Finally i have migrated everything on my blog to the latest version of Blogengine. It was much faster than me developing a newer version. Only some major very interesting work on the CSS to create this UI.

Still a bit of work to be done. Have to migrate the Comments from visitors properly. and a bit of other stuff. Anyways for now I have a functioning blog, which is the most important.

Windows Live Hotmail just now got a face lift. this new UI is much faster than the previous and it looks cool.

Finally :)

Ever since the inception Paint and Notepad have remained in its same old look and feel and functionality. No idea why there are many useful features that these two programs should have got a while ago. Anyways ... with Windows 7 .... finally it seems like both Paint and Notepad are getting the treatment both deserves. Because without a doubt these two have been two of the most widely used programs for decades ...

From bink.nu

Yes, both Paint and WordPad have finally received the royal treatment. Via permission given to me to remotely access build 6780 to play around a bit, Paint and WordPad both look great and have much-needed updates. I've got to work within the permissions granted to me by my source and unfortunately, screenshots don't fall within those permissions (yet), so you all will still have to wait to actually see this stuff. (Don't worry, there is a LOT of chatter about this build going around by people who have it. I can't help but think the next week or two will be quite fruitful for the community in terms of information, screenshots, and perhaps the build even leaking if someone is brazen enough. Just beware the wrath of Sinofsky if any of you dare the latter of the aforementioned choices...) Something I have been given the liberty to do is give a very broad teaser explanation of Paint and WordPad in their current 6780 state, so here goes.

Yesterday I started working on the next version of my blog. It's going to take some time to finish this as i'll be doing it bit by bit while doing everything else. It's a tough choice what to include and what not to include. There are so many things which I want to put in but if I try to do everything it'll be a never ending project. So i'm going to spend this week trying to decide what to include and what not to.

Anyways I have already decided to include a bit of Silvelright and it'll be done with ASP.NET 3.5. Hosting is going to be a bit of a problem as i'm going to have to upgrade the servers. Also have decided to finish the photo gallery which I never got a chance to finish in the current version.

Just notice that the times in the blog entries are taking the server time ... will have to fix it within the weekend.

I have been using Outlook 2007 in both my machines and it was working fine. Well! not that fine. In the office machine it was working perfectly fine. But on my tablet it gives an error 50% of the times I try create a mail or open a mail by double clicking. First attempt of any of those activities works fine. Second of any of those crashes the whole thing. And this morning I got a bonus :)   in both machines it gave the same error as Exsec32.dll (or something) is incompatible bla bla. After googling I found that this is due to a security update. Yeah! Right!.

So it's a totally screwed up day for me. Tons of mails are in the inbox waiting to be replied, But I'm unable to access any of those.

Fun with Outlook ... Hell!     I'm just kidding, Outlook is giving me a hard time, and I'm pissed with it right at this moment.

Just now uninstalled Windows Desktop Search. Why?   My experience with it is not good. It Sucks!.

I installed it because Outlook 2007 was giving a message to install it for fast search results. After installed it always stayed loaded, and eats about 25 - 100 Mb of my RAM, also sometimes processor usage goes wild. Not sure whether this was due to a problem in my machine, but I doubt it because everyting else was and is running sommothly expect this. It was not a 'happy computing feeling' at all. So I removed it. Considering the number of times I perform a search in outlook or in a drive within a week, it's not worth to waste such a big load of memory and processing power for that.

Almost all my files and outlook items are properly organiszed, I know where things are ;) So very rarely only I perform a search. Good lessen to me for installing what I don't want

So guys ... don't install what you dont want ... even when it is free

Just now installed IE 7 Beta 3 and it is much better than the beta 2.

Loading a new tab is super fast, and tab ordering is enabled. You can simply drag and drop tabs on the tab to re-arrange the order. And the enhancement on the image zooming option is great. In the previous versions when a large image is displayed it automatically gets fits into the browser size and to bring it back to the original size we have to click the resize button appear on the bottom right corner which appears when the mouse is kept on the image for few seconds. But now mouse becomes a zooming glass and no need to wait few seconds. When working on a busy schedule this is very useful.

So all IE fans ... what are you waiting for?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Live Messenger Beta is crashing time to time and sometimes it is pissing me off. But still I'm using it because I love that search feature, Offline messaging and Offline Mode.

Anyways all this trouble is until the final version comes out. I herd that it is coming out in may or something. But not for sure. Hope it comes out soon.

Today morning upgraded to the new release of Live Messenger. Well! had no option but updating, because it didn't allow me to sign in without updating. After the instalation I was like "where the hell is my cool interface?"   New interface looks more similar to the old MSN Messenger. I prefer the earlier live messenger beta look and feel.

Anyways this is what I got with the new update ...

After many months of beta Gmail is still it is in beta. Will it go full live ever?

or are they planning for a super surprise?

Was waiting anxiously for the Office 12 Beta. Finally I was selected to the Office 12 Beta program. Last night I downloaded and installed the stuff.

Guys believe me It Rocks. Well still lot of bugs. But It Rocks.

IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.

• Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.
• Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.
• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
• View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
• Immediately resize the browser window to 800x600 or a custom size.
• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
• Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
• Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.

The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.

I think this is going to be a very handy tool for web designers. Because I have seen designers try and create very messy table structures just to achieve the immediate requirements. But when it comes to changes sometimes they to re-do the entire table structure. With this tool they can see how the tables are done in popular sites. and then learn from it. Check the following screenshots which shows an example of displaying the Table Cell lines. Click Here to Download.

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Your Creative Power Unleashed. - Microsoft Expression

First version of the Sri Lanka's first application server community portal is launched.

Head person is Ru1. i'm doing all the coding stuff. Actually same like my blog tech2guys site is also 100% coded from the scratch by me.

www.tech2guys.com

This is just a beginning, very soon i'll be adding a Forum to the site.