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If you keep getting nagged for log ons when using sharepoint this will solve the problem almost 100% of the time. The trick is to use the Windows managed Stored username and password feature. To access this,

1. Simply go into Control Panel
2. Click User Accounts
3. Go into Managed Passwords and click Add
4. Type the URL of the server (without HTTP), for example portal.us.com
5. Enter your credentials and click Ok

Now anytime Windows attempts to access ANYTHING on this server it will use the use those credentials and your prompting issue should go away.

The downside to this is if you change your password, you need to remember to come change it here.

There are different ways in which you might want to set up a complete development environment for Ruby on Rails on a Windows machine. The howto covers how to setup Rails on a Windows machine using Ruby, RubyGems, Rails, Mongrel, MySQL, NetBeans and Subversion as part of the development stack.

Today’s launch of the 3G iPhone has some welcome changes to the phone itself, but also highlighted the details behind the iPhone development platform. It’s nice to know that when the iPhone comes out on July 11 a horde of programmers have been working around the clock to port and build applications for it. Below […]

I gave a review of Digsby on Make Use Of a couple of weeks ago and concluded that although you can expect it to still be a little rough around the edges; it just may be the most promising multi-messaging client we have seen.
In your comments a few were from people who had tried Digsby […]

Lately I have noticed some peoples blogs had been redirecting to some spammy landing page when you goto them from Google. I notified them about it and they thought I was nuts… cause they could not reproduce it.
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When you’re away from your Mac or Windows desktop and you want some nice eye candy or you want to display some information that you would like to glance at every once in a while then the best way to do this is with a screensaver.

Status Screen Saver is a screensaver that allows you to […]

Everyone is streaming in trying to find the optimal seat. After four hours of waiting in line, I don’t care where I sit just as long as I am sitting. There are large plasmas all over the place which is good – from my vantage point, Jobs is going to be a dot. Huge applause – Al Gore is here in the audience. From my seat:

More cheesy pre-show music …

10:01 AM PST

Still waiting, people still streaming in. Whomever was in charge of the herd\logistics should be shot. Microsoft owns them in this regard – the all important conference logistics and organization!

10:05 AM PST

Still waiting – oh no, here we go – lights are down!! Applause. NDA on screen, all rights reserved, etc. Showtime!

Steve comes on stage to rabid and thunderous applause.

Record 5200 attendees. Sold out. Biggest venue we can find.

We have planned a lot of stuff to show you today.

Three parts to Apple: Mac, Music + iTunes, iPhone

Bringing up head of iPhone departments and product marketing

After lunch we get a peak at Snow Leopard!

iPhone

25K applied to paid developer program
iPhone 2.0

Enterprise Support

SDK

New User Features

Enterprise Support

Push email

OTA config

Certs

Remote wipe

Cisco VPN

Beta program – 35% of Fortune 500 participated

Showing video of customers like Disney that were in the beta

Customer testimonials from the beta program. Disney, The Army, Security companies, etc.

  Now the SDK

Opening uo the same API and tools they use internally to developers

Coca Touch – Media – Core Services – Core OS

Line for line same source code as Mac OS X

New feature called core location allows for location based services

Core Audio – open GL es and surround sound

Coca touch – OOF and UI optimized for full screen touch interface, makes building it a breeze

X Code will be used to write edit and debug

Interface builder lets you construct the user interface and then insert in code

iPhone emulator to debug and test

Instruments allows you to test, benchmark and appropriately size your apps.

SDK Demo with Interface builder

Interface builder interacts with X Code and knows about each other. Then compile in X Code and complete. Test in the simulator. Plug an iPhone in to the computer and you can then test on that iPhone. Signs it automatically, loads it on the iPhone and you can test. Debugger loads automatically. Looks at the location with location based services and can sort data based on that.

More developer demos.

Sega gets big round of applause for having Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone. In three months all development was complete. Game will launch with app store for $10

eBay – auctions on iPhone – watch lists and custom searches give updates in real time. Find out when you get out bid and when things you are tracking go on sale. Filmstrip allows you view all photos associated with sale. Will go live with the app store.

Loopt – location with a social network. Using location based services, you can see your friends on the map and see where they are. You can also share photos, comments and emails about\with where you are. Communicate with friends and get directions to where they are. Never eat lunch alone again. Free when the app store launches.

