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ClearContext Update

IMS 4.0 was released a few days ago. I do not try this version because its 3.1.1 Personal meets my basic needs and helps a lot. I cannot find any information about 4.0 Personal so I guess that ther...

GrapeVine Voice: Installer Hack

Install CBC for all users is not easy. I decide to hack bds.exe so as to make it easy. If every time bds.exe is launched, CBC registry key is checked, I can ensure CBC installed for all users (in f...

GrapeVine Voice: 9 Mile

Yes, 8 Mile-stone has been out there a couple of weeks. And it has the top download count now (579) while M5 is the second. Now, M9 is coming. Following Paint.NET’s rule of “release soon, release ...

Brazil Trip Delay & Harry Potter 7

My trip to Sao Paulo were delayed because Cisco do Brasil met some troubles. You may already read about the news on Slashdot.org. Thus, I would probably arrive in the end of November. Now I am sur...

Windows Live: Out of Beta

Today Windows Live Team in MSFT releases a bunch of Live products, so the beta stage has passed. Nice to see the changes. Yes, I am now using Writer 2008 to author this post. It looks nicer becaus...

InstallAware MSIcode Limitation

You cannot write a loop in MSIcode, which sometimes makes things a bit bitter. For example, my uninstaller should wait to start uninstallation until the application exits. Generally speaking, it re...

The Same Old Brand New Danny

Danny Thorpe left Microsoft (Windows Live Team) last month and joined CoolIris, the company who gives birth to PicLens. He is still monitoring Borland/CodeGear newsgroup, so this week I finally k...

PicLens With Images Search

Have to say PicLens is cool! It is especially great helper when you do images search of Google. I can navigate along the pictures like they are in an album. No need to click Next button because Pi...