Hvis du har lyst til å lage Silverlight 2 applikasjoner i Visual Studio så kan du laste ned Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008. Den inneholder Silverlight 2 Beta 1, SDK og tillegg til Visual Studio.

Sjekk også Scott Guthrie sin gjennomgang av en Silverlight 2 applikasjon og Silverlight 2 med Expression Blend.

Yup. "More like faceCRACK".

april 26 2007 - facecrack!

A simple way to make your AppleTV box a lot more useful :)

How-To: play DivX and Xvid on your Apple TV - Engadget

The two biggest Apple TV limitations are the lack of codec support (like XviD, DivX, etc.) and not even having the ability to do basic surround sound like Dolby Digital 5.1. These issues were resolved almost immediately after the Apple TV was released, although the hacks were somewhat less than practical. Something as simple as getting your Apple TV to, say, sync and recognize your XviD movies as playable was no simple feat. Thankfully, that's no longer the case, and we want to show you how to get the most out of your Apple TV. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it, too?

StarWars.com have put up a trailer for the coming CG animated Star Wars series The Clone Wars.

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone_Wars_(3D_CGI_TV_series):

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American 3D CGI animated television series currently set to debut in 2008.[1] It is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy; a continuation of the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series.

Well, if you can read this then Adobe Contribute CS3 works with DasBlog, which is the blog engine I'm using. When you start Contribute for the first time it asks you to set up a connection. If not, you can select Edit, My Connections.. from the menu and click the Create... button.

Select that you connect to a blog, select Other Blog Servers in the second drop down and specify the URL to your blog. It should automagically find the /blogger.aspx web service file. Click Next, specify your username and password for the blog and you're good to go.

It looks pretty good, it picks up my categories, I can browse my blog in Contribute and just click Edit when I'm on a page I want to edit, it integrates with IE and Firefox, giving me a "Post to blog" button, I can insert documents as PDF and a bunch of other things. All in all, it looks pretty easy to use so I think I start using it to update my blog.

There is one thing I'd like to see though. The ability to just paste an image into the text and have Contribute automatically save the image along with my blog. That would be cool!

Edit: Worked like a charm. Uploaded image and everything. Sweet!

Update: SonyEricsson have upgraded their PC Suite to support Vista. So head on over to their support page, pick your phone and download the PC Suite for XP/Vista. Works like a charm.

I have a SonyEricsson K810i phone and have been using the SonyEricsson PC Suite to syncronize it with my Outlook. For an absent minded guy like me, having my phone warn me when I have to be somewhere is invaluable.

However, Sony Ericsson has been rather slow in their Vista support. It just won't install, giving you a message that you need to run Windows XP or 2000. They say that Vista support for PC Suite will be available in Q2 2007 and on forums and blogs September 2007 is often mentioned.

But there is a way to install the PC Suite on Vista today. It involves editing the .msi file to remove the OS condition and remove two files that are updated in Vista that will cause the installer to hang.

Joel at thinktekno has the details.

I did not have to install the m-router. During the installation the installer hung for ages at the end but it came through eventually. Just have patience.

In order to install the SQL 2005 Express edition with Reporting Services you have to have IIS properly installed. It's not enough to just install it and be happy about it, you'll have to enable some services for it to.

Otherwise you'll get a warning in the System Configuration Checker of the SQL setup: "Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled."

 KB920201 has the details on what you have to install. And don't forget to use the SP2 version of SQL Server.

For some idiotic reason (marketing) several server manufacturers insist on putting a self-promoting default wallpaper on the Windows installation making a remote desktop connection unnessecarily slow for the initial connect. Run the attached .reg file to remove the wallpaper for the default user. If you don't trust files downloaded from the Internet, copy the following text, paste into an empty notepad document, save as "RemoveWallpaper.reg" (or something similar) and run the file (double-click it).

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"=""

RemoveWallpaper.reg (,32 KB)