I'm team leader of the server development team at Swyx. Everything I say on this blog is my private opinion and not that of my employer.
My favourite screenshot utility just got better Kenny Kerr released v2.0 of WindowClippings. It now has: Ability to select maximized windows, individual controls as well as multi-select windows and controls Include the mouse pointer and other new image effects Capture pop-ups such as tool tips and menus Crop selections Window-less selections Action sequences New storage features and improvements Extensibility Improved performance and reliability Command line flags to control startup The basic features are free, the more advanced ones are available after registration which is $10 only. If you want proper looking screenshots on Windows Vista including the alpha channel (transparency information), this is a must-have. Here's... Read More »
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Paul Thurrott writes about the command-line interfaces included in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 and thinks: "The only problem is, they're offering admins, IT professionals, developers, and other power users two competing command line environments, one old, one new, one based in the murky past, one wrapped in the richest and goodness of Microsoft's modern developer frameworks." I don't see any real competition. Windows Powershell is by far better and it runs all the old command-line tools cmd.exe is able to run. Paul suggests that Microsoft makes cmd.exe more relevant: "Windows Server 2008 includes some amazing new Command Prompt-based utilities. Chief among these are servermanagercmd.exe, which Microsoft tells me provides 100 percent of the functionality of the new Server Manager GUI, but in a scriptable, automatable command line version." Yes, it's amazing to have such a tool, but that has nothing to do... Read More »
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