Jeffrey Vanneste

I don't know why I never save this program on my computer but I find that it's priceless when working on Pocket PC applications. Especially the applications that you can't run in the emulator (aka gapidraw ones). So in case you don't know what this application does it lets you connection to your Pocket PC and control it from within a window on your computer. At least you won't have to pick up the stylus all the time to click on the screen. Also, it's another way to take screenshots of your application running. Anyways here is the link:
Remote Display Control

Microsoft .NET 1.1 SP1 is out. Here is a list of all the changes/fixes that it contains.

Download details: .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1

Hate having programs run on your computer without knowing what they are? Have an annoying program that keeps running on you (qttask from quick time for example). I've used autoruns from sysinternals before but now there is a new version with a bunch of improvements. Found out about this from Jonathan Hardwick

I have some what of a disease about formatting my computer. I pretty much refuse to ever uninstall any application. What I do instead is quite often (once a month or so) is format my machine. Now if I wasn't so cheap I would get Norton ghost but my big complaint about using ghost is that from what I understand the image will only work on the same hardware that it was created on. Enter the Unattended Windows XP Install. I'm so glad that I found this guide. I didn't even know that you could do stuff like this.
Since I only have DVD drives in all my computers I figured it would be awesome to make a unattended XP install with all patches installed, office, and all the applications that I use all the time. Configure the start menu, registry hacks and so much more. Now it takes me under 2 hours format and get back up to a state to continue working on the computer.
As a side note, I created an unattended windows xp install for work and what a great time saver. We have to install XP on machines quite often and previously it was taking half days or more to format a machine and get it back in a state ready to install our software. Now I just throw in the XP boot CD and come back in 30 minutes and it's all ready to go.

I'm a fan of having as few as possible programs running in my system tray (or notification area as some people call it). Right now the only one I want to be running is the bloglines notifier. I figure I should be able to be notified of anything such as website updates and new emails. Letting me check my gmail via RSS should work swell if I could only download it. Apparently the server the zip is hosted on is bogged down at the moment because it's not working. Anyways, if you want to try it out you should be able to download it from here

Update: He linked to a file that didn't exist. Here is the proper link for 0.3 of Gmail2RSS

Found this link today to download all the VS2005 express beta applications.

Well I finally got around to upgrading this blog from 2.66 to 3.0 of Movable Type. Hopefully this will eliminate all the comment spam that I was getting. Couple of changes coming up to the blog soon and I'm going to attempt at being more active in posting more regularly here. Anyways, back to getting this blog all the way upgraded.