's Inkscape ? Glad you asked! Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, like Adobe Illustrator. Rather than drawing in pixels (like you'd do...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:03 AM

Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (Release)

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:15 PM

CSSVista - Edit your CSS code live on both Internet Explorer and Firefox

CSS editing is extremely frustrating without immediate feedback. Until a few years ago, you didn't really have a choice: you typed some CSS, you refreshed the page, you tried to figure out what was wrong, repeat until you hopefully got it working. Then...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:42 PM

YOD'M 3D - Multiple Desktops for Windows

One of the coolest things I saw at MIX07 was on a Linux computer. Miguel was showing us something on his laptop when all of a sudden the desktop turned into a cube and started spinning around. Miguel told us it was Compiz , which has been available for...
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 1:20 AM

Cropper Plugins 1.1 release

We lost the everything but my local source copies for our CropperPlugins when gypsies stole the CodePlex TS02 server , which slowed us down a bit. Patrick Altman got the server back in order and added a cool new "Send to Amazon S3" plugin. We've also...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:29 AM

New Cropper Plugins Release (includes Flickr, OneNote, TinyPic)

Patrick Altman added his plugins to the Cropper Plugins bundle out on CodePlex . His SendToFlickr plugin has become an essential part of my blogging routine - I grab portions of the screen directly to Flickr, then add them to posts with the Flickr4Writer...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:45 PM

CropperPlugins on CodePlex

Cropper is my favorite screenshot application because it supports plugins. I've published a few over the years - Capture to AVI and Capture to Animated GIF. My favorite plugin is one that I didn't write - Patrick Altman's Send To Flickr plugin . Now that...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:23 AM

Inkscape 0.45 Released

Inkscape 0.45 is now officially released and available for download . Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:15 AM

Getting Cropper to work in Vista

UPDATE: A new version of Cropper with these changes has been released. Grab it here: http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx Summary Cropper is my favorite screenshot utility, mainly because of the plugin support. It's not really usable...
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