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Chatting It Up With Complete Strangers on Omegle

One of the things I really enjoyed in my early days of being online were the chat rooms on America Online. The idea that there was almost always a room full of people somewhere talking about stuff that probably interested me was intriguing.

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The Omegle website brings back some of that feeling for me. The biggest difference is you’re not sharing a chat room with a bunch of people though. It’s just you and one other person and you’re thrown together randomly.

Both of you are completely anonymous aside from whatever information you decide to share with each other while you’re chatting.

It took me a minute to get going as the first three people I started chatting with almost immediately dropped out of the conversation after a few sentences. I didn’t realize I was that boring to talk to online.

At the time I was chatting there were around 2400 active users online throughout the time. Getting started in the conversation was a little challenging, but interesting to talk to someone completely at random and see what you have in common. I finally had a good chat with someone from Orange County, CA. Seemed younger as they didn’t know where Indianapolis, IN was on the map.

Give Omegle a try and get to know someone. Uncover a new contact around the world or across the street with Omegle, you just never know.

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Snow Leopard Drivers Available for Cakewalk's V-Studio 100

If you’ve upgraded to the latest Mac OS, Snow Leopard, and you’re a user of Cakewalk’s V-Studio 100. If you’re not already using Cakewalk, then you may not be aware that the software comes from Roland, who has quite a bit of knowledge about the music world.

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With Macintosh’s popularity with music and video production the Cakewalk release of new driver’s for the Snow Leopard operating system brings the functionality and features of Cakewalk’s mobile studio production equipment.

Boston, MA (September 11, 2009) — Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces immediate availability of new Snow Leopard Mac Operating System (version 10.6) device drivers for the V-Studio 100 portable music production system.

Also now available are Snow Leopard hardware drivers for the UA-1G audio interface and UM-1G, UM-2G and UM-3G MIDI Interfaces. More Snow Leopard hardware drivers will be announced soon.

The introduction of the SONAR V-Studio 100 and other hardware drivers for Snow Leopard furthers Cakewalk’s commitment to making its products compatible with the Macintosh.

I’ve not heard much amazing new reasons to upgrade to the new Macintosh operating system, but I’m sure keeping your Cakewalk drivers updated are always good. Visit their website to download these new drivers and keep your Cakewalk software running at it’s top performance.

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Managing Session Parameters in Visual Web Developer Express 2008

I continue to learn more and more about developing websites with additional features. I’ve chosen ASP.NET as my preferred language for building web applications for most of my larger corporate clients. A component I use frequently with this dynamic sites are Session Items in ASP.NET.

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As I build more sites I start using more and more Session.Item(“ItemName”) identifiers in my code to pass parameters from page to page and data control to data control. There comes a point where you start not remembering exactly how you named something or even what Session Items you’ve stored in the first place.

I’d think it would be a helpful feature to be able to add the Session Items you’ve set and used in a website into a control panel like a snippet of code. I’d imagine it functioning similarly to how the Manage Styles panel displays the CSS styles that are available. Instead of the styles being listed each Session Item identifier would be listed.

Another nice feature to add to that would be a panel that would display the set values you’ve captured already in your code when testing or running the site in debug mode. What I’ve usually done to accomplish this is to place a hidden label for each Session Item that displays the set value if it exists. Sometimes I’ll make the font color on these labels white so they don’t show up to the site visitor, but if I drag my mouse over the area and the text and background colors reverse I can see the values clearly. If I’m not worried about the visitor seeing the values I’ll setup a CSS style that displays the label in a small font and very light gray or blue color.