TypePad – post to their blogging platform natively from the iPhone. Blog the moment. Send photos straight to blog. Select photos from the photo album, scale and add. Add blog comments, choose blog, keywords, tags, etc. Then publish straight to blog. You can also view via Safari to check final product. Free at launch of app store.

Associated Press – mobile news network, read news streams, watch video, email stories to friends, you can also report the news you see from the iPhone (hmmmm – wonder how that will work out). Completed entire app in 5 weeks. Free from app store at launch.

More demos, more demos, I will be back after all the demos . . . .

MLB.com has media minutes on the iPhone after it happens. Near realtime streaming video.

And, a developer from an insurance agency developed an awesome band\musical application that allows you to make music on your iPhone.

Modality made an iPhone based app for medical students to learn all the parts of the body on in stunning detail with annotations and definitions. Quiz mode, etc. Brilliant.

MIMvista medical imaging software – medical imaging is a lot of data and a lot of action. They are showing slices of a fusion study from a CAT scan and metabolism from a PET scan at the same time in composite mode like a weather map. You can even self-mix it and they had a prototype in 3 weeks and a working model soon there after. It looks amazing and the detail is phenomenal. You can mark up all the images and make measurements, etc on screen. When you want to erase them you just shake the phone like an Etch-a-Sketch!!

Digital Legends has only been working on this for two weeks with the SDK. Demo of a game called Krull which looked absolutely amazing with full OpenGL 3D graphics. Available in Sept.

Demos over. Phew. Lets here the news!!!

Developers want notifications on actions even when the user is not running the app. IM and eBay alerts even when not running the app. They dont want to do this using background running apps. Drains battery and hinders performance. Just slammed WM6 using its task manager to kill background processes, like a “game or challenge” to keep your phone running well. Push notifications service will be used instead.

You can push badges to show how many unread emails you have, you can push sounds and you can push text alerts with actionable buttons. It scales. Works OTA on both WiFi and cellular networks.

Thats it for SDK updates.

Few more features:

contact search

Full iWork document support

Full Office document support

Bulk delete and move for email

Save images from email right to photo library

Scientific calculator

Parental controls

Languages – Asian, 2 Japanese, 2 Chinese, they can draw the symbols with their fingers if they want. Switch on the fly.

Comes out in Early July – free for all iPhone owners. $10 for iPod touch owners.

App store – opens in July when iPhone 2.0 comes out. Developers set price of app. Keep 70% of revenue. Can also give them away for free. No credit card or hosting fees.

Now going to be in 62 countries. If 10MB or less they can download over any network. If larger than WiFi or iTunes.

Enterprise app store, their apps only on their phones only. Distribute them on their own intranet. Users download them and sync to their phone via iTunes.

Ad Hoc is a third way to distribute apps. Ad Hoc distribution for up to 100 iPhones. User download and sync them on to their phones via iTunes.

MobileMe (the new .Mac)

Called “Exchange for the rest of us.” Better than activeStink. (sic). Now you can push email, contacts and calendars right to your mobile device. You can use Mac, PC or iPhone. Everything is stored in the cloud. When you get a message it is immediately pushed to all of your devices. Change a contact, make an appt. Get an email. OTA it is all kept up to date.

Can also be accessed via a web browser. Very nice interface. http://me.com

Sync photos as well. Documents and content too with iDisk. Cost? Log out when done with that computer if a public computer. Live demo took 4 seconds to sync changes across Mac, PC and iPhone.

$99 a year with 20GB storage for all contact. 60 day free trial. Comes out with iPhone 2.0 in July. Mobile.me replaces .mac – will get automatically upgraded.

Battery running low – will go on as long as I can.

iPhone first birthday on 6/29.

“The phone that has changed phones forever” & “Users love their iPhones.” 97% customer satisfaction. 98% mobile browsing. 94% email 80% are using 10 or more features.

6M iPhones and then ran out about 4 weeks ago.

Next challenges: 3G, Enterprise support, 3rd party app support, sell in more countries, more affordable!!!!

iPhone 3G!!!

• 3G
• Thinner
• Full plastic back
• Metal buttons
• 3.5 inch display
• Camera
• Flush headphone jack
• improved audio
• Feels better in your hand

3G for faster data downloads. Need for browser and email.

