Brief Adventure with Maxthon

Here’s a little story that I find amusing. Perhaps you will as well.

Last month I got Google Chrome working on my trusty old ThinkPad (Pentium 2) running Windows 2000. I was very pleased — this turned out to be a wonderful way to keep the old laptop useful and responsive.

However, over time Chrome started getting

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Tip: kloth.net

Quick Tip: KLOTH.NET has some excellent DNS / IP related services available.  Really handy stuff like dig and whois. Great when you’re mucking about with DNS records or doing a bit of research.

Peter has me reminded me twice about this site so now I’m posting the link to help me remember.

Microsoft Web-related News

There were a couple of big announcements from Microsoft this week, both of interest to web developers and/or users of the MS web stack. Without further ado…

WebsiteSpark (info PDF)

If you’re a small firm (less than 10 folks) focused on  Web dev and design, you may qualify for a boatload of “free” MS licenses. In return,

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Found my Windows Mobile Utility

Late last year I was looking for a Windows Mobile utility… without much luck. I wrote:

Perhaps a more interesting utility would be one that changes notification sounds/styles depending up on the time of the day. Sure, keep on getting that email every 10 minutes, but after 7pm just flash the alert light and don’t vibrate

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Google Sync now Pushing Email

Back in February of this year Google announced Google Sync — push syncing for Calendar and Contacts. I’ve been using it ever since with my Windows Mobile phone and love it but, like most folks, I’ve been hoping for the Email component…

Yesterday, Google announced the addition of push Email support. I visited the little ActiveSync

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  • [blogged] A Quick Look at Log Parser http://goo.gl/fb/cACd 3 hours ago
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  • perhaps I'm expecting too much, but Microsoft's LogParser 2.2 seems REALLY slow 13 hours ago