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Can we stop with the "Change my homepage" crap please?
I finally got around to installing the latest beta of Windows Live Writer, my favorite blogging tool. As part of the install, it displays the following dialog: I can't believe that in this day and age, applications still want to change my home page. The...

Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:23 PM by kevindente | 7 comment(s)

Empty DIV takes up space after setting innerHTML to blank on IE (aka blank lines after UpdatePanel postback)
Maybe this is common knowledge, but my co-worker and I spent some time chasing this down today, so I figured I'd post it in the hope that it will save other people some time. Normally, a empty, unstyled DIV reserves no space in an HTML document. However...

Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 2:18 PM by kevindente | 21 comment(s)

Hacking a 100% zoom feature onto NoSquint with KeyConfig
I recently blogged about the NoSquint Firefox extension, for remembering per-site text zoom levels. I also recently blogged about the Keyconfig extension, which allows you to change hotkey bindings. I guess you could say that this post is the bastard...

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 9:48 AM by kevindente | 2 comment(s)

Dealing with Conflicting Keyboard Hotkeys in Firefox
It's been a good week for new (to me) Firefox extensions. Any serious Firefox user will tell you that it's all about the extensions. Unfortunately, if you install enough extensions, you'll eventually encounter a conflict between the hotkeys registered...

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:15 PM by kevindente | with no comments

Dealing with Small Font Sizes in Firefox - NoSquint
Generally, I find that the font sizes used on many, if not most, web sites, are too damn small - especially on a 15" UXGA laptop screen. To avoid having to hit Ctrl-+ (text zoom) on every page I visited, I've been increasing the the minimum font size...

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:48 PM by kevindente | 1 comment(s)

VMWare on Vista Lameness
Am I the only one majorly annoyed by VMWare's support policy (or lack there-of) for VMWare on a Vista host? Apparently EMC's stance is that in order to run VMWare on a Vista host, we need to wait for VMWare 6.0. This presents several problems: VMWare...

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:21 PM by kevindente | 29 comment(s)

Beware the Outlook Vista Sidebar Gadgets
Ever since upgrading to Vista and Office 2007, I've had a really annoying problem with Outlook 2007. After running for a couple days, the UI would lose the ability to repaint itself correctly. It would glitch out and start drawing large blank regions...

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:12 PM by kevindente | 7 comment(s)

How TO Sell Software - JetBrains responds
This morning I was pleased to find a comment to yesterday's blog post about JetBrains from Alex Tkachman, COO of said company. He was very apologetic about the problems with their site, and generously offered me a free license to Resharper. Thanks...

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 9:48 AM by kevindente | 2 comment(s)

How NOT to sell software - JetBrains web site problems
JetBrains is currently running a special promotion for Resharper, offering a "Personal License" to individuals for $99. Being potentially interested, I've spent the last couple of days trying to get an eval license so I could try the software...

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:38 AM by kevindente | 12 comment(s)

MSN Groups for Windows Live Writer support
My last couple of blog posts have been written using the excellent Windows Live Writer tool. It's a fantastic blogging tool. I wanted to send a suggestion or two to the WLW team, so I clicked the Send Feedback menu item. That takes you to an MSN group...

Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:55 PM by kevindente | with no comments

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