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The
Daily Grind 524
By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Looks like we're settling into a slightly below freezing weather
pattern for the week, though the Weather Service has done its usual optimistic
job of predicting a slight chance of snow for Christmas.
Software
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Visustin V2 -
Automatically generate flow charts from code in Visual Basic, VB.NET, VBA,
C/C++, C#, Java, J#, JavaScript, JScript .NET, Pascal/Delphi, COBOL, Perl,
T-SQL, PL/SQL or Ada.(via Blaine Wilson)
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Pastepal: Clipboard-to-Image-File Utility - Copy a bitmap to the
clipboard, get a JPG in a specified folder plus text on the clipboard. So,
you can vastly speed up stuffing bitmaps into Web pages.
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Advanced Office Password
Recovery - Look at the list of passwords this utility can break and
you'll be reminded that Office application passwords do not offer especially
high security.
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Portable CE
- Run Windows CE from your USB device.
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MSW Logo - With a few kids
working their way to computer expertise, I'll be looking at the Logo
computer language soon. This is a free implementation for Windows.
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Microsoft Tools for Domain-Specific Languages Preview - This chunk of
the Software Factories vision has apparently matured enough to actually play
with now. (via
GarethJ)
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Adobe Reader
7.0 - Supposedly, this version is much faster than 6.0. However,
Flexbeta says that it's faster because it preloads into your RAM when you
boot. Caveat Emptor.
Information
Community
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Gingerbread CPU - Actually a whole gingerbread motherboard, complete
with option cards. Cute holiday decor for the geek. (via
Ole Eichhorn)
Mike Gunderloy is
the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on
programming topics.
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