November 4, 2009
September 1, 2009
Sent Items
This is a boon for people who regular use a shared mailbox… Keeping track of the sent items in the “right place”, ie the sent items folder of the shared mailbox (rather than your own).
Check out the write up on this blog :
Essentially with a hotfix (from KB 972148) you can add the following registry key to get the sent items kept in the shared mailbox :
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences]
“DelegateSentItemsStyle”=dword:00000001
August 26, 2009
Geographs
I can’t remember now how I came across the Geograph web site, but the idea of it is something that I really like – to photograph every “square” in the UK, and from the in the square to outside the square. It’s great, and there is a ton of stuff in my local area that has already been photographed, but it doesn’t hurt to add more (called supplementals).
The main site is : http://www.geograph.org.uk
You can see my profile as http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/27955
August 25, 2009
CPU Gadget
I’ve been looking at CPU gadgets off and on for a little while, but not found one that I truly like. Well I’m going to give this one a go :-
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=587ef54f-e121-418b-b258-e583e105a0d6&bt=1&pl=1
It looks pretty neat to me 
July 7, 2009
Reading web.config setting
The other day I had cause to figure out how to read a value from a web.config file, and display it on the screen.
After searching for a bit, and using the help provided in this article (http://codersource.net/asp_net_web_configuration_file.html), I came up with the following :
In Windows Explorer, go to c:\inetpub\wwwroot
Create a folder there called TestFldr
Open IIS Manager, and right click on the Default Web Site, and create a new virtual directory as follows :
Alias : TestFldr
Browse to the path that you created before
Permissions: Read + Run Scripts
Create a simple web.config file in the EVTest folder :
<configuration> <appSettings> <add key="MyTestSetting" value="1234"/> </appSettings> </configuration>
Create a file in that folder called test.aspx, and put in it :
<script runat="server">
sub Page_load
dim aconfig as system.configuration.configurationsettings
dim extver as string = aconfig.appsettings("MyTestSetting")
div1.innerhtml = "<b>" & extver & "</b>"
end sub
</script>
<html>
<body>
<form runat="server">
MyTestSetting is: <div id="div1" runat="server"></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Now open Internet Explorer, and go to http://servername/TestFldr/Test.aspx
MSIEXEC logging
I always wondered how to get the logging enabled when you run an MSI and something goes wrong. I had thought it was amazingly complex to turn on, but in fact it’s not ! You can do it liks this :
That logs everything “verbosely” to the filename specified.
April 29, 2009
EV Connection Status
In the EV Outlook Client trace you very often see the Connection Status listed as a number.. well, what does the number mean ?
Gmail Add-On
I know there are about 10,000,000 different ones, but today I saw this :
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46938
It’s pretty damn good if you ask me! Makes the real estate down the left hand side of gmail much more useful. Try it yourself, if you use Firefox with Greasemonkey
February 10, 2009
Ultramon Alternative?
I’ve been on the look out for something to use for multiple monitor OTHER THAN Ultramon. Whilst I like it, I kind of wanted to do something that wasn’t the de facto standard, and something that was preferably free.
After a bit of googling, I found :-
http://www.softsia.com/DynaDeskXP-download-npc5.htm
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/displayfusion.html
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm
I tried Display Fusion, but it didn’t seem to do the multiple task bar thing (one on each monitor) .. that’s something that I really wanted. I then tried, and I am currently using the product from MediaChance, called Oscar’s Multi-Monitor TaskBar.
It’s good .. so far.
