Korayem/software

From the page: "Between being extremely short handed at work, tech' reviewing a new book, a possible book proposal of my own, and an unsettled situation at work, I'm having a hard time finding time to create new content for the blog. So to bide time and fill a request for a rehash of some of my older posts, here's a "best of" compendium from the last year and a half. New stuff will appear soon-ish."

From the page: "AppLife Update is the perfect choice for implementing automatic network update features into your .Net applications. The AppLife Update solution lets you easily create the update process that you want for your application, drastically improving your team's response capabilities and keeping your user-base effortlessly up-to-date. "

From the page: "Many years back, I got hooked in to whole the Atkins Diet craze. And like most dieters, it didn�t work. I lost weight and slowly gained it back over the next few years. The reason that Atkins �" and all the other fad diets �" fail is because they try to avoid a simple, painful truth: short of altering body physiology, the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more.

In the past decade or so, we�ve seen a lot of �oefad development methodologies” crop up. In lieu of a standard Worse Than Failure article, I'd like to discuss the latest craze (well, for a few years now): Agile and its derivative methodologies. They all promise the same thing �" cheaper, better software built faster �" and they all generally fail to deliver. Like fad diets, these methodologies try to avoid a simple, painful truth: you have to know what to build before you can start building it. "

From the page: "ShadowExplorer allows you to browse the shadow copies created by the Windows® VistaTM Volume Shadow Copy Service. It's especially thought for users of the home editions, who don't have access to the shadow copies by default, but it's also useful for users of the other editions.
Shadow Copy

From time to time, Windows® VistaTM creates point-in-time copies of your files. This allows you to retrieve older versions from files you accidentally deleted or altered. This service is turned on by default on all versions of Windows® VistaTM, but Microsoft grants access to these copies only in Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise editions. This is where ShadowExplorer comes into play. For more information on Shadow Copy, visit Microsofts website."

From the page: "Shadow Defender is an easy-to-use PC security and privacy protection tool for Windows operating systems. It provides an ellent way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to a PC. With Shadow Defender you can run system in a virtual environment, called Shadow Mode. And all the attacks will happen in the virtual environment, not in the real environment. If attacks happened, all you need to do is to reboot your system. After reboot, the system will be restored to the original state, as if nothing happened. And meanwhile you can save the selected files and folders to the real environment."

one of the samples in the msdn article by stephen toub was for pdf files...of which i receive a lot. i don't use adobe reader because i think it is overkill for reading pdf's personally. the sample, however, relies on having adobe reader installed...which i didn't like. i started working with the foxit activex sdk, because i love their reader product. after some communication with the team at foxit, we started collaborating.
as a result of that collaboration, foxit software and i partnered to create the 'foxit pdf preview handler' which you can download for free! this is a pdf preview handler for outlook 2007 and windows vista. the current version requires vista, but we are working on a windows xp version for outlook 2007 on winxp.

From the page: "LRViewer is a standalone viewer for Lightroom image previews that also allows photographers and their clients to exchange image selections and notes. "