Tuesday, August 24, 2004

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Calendar Updates announced the release of their TV Listings for Microsoft Outlook. With this release, Microsoft Outlook users will have the ability to browse TV Listings directly from within Outlook. Programs that viewers are interested in can easily be added to their calendar with one click of the mouse. The TV Listings are available to the public free of charge at www.calendar-updates.com.

According to company spokesman, Greg Titamer, "We already provide many popular sport schedules for the Microsoft Outlook calendar. With this new product, fans can check for updated broadcast information without leaving Outlook."

Besides the benefits for sports fans, the TV Listings will allow viewers to browse all television shows in their area. "Whether you want the latest broadcast information for a sporting event or just want to plan your evening entertainment, this new service provides a convenient way to do that," says Mr. Titamer. The service is available in all areas of the United States and Canada.

The most notable feature of the Calendar Updates TV Listings is the ability to add any television show directly to the Outlook calendar. As a user browses the TV Listings, programs can be added to their calendar by clicking a calendar icon in the grid. The program is then added to their calendar with a convenient reminder.

Calendar Updates provides three formats for installing the TV Listings, depending on the version of Outlook used. The TV Listings are available for Outlook 2003, Outlook XP (2002) and Outlook 2000. Non-Outlook users are also welcome to use the service via the Internet. Any calendaring application that supports the vCalendar format can benefit from the Add to Calendar feature.



Friday, August 20, 2004

3D Gamers - Thief: Deadly Shadows:

In Thief: Deadly Shadows, gamers once again take on the role of Garrett, a master thief. Garrett is rarely seen, never caught and capable of breaking into the most ingeniously secured places. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City. Preferring to be left alone to ply his trade, prophecies of an impending Dark Age dictate a different plan for the thief. In Garrett's efforts to prevent this approaching Dark Age, he has inadvertently roused an ancient hidden evil. Without allies, Garrett finds himself standing alone between the City and the forces that would crush it.

Playing as Garrett, you must use your skills to sneak throughout the City into castles, mansions, prisons, cathedrals, dungeons, and museums, past armed guards, hired muscle, angry thugs, hideous monsters, and much worse. Garrett must steal the City's oldest treasures in order to stop the darkness foretold in the prophecies. You will have a wealth of thieves' tools at your disposal, including lock picks, a variety of special arrows, wall climbing gloves, and flash bombs.

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

SnippetBox .NET - Manage your source code easier

The SnippetBox .NET is the most extensive professional source code snippets manager and organizer for software developers. You can select snippets, change the name, change the description and specify search criteria. Each code snippet is associated with categories, which makes it easier to find the code you are looking for. Once you have located a desired piece of code in the SnippetBox .NET, it is easy to add that code to your code module.

SnippetBox .NET is taken up a position in the market as a programming tool. However, it can be used with ordinary documents, pieces of text, as notes organizer and ideas repository.

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Windows Your Way

One thing that makes Windows such an effective platform is its great flexibility: Nearly everything that (on the surface) seems to be hard-coded can be tweaked, turned off, or reconfigured. To that end, Windows XP has the Group Policy Editor (GPE), a tool that lets you not only tinker with the OS but also lock down many of its vulnerabilities.

The GPE has been around since Windows 95, but because it's a power tool, Microsoft has always chosen to hide it (much like the Registry Editor). This is understandable, as there is some potential to wreak havoc, but the GPE's point-and-click design makes it much safer than changing the same settings in Regedit.