WordCamp Denver

I spent most of the day attending WordCamp Denver downtown today. Based on what I’ve read about other WordCamps and now having attended one, I think I can safely say that each one is a different experience.

I have to confess it wasn’t entirely what I was expecting, but that’s not entirely a bad thing…

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Browser Related Notes: Evernote / Safari / Google Toolbar

A few browser oriented items of note:

New Evernote Add-on

For the Evernote users, a new take on their Web Clipper. Adding tags, choosing the notebook – heck, all the things you’d go to Evernote to do after a clipping – can now be done on the fly. We can now also create a new note from

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Broke (then fixed) VMware Player Networking

As many long-time readers are aware, I’m a big fan of virtualization. I like to do testing and dev work in virtual machines as that helps keep my primary machine(s) cleaner and leaner. It also lets me keep a whole fleet of machines around without needing all that extra hardware and expense.

I ran into an

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The Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta

I spent most of yesterday attending the inaugural Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta. I’m happy to say that I found it completely worth the time. I learned a lot yesterday which makes spending a Saturday downtown totally worth it. Seeing so many great speakers just pushed it over the top. I truly hope this will become

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Give XP a Win 7 facelift

I’ll cheerfully admit that while I like Windows XP I’ve never liked the “tonka” or “crayola” themes. Honestly? I’d rather change to the Classic UI instead.

And that’s just what I’d do until I discovered the XP Zune theme. That quickly became the first thing I’d install on a fresh XP load – and the included

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