Archive for November, 2006
The New Code and Coffee
Yup, I have been absent the last couple days, and I truly apologize. As you might be able to tell, we are wrapping up the final design changes for Code and Coffee. I hope everyone enjoys it, I think it fits the site a lot better. I have a bunch of RSS feeds to catch [...]
Browsershots, Your Website in Different Browsers
Want to know what your website looks like in different browsers? Well Browsershots (in beta) will help you out with that. A great tool for web developers, or just the average curious user, Browsershots will render a website in different browser applications and versions. Browsershots has many options including: selection the browsers to render in, [...]
Last Minute Changes to Vista, Why?
Vista is getting closer to release date every day, and every day brings another news article surrounding the operating system. Most recently I have heard that the team has been rushing to make a lot of last minute bug fixes, which I have mixed feelings about. Yes, it’s good that Microsoft is actually fixing these [...]
Laptop Battery Fire Video
PC Pitstop has simulated a laptop battery fire.
We intentionally created conditions in which the Li-ON battery pack would explode inside a generic portable. The results are dramatic. There are numerous conditions where these fires can occur in real life. Faulty battery packs (driving the recalls), faulty protection circuits inside the PC, exposure to excessive heat, [...]
Firefox 2.0 Is So Yesterday!
Firefox 2.0, HA! I’m using 3.0. Well I am trying it out on a Virtual Machine, it’s the nightly build from the Firefox team. Seriously, this is another reason why the Firefox team rocks: they are always looking ahead and innovating and making the browsing experience better.
iTunes 7.0.2.16, What Happened?
Ever since updating to iTunes 7, I have had several problems with it on Windows. iTunes 7 brought a lot of cool new features,but with that some old features that worked fine before, broke. I have searched the web and iTunes support forum, and still can’t find out what is going on. I have a [...]
My Program Has More Lines Than Yours!
Source code line counting has long been a way of measuring your application. It could be the amount of work you have out in, how bloated an application is, or just a way for managers to track progress and releases. A number of IDE’s have built in source code counting tools, however some have their [...]
My New NetFlix Account
The Movie Gallery in my town used to be my little secret. It had $3 rentals, keep them a week, the shelves were always full - even new releases, and they had a great feature where if you didn’t like the movie you rented they would give you a free one. Like all good things, [...]
Quick Snippets: Load Icon, With Options
Loading icons in Windows, can be done in several ways. This little snippet allows you to specify the size of the icon, and will load the default colors for the O.S.
[cpp]
HICON LoadIconEx(CSize sSize, int nResourceID)
{
return (HICON)::LoadImage(AfxGetApp()->m_hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(nResourceID), IMAGE_ICON, sSize.cx, sSize.cy, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);
}
[/cpp]
