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Once again, I had an itch that only some software could solve - what I wanted didn't exist, so I wrote it... Since our new arrival, I've wanted an easy, reliable and automated way to share photos with friends and family (and anyone else who wants to take a look at the cutest baby ever :-) ).  I could have just created a share ...

This is more a personal reference than anything, but hopefully someone else will find it useful too.  In Vista you can navigate to many of the system folders, such as the "Send To" folder by typing shell:<Command Name> (eg shell:sendto) in the Start/Search(aka Run) text box (See screen shot).  This sure beats typing ...

I received a Roku media player for Christmas, and wanted to hook it up to stream some holiday music right away.  Pretty simple install on the hardware side, plug it into AC, plug in a pair of speakers, and configure it for WiFi (or hardwire to the LAN) - total time <5 minutes - very nice. I then remote desktoped into my main home PC, ...

Vista RC2 (build 5744) poked it's head out yesterday on the Microsoft Beta sites.  This build seems easier to install on a VMWare virtual machine than previous builds, and performance is very usable. The only gotcha I had, and why I'm posting this, is that if I ran the install from a VMWare or Daemon Tools ISO CD emulator, the install ...