Image: Screen Grab of Desktop by Jason Bean
I was reminded today of a feature I’d long forgotten about in Windows. The ability to place "active" content that was regularly updated via the Internet. When the feature first came out I guess you could call it the grandfather of what we now called widgets and sidebars, except before you could just put stuff wherever you wanted on your desktop, not just docked to a side of the screen.
Anyway, I was reminded of it today when I was checking some of my desktop settings to see if I could enlarge the …read more

When setting up a website virtual directory in Internet Information Services 6 (IIS6) why aren’t .aspx file extensions listed by default?
Are .aspx extensions still cutting edge or something? Are they not that common? I can’t figure out why they wouldn’t be listed and I have to add them manually.
It just seems weird to me that they’re not listed. It’s also not something I immediately think of when I try to browse to the site and get an error.
Image: Screen shot by Jason Bean