The Daily Grind 1011 by Mike Gunderloy Friday, November 10, 2006

Hail yesterday, snow tomorrow. I think I'll stay in and write code.

• Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth - An online photo viewing application that wants you to have IE6 or IE7, a Vista Aero ready graphics card, and 1 GB of RAM. I'm not exactly overwhelmed, but your mileage may vary.
• Zamzar - Free service for online file conversion, supporting many different image, doc, music, and video formats. (via Postbubble)
• DataDefractor - SSIS data source component for working with unstructured and semi-structured Excel, CSV, and text files. Now in free beta.
• 2007 Microsoft Office System Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies - These will do you some good when you can actually get your hands on Office 2007.
• Visio 2007 Viewer and PowerPoint Viewer 2007 - A new round of free viewers is shipping for the new file formats. Presumably Word and Excel will be along presently.

• VisualComplexity - Nice collection of ways to visualize complex networks through fancy graphics. (via Billy McCafferty)

• Announcing TabletGoo.com - The Tablet PC Search Engine! - Dedicated search engines continue to proliferate.

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