Setting Different Wallpapers - The other day Scott Hanselman posted a blog post on setting individual wallpapers for each monitor in Windows 8 if you're using multiple monitors. While this isn't strictly something many will find essential, it bugs the heck out of me not being able to do it
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The Daily Six Pack: August 4, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Transparent Identifiers What is up with transparent identifiers? Part one, Eric Lippert Other Australian team wins Microsoft Imagine Cup with eye-scanning health app, Todd Bishop WinDock: Free desktop enhancement software for Windows 8, Lavish SSMS: Disk Usage Report, Pinal Dave Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers
The Daily Six Pack: March 14, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Google Drive Price Slashed Google slashes Google Drive storage prices to take on Box & Dropbox, Harrison Weber Other Install Google Drive on your computer, Google Podcast: LightSwitch, a Hidden Gem in Visual Studio, Beth Massi VLC Media Player Beta for Windows
The Daily Six Pack: March 4, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Auto Incrementing Visual Studio 2013 Version Number How to Get Auto Incrementing Version Number in Visual Studio 2013?, Abundantcode.com Other New CodeLens Indicator–Incoming Changes, Mathew Aniyan Monitor or Limit Data Usage in Windows 8.1, Shawn Keene Microsoft Provides Free Data Transfer Tool
The Daily Six Pack: February 11, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Hacking Bell Here’s how Bell was hacked – SQL injection blow-by-blow, Troy Hunt Other If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014?, Scott Hanselman Jump to SQL with IntelliTrace, Tim Varcak Explore the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 in MSDN Magazine,
The Daily Six Pack: January 8, 2014
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Code Debugging Code Debugging Topics on MSDN, Eric Battalio Other Researchers warn of new, meaner ransomware with unbreakable crypto, Dan Goodin Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces McAfee brand name will be replaced by Intel Security, Emil Protalinski Create a Shutdown Button on
The Daily Six Pack: November 29, 2013
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Interfaces versus Delegates Interfaces vs Delegates, Paulo Zemek Other A Gorgeous Short Film Shows How The MacBook Pro Is Made Hacks of Life: It’s the simple things, Josh Benson F-Secure KEY: New password manager freeware for Windows 8 | 7, Anand Khanse
The Daily Six Pack: October 24, 2013
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: OS X Mavericks How to upgrade to Mavericks, Josh Benson Other Visual Studio Tip: The Difference Between Start Without Debugging and Start with Debugging, Peter Vogel Installation of the Visual Studio 2012 fails with the error message "Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Devenv
The Daily Six Pack: October 7, 2013
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: TweetBrander wants you Twitter user? TweetBrander wants you!, Josh Benson Other Hide internet searches by browsing privately, geeklift Google is building Chrome OS straight into Windows 8, Tom Warren #945 – Lazy Instantiation, an Easier Solution, Sean Sexton Intrinsic Database Management with Database Projects, Chris Rummel The LightSwitch
The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2013
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: SQL SELECT Previous Next Value How to Access the Previous Row and Next Row value in SELECT statement?, Pinal Dave Other Retargeting Windows 8 RSS Reader to Windows 8.1, Zubair Ahmed Writing Great Error Messages, Peter Vogel Three Favorite .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily