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Smart Watches are finally going to happen - Pebble Watch Reviewed
The Pebble Watch is shipping and it's revolutionary, fresh and new! Well, kind of. Dick Tracy got his first smart watch in 1946. It seems we've always wanted a computer and communicator on our wrists....
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Redirecting ASP.NET Legacy URLs to Extensionless with the IIS Rewrite Module
ASP.NET has included support for "friendly URLs" for a while now. ASP.NET MVC has always supported friendly URLs and more recently, so has Web Forms. That means if you don't want to have the .aspx...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: April 24th, 2013
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it"Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me. You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can...
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Chasing Wi-Fi as a Remote Worker: AT&T Unite LTE Mobile Hotspot Review
I've blogged about how being a remote worker sucks. Sometimes I just need to get out of the home office and wander around town just to be near people. There's all this unspoken etiquette when you're a...
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Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video - How C# Saved My Marriage
In case you haven't heard, Xamarin is a fabulous company with amazing products and their Evolve 2013 conference was absolutely smashing.I was fortunate enough to speak at Xamarin Evolve 2013 in Austin...
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How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or...
A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites. I showed how to...
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Reviews of Super Weird Mice:The Microsoft Arc Touch and Wedge Mouse
I'm always on the lookout for the perfect mouse. I don't think it exists, yet, frankly, but we're getting close. I've got two notebook mice I'm bouncing between while using my new ultrabook, the Lenovo...
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JavaScript is Web Assembly Language and that's OK.
Some years ago I said that JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web. In fact, lots of people said it, because it's true. Later, some folks disagreed, saying that this is an inaccurate analogy. Of...
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Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?
What it doesChocolatey lets you install Windows applications quickly from the command line via a central catalog of installation scripts. You could install Git, 7Zip or even Microsoft Office (given a...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: May 13th, 2013
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.You can view all the previous newsletters here. You can...
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Blocking Image Hotlinking, Leeching and Evil Sploggers with IIS Url Rewrite
I recently discovered that a blog called (seriously) "Google Chrome Browser" was reblogging my site. (It of course has NO relationship to Google or the lovely folks on the Chrome team.) This is a splog...
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Announcing "Get Involved" from Tekpub - Enhance your career by engaging with...
Get Involved - The VideoMy friend Rob Conery and I work on the This Developer's Life podcast together. You should check it out, we work well together. Last year we created a Technical Speaking Tips...
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How to delete Open or Insecure Wi-Fi HotSpots from Windows 8: Wifi.exe...
For the most part I'm happy with Windows 8 but one feature was removed that makes no sense to me - the wireless networks dialog.Sure, you can "Forget this network" by right clicking on a Wi-Fi...
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CSI: Visual Studio - Unable to translate Unicode character at index X to...
A customer emailed me a weird one. I tend to have a sense for when something is up and when an obscure thing will turn into something interesting. The person says:...mysteriously most of my projects...
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The Importance of Closed Captioning - How To and Why Subtitle
If you can hear well, you may have never thought about Closed Captioning or Subtitles. Perhaps you've used it once or twice to catch a missed word in a movie, or perhaps you've only read subtitles in...
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Stop Doing Internet Wrong.
Some days...some days it's frustrating to be on the web. We're compiling C++ into JavaScript and running Unreal in the browser but at the same time, here in 2013, we're still making the same mistakes....
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Exclusive Sneak Peek: The AGENT Smart Watch Emulator and managed .NET code on...
I'm totally geeked out about Smart Watches. I always have been, from the original Microsoft SPOT watch (from 10 years ago!) to the Pebble, and now the AGENT Smart Watch from Secret Labs. Secret Labs...
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They WILL take your photos and they WILL use them and you WILL like it.
This is hardly a tragic story and it's not even a good photo, but it's interesting because it happens a few times a year. Perhaps it's happened to you! (Share in the comments)A buddy noticed a story in...
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How to start your first podcast - equipment, editing, publishing and more
My friend Luvvie and I were speaking at Blogging While Brown this last weekend in New York City, amongst other things and events. Luvvie and I host a podcast called Ratchet and The Geek. I produce...
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10 New Features in Windows 8.1 Preview that saved my Surface RT
I just bit the bullet and installed the Windows 8.1 Preview on my Surface RT. It's a one-way upgrade (meaning you won't be able to go from this Preview Build to the final) so make a Recovery Drive with...
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