A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an app called VersionTracker Pro. At the time, I was trying to determine if my video drivers were up-to-date. I was having some issues and was hoping there was a fix. nVidia doesn't make new drivers for laptops easy to find. They want you to use the laptop manufacturer's website. But Dell doesn't always release new video drivers promptly. And VersionTracker Pro was the answer to this prayer, and to several others I've had. How? What does it do? It checks the versions...

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This is beautiful. Thanks, Dare

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Sprint seems to have abandoned the PPC-6700 as far as upgrades go. The last official upgrade release from Sprint was AKU 2.2. (AKU's are like service packs) Microsoft recommends that all Windows Mobile 5 users upgrade to at least AKU 2.3 because there are some serious performance issues with 2.2. I believe that Verizon customers have received that update, but nothing past that. The latest AKU I know of for Windows Mobile 5 is 3.5 (I've heard rumors of a 3.6, but I haven't seen one), so Sprint customers...

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From Jeff Atwood: Let me start by saying up front that I am a fan of the iPhone. Let me start by saying up front that I am not. He brings up one of my biggest criticisms of the iPhone: EDGE data connections, on the other hand, are none of those things. When my Samsung Blackjack is using an EDGE connection, it's like downloading the internet through an overclocked dialup modem. It's, in a word, unbelievably painful. It's the difference between "hey, let me whip out my phone and look this up really...

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Jeff Atwood has a good piece on why you shouldn't run as an Admin. He even links to another good piece on the subject by Aaron Margosis. Jeff makes his point by visiting a malware website with an unprotected system running an unpatched IE 6.0. The site installed the following spyware on his machine (not that he didn't click on anything or download anything) (Quote from Adam McNeil of Webroot Software): Webroot SpySweeper detected the following spies after allowing the installer to run over night....

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There's now a FireFox plugin for ClickOnce Support. This removes on of my few remaining nags with FireFox. Hat tip: Brad Abrams

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This is absolutely hilarious. To make a point with Google at the BooxExpo America, a publisher took a couple laptops from the Google booth. He returned them later with this beautiful quote: "there wasn't a sign by the computers informing him not to steal them." Engagdget has the whole story

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Recently I was having difficulties accessing files on my SharePoint 2003 site from my Office 2007 applications. After a little hunting, I found this whitepaper, which was somewhat helpful. I had to dig a little deeper to find my problem (it was an obscure bug that occurs when upgrading Office 2003 to Office 2007), but this is still useful. Overview: This white paper describes how different versions of Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of SharePoint technologies. Although...

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Today, May 25, is an interesting day in history. On this day in 1961, Project Apollo, with the goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the decade is out" was announced. This, of course, put the "Space Race" in full gear. On this day in 1977, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released. Of course, it wasn't titled that back then. "Episode IV: A New Hope" wasn't added to the title until the release of "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back", confusing us all in the...

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GoogleMaps will show you how. I particularly like step 18

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