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** An updated version is available. To see what's new, look at this post . After searching for a way to automattically import Album Art into iTunes, I was horribly disapointed. The only application written to do this did the importing based on a per song...

Here is a quick script to shrink the database log file in a SQL Server 2008 database.  This procedure has changed, since the BACKUP command does not work the same way as previous versions.  Replace DatabaseName with the name of your database...

Internet Information Services in Windows x64 is 64-bit. This means, if you want to run 32-bit ISAPI DLLs with IIS6 on Windows x64, you'll need to apply a small tweak. Open up a Command Prompt window, and type this command to enable 32-bit Application...

There is a dialog in Windows that hasn't changed since the Windows 3.x generation. If you're in the Fonts folder, the context menu has an option to "Install a new font...". Clicking this option provides the decade plus old dialog box...

Problem Spell checking in Outlook Express does not work in Windows x64 Background When you're on a clean installation of Windows, Outlook Express has no spell checking support . Only when you install Microsoft Office, Outlook Express uses parts of Office...

Update: Extended64.com is happy to provide you with an easy patcher that totally obsoletes the following method. You can find it, here . Just like everyone else, I got real excited when I saw this in the WinRAR changelog: 1. WinRAR is able to integrate...

This post refers to the article “ IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch” by Paul Thurrott . Be sure to read it, otherwise the following will make little to no sense . In the tech journalism world, there are three types of people...

Last week, the Bink.nu news poster "Spy" wrote about his experiences with Windows Vista. I have been using the final version of Windows Vista since it was released on MSDN, and I have had a completely different experience then Spy. The first...