Spotlight IT Ramblings Blog

I'm living in Dublin, Ireland and this is a collection of ramblings about my day-to-day activities in the exciting world of web development ;-) Technologies used and projects under development. Also links of interest, mostly completely work un-related....

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

The road less travelled, why not to take GPS directions too seriously

1. Go to http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx
2. In the Start section, select "Norway" from the listbox
and enter "Haugesund" into the "City" field
3. In the End section, select "Norway" from the listbox
and enter "Trondheim" into the "City" field
4. Click on "Get Directions"

OR click this link to see the results

MSN Maps & Directions - Directions Results

Friday, January 07, 2005

Apple - iTunes

iTunes store opens to Irish customers today, download the client Apple - iTunes

This is one of the few music stores that use protected AAC files instead of protected windows media.

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Free ASP.NET Goodies!

Good DevX article with plenty of links to tools and controls
Free ASP.NET Goodies!

Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta now available

Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta now available

John Brennan just told me about the new Spyware detection utility from Microsoft available after the Giant aquisition which will be in competition with Lavasofts Adware etc.

Picked up a few additional things that Adware missed and seems to have good self updating functionality.

Download link available from Johns Blog on IrishDev.com

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

o2 SMS link without the other frames

o2 SMS

Annoyed by the many clicks it takes to send a free SMS via the o2 site. The above link allows you to login and only loads the app itself without any of the other frames cluttering up the screen.

Very useful when loaded from a bookmark in a firefox sidebar.

 

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