The Daily Grind 697

50 degrees? Is summer over already?

Software

• PowerShrink 2.0 - Tool for shrinking the file size of PowerPoint presentations. Trial download, $29.95.

Hardware

• Wrist Rocket Laser Slingshot PS-52 - Laser sights let you hit a coke can (or anything else, for that matter) at 50 feet with a ball bearing. And you don't even need a permit. Ain't science wonderful? (via Gizmodo)

Information

• "Sign up for Gmail" - Yes, anyone can get a Gmail account now. Well, anyone with a mobile-phone that does text messaging. Those of us troglodytes who refuse to even own a cel phone need not apply. (And no, I don't want one of your 50 Gmail invites. Thanks anyway.)
• Book Excerpt: .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2 - All about System.Xml.XmlReader. (via Brad Abrams)
• Google Talk Tips - The easter egg, how to get bold and italic, and more.

Community

• Mono Meeting at the Microsoft PDC - Miguel de Icaza discusses plans for a Mono non-BOF at the PDF, since Microsoft again seems to be giving the proposal for a BOF the cold shoulder.

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Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.

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