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  • Vista on Dell Mini 9: Using junctions to move files off the SSD

    Flush with my success earlier in getting apps installed on the SD card now mounted as 'c:\SD Program Files' I installed a few things. I then hit a snag. When you install apps using an MSI, the installation files get cached by Windows Installer. Steadily, c:\windows\installer gets bigger and bigger...
    Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 10-17-2008

  • Vista on the Dell Mini 9: Installing applications on an SD card

    I’m still trying new things with the Mini 9. I now have an image file that I can restore to the Mini which has my base install after running sysprep. The problem I have is storage space – the SSD isn’t _quite_ big enough. So, Richard wandered in this morning and handed me a 4Gb SD card to experiment...
    Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 10-17-2008

  • Useful .Net Search and Replace tool

    I need to update something like 300 web.config files today, with the same change in each. I turned to my old friend Google for his recommendations and up popped a magnificent free tool from Nodesoft . Why magnificent? It's advanced mode allows you to specify start and end tags and update everything...
    Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 07-05-2008

  • Getting HTC Phonepad to work on an Orange SPV M700

    Some time ago I upgraded my Orange mobile to an M700. It's a very nice phone indeed, and the ability to be able to use TomTom 6 on it as well saves me having to varry around yet another electronic device. One thing about it did however annoy me - there was no equivalent of the T9 text input that I had...
    Posted to BM Bloggers (Weblog) by Andy Dawson on 08-07-2007

  • Web development helpers: Redux

    After posting yesterday about useful tools for development I stumbled across another little gem of a utility. IE7Pro is much more of a usability-enhancing tool but it has a wonderfully handy tool nestling within - Save Current Tab As Image. If you need to do grabs of pages for documentation or presentations...
    Posted to BM Bloggers (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-26-2007

  • Web development helpers: Redux

    After posting yesterday about useful tools for development I stumbled across another little gem of a utility. IE7Pro is much more of a usability-enhancing tool but it has a wonderfully handy tool nestling within - Save Current Tab As Image. If you need to do grabs of pages for documentation or presentations...
    Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 07-26-2007
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