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It amazes me that companies still bring out reams of activation and serial number based systems. Microsoft released an update to Windows 7 with the usual slew of activation pop ups, annoyance messages etc. The day after several “Remove Windows Activation Technology” cracks appeared on torrents worldwide.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5396034/Windows_7_crack_RemoveWAT_2.2.5.Hazar_carter67
This isn’t the first time this has happened either, Windows Vista and XP had similar battles against the crackers. They didn’t fair any better then either, you would think by now they would give up and spend there time on more useful pursuits? perhaps bowls? I’m sure there is a bowls club somewhere near Redmond HQ.
If you ever needed more proof that Steve Jobs is ‘insane’ then this article should convince you. A dangerous game to be playing if you ask me, with flash support being built in to other mobile devices and its prevelant use on websites. The iPhone sexy touch interface only buys you so much support, with flash being available on the HTC Hero if Apple isn’t careful they are going to lose the market share they worked so hard to build.
“a third party layer of software [to] come between the platform and the developer.”
“Flash was created during the PC era –- for PCs and mice,”
“but the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards –- all areas where Flash falls short.”
http://mashable.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-flash-is-no-longer-necessary/
Write regular CSS with your .NET apps, then add a few variables, mixins and nested rules.
.less (pronounced dot-less) is a .NET port of the funky ruby LESS libary
Lovingly ported by Christopher Owen, Erik van Brakel, Daniel Hoelbling and James Foster
As part of work I had to upload a ton of You Tube videos, couple of hours work but as a side effect I spotted this crazy video. Apparently he’s only four years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=aJG9Tol1a0U&feature=player_embedded Enjoy!
Voting for ‘Lounge On The Farm 2010′ has begun, at the moment the Silver Foxes are at number one.
Just click on the picture above, click on play, then leave the mouse alone , sit back and enjoy a piece of creative brilliance. I wonder who had ‘time’ to do this.
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Probably well known by pretty much everyone except me but you can use http://www.whatthefont.com for idenitfying fonts. It also has a nice IPhone app which does the same job no matter where you are.
How to add pdf search to your sql server instance in about 40 steps ;^) It’s probably worth mentioning that installing the ifitler also adds the ability to search pdf files to the full text index for windows. So disk searching for content in pdf files should be possible as well but haven’t looked into this.
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