C# to VB.NET Conversion

I recently came across two useful online utilities for converting C# source code to VB.Net source code:

• http://www.kamalpatel.net/ConvertCSharp2VB.aspx
• http://www.aspalliance.com/aldotnet/examples/translate.aspx

Each of them have their advantages and disadvantages. I recommend trying both of them to see which one will provide a better conversion for your codebase.

Google's View of TiltedAxis.com

According to Google's Webmaster tools, the following words are important on www.tiltedaxis.com:

• news
• microsoft
• asp
• blog
• technology
• code
• radio
• visual
• active
• applications
• business
• communication
• google
• headlines
• hot
• msdn
• networking
• new
• press
• products
• recent
• security
• server
• step
• tiltedaxis

Apple Releases Long Awaited iPhone

Apple has release the long awaited, much anticipated iPhone, which is described by Apple as:

...revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching...

View product information

Windows Home Server

New.com recently posted an article on the new Windows Home Server:

The Windows Home Server is for households that want to share storage among multiple PCs or Xboxes game consoles. It will provide automatic backup, easier storage expansion and connectivity among different devices, including Zune media players, Gates said.

Read the full article

Internet Radio Station Guide

Looking for streaming audio Internet Radio Stations to listen to at work or at home? TiltedAxis now has an Internet Radio Station Guide. Enjoy!

Here are some of the categories of music that are available:

• 80s
• Adult Hits
• Alternative Rock
• Americana & Roots
• Big Band
• Blues
• Christian Hits
• Classic R&B
• Classic Rock
• Classical
• Country
• Dance
• Holiday
• Indie
• Jazz
• Latin
• Miscellaneous
• Modern Rock
• National
• New Age
• News & Talk
• Nostalgia
• Oldies
• Public Radio
• Rap & Hip Hop
• Religious
• Rock
• Smooth Jazz
• Soft Rock
• Soundtracks/Musicals
• Sports
• Top 40
• Urban/ Modern R&B
• World

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Be sure to checkout TiltedAxis.com in 2007 for exciting news and content.

Laptop Design

It's nice to see some innovation in the relatively-stagnant laptop market, checkout how the screen on this laptop folds forward:



Read the full article on Sci-Fi

Google's View of TiltedAxis.com

Google currently lists the following words as important on www.tiltedaxis.com:

• news
• asp
• blog
• technology
• business
• headlines
• msdn
• new
• press
• products
• recent
• alley
• elections
• entertainment
• mfc
• national
• original
• project
• server
• software
• stories
• tour
• trailers
• verious
• zone

The perfect Christmas gift

If anyone is looking for the perfect gift to get me this holiday season, I would really like a Panasonic 103-inch high-definition plasma TV. I'm not entirely sure it would actually fit in my living room; however, I'm willing to make some modifications to my house for this baby. :)

Avoid sending e-mail messages by mistake

Have you ever accidentally sent an e-mail before you were done? Or sent something that you immediately wished you hadn't?

Here's an article that explains how to configure Outlook to delay the delivery of messages, giving you an opportunity to stop them from being sent:

Avoid sending e-mail messages by mistake

Google accidentally deletes blog...

According to News.com, Google accidentally deleted their own blog, which allowed another user to register the username:

Google has admitted that it accidentally deleted its own official blog on Monday night. "We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad," Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager, wrote in a posting on the Google Blog. Apparently, the Google Blog was unavailable for a short time on Monday.

You can read about it on Google's Blog.

Google accidentally sent e-mail worm...

According to News.com, "Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group."

Read the full story.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

According to Wikipedia, the RSS-DEV group created RSS 1.0 in December 2000. While the technology has been available for nearly six years and mainstream for at least two or three years, I have only recently started producing and consuming RSS feeds.

RSS feeds have several pros and cons. On the pro-side, RSS makes it very easy to aggregate content from multiple sources; however, on the con-side, the RSS aggregators often download RSS feeds that are never viewed by a human leading to large amounts of wasted bandwidth.

Mobile YouTube

Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and chief executive, said "Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device, it's going to be a huge market, especially for the video mind-set we're dealing with, it's a natural transition."

News.com has additional information on the proposed mobile YouTube service.

.mobi

ICANN has approved another TLD (Top Level Domain), the extension is ".mobi" and it is intended for mobile websites. My question is did we really need a TLD for mobile devices? Does anyone really want to remember a different domain name for their favorite website, just so they can access it through a mobile device. Wouldn't it be better to put technology into place to detect a mobile device and redirect the user to mobile content at the main domain name?