Posts (page 7)

March 2008 (continued)

  1. Amazon artwork grabber script

    If you're like me and you like storing all your album art in a single folder I made a quick and dirty Windows Powershell script that automatically grabs artwork…

February 2008

  1. What's NOT fixed in Vista SP1?

    Oh, they definitely fixed some problems, but they also didn't fix some (and possibly added some). 1. I think this one is new because I never noticed it…

  1. Problem Reports and Solutions

    How many things are wrong in the screenshot below? In case you're wondering, this is the rather random file linked. Maybe this solution came from Microsoft's…

January 2008

  1. Elephantsforpets

    The government talks about the cons of having elephants as pets... http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14196.asp

December 2007

  1. VC 2008 released!

    ...And incremental linking is apparently broken! What great fun!

November 2007

  1. WTF

    Some dodgy string interpolation.

October 2007

  1. Where does Visual Studio fail?

    When you create a new Win32 project in Visual C++ 2005, you get a message loop that looks like this: // Main message loop: while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0,…

September 2007

  1. Bugs, bugs, bugs

    Today I decided to run the Windows Experience Index assessment again since it said it my score needed updating. However, peculiarly when I clicked "Refresh…

  1. Minor Vista bug

    As I like to note them, I just found another minor but annoying Vista bug. Go to Control Panel / Power Options / Edit Plan Settings. Click on one of the drop…

  1. Vista in nuts mode

    The Vista on my laptop decided to go (literally) nuts a few days ago. Nuts, as in a few minutes after login it would half-freeze. Half freeze as in…

August 2007

  1. Vista vs UX guidelines

    One of the changes in the Vista UX guidelines is regarding capitalisation. On the subject, they say: > Use title-style capitalization for titles, sentence-style…

  1. Command Prompts on Vista

    I learnt of a neat trick on Vista through another blog - if you hold down shift whilst right clicking on a folder on Vista you get an extra entry: "Open Command…

  1. Vista + Menus

    Normally, or at least by default, menus in Windows Explorer on Vista are hidden until you press the ALT key on your keyboard. But for some reason my…

  1. Vista Bugs Again

    Is disabling the status bar by default a good reason not to test it? Crap, I didn't know you could make files with negative size. Why did I bother buying a 750GB hard drive? More Vista whinging soon!

  1. Vista File Save As Dialog Gone Wrong

    I click "Save As" one day in my favourite application only to be very confused: Ahem, where do I enter the filename?? Which folder is empty?! Let's try…

February 2007

  1. Winning e-mail

    All I can say is hehehehehehehehehehe > Dear xxxx Congratulations! We're very pleased to tell you that you were one of the first 1000 people to qualify for…

  1. Netgear Draft 802.11n Notebook Adapter for £30

    Fed up of my laptop's built-in wireless cutting out all the time, I was forced to use my old external adaptor which doesn't cut out but gets in a…

January 2007

  1. Finally 64-bit drivers for Canon CanoScan 4200F

    Canon just released Vista compatible 32-bit and 64-bit drivers for my CanoScan 4200F scanner. The old 32-bit drivers didn't work on Vista (and there were…

  1. Just what the f*** is NMIndexStoreSvr.exe for?

    It eats my CPU, it eats my memory, it eats my hard drive and it evens likes to hang on the shut down of my computer. It also quite fun playing 720p video…

  1. Now Blu-ray "cracked"

    First success of decrypting a Blu-ray disc reported :)