Showing results 11 - 15 of 15 for the month of October, 2008.

Problem Installing Service Packs

On some of my machines I noticed that I was having trouble upgrading to the latest service pack for some of the products I have installed (e.g. Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, etc.).  It wasn’t a critical problem and I didn’t have the time to spend on tracking it down at that time so [...]

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ctfmon.exe

I was doing some cleanup on my server and ran across the ctfmon.exe process. I’ve investigated this process before and at that time there didn’t seem to be definitive information available on it.  At one point there was even a virus that was being installed on people’s machines posing as ctfmon.exe.
When I searched today, I [...]

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FeedBurner

I decided to try out FeedBurner on my site using the FeedSmith plugin.  I happened to subscribe to someone else’s blog through FeedBurner and I kind of like the result as a reader.  It’s an amazingly rich solution for publishing feeds of a site, connecting many different applications together for publishing.  I hope it proves [...]

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Notifixious

I just learned about a service from Weblog Tools Collection called Notifixious for allowing visitors to be notified via IM, email, or SMS when a new post is published to a blog.  This is a pretty slick tool that is easy to add to a WordPress blog and really simplifies these kinds of notifications.  The [...]

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DVDSpot is Closing

I’m so disappointed!  DVDSpot.com is a great site for cataloging DVDs and for finding something to watch, but now it is closing.  Here is the notice on their front page:
On Wednesday October 15th DVDSpot will be closed permanently. This decision was made to allow us to focus on other great web properties. We sincerely appreciate [...]

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