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Archive for the ‘tools’ Category
Free trial of Maileable
By Lee on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | No Comments
For years now, I’ve been managing my email, fighting spam, and spotting phishing emails through the use of an email routing system that I developed. The problem with today’s email system is that anyone can put email into your inbox without anything more than your email address. Yes, you can put things like filters, whitelists, and [...]
Read More...Symlinks for Windows
By Lee on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments
One of the handiest things I learned at No Fluff Just Stuff this weekend was from Neal Ford, who showed a way to set up soft links (symbolic links, symlinks, it’s all the same idea) in Windows. This allows you to install different versions of JDKs, Tomcat, Groovy, Grails, JRuby, whatever, and use the latest [...]
Read More...Sharpcast seamlessly syncs photos
By Lee on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 | No Comments
I’ve long thought that digital asset management for the masses is going to be one of the big challenges in coming years. Now that our personal photos, home movies, personal correspondence, and most of our productivity are stored on hard drives, the effort and expertise required to management, maintain, and preserve these important keepsakes are [...]
Read More...GMail hover “From:” address broken?
By Lee on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | No Comments
What’s happened to GMail? I used to be able to hover over the sender’s text name and see a pop-up hint showing the actual email address. That stopped working a week or two ago. I miss it!
Read More...CodeGear (Borland) building a Ruby IDE
By Lee on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 | No Comments
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Read More...Delphi for PHP
By Lee on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 | No Comments
I remember when Delphi 1.0 came out. It was what I had been looking for for several years. At last, I could build Windows apps without all the pain. And now, there’s Delphi for PHP. It’s what I’ve been looking for for several years. At last, I can build web apps without all the pain. [...]
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