Category Archives: Windows

Sexy NUnit Runner

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Kon

ReSharper UnitRun is a plugin for VS.NET and its the best looking NUnit (or JUnit tool) I’ve seen to date.  

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Why is that search process eating my CPU?

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Kon

This post advised that with Adobe Reader 8, a new Adobe provider iFilter came to be. That’s great, but I noticed that the windows desktop search was now using all my CPU.  Using process monitor, I realised the search was indexing … Continue reading →

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VMware Tools

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Kon

You can get VMWare tools from the linux tarball for VMWare workstation.  Look for a windows.iso, mount it somewhere, and share it across the network so your virtualised PC can run it. Faster graphics await (as well as on the … Continue reading →

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VMjunkie

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Kon

Ok, so I think in a previous post I tolled the virtues of having a VM in my java ee subject to run unix. I’m falling in love with the increased speed that a virtualised environment provides which I believe … Continue reading →

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PDF Preview Handler for Outlook 2007

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Kon

Now you can get a previewer for shiny new 07 by going here.

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How to subscribe and export to a Google Calendar from Outlook 2007

Posted on April 15, 2007 by neversleepz

This handy little page on the MS website, has steps to subscribe to a google calendar from within Outlook. Transfer calendars between Outlook and Google Calendar – Outlook – Microsoft Office Online I’m happy with this out of the box … Continue reading →

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How to subscribe and e

Posted on April 15, 2007 by neversleepz

Transfer calendars between Outlook and Google Calendar – Outlook – Microsoft Office Online

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IE7 Open Last Closed Tab

Posted on April 6, 2007 by neversleepz

Whilst looking for a ‘session saver’ for IE 7 tabs, I came across another plugin to do a part of that functionality. IE7 Open Last Closed Tab v3.2.0.0  

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It’s not cheating if you blog using OneNote 07

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Kon

Wow. What a stupidly technological week. If doing I.T. was like eating fruit, I’d have a severe case of the runs.   Database Modelling Ok, so the first interesting item this week was our Domain Model. A domain model, for … Continue reading →

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Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API … (or why I can’t hibernate my laptop with 2Gb of Ram)

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Kon

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095 I love stuff.  I love stuff that you can expand on.  Computers are expandable. I don’t love when you get side effects from that expansion (cmon, who does?) So I didn’t like when my laptop’s 2Gb upgrade resulted in … Continue reading →

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