Scott Hanselman recently put out an interesting request for folks to post about three things they've learned about software either in college, out of college, or both. Seeing as I only took one programming class in college (C++ 101), this post will cater to his request of "I'm especially...
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Jayson Knight
on 06-30-2007
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Paint.Net 3.0 was released a couple of days ago, snag it while it's hot. It's good enough (for a non-professional designer) that I haven't found the need to install Photoshop on my rebuilt machine. In fact, I'm 100% Adobe free, meaning my machine is free of: Photoshop, Reader (replaced by Foxit ), and...
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on 01-28-2007
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I haven't formatted my main workstation in over 2 years...things have been slowing down quite a bit, plus I've been experiencing random lockups so I decided it was time to migrate from a 32 bit OS over to a 64 bit one. The first thing I learned is that stop error codes are twice as long (16 characters...
I installed Office 2007 Enterprise over the weekend (it's available via MSDN, and other places if you know where to look); I've been using 2007 since some of the early betas and as is the usual case the RTM is faster, leaner, more polished, etc. Getting it installed was a little cumbersome though...I...
Google has released a beta version of their desktop search tool . More information via Google can be found here , and some reviews are here and here . I normally would be all over some beta software like this, but my machine is already exceeding it's limits (still waiting on Kingston to ship me the half...