You gotta love the HTC Desire :-) .. Transferring files to / from the device to Vista or Windows 7 is as easy as: Connect your Desire to your WiFi network Download EStrongs File Explorer from Marked Create a share on your PC, for easy access give “everyone” modify access Launch EStrongs File Explorer on phone and choose “LAN” and enter your username and password – your Desire is now connected to the share on the PC On the phone (in EStrongs File Explorer), choose “Local”, select some files and choose copy. Change the view to “LAN” and choose paste.

The files from your HTC Desire is now copied to your share on the PC using WiFi – of course you can also transfer from PC to Phone :-)

Came across a nice little plug-in for Firefox today while working with SEO optimization: Meta Description & Title on Top

The add-on adds Description, Keywords and Title of the current page to the top for easy viewing, like this:

Really useful when browsing your site and making sure you’re “google proff” :-)

After about 7 years, Microsoft have decided to re-activate WebMatrix aka “The Matrix” :-)

WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you develop with WebMatrix transition seamlessly to Visual Studio and SQL Server.

You can download the beta here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

The WebMatrix is a smaller / lighter product that the Express product series, which of course still are available for download. If you’re ‘lazy’ you can use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 for easy setup / install.

If you own an Android (or iPhone for that matter) you owe it to yourself check out Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/)

Evernote makes it extremely easy to save your ideas, things you see, things you like etc., and find them all on any computer, phone or device you use.

I use Evernote to:

• Take pictures of business cards and make these searchable via the awesome OCR functionality of Evernote
• Mark text (e.g. information about conferences, address information etc.) in Firefox and with a single click create a note which I can see on my Android phone
• Using the Windows application easily tag, sort and organize notes into Notebooks
• Using the “folder watch” feature (Windows application), drop a file into a folder and auto generate a note (in my “Imported” notebook) containing all the information, and having it available on my Android (e.g. PDF files, .txt files etc.)
• Take images of ‘everything’ for later use, e.g. wine labels, recipes, signs and more – all searchable through the OCR feature of Evernote
• Store important information in Emails on my phone, simply marks the text in Outlook and with a single click create a note.

Microsoft have released a set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity. I especially like the ‘Highlight Current Line’ feature which makes it easy to locate the line where the cursor is located, like this:

Another cool feature is the ability to color tabs according to their project, like this:

The extensions contains a lot of other nice stuff, check it out / download of from MSDN:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d0d33361-18e2-46c0-8ff2-4adea1e34fef

If you’re working with SEO and are using Chrome as (one of your) browsers, you may want to check out/download the “PageRank Status” extension, which places a small PageRank icon next to the address bar:

You can download it from the ChromeFans website:

http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-plugins/chrome-pagerank-status-extension.htm

Rowland O’Connor has taken the time to update the ‘ASPX Edit’ plug-in to work with Visual Studio 2010 – you can download it here:

http://www.rowlandoconnor.com/2010/04/16/aspx-edit-add-in-for-visual-studio-2010/

Usage / install info is found here:

http://ardentdev.com/aspxedithelper/

.. thanks to Jacob for the update :-)

Jacob mentioned a nice little free Add-In for VS2005/2008 yesterday while we we’re chatting on Messenger :-)

Short description: “The ASPX Edit Helper is an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 for those who like to type ASPX markup themselves instead of using the visual designer"

Usage:

Type <asp:Label and press Enter. The add-in will replace it with:

<asp:Label runat=”server” id=”asp_Label2943″ />

The add-in will also highlight the ID attribute value so you can immediately type a new ID for the control.

Very handy, thanks to Jacob for mentioning this – free download at: http://www.ardentdev.com/aspxedithelper

Working more and more with ASP.NET MVC I’ve found the Tamper Data Firefox Add-on to be quite useful. With this add-on you can view HTTP/HTTPS headers and browser-requests and (which is really awesome) edit POST parameters.

Use this add-on to security test your web applications by modifying POST parameters and simulate a scenario where a user changes/tampers with information sent to your site, like e-commerce sites where a user tries to buy cheap stuff, hack passwords, etc..