Forget MSDN, use http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/snyholm/archive/2005/12/16/1746.aspx

Did you know you can use your gmail mail server to send and receive emails programmatically for free?

It's true; gmail allows you to use their mail servers to send email from your applications. If you combine that with the ASP.NET System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class, you are ready to use your free gmail account and server. 

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Via: Greg's Cool Stuff of the Day

After a long time I enjoyed a movie! Sure, it is a beaten up romantic story about two people finding each other, but the proper mix of music, comedy and Drew Barrymore made this movie a real delight.

Get some popcorns, silence your mobile, kick back - relax and just enjoy the movie.

My score: 3.4 / 5

I was recently working on an option to present our company profile PowerPoint file on the web, it has quite a lot of pictures and videos in them. At first I used the normal PowerPoint -> Save As web site option and was not satisfied with the kind of output I received. So, I thought I could as well develop an framework for putting up the powerpoint slides to the website as I am doing it quite often.

To accomplish the task I planned to export all the slides as images, then scale them and optimize them for the web and then maybe put up an xml file to provide the order in which they are displayed and the name / description stuff. But as soon as I saved the slides into images I had a surprise the images which were of high quality were displayed in the following manner: 

I don't know why that happens, after experimenting with few more options I found a workaround for the issue. Save the presentation into PDF and then from the save the pages as image. This method somehow manages to scale the images down to the slides dimension without disorting it. Below is the result of the image saved using the latest method:

I will post the code for the framework I am working on my blog shortly after I finish it.

Have a nice day.

After my recent laptop crash I had moved to my desktop for the development, since my desktop is equipped with more RAM and has Windows 2003 as the OS (instead of the XP in laptop) I comfortable in doing my development work on the desktop and continued staying on it.

Recently I saw that one of my hard disk is having only 200 odd Mb of free space and wanted to know what was chewing up the space. I was using a free tool in my laptop occasionally for accomplishing the same task, but I forgot the name of the software. After digging around a lot I found it, and name is SequoiaView.

I am writing this post just to keep myself reminded of the software if in case I need in the future.

Hi all,

   Due to the constraints / trouble I had because of my previous blogging platform, I am switching to dasBlog. I have not ported my old posts to this platform yet, will do so when I have some time.

Thanks for taking you time to visit and read my blog.