Dan Crevier's Blog
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Interesting thread between Miguel de Icaza and Chris Anderson on Avalon
https://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2004/09/avalon_throwawa.htmlMiguel de Icaza of Novell is...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 09/01/2004
Color coding messages in Outlook
One feature I've always loved in email clients is the ability to color code messages (even though...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 09/01/2004
Virtual PC 7 for the Macintosh with G5 support has been released!
See the Microsoft VPC page for details. It's just in time to use with a new iMac G5! Some of the...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 09/01/2004
Hacking iPod + iTunes
Scott Knaster's new book 'Hacking iPod + iTunes' is now available. He blogs about it here. Sounds...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/31/2004
Skype for Mac OS X - and it's not just an ugly port!
Skype, a peer-to-peer telephony application (VoIP) that's been getting a lot of attention on Windows...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/31/2004
A history of Mac email clients from Microsoft
Gil has posted part 1 of a great history of Mac email clients from Microsoft. This part covers the...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/29/2004
Major Nelson can't stop playing Fable
According to his blog... It's totally unfair to post stuff like that when most of us have to wait...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/21/2004
Please don't blog for the next week
Nicole and I are off to Alaska tomorrow to spend a week on a tour with my family seeing Anchorage...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/21/2004
Great .NET Information Portal
Sam Gentile created a new .NET Portal. It's got a lot of great information, and it looks like there...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/21/2004
Free peer-to-peer collaboration platform from Microsoft Research, including source code!
I finally saw Conference XP in depth for the first time yesterday. Maybe everyone else already knows...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 08/18/2004
Lookout available for free download!
There's been lots of speculation about Lookout being bought just for the people and that the product...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 07/22/2004
Microsoft acquires Lookout
I'm sure everyone has heard about this by now. MSN acquired Lookout last week. Lookout is a Outlook...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 07/17/2004
Khoi Vinh likes Office 2004 for the Mac
Khoi Vinh posts his thoughts on Office 2004 for the Mac: It’s true that none of the revised...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 07/13/2004
Why did Apple integrate RSS support into Safari instead of Mail?
One interesting announcement coming out of WWDC this year was RSS support in Safari. I wonder if...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 07/12/2004
Update to Debugging Tools for Windows
An update to the Debugging Tools for Windows was just released. New features in WinDBG (aka...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 06/05/2004
Another option for syncing Entourage data with the Address Book and iCal
I previously mentioned Paul Berkowitz's scripts for syncing your Entourage data with Apple's...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 06/04/2004
MSDN article on programming Outlook 2003 using C#
A new article is up on MSDN titled “An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 06/03/2004
Ten things Apple did to make Mac OS X faster
I find performance work to be incredibly fun and rewarding. Here's a great article on ten things...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 06/03/2004
Welcome to the world of blogging, Oji
Oji Udezue just started a blog. He's a program manager on my team, working on the people and groups...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 06/02/2004
Details on recent Mac OS X exploits (and why they still aren't fixed with the latest update)
Jason Harris of Unsanity wrote up a detailed whitepaper describing the recent LaunchServices...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/21/2004
Mac Office 2004 Test Drive available
The Mac Office 2004 test drive is available at Mactopia. I'm very excited that Office 2004 is...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/19/2004
Trojan horse disguised as Mac Word 2004 demo
MacWorld is reporting a trojan horse disguised as a Mac Word 2004 demo. The slashdot article...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/12/2004
Switching back
Evan DiBiase's blog MacAndBack chronicles his switch back to Windows after 3 years on Mac OS X and...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/10/2004
Automating/scripting iTunes on Windows
Apple has posted an SDK for accessing iTunes using COM on Windows (it's funny, I noticed they left...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/08/2004
Writing a shim to solve problems with managed Office COM Add-ins
If you’ve been following my and Omar’s blogs lately, you’ll know that we’ve...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/08/2004
More details on Hotmail's use of IronPort for spam filtering
There has been some slightly misleading press on Hotmail's use of IronPort to provide a whitelist...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/07/2004
Communications history and WinHEC
A new Longhorn build was released recently at WinHEC. Jeffery Wall has blogged about some of the...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/05/2004
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalablity
A free book is available on MSDN called Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability. A...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/05/2004
Good press for Mac Office 2004
Time online edition says: My verdict: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is clearly superior to its PC...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/03/2004
.NET Reflector
.NET Reflector is seriously cool. At first glance, it's like ildasm, letting you explore assemblies...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/02/2004
Scott Water explains tracebacks
I'm still coming to understand the full power of blogs. Scott Watermasysk explains how tracebacks...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 05/02/2004
FaceIds on Office toolbar buttons
When creating custom Office toolbar buttons (aka command bars), you can set the FaceId to some icon....
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/30/2004
Chris Pratley on Word
Chris Pratley posted a very interesting history of Word. As someone much more involved with the Mac...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/27/2004
The complications of installing Outlook COM Add-ins
Omar has a post on the complications of installing Outlook COM Add-ins. It's almost enough to make...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/25/2004
Apple sold more iPods than Macs in the last quarter
See https://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040414/sfw099_1.html. Apple shipped 749 thousand Macintosh®...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/14/2004
A9 - Amazon's new search engine
Amazon is entering the search engine space with A9. They have the 7 reasons A9 is cool. There are...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/14/2004
Regulator 2.0 beta is out
Regulator is a regular expression testing tool. Roy Osherove blogs about the latest beta here. I...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/11/2004
Usability
https://daringfireball.net has an interesting post on usability (and a follow up) on usability. I...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/08/2004
Trojan horse on the Mac
Intego has a press release on a Mac Trojan Horse here. It seems they are trying frighten people into...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/08/2004
Why doesn't Microsoft Entourage use the Apple Address Book?
A fairly common question that comes up in mailing lists and other forums is “Why doesn’t...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/07/2004
Mac Office 2004 is approaching RTM
The press release has gone out. Unless some horrible bug is found in the next couple of weeks, Mac...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/06/2004
A history of Entourage and becoming an Office application
Omar posted a history of Entourage and the journey to becoming an Office application. I knew it had...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 04/04/2004
Customizing what happens when you launch Windows Media Player
Kevin Moore has a useful post on customizing where you end up when you launch Windows Media Player...
Author: Dan Crevier Date: 03/31/2004