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Software I use or reccomend

Application to convert CSV files to Garmin POI’s

I created an application to convert the Mines data to Garmin POI’s.  Please take a look and see if it will work for you! MRDS-2-POI v1.0 DOWNLOAD PAGE   Performance I just did a quick test on a virtual machine of the time it takes to process the entire MRDS database of 305476 rows, and [...]

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File Monitor and Backup Utility

I recently needed a free (and hopefully open source) application to run on windows to accomplish the following things: 1.  Recursively checksum all files in a directory 2.  When (if) those files are modified or new files are added make a date stamped copy and add that to a compressed archive which also includes the [...]

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Server 2008, Windows Live Writer and Desktop blogging clients – oh my!

Well, I used to make most of my posts with a Desktop Client “Windows Live Writer”.  Something (still not sure what), perhaps a Windows update, a change of domain caused Windows Live Writer to stop working on my server (which is in Hyper-V and used as a development client) 2008 machine.  I scoured the web [...]

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Broaden you exposure via OnlyWire

Recently, tried of individually posting link backs to my blog on individual social bookmark pages like Facebook, twitter, technorati etc, I started looking for a way of doing a push en masse to all the sites I use.  First, I tried using the service by “Share This” whose plugin I had been using for WordPress, [...]

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