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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...

FlashGet As Default BT Client

Just a notice. I removed Azureus and now turned FlashGet to be the default BT Client. Why? Because Azureus only connects to one of the trackers in torrent files, the download rate is always low unl...

Windows Vista Update Bug

Microsoft added an update of Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family driver to Windows Vista Update on October 3rd. But if you installed this update on Windows Vista Ultimate, I guess you would see...

GrapeVine Voice: AddMany Plus Is Ready

Tonight I finally revived AddMany Plus based on AddMany 5.2. The code needs cleaning and testing. So wish I could release it this weekend. After releasing it, I can devote myself to Chinese Edition...

Crystal Reports Purchase Mistake I Made

When I suggested my boss to buy me a copy of Crystal Reports, I thought that Professional SKU is fine. I was wrong. If you are using Visual Studio 2005, you should buy Crystal Reports XI Developer ...