The Daily Grind 965 by Mike Gunderloy Thursday, September 7, 2006

And why won't the microphone work on this computer?

• Neat Icons Core Set - Free set of core toolbar icons. They also have commercial products for dressing up your wizard or installer products.
• Skylook 2.0 Sneak Peek - This product integrates Outlook, Skype, and SMS for people who really want to be available and in-touch.
• SourceAnywhere 5.0 - This Visual SourceSafe remote access solution now includes a caching server, Eclipse plug-in, and more. Trial here, pricing from $215.
• Gemini4SmartPhone Beta - RSS reader and podcatcher for the SmartPhone.

• BlogML 2.0 is Released - XML format for storing blog contents, useful when you're migrating between blogging tools.

• Developer Content Wiki - MSDN Wiki - Some tantalizing hints about the future of the MSDN wiki content buried in this blog entry.

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