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August 2006 - Posts

I've just finished a new gadget. Check out http://shrinkster.com/hlz It's a gadget for using Shrinkster from live.com. Read More...
I just got this email: From: <consumeralert@auda.org.au> To: <undisclosed-recipients:> Subject: CONSUMER ALERT from auDA, The Australian Domain Name Administrator Date: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:42 PM You are receiving this email because your Read More...
Last week Frank Arigo blogged about my Live.com gadget which I also blogged about here . The next day the Live.com team did some major updates to their site which broke the gadget. I got it working again in Firefox pretty quickly but IE6 was a little Read More...
Live favourites have been around for a long time. When I first looked at them I wasn't overly impressed. And at the time they weren't that great. The problem was I assumed that they wouldn't get any better. Boy was I wrong! I was just clicking around Read More...
The last week I've been working on a Live.com gadget. After going through a bit of a hassle with web service proxies and cross domain HTTP calls etc... it's finally finished. It's called Driver Change - Search and its a gadget for searching for used cars Read More...
I'm a previous post I pointed to some articles about SOAP HTTP and GET, POST requests. As it turned out there have been some changes in 2.0 and so GET requests are turned off by default. This means that some of what's in the articles I talked about is Read More...
I've been trying to get a gadget working on live.com and have had trouble with the SOAP request format. After much googling I found a couple of articles which spread some light on how ASP.NET web services work (in .NET 1.x at least). Check out Michele Read More...
I got this email this morning: "Congratulations! Your Google AdSense application has been approved. You can now activate your account and start delivering Google ads and AdSense for search on your site in minutes." Let the good time roll! Read More...