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Tweaking IE - 10 Connections per Server
IE conforms to the HTTP 1.1 spec, which requires that clients cant have more than two active connections to a site at any one time.. This means that your third request (say you are downloading two files, and click to browse for a third) will be "on-hold" Read More...
Attachment(s): 10_connections_per_server.reg

Setting your windows to Auto Log On
In XP to bypass the login screens: You can go into the Control Panel / Users and Passwords and clear the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" checkbox. Further, on the advanced tab, make sure "Require users to press ctrl-alt-del Read More...

Free Poster Size Print from ShutteryFly
Available 'through' amazon. Sign up and use code AME3-FREE Click Here "As a customer who has purchased a travel-related product from Amazon.com, you might be interested in turning your favorite travel photo into a poster-sized print--for free. For a limited Read More...

Shortening Control IDs in Hyperlinks
I am a big fan of direct navigation on web pages, and to that end, I find myself using a fair amount of asp:hyperlink controls. The problem I ran into was that the ASP.NET generated control id's for these controls was becoming a significant portion of Read More...

IE Developer Toolbar - Beta 1 Refresh Released
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en This one just dropped yesterday (10-31) if you haven't tried this tool; its well worth the download. The two features I find myself using Read More...

Properly Quoting Properties in Complex Databind Statements
Use " or ' or %22 or %27 Occasionally I find myself needing to databind information in ASP.NET pages. Those databind statements can get very complex, especially when it comes to JavaScript. VS 2003 complains when you nest quotes, so you need to interchange Read More...

FreeTextBox 3.0.6 release (IE7 support)
John Dyer has just released an updated version of the FreeTextBox control... He does his own browser capabilities checking in his control, and had an issue that would render down-level to the new IE 7 ; the IE 7 team actually contacted him a few weeks Read More...

Hosting with Godaddy - Important Server Addresses
I couldn't find these in the documentation... SMTP Server = relay-hosting.secureserver.net ( http://www.pd9soft.com/megabbs/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=6487&posts=16 has troubleshooting info for CDONTS) PROXY (for outbound web requests ie. HTTPWebRequest) Read More...

Does Microsoft Really Have a Patent On Smileys
Check this Smiley Patent out! [:O] It is the patent that Microsoft filed last year to "Protect Their Investment" in Smiley Technology... Hmm, hard to see that there isn't any greed involved in this one... I wonder if someone can prove eminent domain, Read More...

Hack Locked Workstations with a Plug-and-Play
eWeek is reporting: Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI Dynamics, which discovered the security Read More...

Telligent + CodeSmithTools Hiring
Ok, I must have been under a rock... I got an email today, asking to put some PR on all of our open positions at Tellignet (11 in total...) see the post at Rob Howard's Blog . Telligent, Program Manager - 2 Openings Telligent, Lead Developer - 2 Openings Read More...

Creating a new IIS Virtual Directory from an ASP.NET page
I think that the following will only work on XP SP2 systems or Windows 2003 SP1 or newer operating systems... Versions below that will throw a "The directory cannot report the number of properties" error... You need to gather the physical path to the Read More...

For the love of R/C - You gotta see this boat
Watch this video http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=HydroFoam Its a boat... well not really a boat... more of a plane... Its called the "Hydro-Foam" The Hydro-Foam is a remote control electric airplane powered by a brushless motor and lithium-polymer Read More...

Microsoft OneCare - Test the Microsoft Anti-Virus Beta
Microsoft has begun soliciting testers for OneCare Live, the company's subscription anti virus and anti-spyware service. "This new service will be entering its beta testing phase in a few weeks," the company said on its OneCare Web site Go to https://beta.microsoft.com Read More...

Mac Tiger 10.4.1 on my desktop?
"There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with compatible components," Jeff Harrell writes for The Shape of Days "The Intel-based Power Macintosh's that Apple is Read More...
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