Twadget
Twadget is a Widows Vista Sidebar Gadget written by Rod Begbie. It allows you to post to your Twitter account and read your subscriptions. Nice work.
Windows Live Writer Gallery
Windows Live Writer is for sure the current highlight in blogging tools. The Windows Live Writer Gallery brings a whole bunch of extensions to Windows Live Writer which make it even better. Especially the digital ink and Visual Studio plug-ins look promising… pending for further investigation.
iScrobble
Already scrobbled today?
“Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile.”
I just downloaded iScrobble and added a LastFM widget to this page. Unfortunately, the widget does not fit 100%. So, I have to modify the page layout a bit soon.
The tool does permanently upload your played songs (including syncing the iPod playlist). Welcome to the new world. Big brother – and the media industry is watching what you are listening. However, LastFM provides some great possibilities so search for similar music and artists.
SyncToy 1.4
Synchronizing my laptop folders with three servers on different locations makes it difficult to keep track of what is already copied. SyncToy 1.4 should help me in getting this managed since I haven’t used it on my new machine yet and my XP machine still running version 1.2.
Remote Desktop Connection for Mac
Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac is here. Working on my Mac mini, sometimes I had to do things on my server. Consequently, I had to start one of my machines to connect to to the server remotely. Using the Remote Desktop Connection Client that’s a thing of the past. there are some nice features, not seen on the Windows client, that way: copy and paste seems to be working from and to the host system and you can print on your Mac printer while being in the remote session.
Reflector Add-Ins
Just tripped over the Reflector Add-In Repository on CodePlex. Very valuable add-ins for my favorite .NET tool.
The Lost Powertoys
After years of using Windows XP, I got used to some additional features provided by Microsoft Windows XP Powertoys. Coming with a couple of new features I still missing some very essential tools for my daily work. The two things I miss the most are Open Command Window Here and Image Resizer.
Pressing shift while clicking a folder in Explorer brings up the Open Command Window then.
Outlook 2007 Vista Gadgets
Benjamin G. points out two interesting gadgets for the Vista sidebar on his blog. Personally, I like the Outlook Tasks gadget the most. The Outlook Upcomming Appointments gadget did not work on my machine. It is showing only one appointment from september. Actually, this is also one comment on the gadget’s homepage.
Toshiba BT Stack Update
For some good reasons, the Toshiba Bluetooth Update.
DSL-Tools v1 for Visual Studio 2005
DSL-Tools v1 for Visual Studio 2005 are finally available.
“… Version 1 of Domain-Specific Language Tools lets you create a custom graphical designer that uses your own domain-specific diagrammatic notation. You can then create custom text templates that use models created in your designer to generate source code and other files. Domain-Specific Language Tools requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition or above. …”
Thanks to Damir for his post. Otherwise I would have missed it. Actually, I was looking for exactly such a tool for my research.