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Vista VPN / Firefox / More

13.Feb.08 | Leave a Comment

A grab bag of follow-ups and tidbits for today.
Firefox Update — Made Mine Happier

Last week I was belly-aching about Firefox and other browsers. After writing that post I uninstalled both versions of Firefox that I had installed: beta and 2.0.x.
I then visited:
boot drive:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data
and blew away the Mozilla folder (Firefox is the only [...]

Windows 2008 - First Look

11.Feb.08 | 4 Comments

I had the opportunity to play with a release candidate of Windows 2008 recently. One of the devs was working with some .NET 3.x stuff and it seemed like just the ticket to give him a playground. I downloaded it from our MSDN account and gave it a try.
The Upside
First off, the installer offers [...]

Digg / Meebo / Toodledo

27.Dec.06 | 1 Comment

I got my first “Digg” today.  Oh sure, it has all of two diggs (the second from me *cough*) but still, how fun is that?  It was for my Meebo Desktop post announcing the new application.
Speaking of Meebo Desktop… I’m having a heck of a time figuring out how best to determine when something’s [...]

First Release: Meebo Desktop

25.Dec.06 | 21 Comments

I mentioned a few weeks ago that a “desktopized Meebo” would be pretty cool. Had a positive comment from the desktopize fellow but not much more than that. But the idea was stuck in my head…
Having a bit of spare time over the holidays, I spent at least 3 hours on a little [...]

Google Desktop - Only One Gmail Account

23.Dec.06 | 5 Comments

I installed the latest version of Google Desktop today as I was curious to see how it handles monitoring multiple Gmail Accounts.
It doesn’t handle that well. It’ll manage only one. It’ll even index it for you. But you only get one.
I searched through the desktop gadgets but didn’t see anything there [...]

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