Ed Andersen

Software Developer and Architect in Japan

  • That upgraded WPF 4.0 Text rendering again

    Just to hammer the point home about how important it is to upgrade to .NET 4.0 if you are using WPF, here are some comparison screenshots of the text rendering in WPF 3.5 and 4.0: Pay attention to the difference between the text rendering on lines 2 and 3. Line 2 shows the new Display…

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  • Evernote has no patience, drops WPF over fixed issues

    Much noise has been made about Evernote’s new Windows client. For version 4, they dropped WPF/.NET and released a C++ native application. They were pretty damning with their reasoning: Evernote 4 is a major departure from Evernote 3.5 in every way. While 3.5 added tons of great new features, there were some problems we simply…

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  • Free Cloud-based online Microsoft Money using Dropbox

    I have used Microsoft Money to manage my finances for coming up 6 years now and still find it the best personal finance app around. The last version in the UK was 2005 after Microsoft cancelled the product and let Quicken take the market. Microsoft then discontinued the international versions in the wake of Mint.com…

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  • Lexmark adds Twitter to an All in One printer … why?

    Just noticed on The Register that Lexmark have added Twitter to a new range of All In One printers. See They have actually written a client for the tiny little touchscreen display on the scanner. Are people really that addicted that they need to use Twitter while waiting for something to copy or scan? Why…

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  • Skype changes its mind – drops 3G call charges

    That was quick: iPhone update: now supports multitasking, no additional charges for calling over 3G Skype has dropped their plans to charge for 3G calls and have released an update to their iPhone client that finally supports multitasking. At Skype, we believe that better call quality and better availability (which is achieved with an app…

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