Fun windows trick #42
Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
This is something I discovered by accident a while ago, maybe you already know about it…
Use the mouse to move a window around and then, while you still have the left mouse button held [...]
v5.3.1 of Textpad is out
Posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009
This is just an incremental update on v5.3.0 but if you are not already on v5.3 then I think it is worth upgrading. Having the option to substitute TextPad for Notepad baked into the program [...]
continue readingFinally a decent looking clipboard manager
Posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
It has been ages since I have had a chance to post here so lets start of with a quick one.
I have just started using this and so far it looks really good and appears [...]
Vista File Associations – Follow up
Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Early last year I posted an article about changing icons and file associations in Vista. The bad news is that nothing seems to have changed natively in this regard for Vista. Perhaps things will be [...]
continue reading#RUN parameter limits and hiding command windows
Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Recently I have been doing a fair amount of work trying to automate parts of the development process, in particular the version control aspects. I ran into what appeared to be limitations in the length [...]
continue readingSometimes Vista UAC doesn’t popup…
Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Having recently re-installed my main development machine with Vista Ultimate 64bit I decided to try running with UAC enabled. Previously I was using Vista Business 32 bit and I was using it as my main [...]
continue readingRemote Desktop Manager
Posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008
For anyone who finds themselves managing many different remote clients. Support for Microsoft Remote Desktop and VNC.
I have been using this great utility for some time now. It has become such a part of my [...]
Vista File Associations
Posted on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
One of the first things I like doing on a new development machine is setting file associations for Clarion APP and DCT files.
By doing this I can have specific icon and type description for the [...]
Windows SDK
Posted on Monday, December 17th, 2007
Just a quick note about windows SDK’s.
I have been doing some mucking around recently with graphics and things in Clarion (more samples coming soon!) and have been having a hard time wading through the MSDN [...]
Free Icon editor
Posted on Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Just came across a new icon editor the today called IcoFX and initial impressions are pretty good!
Well, for a start it works on vista which the last program I was using didn’t (SnIco). I kinda [...]