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Entries from December 2005

ActiveWords for free!

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Miscellaneous software

A podcast I listen to regularly is OnTheRun with Tablet PCs, by James Kendrick and Marc Orchant.
I’ve not yet heard the latest edition, number 8, but apparently you can get yourself a free copy of Buzz Bruggeman’s ActiveWords by doing so.
ActiveWords is not a tablet-specific program, though there is a free add-on to make it [...]

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Wasn’t .NET supposed to end DLL Hell?

December 19th, 2005 · No Comments · .NET

Mindjet, makers of the wonderful MindManager mapping tool, are reporting that upgrading to .NET Framework 2.0 breaks one of their primary products. Users are recommended to not install .NET Framework 2.0.
This is not an isolated incident. In October, Microsoft released a fix to allow Tablet PC software to continue working with .NET 2.0.
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Beautiful Software

December 1st, 2005 · 1 Comment · .NET, Miscellaneous software

Over time, I’ve found that really good software - I don’t mean software that just does the job, but that does it simply and elegantly and looks gorgeous - is very often written using Borland Delphi.
Nevertheless, I was pretty amazed to find today that the Skype client for Windows is a Delphi application. I [...]

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