The Daily Grind 924 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, July 12, 2006

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• Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals - CTP4 is available to all comers.
• Regular Expression File Renaming Utility - Not an issue I have often, but if you do, here's a free answer. (via Greg Duncan)
• Sciral Consistency - Schedule/reminder application for tasks that don't have to be performed on a perfectly regular schedule. Trial download is here, registration is $25. (via Larry O'Brien)
• Attensa for Outlook 1.5 Beta - This is a step forward for RSS readers: Attensa keeps track of what you pay attention to and percolates things to the top of the stack based on what you've been interested in. More info here.
• KoolIM - AJAXy browser-based instant messenger connections to AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, and Jabber. (via Arno Nel)

• HttpHandlers � Learn Them. Use Them. - Good post from Karl Seguin with some fine discussion in the comments.
• My First Gartner Cease And Desist: the missing link - James Governor got a cease & desist from Gartner for having the temerity to link to their site. This seems to happen about once a year on the Web, and the company in question always end up looking like morons for not understanding that you can't prevent linking to stuff you throw out in public. The only real question is what phrase will catch on for the inevitable GoogleBomb. Officious Chowderheads, perhaps?
• Getting Things Done With OneNote 12 - Larry O'Brien shows how the coming tool fits in with his GTD methodology.
• An Abolute Beginner's Babysteps In PowerShell... - The secretGeek pokes around a bit and invites you to follow.

• Programming Quotes - There are some gems in here, and rather a lot of nastiness. (via dzone)
• Announcing Our Book! (Windows Developer Power Tools) - From Jim Holmes and James Avery. I've seen some of the manuscript, and this one is going to be a winner.
• BrowserCam Special Deal - The fundable online service helps you hook up with a batch of people to get cheap access to the BrowserCam online service for testing your Web site in a variety of browsers via remote access.

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