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So....
Warning – glass house post ahead.
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Lookout download on Microsoft.com
Update - Boy, did I call that or what? Microsoft has pulled Lookout from the MS Download site. Fortunately, it's resurfaced on the Lookout download page (with a massive “this is unsupported, don't plan on any fixes” disclaimer). I'm left wondering what's going on behind the scenes at Microsoft regarding Lookout. Were they really planning on just vanishing the product, but changed their mind because of the community outcry? I'm certainly glad it's available again, but I definitely would like to know what's in store for the product (or the product's capabilites) in the future. Lookout obviously met a customer need, and that need isn't going away in the near future.
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Disabling the web service look up in the "Open With" dialog of Windows XP
When you right-click on a file in Windows Explorer and select “Open With...”, it pops up an option discover the appropriate application to open the file with by calling a Microsoft Web Service. I have never once actually used this option, so it simply adds an extra mouse click to the process (to dismiss the dialog). I've been meaning to find out if it was possible to disable this popup for ages, and finally got around to consulting the Oracle of Google.
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They don't want to be my buddy...
Update - Bruce Williams volunteered to be my buddy and hooked me up with the program. Thanks, Bruce. Only time will tell if he will live to regret it. :)
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Mouse wheel scrolling the Web Browser control
A fairly common interface style these days is the multi-pane reading UI. You see it in Outlook, RSS Bandit, Sharp Reader, Sauce Reader, etc. Outlook 2003 includes a nice feature when using the mouse wheel to scroll a window - the window that the mouse cursor is over is the one that scrolls, rather than the window that has focus. I've gotten quite used to this behavior, and was disappointed when I found that RSS Bandit didn't support it when trying to scroll the reading pane (I don't know about Sharp Reader, I haven't tried it).