Yeah, C++ refactoring is our biggest achievement for CDT 5.0. But here's one I found probably more useful in my day to day use of the CDT (which is getting more and more...

After the recent Zoho Sheet Pivot Table support which is based on Zoho DB & Reports, we have rolled in good set of useful features into Zoho DB & Reports. I have...

It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears....

GSoC midterm evaluation is now behind us so I think it's a good occasion to sum up my progress. I want to describe what is already working and what I'm going to add. I...

I was helping a colleague today with a key binding issue that I think is fairly common. To illustrate the problem, let’s look at what happens when you press CMD+N in...

If you switch between Excel for the PC and Excel on the Mac (either 2004 or 2008), you probably know that there are many differences in the keyboard shortcuts between the...

Warning: contains actual dialog   Here's the full text of a debate between Andrew Keen and David Weinberger, a shorter version of which appeared in today's...

Using the web as platform allows for some very interesting possibilities. Like making a presentation to a world-wide audience sitting at your desk. Let’s see how...

Well done to Geoff McQueen, who won t-shirts beyond his wildest dreams in my competition. Hurrah! I've just been hit by this in my inbox & feel it's worth sharing... a...

Most of us who use Windows Vista have probably come across a couple of user-interface quirks during our times - some of which irritate you more than others, some are more...

In about an hour, I'll be at the studio to be fitted for my Criminal Minds wardrobe. Tomorrow, I start work on the show. The script's been rewritten a few times since I...

Before I joined the Word team, when I thought about tables in Word, I thought of something like this:   May June July Tom 2 2 7 Sally 3 3 8 ...

i’m not sure exactly what happened, but i was pretty amazed today, and i think it was windows vista that did it. let me explain. before i left the house, i put my...

I’ve been thinking about the effects of blogging, specifically on business. There’s a reason for this… Last year we went camping at Bark River...

All of us have an inner dialog. When you blog, that inner message can be revealed between the lines of your articles, social media messages and forum posts. If you are...

On the first launch dialog, you may have noticed this checkbox for opting in for VS to download RSS content. This checkbox controls the content on the...

I've used Windows Vista as my primary OS on a number of machines since beta2, and am broadly supportive of it, however there are some things about it that annoy the heck...

When we last left our heroes: We created a word document, turned on the developer tab, and recorded a macro into the word document called MyMacro We worked with the...

I wanted to fix some final niggling bugs in Shrook 2 so that there'll be a nice stable version of it for all eternity (or until Shrook 3 ships, whichever comes first)....

Free Memory I have too many applications open all the time, and only 2 GB of memory. The memory management of OSX just doesn’t seem to be able to handle this,...