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MobiPocket is My Kindle

I have been tracking eReaders for several years now, and have been delighted by all of the eInk readers that are now available. The problem for me is that I do not want to spend $300 dollars for a reader, I would be willing to pay $100 but nothing for...( read more )

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-28-2007
/nosplash SQL Management Studio

I learned from a link on scottgu's blog that you can add /nosplash to a Visual Studio shortcut to improve the load time. Similarly, you can also add /nosplash to the SQL Management Studio shortcut to improve its load time. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft...( read more )

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2007
Adding Custom Buttons to Picasa

Did you know that you can add custom buttons to Picasa that cause custom actions to occur when clicked. Its true, you can, and I will show you how to do it. What will happen when a button is clicked is that any photos that are selected will be sent as an rss feed to the url you specify in your button...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2007
Gmail Suggested Feature and Minor Bug

I suggest that google add an unread messages inbox count to their main site. You will notice that when you visit google.com you have links at the top of the site for Web, Images, and Gmail. One thing that they should do when you are sign-in to google is to show you a count of how many unread messages...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2007
Site Moved from ASPnix Host

Last night I completed moving my site to a much faster and reliable one. Previously, geekcowboy.com was hosted by ASPnix. This experience was an okay one. ASPnix has an excellent price tag for what you get. Unfortunately, the old adage that what you pay is what you get is true with ASPnix. The site,...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2007
Mr. Lema & Book Inspires Blogging and New Design

After reading the many recent posts by Jose Lema I have been inspired to begin blogging again. It has been a few weeks since my last blog was created.; Aside from writing more posts, I am also working on a new blog theme for myself. Once it is complete I will make sure it is available for anyone to get...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-30-2007
Call and Response JavaScript/ASP.NET Ajax Server with Silverlight

I am not sure what to call this post. Essentially, it will describe how you can call JavaScript code from Silverlight. In addition, it will show how to call code running on the server from Silverlight using Ajax and then get a response from that code. For some reason, the code examples that have been...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2007
Vista Connecting to Shared Printer Resolution

Whenever I tried to connect my Vista powered laptop to the printer shared on my Windows 2003 Server desktop I encountered an error. The error explained that my printer monitor was not recognized. The solution to this problem was to re-enable UAC and restart the machine. For some reason the UAC allows...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-28-2007
Visual Studio 2005 Performance Tip

Occassionally Visual Studio 2005 takes a while to switch tabs from a C# file to an html file. Even the act of opening aspx pages started to become slow. It seemed very odd to me that this text file should take more than a second to open. After a quick google search I had found the solution; disabling...

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-10-2007
Intentional Programming and Dreaming In Code

Technology Review has a great article about Charles Simonyi that can be found here . While it is a long read, it is well worth it. The article itself is a good history lesson on where we are as programmers and what work we have left to do. Currently Simonyi...( read more )

Posted to Wyatt Preul (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-14-2007

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