Too much effort reading my ramblings ? Want to listen instead ? Now you can !! Courtesy of the excellent odiogo, the excellent text to speech service. This is a free service that bloggers can use, it takes your RSS feed, splits it out to each separate post and then creates a MP3 for the [...]
Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
drop.io
June 27th, 2008
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I was recording some audio earlier today and the quality from my cheap, generic headset/microphone was woeful., so I searched around for a service that I could make a telephone call into and it would record the spoken audio and give me a WAV or MP3file. I came across http://drop.io – this is a neat [...]
Homebrew Home Server
February 13th, 2008
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So a while back (31st Dec 2007), my beta license for Windows Home Server (WHS) expired and I hacked together an alternative solution. I have been updating my (almost) free/opensource alternative (it still needs a Windows OS) over the past couple of days and now have a pretty viable solution. I have a machine (the [...]
PowerShell Plus
December 17th, 2007
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One of my colleagues switched me on to PowerShell Plus and I’m loving it. Code editor, snippets, values of variables, logging tools and much more, including a really neat feature called ‘MiniMode’ (see the toolbar icon at the extreme right in the image. This ‘MiniMode’ closes all toolbars/toolwindows except the main console but also makes [...]
Automating Installs
August 27th, 2007
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I was spending far too much time installing OS’s – virtual machines, lab machines etc. In order to automate / streamline this I wanted to look at not just the Windows tools as well as other options. Remote Installation Service (RIS) and unattended.txt files go so far, but during my investigations I came across ‘Unattended‘. [...]
C# class to update DynDNS
June 19th, 2007
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I’m in Western Mass (Westboro, MA) again this week and while that normally means 16 hour days (there is nothing much else to do but sit around a hotel room so why not…), this week I decided to work on a personal project for a bit. Part of it was some code to check a machines public [...]
A good week
February 1st, 2007
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This week (so far) has been good – in terms of completing things, productivity and new products. First off, Microsoft finally released PowerShell for Vista. No more having to ‘play’ on my old lab machine to get to grips with this stuff. There seem to be a number of people reporting failed installs(due to EFS [...]
Camtasia and Powershell on Vista
January 18th, 2007
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I’ve been on Vista (on my work laptop) for a couple of months now and finding it really difficult to get some stuff done. I’m (directly) working on some training modules for our Archive One products and managing / assisting a couple of people who are working on Sales Video Demos of these products. The Sales [...]
Why blogging from Word 2007 to Dasblog does not work.
December 13th, 2006
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I was really excited by the Blogging feature Word 2007 - It looked really good, easy to use and some of the formats you can do to a picture are pretty cool. As soon as I found it I tried to set it up with this dasBlog account – Word 2007 is supposed to support the metaWebLog [...]
Sandcastle Documentation Generation
November 22nd, 2006
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At work I have been the champion of an Integration Framework for our Archive One product. This is a set of API’s, events and open file formats embedded into the Archive One products that allow customization ‘around the edge’. The kind of thing that can be done with the Integration Framework is running searches, interworking [...]
