Have you ever wanted to make a demo video by recording an application on your computer screen as you use it?

I often see the question come up about how to switch to using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for things like Login or Checkout in a shopping cart. Here is how I do it.

A Dell laptop that is.  Another thing that was about time.  I had been using my last laptop for about 4 years.  It was a Dell Latitude C800 which I upgraded till it couldn't be upgraded no more. RAM is maxed out (512M). Has 2 Hard Drives (40G & 80G).  A 1G Pentium processor.  I guess that isn't too bad, but man it was slow. 

I liked my last one so much that this time I got a new Dell D810.  1.7G M70 processor, 1.5G RAM, 60G 7200 RPM Hard Drive, and a nice 15" wide screen, & a DVD RW drive.

The real kicker is that my last one cost over $3,000 (without the upgrades), and this one came in right at $2,000 including tax. Sweet!  I love technology.

I wiped the hard drive as soon as it got here and installed Windows XP Pro instead of the home version.  Yes, I know I could have got the laptop with that OS and had everything configured all nice, but hey it saved me $69 to do it myself.  I have to admit, things are much better now days as far as drivers go.  I was able to load my resource CD and re-install all the drivers & utilities without a glitch in less than a half hour.  Now if Visual Studio would only load that fast!

 

Well, it's about time I finally started blogging.  The reason I waited this long was because I wanted to find just the right blog software (right, uh huh).  I can say with pretty much certainty that this is it.  I have been following dasBlog for a while now, ever since I saw that Nik was using it. And now that 1.8 is out and Nik is talking about making a DNN Module out of it, it's really a no brainer.

I can't believe how easy it was to install, and the themes with user switching ability really rocks.  After logging in I got even more surprises and I'm truely impressed with the abundance of features and the user interface.

Anyway, now I can start recording some posts about the inner workings of DotNetNuke, and posting some other cool stuff I find in my travels on the .Net (yes, I finally figured out that this Blog stuff can be useful).

Later...