Archive for February 2006
Making a Better File Manager
24 February 2006 in Code-ing | Comments (0)
The Windows Explorer (aka. File Explorer) is completely useless at times. Especially when opening a folder with special characters (but not forbidden such) my Windows Explorer has been crashing and DEP:ing around way, way too much. So much, I had to open the command prompt to edit all the files name to something short that shouldn’t crash the Exploder. 
Now I’ve been designing the GUI for my own file manager, which is still without a name. It will be a better, maybe faster file manager than Explorer currently is and support some features that I’ve been missing for years. As a hint, I can say that the GUI will be nothing like File Commander, nor Windows Explorer like. I won’t call it revolutionalizing, since it will be using the best features from other programs and operating system. I won’t even set a date to when it will be released, since I don’t have time to meet deadlines. But, I’m looking at making it operating system independent using C# (of course).
Time will tell how things will look for this app…
Cool App: C# Programmable Calculator
20 February 2006 in .NET in general & C# & Code-ing | Comments (0)
Say bye, bye to Windows’s standard calculator and say hello to the C# Programmable Calculator. C# Programmable Calculator is a reverse Polish notation calculator where you can customize (most) button functions by just reprogramming them in the C# programming language. And that is quite some fun! 
The whole source code is available on the website as well as the finished compiled product. It requires .NET framework 2.0, and Visual Studio 2005 to edit the source (or, SharpDevelop might suffice).
Come Again?
14 February 2006 in Fun | Comments (0)
I was uninstalling stuff today and one of the junk I noticed lying around was HDDlife for Google Desktop. Well, clicking the “Remove” button in “Add/Remove software” rendered the following response seen above that you can ponder upon (as I also did).
Also related to uninstalling: removing the correct version of ActiveSync can be a hustle and confusing. I was looking to remove ActiveSync 4.1, or so I thought. However, in “Add/Remove Programs” all I could find was ActiveSync 4.0. “Strange”, I thought, “I believed I had the newest version installed…” 
So, I clicked remove and the above picture is a screen shot of what I saw as a bit confusing: I did have ActiveSync 4.1 after all… 
(PS. ActiveSync isn’t worth upgrading to unless you are using Windows Mobile 5.0 (Pocket PC or Smartphone, no difference), since it is buggier than the last version for pre-Windows Mobile 5.0 devices)
Missing In Action: Myself
13 February 2006 in Root | Comments (0)
Sure, I’ve not much posting here lately, but the excuse is the same: not enough time to post stuff. I have been reading, coding, battling the flu, resetting my Pocket PC after ActiveStink ActiveSync hell, licensing wrestling, getting a job (or two), and… that seems to be the whole list…
Interesting thing I noticed when I made the software section available was that the fastest (although not proven with scientific tests) search engine bot on the planet seems to be the MSN search bot. It noticed my PCWN Buddy existed way, way before Google seemed to find it. Both time, I used the “international” (i.e. not localized version) of the search engines and it seemed like the MSN search engine was the fastest to catch up on things, although we shant forget that Google has an unbelivable big distributed data system where information takes time to propagate to all nodes. The only problem now is that both search engines point to the wrong page (the software page) instead of the correct page of the PCWN Buddy (i.e. /software/pcwn-buddy/).
I was about to ban the MSN bot once back last year when it became increasinly bandwidth hungry, but the banning actions of other webmasters seemed to get the attention of the MSN gang whereby the bandwidth consumption seemed to drop. Seemed like a good thing that I didn’t ban MSN from my website. (It is my biggest visitor according to the server logs! )
Also, be sure to check out my other program (that I’ve been blogging about): Dingo. It is one sweet piece of software, especially if you are studying at University of Vaasa.