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Do you ever want to know exactly how much space each TV show on your TiVo is taking on your hard drive?  Do you ever wonder how much space is consumed by high definition programs verses standard definition programs?  For the answer, download the program associated with this article and you to can know those answers.  Below area  pictures of those graphs.  Chances are though, if you are reading my blog, you really want to know about Microsoft technology, and specifically, this article is all about parsing the webservice data that comes from your TiVo.  At the end of the article, there is a brief section on how to configure this program so if all you care about is running the program, skip all the LINQ stuff and just go to the Setup below.  The exe and dll file necessary are attached there.

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I’ve been addicted to using multiple monitors for programming for many years now.  Recently (through other MVP blogs), I’ve noticed people talking about using UltraMon as a "must have" if you use multiple monitors. Frankly, I couldn’t see how it could get much better, but after using it for just a couple days, I’m hooked!  There are lots of features to the product that I don’t yet know about or have played with, but the ones I have used so far have been very nice.  I’ll outline them here.

First, it’s really nice to be able use one picture to cover your complete desktop (in my case, three monitors).  While in New Zealand in 2003 on a bike vacation, I took this panorama picture.  I forget where it is, but if any of you know, please add it to the comments.  Here is a picture of that picture.

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