Occasionally you might have the need to convert a mapped drive letter to a UNC or network path. For example, a drive letter such as  “Z” might be mapped to a network share: In this example, the “Z” drive is mapped to a “Personal” folder on a server named “Home”. If you want to store [...]

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If you’re creating a user interface for searching, what’s your approach? Something simple? What happens after the results is presented? Can the user filter and refine the results to find exactly what they want? Are they forced to use an "advanced" mode? Or, scroll through pages upon pages of results hoping to find the right [...]

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Adobe made a handful of announcements early this morning: A new Open Source portal Flex 3 is ready and final. Flex Builder 3, which you’ll want if you are serious about building Flex applications, is US$249. Adobe AIR is released The Flex team’s blog announcement has more details and a lot of links to get [...]

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My wife will watch lots of shows that I like to watch, partly because she has similar tastes, but also because the shows I watch aren’t too awful (and there’s that whole marriage sharing thing …). One show I suggested a few months ago that looked like it might be interesting was the hour long [...]

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I’ve used Blue Iris for several months now to monitor a few security cameras we have installed around our house. It’s a brilliant piece of software that works as well as many software packages that cost four to ten times as much (trust me, I’ve experimented and tested packages that were $500 US). The key [...]

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