- Fastest residential uplink in the world – 40 GB/sec!
- Updated programmer stereotypes – updated for "today's" world.
- Hotmap shows where people have looked at when using Virtual Earth.
- Advanced Vista Codec Package (note: I have not used these yet)
- Vista's (little known) recovery strategies.
- My Picture 3D allows you to see your pictures in a 3D environment – probably a bit useless and only for those with a high speed Internet access.
- Outlook Extra allows to change the default path so you can easily find and delete attachments send in emails among other tweaks.
- Moo – they print things from your stuff.
- PHP121 – a php based IM – perfect for internal corporate chat where you don't (or can't) access one of the IM's.
- Five Tech mistakes to avoid.
- Visual Studio Robotics tutorial (with Mindstorms NXT of course).
- Free legal icons for you to leech (they are under GPL).
- Parking Perfection game – learn how to park!
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- Warthog anyone?
- Toshiba's wireless docking station – though I have had such terrible experiences with my Tecra M3 over the last 3-odd years I cannot recommend a Toshiba to anyone!
Jul 26 2007
Interesting Find #4
Sep 25 2005
How Microsoft changed the way it builds software with Vista
WSJ has a very interesting story on how Microsoft had to restart a lot of Vista features from a clean code base and throw away a lot of work done on existing windows code base over the years; and from my point of view, the fact that it took this long is surprising, but as they say better late than never.