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Windows XP mainstream support ends in 2 days

On April 14th mainstream support for Windows XP will end. for the next 5 years the operating system goes into extended support. The table below illust...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, April 12, 2009

The Internet displayed as a subway map

The [Information Architects](http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-4-final-beta/) have published an updated trend map of today’s internet. [ !...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, April 12, 2009

Left-Handed Mouse pointers

for those that are left-handed, have a look at these [mouse pointers on MSDN Code Gallery](http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/lefthanded). These left-hand...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, April 12, 2009

Windows7 – Application Compatibility – ACT 5.5

Microsoft has released ACT 5.5 (Application Compatibility Toolkit). ACT 5.5 provides support for pre-RTM version of Windows7. To learn more about ACT ...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, April 3, 2009

ToolTip – less misérables (MSI file extractor)

Today I found a nice utility that allows you to easily extract individual files from an MSI package. The tool is called “[less miséreables](http://blo...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, April 3, 2009

Verifying your file downloads

Today we once more ran into an issue caused by a corrupted file transfer. I mention “once more” because this is something I see happening all the time...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, April 2, 2009