I’ve been playing around with the MSN Search beta and noticed some odd results. If you do a search for Damon, there are 2,979,578 results. Even though there are several search pages at the top of the page, there are only five at the bottom. And oddly enough, when you hit the fifth page, there are apparently only 49 search results. What’s going on here, Microsoft? It appears your search engine doesn’t know how to count! ...
I recently used one of those scanner/copier/fax/do-it-all machines in the office to scan in several documents. Each time you scan in a document or set of documents, they get e-mailed to you as an attachment. To my knowledge, Outlook doesn’t have the ability to save attachments from several messages at once, so I wrote this macro. It will prompt for a foldername, then save all attachments from all currently selected items to that folder. Without further ado:{% codeblock %}{% codeblock %}Public Sub SaveAllAttachments() ...
So I’ve decided to join in the Google speculation that people love so much. I stumbled across a blog entry today about the power of Google off of Scoble’s link blog (I so need to implement one of those…I’ve already got the sql script to export my favorites) and it got me thinking. What if Google redefined the way that we interact with our filesystem? They already have to some degree with Google Desktop Search, but what if, similar to what Kunal was saying, Google designed a new File Manager? And instead of organizing your files by drive (C:) and folder (Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\My Pictures) you could organize your files by category, or by search term? You can already do this with email using GMail and it has proven to be quite successful. How hard would it be to make an intuitive user interface (what WinFS is supposed to be?) to your files? The file manager known as Explorer is one of the weaker parts of Windows. I personally prefer Servant Salamander and it’s dual-paned functionality, not to mention all the great shortcuts and other user enhancements (easy zip viewing, ability to copy filename paths by hitting Alt+Insert…). ...
I’ve been playing with my new phone all day and I can’t believe what it just did. I was setting up a new moblog and I needed to configure email on my phone so I could send in my pictures. I figured it wouldn’t work since I have a somewhat custom configuration (SSL over IMAP, but on the regular IMAP port). Amazingly, my phone identified I was using SSL and logged in fine! wow…I think it might already be worth the -$25!
So like everybody else seems to be doing, I picked up the new Audiovox SMT5600. Besides a minor service activation issue between Amazon and AT&T, the purchase went well and it’s a pretty nice little smartphone. I’ve been trying to find some good freeware for it, but there’s not much at all out there. Granted, software only costs $5-$20, but I just want to play with stuff right now! I did find some useful info on it over on Dan’s blog. Hopefully, I’ll be able to make better use of this thing than all my other previous pda’s.
The complete first season of MacGyver is going to be released on DVD! It’s not until January 25, so no Christmas present for me, but I can’t wait! I’d love for Airwolf to come back, too.
Google put up a nice cheat sheet on how to use some of their advanced search features - quite useful!
Sorry for the lack of posts lately - I detached for the past week and took an awesome vacation. More details later when I haven’t been looking at a screen for over 12 hours.
So I got a new camera recently (justification to follow). For a picture of the best feature, take a look at my S4i gallery. grin
OK, it’s time for a little rant! I am tired of people complaining about MS security, or rather the lack thereof. This is such a horribly over-generalized statement. If you take any system, application, or device and throw it on a network without tailoring it to what you need and making sure it’s got the latest software on it…you’re asking for trouble. I’ve managed NT/IIS systems in the past that were Internet accessible (not even a firewall) and never had a problem. And yes, I would have known if a problem came up! grin When my superior’s came to me yelling “nimda nimda!”, I simply shrugged my shoulders as I had already patched all of our systems and only production webservers were running IIS in the first place. ...