Unhandled Perception

PST Data Structure View Tool (PSTViewTool) is a tool supporting the PST file format documentation effort. It allows the user to browse the internal structures of a PST file.

Developers can now develop tools to directly interact with Outlook data files.  If you’re looking for more information on working with Outlook data files check out the interoperability press release.

Link: http://pstviewtool.codeplex.com/

Microsoft OneApp is a new software application that enables feature phones—commonly found in emerging markets—to access mobile apps like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other popular apps and games. Now, people around the world who own feature phones will be able to do more and enjoy a better mobile experience with their existing phones. Microsoft OneApp will be offered initially through partners in emerging markets worldwide.

The have an interactive demo that allows you to play, and see, OneApp in action.  Not sure if it was a SilverLight incompatibility or what but the interactive demo would not work for me.  Not too worried as I recently purchased an iPhone, which by the way is excellent.

Anyone with hands on experience with OneApp leave a comment.  Let me know what you think.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/oneapp/

To speed up (which is debated if you research this) your boot process just follow these simple steps.

1) Start the System Configuration Utility – Start -> Run -> msconfig

2) Select the Boot.ini tab

3) Press the Advanced Options button

4) In the Advanced Dialog: 1)  increase the /numproc to match the processors in your system (depending on where it is in the boot sequence this could refer to both physical and logical processors) and 2) increase the /maxmem (maximum memory you would allow to be used at startup).

5) Reboot your system

Post a comment on your results.  My boot process was pretty fast to begin with so any change was hard to notice.

If you’re considering an Office 2010 upgrade, be sure you learn the lesson of Windows 7. Microsoft offers its best prices to early adopters. Those who wait pay more.

Blog post contains ways to save from 30% to 50%…

Link: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/…

Who said Excel takes lot of time / steps do something? Here is a list of 15 incredibly fun things you can do to your spreadsheets and each takes no more than 5 seconds to do.

Link:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/01/…

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The SQL Server cheat sheet is a one-page A4 printable document, designed to provide a quick reference for SQL Server. A description of what is on the cheat sheet follows, or if you are impatient, you can go straight to the full size SQL Server cheat sheet.

Link:
http://www.addedbytes.com/…

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

What’s New:

This Process Explorer release includes several significant new features, including the showing the web hosted in IE8 processes in the process tooltip, display of a svchost’s service host category in its tooltip, mapping of service names to threads on the threads tab and TCP/IP tabs of the process properties dialog on Windows Vista and higher (thanks to Windows Internals 5th Ed. coauthor Alex Ionescu), a new.NET assembly information tab in the process properties dialog (thanks to Pete Sheill), as well as other improvements and bug fixes.

Link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/…

IIS is built on an open and modular architecture that allows you customize and add new features through free IIS Extensions. We are constantly adding new features to IIS to help you optimize your website for search, serve media to multiple platforms and devices, deploy web applications, route URL requests and more!

Some of the downloads:

• URL Rewrite: IIS URL Rewrite 2.0 enables Web administrators to create powerful rules to implement URLs that are easier for users to remember and easier for search engines to find.
• WinCache Extension 1.1 for PHP: Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. Once the Windows Cache Extension for PHP is enabled and loaded by the PHP engine, PHP applications can take advantage of the functionality without any code modifications.
• Smooth Streaming Player: The IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit allows you to build rich Silverlight user experiences that take full advantage of IIS live and on-demand Smooth Streaming capabilities.

Link:
http://www.iis.net/expand

Its simple, clean and basically uncluttered. Not too bad. What do you think?

Link:
http://www.msn.com/

From Speed Demos to demos of the latest in HTML, HTML5, the new IE Test Drive website lets you check out the power of IE9.

Download IE9 First:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/ThankYou/Default.html

Then give it a test drive:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

Make sure to try this test drive (works in FireFox too):
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/…

Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.

Link:
http://ie6funeral.com/

Reports have surfaced about a new security hole that has been in Windows since the release of Windows NT 3.1 on July 27, 1993. The vulnerability is present in all 32-bit versions of Windows released since then, including Windows 7.

Thankfully, the flaw isn’t in a commonly used application but in the Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) used to support 16-bit applications. There are several vulnerabilities in this implementation, according to Google security team member Tavis Ormandy, who found the issues.

Link:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/…

Where will this be in 5 years?