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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Five great free Delphi components we use
There are many free Delphi components out there. Some of them are of great value and quality. I wanted to take the chance and promote some of the better Delphi components/libraries on this blog by listing the free components that we use in SmartInspect (in the Console):
TMPHexEditor
This is a hex editor control to display and [...]
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Google Adwords Editor
The recently released Google Adwords Editor (beta, of course!) is really cool. It lets you edit all your Adwords campaigns, text ads and keywords in an easy-to-use desktop application. If you are changing your ads and keywords often, you should definitely look into using the Adwords Editor, as it’s much quicker and more responsive than [...]
Unhiding Google Groups
One of our readers, JoaquÃn Bernal, was nice enough to build and send me a small Chickenfoot script to unhide the Google Groups link I mentioned in the previous blog posting. Chickenfoot is similar to Greasemonkey but with a much simpler syntax. Here is the Chickenfoot script to unhide the link:
click("more link")
l = find("Groups link").html
remove("Groups [...]
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Google hides newsgroups
You might know that I’m a big fan of searching Google Groups to solve technical problems. It looks like Google decided that Groups aren’t that important and to hide it on the default Google website:
You have to click on more to open a small window with more search options to see a link to Groups. [...]
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Nagarsoft releases Direct Access
Nagarsoft just released the Direct Access shortcut utility. This tool allows you to configure keyboard commands for launching applications, entering text snippets into the active application, send an email or open a website. Direct Access already got some fans that love the product. Congratulations for releasing the 1.0!
Andrea, the author of Direct Access, used SmartInspect [...]
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MSDN Search now powered by MSN
Most people probably know this already, but it was new to me: the MSDN search is now powered by Windows Live (aka MSN Search). My Microsoft ISV buddy told me this (Hi K. ) and he is right about the increased speed and search quality.
I tried some search terms and got much better results [...]
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More about invoices (Yahoo Search Marketing)
Am I the only one really hating the Yahoo Search Marketing web interface with a passion? The Google Adwords interface is quite good, MSN’s interface is OK, but Yahoo’s web interface to configure search advertising is really really bad (and from the three big search engines, Yahoo has the worst advertising results for us, by [...]
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Please fix your invoices!
I’m not sure what kind of regulations the different countries around the world have regarding accounting and invoices, but at least here in Germany we have quite strict rules on what information have to be included in an invoice (especially if they contain VAT statements). I noticed that many companies generate/send very amateurish looking and [...]
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Using SmartInspect with the new Turbo products