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With beta 2 release of Silverlight 2 (SL2-B2), Microsoft decided to change the socket implementation to require a socket policy server, which basically is a TCP server responding with an XML document if you send it a certain string.

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Session ShortCuts 1.0.1 (SSC) is now available for download. If anyone wonders what happened with 1.0.0, I thought I had announced that, but apparently I didn’t. Oh well.. This release should be of particular interest for those running Vista.

1.0.1 – 2008-06-11

1. Fixed: Vista bugfix: Menu items would be missing for other than the first application in the list. Should now be fixed.
2. Changed: Internet Explorer: Apparently this works for more than 6.x, so the “6.x” suffix text was removed.

1.0.0 – 2008-03-27

1. Added: Support for WinSCP4.1 session folder structure
2. Fixed: FlashFXP: Now correctly restores regular minimized (not to tray) windows
3. Fixed: FlashFXP: Understands how to figure out where data is stored in v3.4 and v3.6
4. Fixed: FlashFXP: Recognizes v3.6 windows correctly
5. Virtually the same as RC2, which proved stable (no complaints so far)

Update DOH! If you already downloaded 1.0.1 prior to 2008/06/19 16:30 CET, please get it again. I included a build of the debuglogger.dll file that writes a whole lot of debug text to disk. Sorry!

New version of Unpacker with a few changes/fixes/additions:

1. >4gb files now show more correct progress bar and estimated time
2. Strips readonly file attributes before moving files
3. Ability to add archives found during unpacking to job queue
4. Option of using ctrl+drag (copy) to add directories recursively
5. “Extract all” menu command / toolbar button
6. Ability to reorder jobs list

Update 2007-11-26:
Some more features:

1. Added ability to store a list of favorite folders
2. Added option for saving window size
3. Prevents files already in queue from being added

Update 2007-12-05:
More features!

1. Added “Explore Selected Folders” to favorite folders context menu
2. Added “Open in Explorer” and “Shell Open” options to archives context menu
3. Bugfix: The first folder of the favorite folders was not being added
4. Bugfix: “Remove” button was broken in 1.2.0.17
5. Bugfix: Does not assume *.001 file as a RAR archive (checks header)
6. Added: Optional PAR2 verification and repair, using PAR2Lib
7. Updated to 0.7 version of PAR2Lib

Added some information on a couple of new projects I’ve been playing around with:

Cropper.WordPress

An extension for the screen capture utility Cropper that lets you publish captured images to WordPress blogs.
 

Removable Media Batch Copier

A simple application to ease the process of copying large amounts of removable media (CDs, DVDs) onto e.g. a harddrive.

Not much information on them published at the moment – neither are downloads available – but.. Coming soon!

Session ShortCuts 1.0 RC2 is now available for download.

It’s a small update which fixes the long over-due missing buttons in the configuration dialog when Windows is set in “Large fonts” mode, along with a couple of bugfixes in the Remote Desktop functionality. Additionally, support for Windows console windows (cmd.exe / command line) has been added.

Update: apparently the Microsoft Windows Explorer and Visual Studio plugins made their way into this release also.. Wasn’t the meaning, but they should work, however any bug reports etc are more than welcome

Recently there has been talk by some music labels that they will be releasing non-DRMed mp3 files, followed by updates that they are going to “watermark” these files.

I choose to write “watermark” quoted, as this is really more tagging than watermarking, because I doubt they will be applying on-the-fly digital audio processing to watermark, followed by encoding each mp3 specifically for each customer. Let’s assume they’re going to just modify stocks of ready-encoded mp3s.

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I’ve finally decided to make a publically available release candidate 1 (RC1) of Session ShortCuts (SSC) 1.0 ! There might be a few quirks still, but I’ve been using this version myself for quite some time now and it has worked without any noticeable problems.