Monthly Archives: March 2007

Useful Windows Programming Utilities

Sometimes you’re stuck on Windows and still need to write and debug code … These programs help get me through the day: EmEditor ($40, free trial) freakishly-good Unicode and Asian charset support Notepad++ (GPL) vim (GPL) UnxUtils (GPL) native-compiled Unix … Continue reading

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Yahoo! Search Marketing Forcing Account Upgrades?

Yahoo! Search Marketing has been bugging me for months to sign their new Terms of Service and upgrade my account via email, postal mail and telemarketers. I told them I’d think about it and let them know, maybe later. I … Continue reading

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LUG: IMUG “Getting it Right The First Time”

Luciano Arruda from viaLanguage, Inc. gave a talk titled, “Getting it Right The First Time: Streamlining your software localization and avoiding costly mistakes”, at the IMUG meeting tonite at Apple. He is originally from Brazil and had some good Portuguese … Continue reading

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Microsoft Groove Thoughts

I’ve been looking around at collaboration tools for small and medium-sized companies recently. Product-wise, Microsoft Groove is a real-time, integrated, encrypted, peer-to-peer, online/offline collaboration environment now built into Office 12. Technology-wise, you could argue that Groove is a network OS. … Continue reading

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Photo Bag Notes for DSLR and MacBook Pro

I’ve been looking around at medium-sized photo backpacks for storing and carrying my Canon DSLR gear along with a notebook computer. So I actually visited a few local camera shops with my MacBook Pro 15″ notebook, and tried them out. … Continue reading

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