First ad for Microsoft using Jerry Seinfeld

Cfont Pro makes a Smashing Magazine blog post

Cfont Pro made smashing magazine's 25 Font Management Tools Reviewed blog post. Its near the bottom of the blog post.

If you use Cfont Pro cast a vote at the bottom of the smashing magazine post.

Answers to common Google Chrome objection

• This browser is going to have AdSense hard-coded into a browser frame that I can’t delete, right?
• Hmm. Well, I bet you hard-code Google as the default search engine, don’t you? I’ll bet you can’t even select other search engines!
• Okay, but this browser is tracking everywhere I go and sending that information to
• Another browser? Geez, I’m a webmaster/search engine optimizer/front-end
• Clearly launching a web browser means that Google is losing its focus on core search quality, right?
• Does this mean that you don’t love/support Firefox or the Mozilla Foundation?
• Speaking of Macs and Linux, why no Mac/Linux support yet?
• This is going to be some buggy, crashing piece of beta download, isn’t it?
• Google has some selfish motivation for doing this, right? I’m sure that there’s some angle here--there’s gotta be?
• Will Google stop actively working on Google Chrome and let it stagnate after a few months?
• Dude, this anonymous commenter said that Google claims that they own everything you touch when you run Chrome! Should I be worried?

Read the answers at:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

CurdBee, weird name but a useful website

CurdBee is a safe and secure web-based billing application from Vesess. Use it to send clients invoices and then collect payments via PayPal or Google Checkout, billing them easily in the currency you choose. It’s so simple, you won’t believe it till you see it.

Link:
http://curdbee.com/

First screenshots of Google Chrome

Link:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html

The Great Software List for Linux

If this will be anything like his original The Great Software List, which was geared towards Windows software, then The Great Software List for Linux will be an amazing resource of invaluable software. Even though I'm not much into Linux I can still appreciate the level of software he is recommending.

Check this resource out, and be sure to bookmark it.

When is The Great Software List for Online Applications coming?

Link:
http://www.anova.org/software/index.html

Google Chrome?

Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow).

Link:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/...

Chrome Link:
http://www.google.com/chrome

Happy Labor Day

Go out and enjoy the day instead of working...

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Programmers all have their pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, we've come to accept that there are certain nuisances that come with our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow (you must be a closed beta tester to access the link) along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

These are pretty spot on.

Link:
http://www.kevinwilliampang.com...

codebase, online source control

codebase brings together source control, issue/ticket management & deployment tracking. If you find yourself managing multiple software projects and need a central place to organise your code.

Link:
http://codebasehq.com/

One of the smallest linux computers

it’s one of the smallest PCs in the world, with each side measuring around 2 inches square. I wrote that it looked cool, ran on a 300MHz processor and that it probably wouldn’t be sold outside of Japan, if at all.

Link:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/...

At FlashDen you can buy and sell files to use in your Adobe Flash projects. You’ll find everything from preloaders to site templates, all selling for as little as $1

Link:
http://flashden.net/

Defrag a single file with Contig

Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible.

Another great utility from SysInternals

Link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx

Model helps computers sort data more like humans

Humans have a natural tendency to find order in sets of information, a skill that has proven difficult to replicate in computers. Faced with a large set of data, computers don't know where to begin -- unless they're programmed to look for a specific structure, such as a hierarchy, linear order, or a set of clusters.

Now, in an advance that may impact the field of artificial intelligence, a new model developed at MIT can help computers recognize patterns the same way that humans do.

Link:
http://www.physorg.com/news138893926.html

Special styling for NoFollow links

This is a great way to look at a website and see what links are tagged as NoFollow, meaning the link will not count as a vote in Google. This is a must on your website if you don't want to be penalized for linking to know spammer sites or what Google calls a 'Bad neighborhood'. With this little Firefox hack you can quickly see what links have been tagged - for reviewing your website or any other.

Link:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seeing-nofollow-links/

Find out if someone is stealing your images

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified.

This is a very cool, specialized search engine that can really help find out if someone is stealing your images. Its kinda of like copyscape but for images. TinEye is what I used to find out that a blogger had stolen one of my blog posts and had hot-linked the images from my server.

Check it out, it's worth the time...

Link:
http://ideeinc.com/products/tineye/

Firefox plugin (this is what I run):
http://tineye.com/plugin

Hotlink to the images

See what happens to your blog when you hotlink to someone else's images:

Stealing copy and images from Veign

Another website steals my blog copy and images. What's funny is they say the blog post is protected by CopyScape. What a joke since it was directly lifted (stolen) from my work.

Good Job on the original content.

My Original Post:
...relocate-menu-bar-in-ie7-to-top-of.html

5 Microsoft Power Toys you should know about

SyncToy
With new sources of files coming from every direction (such as digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops), SyncToy can help you copy, move, and synchronize different directories

Tweak UI
This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more.

Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.

Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

Alt-Tab Replacement
With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open.


Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/...

15 fun things you can do with your spreadsheet in less than 5 seconds

Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do.

Link:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/01/...

Top 10 CSS Table Designs

Tables have got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, the amount of detail we have to take care of, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although it’s just a simple one. This is where this article comes in handy. It will show you ten most easily implemented CSS table designs so you can style your tables in a zap!

Link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/...

Microsoft Enviroment video datacenter server numbers and power consumption?

"15 datacenters hosting 148,357 servers sitting on 17,406 racks consuming 72,500KW of utility power as of the end of January 2008 (as indicated by the bar chart). If you’re a bit of a imperial measurement person, that’s 97,000 horsepower."

Link:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/...

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community.

As you would assume its a lot of projects written using MS technologies like ASP.NET.

Link:

Are you Smart or Stoopid?

Take the test and see. You only have 8 seconds per question so its fast. Don't cheat and post the score you got the first time through

I scored a 27

Link:
http://www.flashbynight.com/test/

Windows Updates released to DVD ISO image

I didn't know that Microsoft was releasing the monthly security updates to a DVD ISO image as well as through the Windows Update tool. I guess for someone in an enterprise environment a DVD of the updates may be a desirable thing.

August 2008 DVD ISO:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...