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		<title>Create a multi-lingual / multi-language MSI using WiX and custom build scripts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people might find this useful, so I thought I’d write it up. If you want to create a multi-language MSI (Windows Installer package) that works without a bootstrapper executable, this is one possible way to do it. It relies on an undocumented feature of Windows Installer, so proceed with caution/at your own risk. Testing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2010/03/13/create-a-multi-lingual-multi-language-msi-using-wix-and-custom-build-scripts/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts about Linchpin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished my second reading of Seth Godin&#8217;s forthcoming book, Linchpin. Seth gave a group of people the opportunity to make a donation to the Acumen fund and in return we received a copy of the book before its public &#8221;ship date&#8221; on the 26th of this month.

Linchpin is at its core a self-help book. It&#8217;s meant to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2010/01/15/thoughts-about-linchpin/</link>
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		<title>100000 Views &#8211; Thank You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago (around December 3, 2009) this blog passed the 100,000 views mark. A milestone for any blog, so I thought I&#8217;d show you some of the stats from around that time:
 
Proof that it happened. 100024 views.

Daily stats leading up to 100000 views.
  
Weekly stats leading up to 100000 views.

Blog stats all the way from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/12/25/100000-views-thank-you/</link>
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		<title>HP TouchSmart SDK 3.0 &#8211; Giveaways at PDC 09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To mark the release of the TouchSmart 3.0 SDK, HP has a goodie to give away at the Microsoft PDC 09: A super-slim 2 GB USB memory stick (embedded in a hard-plastic business card with a nice imprint). It contains the new SDK and a few documents about a software development partner program HP is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/11/17/hp-touchsmart-sdk-3-0-giveaways-at-pdc-09/</link>
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		<title>New SDK for HP TouchSmart software development &#8211; out now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Today HP is announcing a new Software Development Kit for helping you write apps that play well in the HP TouchSmart “shell” environment. The new SDK still contains the general guidelines that outline both what makes a good app that’s optimized for touch interaction and the general rules you have to play by in order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/11/16/new-sdk-for-hp-touchsmart-software-development-out-now/</link>
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		<title>Upgraded your HP TouchSmart IQ500/800 to Windows 7? A tip on installing the new apps.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Update 2009-11-05: Looks like one more application is now made available for IQ500/800 customers: Twitter)
(Update 2010-02-05: The &#8220;shell&#8221; has been updated from 3.0.32.0 to 3.0.35.0 on HP&#8217;s support site. I&#8217;ve updated the link here as well)
I can’t get into every detail of the upgrade process (how to install Windows 7, drivers, etc.), but I thought I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/31/upgraded-your-hp-touchsmart-iq500800-to-windows-7-a-tip-on-installing-the-new-apps/</link>
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		<title>Design changes in the TouchSmart 3.0 software &#8211; what&#8217;s new and different from 2.x</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of tutorial videos for the TouchSmart 3.0 software available (see a longer list at the bottom of this post). For those of you who would rather read about things, here is a little overview of what’s new and changed in TouchSmart 3.0:

Direct interaction / tile size: The biggest change is that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/26/design-changes-in-the-touchsmart-3-0-software-whats-new-and-different-from-2-x/</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 Upgrade discs: Shiny, happy holograms!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you’re wondering (yeah, I know, you probably AREN’T) what you’re missing by buying a new PC (such as the HP TouchSmart 600xt – hint, hint   ) with Windows 7 preinstalled, here are some pictures of a Windows 7 upgrade DVD that recently showed up at my doorstep: 
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Not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/26/windows-7-upgrade-discs-shiny-happy-holograms/</link>
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		<title>Pictures from Agile Open California 2009, Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More pictures from Agile Open 2009.

Agile Open art by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Agile Open art by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Agile Open art by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Agile Open art by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Agile Open art by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Conference center stage
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		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/16/pictures-from-agile-open-2009-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Pictures from Agile Open California 2009, Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures from the Agile Open Northern California 2009 conference

Open Space Framework

Theme for 2009, Art by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Marketplace of topics Thursday
 
Marketplace of topics Friday
 
Session art 1 by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Session art 2 by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Session art 3 by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Session art 4 by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Session art 5 by Elizabeth McClellan
 
Session art 6 by Elizabeth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/15/pictures-from-agile-open-california-2009-day-1/</link>
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		<title>HP TouchSmart 600/300 reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chalk this one up to vanity. It’s just a bunch of links to the first few reviews (hopefully all original and not just syndicated/copied).

HP TouchSmart 600 Desktop reviews &#8211; CNET Reviews
HP ushers in third wave of TouchSmart desktop all-in-ones&#160; Windows 7 Insider &#8211; CNET Reviews
HP TouchSmart tx2, 300, 600 and 9100 get Windows 7 multitouch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/13/hp-touchsmart-600300-reviews/</link>
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		<title>New HP TouchSmart 600 and 300: choice quotes on the software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
PCMag.com:
This third-generation TouchSmart PC is boosted by Windows 7&#8217;s gesture support, but HP&#8217;s custom multitouch software is even more impressive.

