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The Tech Blog of Ben Martens
libusb + Zune = Trouble
Today I started getting errors when I was connecting my Zune. After being connected for a minute or...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 01/06/2007
XPath Visualizer
Today I found myself writing a bunch of XPath expressions. It was cumbersome to run the full program...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 01/03/2007
Disable the Motorola Q Camera Sound
I searched high and low for an option to disable the camera shutter noise, but as far as I can tell,...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 12/27/2006
Zune + Pioneer Navigation System
Last week I spent some time behind the dashboard of my car hooking up my new Zune to my Pioneer...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 12/04/2006
Video Encoding for the Zune
Since I'm working on a 4.5 year old PC at home, I find the automatic Zune video transcoding a bit...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 11/30/2006
Local.Live.Com Update
When Microsoft launched their own online mapping tool, I tried it once and never looked back. As of...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 11/06/2006
Positive Press for CPAO
The Calendar Printing Assistant for Office reviews are starting to hit the press. "In short,...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 11/02/2006
IE7 Today
IE7 is available for free download today! About five months ago, I made the switch from that other...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 10/19/2006
.NET 3.0 - Alphabet Soup
The .NET 3.0 Framework is right around the corner and with it comes WPF, WCF, WWF, and WCS. While...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 10/16/2006
So You Want a Job at Microsoft
This week I was on campus at Drexel looking for interns and college hires. It was my first time...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 10/06/2006
What's My Motivation?
As a test engineer, it is my job to design and write tests that find every possible bug or defect in...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 09/28/2006
Rory in Redmond
I'd like to take a minute to be one of many people to welcome Rory to Redmond. Channel9 seems to be...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 09/27/2006
Zune
I was out last week when the Zune was officially announced so I assume most of you have read about...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 09/19/2006
Live Local Updates
I'm a big Live Local fan. Google Maps was the first one to the table with AJAX maps, but they have...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 09/12/2006
Never Lose Product Keys
How many times have you bought software on the web and then lost the product key? I have a couple...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 09/07/2006
Multiline Search and Replace
I'd love to see support for search and replace in VS, but until it's available, here's a free macro...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 09/01/2006
Knowledge Network
Just before I left my previous job, my group was selected to be part of the Knowledge Network TAP. I...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/31/2006
Multi Computer Test Automation
We have some tests that need to test various methods of acquiring files from other computers. This...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/24/2006
NotForNoobs.com
The mystery behind NotForNoobs is over. It turns out that it really is a Microsoft marketing...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/23/2006
Aero Glass Review
It's easy for me to forget that most people haven't seen Vista yet. I've been running beta builds...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/22/2006
WPF Proponents
"But parts of the Office team do use the Common Language Runtime (i.e., .NET technology). They even...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/17/2006
Upcoming Webcasts
Unwrapped for Financial Services Webcast Series III Starting September 6, 2006 and running through...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/16/2006
CPAO
The Calendar Printing Assistant for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is the first external product to...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/16/2006
Tech Blogging
Welcome to my new blog. Some of you may know me from the blog I've been running at Studio711.com for...
Author: Ben Martens Date: 08/16/2006