Omar Shahine
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start.com/1/ now works in FireFox
You can thank a pretty hard working developer in MSN for fixing this. The site now says: Now in new...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/11/2005
Microsoft can do fancy JavaScript too!
Two new incubation projects in MSN. start.com/1/ start.com/2/ What is an incubation project? Its...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/11/2005
Getting Things Done Add-in going to be updated
This is most excellent news. The folks at Netcentrics are going to be updating the Getting Things...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/10/2005
Proud owner of FeedDemon
A few years ago I purchased TopStyle. It's simply the best CSS editor on the market. Before that I...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/08/2005
Make ico files from png
I found this great freeware utility, png2ico, which will take a png and create an ico file. I wanted...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/08/2005
dasBlog Security Advisories
Dominick Baier has posted two security bullitens for dasBlog: Security Advisory: Log File Path...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/06/2005
Skype doesn't like Standby/Hibernate
Unbelievable that for the past few weeks I have been stumped as to why my desktop pc and laptop can...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/06/2005
Take Control of E-mail
Today I decided to stop the madness. An email every few minutes and desktop alert + sound to go with...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 03/05/2005
Mike gives Napster the boot
Mike ditched Napster To Go for the same reasons I did. However, I ditched them a few months ago when...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/28/2005
MSN Remote Record
MSN just keeps on cranking out goodness. Along with the Media Center folks, the Information Services...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/25/2005
Etymotic ER6 vs. Bose QuietComfort II
I’m sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight up to Seattle right now and figure it’s a good time to put...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/23/2005
Real World Camera Raw
Since getting my Nikon D70 I have struggled with different image editing applications to process the...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/22/2005
dasBlog 1.7.5016.2 released
We've released dasBlog 1.7.5016.2. This is a release to address almost every bug that was reported...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/22/2005
Green Cups
This week at work we had a small change to our cups. For the last 6 years I have been drinking from...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/20/2005
SourceForge and Hotmail delivery problems resolved
I have to say, I've been incredibly impressed with the level of support and professionalism at...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/18/2005
ClearContext Survey
The folks at ClearContext have posted a survey about e-mail usage. As you probably know, at this...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/18/2005
Google Maps
OH MY, this is so cool. https://maps.google.com (via Julien Couvreur). I don't get how they make...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/08/2005
PowerToys
Raymond has a great post on the history of PowerToys. I'm proud to be a member of this family. The...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/08/2005
Send to SmugMug
I love SmugMug so much I wanted a really easy way to get my pictures from my hard drive to SmugMug....
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/08/2005
Make
Looks like a great new magazine from one of my favorite tech publishers, O'Reilly. Subscribed.
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/07/2005
Creative Zen Micro Out of Box Experience
I just received my Creative Zen Micro. I am preparing to put together a Zen Micro vs iPod review as...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/05/2005
So... Um... Hotmail
Wow, I didn't realize how I've learned to start almost every sentence with "So..." and boy do I say...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/04/2005
Technology Camps, iPod, and the End to End Experience
In life there are always at least two camps. When I was a kid it was Nike vs Reebok. For some people...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/04/2005
iPAQ Mobile Messenger
If this thing is real... I want I want
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 02/03/2005
Staying on the Getting Things Done Wagon
Scoble just mentioned that he'd fallen off the Getting Things Done wagon. This is dangerous. Since I...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/28/2005
My New Etymotic Headphones
I have owned the Bose Noise QuietComfort I and II for a while now. A few weeks ago (at Macworld) I...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/27/2005
Favorite FireFox feature
This has to be my favorite feature (I don't really use FireFox, but just started to play around with...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/26/2005
Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies Article
Everything you wanted to know about the Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies (ignore if you aren't...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/25/2005
MovableType Blacklist for .NET
As I promised, here is the code for the MovableType Blacklist that I wrote for dasBlog. There are...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/22/2005
dasBlog 1.7 questions and answers
First of all, the community reaction to dasBlog Community Edition 1.7 has been great! I’m delighted...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/22/2005
ClearContext to deal with E-mail
I've been meaning to write this for a while, and reading John's post on Microsoft's Email Culture...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/21/2005
Outlook Live
What happens when you take the most utilized business communication tool and team it up with Hotmail...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/20/2005
dasBlog 1.7 released
Well, I'm a bit late to the party... but as Scott announced, dasBlog 1.7 is finished. There are...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/19/2005
Picasa 2 supports RAW
Finally, a free photo album tool that supports RAW images like those from my Nikon D70!...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/18/2005
Referral Spam and Movable Type Blacklist
Well, just in time for a wave of referral spam that is hitting my blog (mostly from...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/10/2005
Adobe Premiere Elements 1.0
A few days ago I was in CompUSA doing the usual... walking aisle by aisle as my wife did some...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/09/2005
Skype 1.1 Install Problems
Jeff is having problems installing Skype 1.1. I am having the same problems. This is the first time...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/09/2005
Microsoft AntiSpyware
Not very often does a piece of software come along that blows me out of the water. A few months ago...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/08/2005
RSS xhtml:body
A while ago there was some hubub about support for xhtml:body in the RSS item tag. Since all RSS...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/08/2005
Nullable Types
I'm pretty excited about Nullable Types in Whidbey. The primary reason I care about this is that in...
Author: Omar Shahine Date: 01/08/2005