Test website 21 secs for 3G and 59 secs on edge

Great Battey life – 300 hours standby time – 3G talk time – 5 hours – industry leading – browsing 5-6 hours, video 7 hours, audio – 24 hours

GPS included in the new phone!!

Location-based services will rule. Location data from cell towers, wifi and GPS.

Full Exchange and Cisco support.

To the tune of “Its a Small World” the map gets populated to show it will be selling in 70 countries.

Moving on to “more affordable” - $599 for a 8GB, now $399 – will now go for $199 for an 8GB phone!!!

Goes on sale 7/11

Why did we - the general public give a company so much when they give us nothing but shit half the time.  Seriously, why does Microsoft suck?  I mean really, I like using the .NET framework it’s nice and simple and I get things done really fast - but the code within it is terrible (if you ever get a copy of reflector and look at it you will see what I mean) alas, I will save that rant for another day - today we feast on all that is XP and Vista! 

Nothing they build works right, there is always an assload of bugs in everything they ship expecting us - the consumer to beta test it before the first service pack comes out…  What a load of shit,  see if GM, Ford or NASA can get away with that half assed crap and see how long they last,  what the hell…  I should also mention, It’s really fun watching them clowns at work too - at the end of a development cycle they spend more time throwing away shit they couldn’t pull off on time because of the cheap ass programmers they hired to write the shit.  It’s almost good enough for prime-time comedy.  They could make a sitcom out of it,  I can just see a line from it now -

MS Director of project (surrounded by chimps wearing white shirts and ties): “Oh no! - we are coming to the end of our development cycle - time to spit out half of what we bit off and couldn’t chew again! “wah wah sound effect”. 

The PM: Don’t worry the public will eat it anyway!  (laughter and applause)…

Whatever…

Their new OS is pretty, but it sucks memory, CPU and MY ASS.  Sure it has lots of features, but why do I need to purchase a super charged PC just to run it?  What a bunch of shit. And if that wasn’t enough now they have a  new and improved insidious trick to try and force us all to drink their crappy vista flavored kool-aid - the whole “let’s remove the address bar in our latest service pack trick” - but who will they blame it on… The government of course!   I can just hear it now in their little secret pow-wow…

MS exec 1- we are not selling enough copies of Vista and users are going back to XP this is causing me personal problems, I mean seriously - I REALLY WANT THE RED BMW - I only have the black one and white one I WANT A RED ONE TOO!!11

MS exec 2:  I have an idea - let’s remove a feature that lots of people like in XP but leave it in Vista so they will switch!  (and by the way) - BMW’s are for the help - buy a better more expensive car for christ’s sake you are representing us you loser!

MS exec 1: (ignoring the car comment) brilliant!  But who will we blame it on?! 

MS exec 2: the Anti Trust Division!

MS exec 1: You’re so smart!  I want to have your babies!  I am going to go put my new car on reserve right NOW!

So here is what happens to us poor slobs…

Just upgrade to the latest and greatest service pack (SP3) and if you like having the address bar on your task bar, suddenly your fucked because it went away and now you can’t have it back.  I am so sick of it.  I wasted a good hour of my life (multiple reboots and various attempts take time) that I can’t get back now, fixing it so I can have it back.  And what’s worse - it’s not even removed in a way that cannot be reverted by someone who knows how to use the XP shell (it’s a typical Microsoft hackfest). To put it back all you have to do is replace one .DLL (browseui.dll) with an older version… 

Of course the noob hackers out there that figured this out will not tell you that the damn file is locked by the OS - so you have to rename it first then copy the new one (or rather the one from SP2) back in before it will work.  (and no safe mode does not unlock the god damned thing so don’t even mention that shit or the flames will rise).

So now that I have my address bar back - I am happy again - still propagating the shit that is Microsoft’s platform - can’t help it - a guys gotta eat and feed his family doesn’t he?

So truly is what do I hate more?  Having to buy shit with cash - or using Micro$oft’s shitty software to make that cash so I can buy shit.  Oh forget it - my head is going to explode.

Oh and I am still waiting on the patch for TFS 2008 automated builds - I miss the good old days of Cruise Control when this shit actually worked.

Here’s a links to those little gems (there are two) if you are interested…

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2922054&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2669453&SiteID=1

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