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If you have an ISO and want to view the contents, you typically have to first burn it to a CD or DVD to make it usable. Instead of doing this, however, why not just mount the ISO to a virtual drive which you can use just like a burned disk? This is exactly what CloneDrive does.

CloneDrive is a free program which works in both XP and Vista which is ridiculously easy to use. You simply install it and then double click on an ISO file to mount it. Once mounted, you can access the contents of the ISO through a new drive in My Computer just like you would a CD or DVD. To unmount or eject the ISO, just right click on the drive and unmount. Simple enough.

In the beginning there was HTML, and it was good. Users filled out a form and hit the “submit” button, then waited for the server to respond. As applications increasingly became webified, this form-based submission model served us well and the request-reply model remained the de facto standard for building web-based applications.

But users complained about application responsiveness, or the lack thereof, and desired more interactive applications with less wait time between form submissions. Web acceleration became a key component of architecting an application infrastructure capable of scaling and performing to meet user expectations.

But you know users; they still weren’t satisfied. They missed the interactive responsiveness of their fat clients…and while they liked web-based applications, they just weren’t robust enough to keep users happy for long. Enter Web 2.0 and, specifically, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

AJAX allows developers to build applications with rich interfaces that act more like their fat-client ancestors than their web-based cousins. Applications built on AJAX are often also referred to as Rich Internet Applications (RIA), those built upon Adobe’s Flash platform are referred to as AFLAX (Asynchronous Flash and XML) or just FLAX (Flash and XML). What they all have in common is their ability to communicate with the server asynchronously and a set of fat-client client “widgets” (components, gadgets) that spice up the user-interface and make users happy. Not only are these interfaces sexier, but they’re also capable of functioning like a fat-client—they can communicate with the server at will, with or without a specific user action initiating the exchange, and they can update objects on the page without requiring the entire page to be refreshed from the server.

Basically, AJAX moves web-based applications from a page model to a true application model, based on events and user actions rather than pages.In the quest to deliver fat-client functionality on a thin-client platform (i.e., the browser), many developers have turned to using toolkits. These toolkits (Dojo, Zimbra, Laszlo, Google) are JavaScript libraries that present an API and/or a set of markup tags that make it easy to develop rich interfaces and communicate with the server over HTTP. Unfortunately AJAX and similar technologies introduce significant delivery challenges that are not addressed by these toolkits or by the technology itself. Also not addressed, as is typical, are issues surrounding basic security and access rights to resources used by AJAX applications.

Developers out there wanting to document or just know a little bit more about their creations might be interested in this lines of code counter tool.
This free utility from Microsoft is fully customizable with its rules so it is totally language independent. Basically, you connect to a location and your source files are downloaded and the code lines are counted. Since you can customize the rules for a line, comments are ignored in the count.
By no means is this a necessary tool, but it is interesting to see how large your code base is.

Many of you are probably Gmail users. If so then you can only use the web interface and don’t bother to have an email client installed on your computer at all. The only problem with this is whenever you click on an email link (mailto) on a web page, it doesn’t open in Gmail by default.

If the above is a problem for you, then this Gmail how to will solve the problem. Basically, all you have to do is download the Gmail notifier and set an option and then Gmail will be your default HTML mail application.

Open registry editor by going to Start then Run and entering regedit. Once in registry,navigate to key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion \InternetSettings. Right click on the right windows > New > DWORD. TypeMaxConnectionsPerServer > You can set value (the more higher the no, the moregood speed eg:99). Create another DWORD >type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.Then put a high value as mentioned above. Restart I.E and you are done.