Archive for July, 2005

FeedStation 1.6 Beta 2

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Nick has posted yet another beta this week. This time it’s for FeedStation 1.6 Beta 2, the podcast and enclosure download tool.
Any NewsGator Online subscription (free or paid) or FeedDemon customer can use FeedStation.

“Stupid JavaScript tricks” or “How to hack Microsoft ‘Genuine Advantage’”

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Via Boing Boing:
Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’
AV sez, “This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ It was cracked within 24 hours.”
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Mike to Nick’s Sully

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

My name is in an article in a magazine!
(If you’ve seen Monsters Inc., you’ll get that.)
The August 2005 issue of Inc. magazine has an article about using customer forums as a low-cost high-quality (emphasis added) means of providing tech support. They interviewed Nick about his forums and it even mentions how they hired me [...]

Busy week: TopStyle 3.12 Beta 2 and FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 2 are released

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Big bout of Bradbury betas. (Alliteration is hard.)

Internet Explorer 7 Beta is released

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Just found out from Nick that IE7 Beta is out. There’s no date on the page, so I don’t know how far behind the info curve I am.
I guess it’s time to get VPC setup. No offense to the hard working IE7 team, but I just can’t see putting this on a production [...]