Effective Thoughts

Blackle is a low-power-consumption custom Google search engine. Creative.

I've been downloading and installing lots of software lately with the release of VSTS 2008 and the CTPs of Rosario. Downloading through a browser is mediocre at best. I started using Free Download Manager for the downloads and Magic ISO Maker to expand the ISOs. Check them out. First, they're both free but more importantly, they work great. FDM has built-in restart support and integrates seamlessly with browser downloads. Magic expanded my ISOs quickly and correctly.

I don't use regular expressions daily but when I do I always find myself starting from scratch-trying to download some tool. And it's never the same one I used the last time so I have to re-learn an interface. Here's an excellent regular expression tool leveraging AJAX...it even includes a nice cheat sheet.