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The Daily Grind 1000
by Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, October 26, 2006
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We made it. Thanks to everyone who has read and contributed to the Daily Grind over
the years. Contest winners will be announced tomorrow.
- Net Meter - Fancy graphical display
to track bytes moving in and out of your machine. Looks fun if you're easily distracted
by shiny things. Download trial
here, $19.95 to register. (via
Programmers Heaven)
- MyLife Organized - Outliner
and to-do manager with PocketPC, OutLook, and MindManager synchronization capabilities.
Download here,
pricing from $45.95. (via
Dennis Gurock)
- ScrewTurn Wiki 1.0 - Free C#/ASP.NET
2.0 wiki. (via James
Avery)
- Sweetie - Free icon set for Web applications
including the original Photoshop source files so you can modify them. (via
dzone)
- Retro Flying Toasters lives! -
Here's a screen saver blast from the past. Not the full suite, but one freebie clone.
I can remember this as being one of the first pieces of pirated software I ever
saw. (via
digg)
- Website PR Overlay - Tool to see the
Google pagerank of every link on a page. Useful if you're obsessive about such things.
(via dzone)
- WinZip 11.0 beta - Finally with RAR
support, among other features.
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Adding the content of a whole directory in your Visual Studio 2005 project as linked source files? It's now possible with the "AddDirectoryContent" AddIn - The title
pretty much says it all. (via
Greg Duncan)
- SharePoint Explorer Client 2.0 - Community Edition - IE addin to navigate through multiple
SharePoint 2003/2007 sites. (via
Bill Simser)
- NetFxLive - Javascript based Windows Workflow
designer. (via
Ghenadie)
- A .NET
State Machine Toolkit Part I,
II,
III - Build your own state machines for fun and profit.
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Gemini4Smartphone - This RSS reader and podcast client for Windows Mobile 5
SmartPhones has been released. 30-day trial is
here, �19.95 to register.
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Network Diagnostic Tool (KB914440) - Connectivity diagnostic tool from Microsoft.
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Listen on a Specific Port - A little tool from Lyle S. Dodge to listen for connections
on a TCP/IP port. Useful when you want to check on things like firewall rules and
routing.
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RSS 2.0 Class Library and Syndication Provider - Another take on RSS for .NET
2.0.
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slimKEYS 0.9.8 - New release of
this universal hotkey manager with a batch of new plugins. Download is
here, developer info is
here.
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Subtext 1.9.2 "Shields Up" Edition Released! - New version of this blogging
engine has new features for stopping comment spam.
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Pumpkin Computer: Just Like Mom Used to Make - You still have a few days left
if you have a motherboard that you want to permanently smell like rotten pumpkin.
- Life|Ware - Home
automation product that integrates with Windows Media Center Edition and uses the
Web Services for Devices stack to communicate with lighting, audio, video, security,
HVAC, you name it.

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Mike Gunderloy is
the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.
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