But as with the earlier models, on the TouchSmart 600 it&#8217;s HP&#8217;s custom software that really shines. Version 3.0 is a significant upgrade, offering touch-friendly versions of Hulu, Netflix, Twitter […]

And the HP apps now multitask, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/10/13/new-hp-touchsmart-600-and-300-choice-quotes-on-the-software/</link>
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		<title>HP TouchSmart application development in a nutshell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a document available for download (wrapped in an MSI to keep the HP lawyers happy) that describes all the nitty-gritty details of how to create an app that &#8220;fits&#8221; into the HP TouchSmart software environment. But some people might enjoy just a quick introduction to what it takes to get an application to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/09/24/hp-touchsmart-application-development-in-a-nutshell/</link>
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		<title>Toyota ad illustrates why it&#8217;s hard to change environmental impact of anything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Sorry about the bad scan quality (it’s from today’s newspaper – yes, dead trees, and yes, I still read newspapers). It says:
80% of Toyotas sold in the last 20 years are still on the road today.

Is it any wonder that it’s hard to make any kind of change on environmental impact? Not just for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/09/22/toyota-ad-illustrates-why-its-hard-to-change-environmental-impact-of-anything/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t create Notes in HP TouchSmart? Check your user account name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several users of the HP TouchSmart software suite have reported that they are unable to create certain kinds of notes in the HP TouchSmart notes program. I had an opportunity to investigate this issue today on an actual customer unit. The investigation details, while quite interesting to some, shall remain for some future post, perhaps. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/31/cant-create-notes-in-hp-touchsmart-check-your-user-account-name/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft also had an OS code-named &#8220;Tiger&#8221;: OS/2 1.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As evidenced by this scan of one of the setup disks:
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(Someone was cleaning up a bunch of old floppy disks at work. I happened to come across them because I needed a floppy for updating the BIOS of a really old laptop.)
Just an interesting little factoid for your geek trivia…
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		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/07/microsoft-also-had-an-os-code-named-tiger-os2-1-3/</link>
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		<title>Why are you not a member of the ACCU?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
You may never have heard of ACCU, the Association of C and C++ Users as it was originally called. It is a volunteer organization, consisting of programmers who care about programming. The ACCU publishes two magazines, both devoted to raising the standards of programming everywhere: C Vu and Overload. On top of that they organize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/06/why-are-you-not-a-member-of-the-accu/</link>
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		<title>Running Windows 7 RTM on REALLY old hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How old? How about a laptop shipped in 2000, a Dell CPx H450GT:
 
Obviously this is from before I started my current job… One of the benefits of my current job is being able to verify soon after RTM that the Windows 7 bits you can obtain “out there” have not been messed with. Anyway, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-7-rtm-on-really-old-hardware/</link>
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		<title>Recover from BAD_POOL_HEADER blue screen errors after upgrading hard drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed recently that I’d get logged off from my computer over night. I’d leave the system running at night without logging off, and in the morning I’d have to log in again, with all the previously running programs gone. I had recently added a SATA controller in order to be able to run three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/07/27/recover-from-bad_pool_header-blue-screen-errors-after-upgrading-hard-drive/</link>
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		<title>CardSharkV updated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve updated my program for transferring digital pictures to your computer while organizing them into grouped folders. There’s now better keyboard navigation and some more guiding text as well as support for mpg files and a bunch of “raw” formats. It’s also been made localizable (and I’ve added a language too), for personal reasons. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/07/22/cardsharkv-updated/</link>
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		<title>Windows Vista Ultimate customers get the shaft &#8211; again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been written about how Windows Vista Ultimate was a major disappointment. First it was billed as the version that would &#8220;keep on giving&#8221; in the form of Ultimate Extras &#8211; cool new features that would be exclusive to Ultimate customers. When those extras finally materialized most people were underwhelmed. The extras were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/06/26/windows-vista-ultimate-customers-get-the-shaft-again/</link>
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		<title>Battling a flood of requests from Microsoft IP addresses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re wondering why this blog has been unavailable the last couple of days: My domain seems to get hit excessively by a couple of IP addresses belonging to Microsoft (mainly). I don&#8217;t know why or how, but my host (Dreamhost) has decided that I now have to pay for private hosting (their DreamhostPS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/06/19/battling-a-flood-of-requests-from-microsoft-ip-addresses/</link>
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		<title>MSI custom action type 50 / 51 failures? Beware of quotes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one cost me a lot of wasted time recently. I was authoring an MSI package using the otherwise excellent open source WiX package from Microsoft and kept getting 1721 errors when a custom action was supposed to run. If you get this problem, let me attempt to save you a bit of time.
If you author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/04/25/msi-custom-action-type-50-51-failures-beware-of-quotes/</link>
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		<title>HP TouchSmart in a Black Eyed Peas video &#8211; no way? WAY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 

Check out the first five seconds and then again at about 1:25.
 

 
Boom Boom Pow!

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		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/04/20/hp-touchsmart-in-a-black-eyed-peas-video-no-way-way/</link>
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		<title>Today is World Water Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much water do you use? 

Check out how you can help make sure that our dwindling water reserves last longer:
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/trans0309walkthisway.html
http://www.good.is/?p=16356
Check out Good&#8217;s post on the topic as well (some provoking videos in there).
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		<link>http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/03/22/today-is-world-water-day/</link>
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