Here's a cool, early preview release of a developer's toolbar to make designing websites easier.

Brief Description: The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release...

http://www.microsoft...91038&displaylang=en

DelEmpty - List and delete empty folders.

Features:
- Show filecount and size of files and subfolders.
- Sort by files, size or path.
- Doubleclick to explore a folder.

You'll find the downloads and more info at Skrommel Software.

Ok boys and girls gather round for I am going to blow your mind with my 3 step process that is guaranteed to get you TONS of great press in the technology blogs and financial journals.  Your company will become the talk of the town and you will soon become rich beyond your wildest dreams.

Now why am I giving away this amazing secret simple strategy when I could make millions from selling it? Well there is a catch.  I'm going to leave off one little mystery of the technique.  To get the missing element you have to mail me $999 in cash.  It's only a small sum compared to the increase in revenue your business will generate.

Ok here is my Web 2.0 Technology Strategy:

• 1. Find a friend with another internet company.
• 2. Send out a press release trumpeting the huge news that one of the companies has suddenly acquired the other !! OMG YES!
• 3. Repea*

I know you are thinking to yourself that is the most amazing strategy I have ever heard and i've just blown your mind.  It is as good as that and better.  My technique is being used internationally all over the globe with great success.  Just open your browser to any high-tech news site and you will see my clients using this strategy like mad.  It costs you nothing and is 100% guaranteed to make you fistfulls of money!

I know you are thinking to yourself "But this is too good to be true!!!! Don't I have to improve my product? Or create new features? Or hire new employees?"  NO, NO, and NO!!! That's the magic!

Interested in writing a .net app? These stats will help give you an understanding of those who will be able to use it.

What percent of normal people have the .net framework installed?

It's very hard to get a straight answer on this. And if you mine the stats of a Microsoft related website like this one, you'll get a very skewed answer.

Well a friend gave me some stats about his website, which is a non-technical site, dealing with the 'talent' industry. I think these stats will be closer to 'normal' people than stats I've seen previously...

http://secretgeek.ne.../dotnet_fw_stats.asp

Scott Berkun responds to an earlier essay by Joel Spolsky questioning the adage that Simple is Better in software..

In defense of simplicity
Recently two notable design advocates, Don Norman and Joel Spolsky, challenged the value of simplicity in design, and I’m here to offer a late defense.
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It’s easy to confuse success with quality, and both articles discount our secret inability to make satisfying choices. We are attracted to things with more features, that cost less, or come in larger quantities, despite our inner suspicions that we’re likely to complain about those purchases soon after. We date people, eat food, take jobs and buy products for superficial, misguided reasons all the time. We’re easily seduced, and every marketer knows we always have been and always will be.

But we shouldn’t confuse the success of feature-laden crap as a signal for the irrelevance of simplicity any more than the success of Rocky IV and Burger King signaled the irrelevance of good film-making or fine dining. It just means there are gaps between what we need, what we want, and why we buy, and that the masses are by definition less discriminating than the niches of people with refined tastes for a particular thing.

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/?p=502

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