't IsGoud - May, 2006

Hotkeys: Windows shortcut keys on steroids

Hotkeys is a free productivity tool based on the concept of the Windows shortcut keys. Hotkeys takes this concept to the next level.

With hotkeys you can add new shortcuts and even change the default shortcuts. An onscreen keyboard and the possibility to use drag and drop to configure the shortcuts makes it a very user friendly application.

Hotkeys Onscreen keyboard

30 May 2006 Comments [2] Tools

Apple and Nike an ultimate MashUp

I first heard the word mashup at the MIX06 conference. Mashup (web application hybrid) as trend was mentioned at several sessions. These mashups use and combine webservices to create new applications. The programmableweb has a nice overview of some of these combinations in a matrix.
According to Wikipedia a mashup is also a musical genre. This genre uses parts of other songs to create new songs.

So basically combining stuff is not really new and if you look around you see it happening over and over again. Another good sample -and a very succesfull one- is the Senseo created by Philips and Douwe Egberts. But Nike and Apple take it to the next level.

25 May 2006 Comments [2] Innovative | MIX06 | Web 2.0

New way to get SQL Server 2005 version

After updating my SQL Server 2005 to SP1 I tried to find out what version was running. So I open a new query window and type:

SELECT @@VERSION

and get as result:

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.2047.00 (Intel X86) ...

I'm not so good at deciphering these version numbers so I wanted to look them up. Only then I found out that there were some changes to Transact-SQL.

1 May 2006 Comments [0] SQL Server 2005