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Invitation to beta testing Windows Vista

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

How would you like to be invited into the Windows Vista Beta testing program?
Steve Carbone from Microsoft has the power to invite you. Join the never ending list and leave a comment with your name and email address on his blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/scarbones_blog/archive/2006/03/08/546358.aspx.

Market share for operating systems

Monday, March 20th, 2006

The report below is created by NetReports, and it is showing the operating system market share for February 2006.
Linux has a market share of only 0.31%, and hasn’t seen any increase for a long time. The Mac OS has seen a small increase of around 1% since last year, mostly due to the new release […]

Made in Express contest: $10,000

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

I learned about this contest on David’s blog.
What you have to do is think about a cool application that you could develop in Visual Express. After filtering the ideas, if you are a finalist you can start building the application. Then the winners are being selected, and hopefully you’ll be one of them. What’s at […]

Deleting saved password from Internet Explorer

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

So you’ve been using the automatically remember password feature of Internet Explorer so you don’t have to type your password again and again, every time you log in. That’s a very handy feature, and it doesn’t involve security issues unless you are using it on a public computer.
In certain situations, you’ll want to remove the […]

How to set a file without a filename

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

As you probably know, on Windows XP trying to rename a file to nothing, or event to a blank space, is not possible, for obvious reasons. But if for some strange, obscure reason you would like to rename this file to a blank space, do the following:
Right click, select “Rename” as you would normally do, […]