If you're running Windows Vista under Boot Camp on the brand new MacBook Pro you're crazy like a fox.  We're doing the same thing and it's frustrating as hell.

If you've noticed the sound crackle every 30 seconds you can disable the WLAN Autoconfig service with these instructions. Make sure you follow the "command line method" so you can continue you use your current wireless connection.  Next time you need to connect to a wireless network you'll have to enable this service.  What a hack!  We've decided to live with the sound issue for now.

The trackpad is completely unusable.  A few tips that help.

• Right click is three-finger-click.
• Double click is two-finger click.
• There's a "tap to click" option in the boot camp control panel (not under Windows Vista's mouse control panel)

We released a new feature in Atlas tonight. You can now search for YouTube videos by location and keyword using our map.

If you're asking yourself, "wait, didn't you have this already?" then you're a pretty keen observer.  Back in August we rolled out an Atlas feature that displayed the most recently geotagged YouTube movies.  This new hotness allows you to search for the videos you want from the location you specify.

It's also pretty neat to simply see all the videos from your area by leaving the optional search field empty.

Try it out @ http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/?Videos

It's been a while since we've talked about Fresh Logic Studios - Scripts (our JavaScript framework designed for .NET gurus).

Along with JsUnit tests, which helped us uncover and fix a variety of bugs, here's a list of what's new:

• The new Media.SoundPlayer class works pretty much like its .NET counterpart. We've tried to code for many browser/OS combinations (bgsound in IE, Quicktime on Mac, etc).
• The new Convert class contains static methods to handle converting to/from base 64 strings.
• The new StringBuilder class shares a similar syntax to its .NET counterpart. Turns out array based JavaScript StringBuilders are slightly slower than plain string concatenation in the more modern browsers with highly tuned JavaScript engines (like Google Chrome).  StringBuilder might work out better in IE6 though :)
• We know array based JavaScript StringBuilders are sometimes slower than string concatenation because we profiled it with our Diagnostics.Stopwatch class. If you've never used the .NET Stopwatch class you should give it a look. It's not exactly rocket-science, but it's handy.
• New String.Join method.
• New DateTime.DaysInMonth and DateTime.IsLeapYear methods.
• New Drawing.Point methods including Add, Subtract, ToString
• New Drawing.Size methods including Add, Subtract, ToString

What portion of the .NET Framework should we implement in JavaScript next? Let us know.

Turns out, you've been able to geocode videos when you upload them to YouTube for some time now.

We thought it would be a perfect feature to add into Atlas.  You can find YouTube alongside a bunch of other goodies under the "feeds" menu (or access it directly though http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/?YouTube) and you can enjoy the web's best videos right inside of Atlas... like this little dog from Texas:

We want to hear what you have to say about making Fresh Logic Studios' products more useful.

We've setup feedback.freshlogicstudios.com to capture your thoughts and allow our users to vote on their favorite ideas. We've added a few ideas of our own to get the ball rolling, but we're interested in what consensus will emerge from the community.

After after all those emails you've sent about adding Safari support for Atlas, or increasing the amount of storage on Folders, or making our products available for free here's your chance to decide as a community what we should tackle next.

So, what are you waiting for? Head over to http://feedback.freshlogicstudios.com/ and let us have it!

A while back we made a change to Atlas that added shaded contours to our road maps.

Last night we rolled out a change to the Atlas toolbox that allows you to easily turn this feature on or off.

The new toolbox contains a caret menu that allows you to select either the traditional flat style road map, or the road map with shaded contours.  What's the difference?  Take a look at these maps of the Grand Canyon for a comparison.

Flat:

Shaded:

Try out the new changes @ http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com

We updated our FtpTask that we outlined previously with synchronization support.

Previous versions simply uploaded a local directory to a remote directory regardless if the local files had been modified or not.  This latest version compares the local and remote file size and modified date to determine if an upload is necessary.

Should save quite a bit of time if you're repeatedly using FtpTask from within MSBuild to upload lots of files where only a few have changed... a typical web deployment scenario.

You can download the FtpTask binary here.  Source code available if anyone is interested.

We won't bore you with the terrible horror story about actually purchasing an iPhone 3G.  We will tell you that after we got our hands on it, things didn't work properly.  WiFi dropped connections left and right, and GPS simply didn't work at all.

A quick google search confirmed that we weren't the only ones having this problem.

We spent a morning, afternoon, and an entire battery trying to get it to work.  We did the usually dance of powering down the phone, reseting to factory defaults, and completely restoring the firmware.  No luck.

Then we remembered Joel Spolsky talking about fixing computers by dropping them in StackOverflow Podcast #5.  We didn't honestly think it was going to work, but after a couple firm smacks against a desk we fired up the Maps application only to see the blue GPS dot for the first time.  Unbelievable.  Does this point to a possible manufacturing flaw?

Installed the iPhone 2.0 firmware, deleted our IMAP account, added account with Exchange support, and get this...

We deleted an email on our iPhone... and it was deleted from the Exchange server.  We no longer need our Expunge application!

We've increased the amount of storage on Folders from 128MB to 1GB per user.

How can we allocate that much storage for all those Fresh Logic Studios members? The truth is we can't. But it's also true that MANY more people are using Fresh Logic Studios for Atlas alone, and have yet to experience one of the better online file storage user interfaces on the web.

So fill it up, and tell your friends... and if we run out of space we promise we'll figure out how to get more.