Tim Hibbard

Windows is trying to determine why Google Earth is not responding

Playing with the vista beta...

posted @ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:56 PM | Feedback (14) | Filed Under [ Mapping ]

Vista on MSDN

Vista Beta1 is available for download at the MSDN subscription website

posted @ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:35 AM | Feedback (2) |

KC Chiefs news feed

The Kansas City Chiefs website has an RSS feed.

Too bad it's not full text...

posted @ Monday, July 25, 2005 9:12 PM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ Sports ]

Must have apps

I need to rebuild one of my machines soon, so I have compiled a list of applications that I can not forget to install:

Snippet Compiler
NUnit
NDoc
DesktopSidebar
RSS Bandit
CDex
Source Gear Vault
WWMX
Stimulsoft .NET Controls
Active Ports
DVD Shrink
Google Earth
Microsoft Anti-Spyware
Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Red Gate SQL Tools
MapPoint
VirtualPC
Line Counter
ISObuster
Outlook Knockout
NetMeter
w:Bloggar
Evan Is A Bad Computer User
QuickTime Killer
NetPing

posted @ Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:43 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Controls Mapping ]

Spatially Aware

Clint Batman and Spatially Aware do some cool stuff with .NET mapping controls for a reasonable price. EnGraph spends way too much on maps from MapInfo. We want to set up a meeting sometime next month and figure out exactly what we need to do to convert our applications to use their maps. They are a local company from Lawrence too.

posted @ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:16 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ EnGraph .NET GPS ]

Mentor Ranger

I played with a Ranger unit yesterday from Mentor Engineering. It is a Windows CE device with a large screen and 5 hot keys on the side. They have some with 802.11 and bluetooth, but this one didn't. To connect to a network, we had to insert an ethernet card into the compact flash slot. Overall it seems like a solid device. I didn't see a way to program the hotkeys though, hopefully that's in the SDK. EnGraph is delivering the Ranger next month as an in-vehicle display for one of our GPS solutions.

posted @ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:05 AM | Feedback (0) |

AVL with Cloudberry

I've been playing with Air-Trak's automatic vehicle locator, Cloudberry with Nextel. My buddy Matt travels during the day, so he took the Nextel phone with him and is collecting data for us. The positions have been fast and accurate. Air-Trak allows for web service access of the data, which was a big selling point for EnGraph since we have our own GPS applications and just want the data. Their application is good, with neat features, we just don't need it.

posted @ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:55 AM | Feedback (1) | Filed Under [ EnGraph GPS ]

Hey Tariq

I'm coming after you!! 100 posts down, 410 to go :)

posted @ Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:44 AM | Feedback (0) |

Why every company should blog

In the 12 months before I started blogging, our website received 11,000 hits. In the 12 months after I started blogging, we had 122,000 hits.

Now we have Kyle blogging (rss) and we are giving away free applications and .NET controls. I think EnGraph has the best Paratransit software in the market, and hopefully people will keep going to our website and finding out about it!

posted @ Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:19 PM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ EnGraph ]

Allowing blocked attachments in Outlook

To allow "blocked attachments" in Outlook

1) Start -> Run -> regedit
2) In the registry, browse to Current User\Software\Microsoft\Office\Your Version Number\Outlook\Security
3) Create a new key string value called Level1Remove
4) Set the Value Data to a semicolon separated list of extensions that you wish to allow as attachments (.mdb;.xls;.url)
5) Restart Outlook

posted @ Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:37 PM | Feedback (2) | Filed Under [ MS Office ]

MSDN Images

Scoble links to Sahil Malik wanting VirtualPC images for beta downloads from MSDN. This is a great idea, and as much as Microsoft is pushing VPC, you would think they would go for it.

posted @ Saturday, July 02, 2005 7:00 PM | Feedback (0) |