October 2004 - Posts

Congrats To Carl Franklin for NY Times Interview
28 October 04 03:45 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

If you can't tell by my last post I'm totally into listening to PodCasts. Carl Franklin was interviewew by New York Times about the subject. Carl has gone big time! Congrats http://weblogs.asp.net/cfranklin/archive/2004/10/27/248868.aspx Read More...

Podcasting Tutorial – Get On Board With The Next Big Thing
21 October 04 10:00 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

I've moved my pod casting tutorial over to my new iPod blog at: http://www.ipodsavant.com/2004/11/pod_casting_tut.html . Check it out there. Read More...

Doing Office & .NET without Office - Aspose.NET
19 October 04 03:29 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

I just tripped across another cool product. I haven't used it and can't vouch for it, but figured I'd pass the info along. Aspose (I have no idea how to pronounce it). Their website claims to have commercial .NET components for reading and writing to Read More...

Knock Out Outlook and Word
18 October 04 12:51 PM | chris | 1 Comments   

For the past 6 months I have done extensive development in both Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Word . One of the most irritating things about both of these programs is they don't shut down consistently. The problem seems to be even worse when I am using Read More...

Synchronization and Backup -- I Need Your Advice
17 October 04 04:50 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

I'm looking for advice for two types of products. The first product would be a PC-to-PC Synchronization technology. Basically, I have a few directories that I'd like to do a 1-way publishing of from my desktop to laptop. Any suggestions on a realiable Read More...

Developing COM Add-ins Just Got Easier
16 October 04 04:31 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Just tripped across an interesting product. I haven't tried it yet, but so far I am impressed with what I see. The company is Add-in Express and they make a developer tool to help simplify building COM Add-ins, Smart Tags and Real-time data components Read More...

Rock Thought of the Day - William Shatner Rocks
06 October 04 06:04 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

Occasionally I get into the "I need some new music for my IPOD" mood and I start browsing iTunes for the next great album or two to add to my collection. According to iTunes I have 260 albums. This new music mood comes upon me roughly about every three Read More...

New York Times Agrees with My Assessment of ActiveWords
04 October 04 05:52 PM | chris | 0 Comments   

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (yes I just watched my new Star Wars DVD Set of Episodes 4 -6) I re commended to the readers of my blog they try out a slick tool called ActiveWords. Many have and have enjoyed it. If you have lingered and not Read More...

Tweaking Newsgator
03 October 04 10:18 AM | chris | 0 Comments   

As some of you may know, I am a loyal fan of Newsgator , the superb RSS aggregator Outlook Add-in. A while back I suggested for performance and storage size reasons that you should create an external Outlook storage file (PST) and point Outlook to that Read More...