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ugh! like apple on ios now microsoft forbids gpl or simmilar on phone7 http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Keine-Open-Source-fuer-Windows-Phone-1191287.html dinosaurs http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/02/dinosaurs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GeekAndPoke+%28Geek+And+Poke%29

Red Gate will stop publishing the free version of .NET Reflector ( http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/announcement ), but there is a free alternative: http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ilspy.ashx

Features: linear algebra complex numbers handwriteing recognition (ink) shows "solution steps" seems to miss differntial and integraloperator btw. feature http://www. mi crosoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9caca722-5235-401c-8d3f-9e242b794c3a

I searched for a solution to take a blog offline so I can archive them at the end of its life. The solution is http://www.blogbooker.com . To use it with blogger.com I had to export it through the onboard backup function to a xml. Only the xml isn't much help if you want to read it offline. Here blogbooker.com comes in the game. I had to upload this xml and tell it the public adress of the blog. Then I got a plain pdf with all pictures and comments. Videos can not be exportet into pdf of course.

i got some mp3 from some iTunes user who copied a cd for me. after getting back the mp3s to my workstation i wonderd why windows mediaplayer wont show the tags... vlc does. after viewing the tag with http://www.mp3tag.de/ I saw a suspicious tag by clicking "extended tags". There was a tag with the name "comment itunnorm" and some binary looking value. After deleting the tag "comment itunnorm" windows mediaplayer started reading the residual informations. Hint: you can mark multiple files in mp3tag and delete the tag in every file in one step. it just .... breaks standards ... or windows mediaplayer just can not read id3v2.4 tags... after removing the tag the vesion which was shown by the software mp3tag changed from 2.4 to 2.3..... dont know. does anybody? see id3.org/idv2.4.0-structure for details

If you have two or more workstations with thunderbird you will want to sync your messages, addressbook and calender. imap does the job for emails. Webdav, Dropbox or Livesync does it for your calenderfiles and could possibly do it for your adressbook too, but there is an native solution by an addon: Addressbooks Synchronizer can sync your adressbook through a bunch of ways. i prefere imap, so there is no dependency on an other service than your mailserver and the transmission is encrypted by the transportlayer. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/2533/

wrote quick hack for reading and writing through rs232 / serialport http://seeland.biz/blog/WindowsFormsApplicationSerialPort.7z