Scott Hanselman

That's it. I've had it. Acrobat has crashed my (and my family's) computers for the last time. I'm officially over it and I'm using Foxit's Reader exclusively as my default PDF Reader. I'm now living in an Adobe Free Zone.

Other than not crashing, the other fantastic feature is the ability to type on any document. That means I can fill out forms that weren't set up as PDF Forms. That alone is reason to switch.

Here's my math:

Firefox + Foxit Reader > IE + Acrobat

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Google Desktop and its Indexer just wouldn't relax today. I suspected index corruption for a while but didn't feel like uninstalling and reinstalling as I didn't want to lose any settings.

To reset your index, shut down GDS and delete everything in this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\ <username> \Local Settings\application data\Google\Google Desktop\ <some long number>

...except the files that start with "sidebar_*.*" and you'll be back in business when it restarts.

Now playing: MaryMary - Trouble Ain't

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I'm back at work this morning and it's all about email. I like to keep ZERO emails in my Inbox, since it's my "IN-BOX" and not my "Hold a bunch of crap for an indefinite period of time BOX." However, there's like a million background things running since my laptop hasn't been hooked up to the wired corporate network in a few weeks. Outlook just wasn't getting the cycles it needed.

Solution: I set Outlook's priority by right-clicking within Task Manager to "Above Normal." Suddenly I'm back banging through emails faster than ever. I wonder if this is a good idea for everyday work? Wasn't the foreground application supposed to get more respect?

Now playing: MaryMary - In The Morning

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I noticed that Russell Beattie listed his 496 posts of 2005. That's a lot of blogging. As we wind down 2005, here's everything I had to say in 2005 in DasBlog's calendar view.

A few highlights:

• Z and Fatherhood
• Xbox 360 as Media Hub
• Mono (screencast)
• The new "Reviews" Category for all reviews and commentary
• Free Mac Mini
• Squishing TV onto your PSP
• Logitech Harmony 880
• The State of (my) Digital Media
• The 2005 Ultimate Tools List
• Ruby, Watir and NUnit
• Building your own Windows Media Center
• What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know
• Set VB6 = Nothing
• How do you organize your code
• Groktalks
• Code Generation at TechEd and the follow up Webcast
• DasBlog 1.7 and 1.8
• Watirmaker
• Personal Systems of Organization
• Professional ASP.NET 2.0 ships!
• The Logitech io2 on Coding4Fun
• Google GuestMap

Some lowlights:

• Ah, crap...
• Rory and Scott design some Software and Rory and Scott in the can (TechEd Videos)
• Hammering in screws
• ASP.NET 2.0 XmlDataSource's XPath doesn't support namespaces
• Watirmaker
• The Referral Blacklist dies

I'm looking forward to 2006, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on at work, I'll do a few INETA gigs including at a poor man's "Canadian Roadshow," we'll start doing Hanselminutes weekly in January (with thanks to Travis for the title), I'll continue with more Some Assembly Required articles, and maybe I'll get some sleep.

Now playing: Blaque - 808

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Santa in this picture with Z is my Uncle Mike, my Dad's Brother, who runs the Blue Heron Herbary with Aunt Penny.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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