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Entries from April 8th, 2009

Hide the Undock Button in Windows XP in Five Steps

April 8th, 2009 10 Comments

If you have a Windows XP notebook, and love to use the Run menu item, chances are you’ve occasionally hit “E” instead of  “R” when you bring up your start menu.  The result? Windows ejects the PC from it’s dock and forces you to re-dock it before you can carry on with your work.  It’s [...]

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Flipping Open the Box on the Blackberry 8230

April 6th, 2009 2 Comments

I thought I’d start off my reviews by walking through the unboxing of the Flip so that you can all follow along with me as I begin my journey exploring this new handset. I’ve made a concerted effort to avoid display stands that have the new flip on them so that I can channel all [...]

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ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

April 4th, 2009 No Comments

A couple of weeks ago at Mix ’09 the ASP.NET MVC team announced the RTW (release-to-web) version of the MVC framework. I’ve been looking at the framework and playing with pieces of it for a few months now, but due to school & work commitments haven’t really had a chance to give it a good [...]

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