Dragons

I found this cool webpage with 3D-dragons, it doesn’t really work in real life – but it sure works when viewing the dragons through the a cam, like your webcam. Check out the movieclips with the dragons, it’s amazing!   Go get your dragons at http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/three_dragons/ …continue reading.

May 28th, 2010 by Marcus 

TopWinPrio 3

I have new plans for that app. I will try to start coding it today. The code will be complete rewritten and the GUI will be more like Windows Seven. As soon as it’s done and tested I will publish it. The new version is planned to be more adaptable to the user and nicer Continue reading →

May 26th, 2010 by Marcus 

Xkcd: Compiling

Old but very true …continue reading.

May 26th, 2010 by Marcus 

Stop “PlaySound()” in c++

So today I got into the problem of how to stop playing a soundfile that was started with Playsound with the SND_ASYNC parameter. PlaySound(“MySound.mp3″,NULL,SND_FILENAME || SND_ASYNC); Well, the solution was simple PlaySound(NULL, 0, 0); Well, that figures… …continue reading.

May 26th, 2010 by Marcus 

Kill all

This is destructive but fun. Use Start menu/Run or Windows +R and type taskkill /FI “imagename ne explorer.exe” This will shut down all programs started by your account. That means all programs started by you and some of the programs from the StartUp (but not applications started  by the system). It will try to shut Continue reading →

May 25th, 2010 by Marcus 

Windows search in XP

I like using Windows Search, but I hate it when it takes over the search function in the explorer window, at least in Windows XP. Fortunately, there is a way to remove it (and the annoying dog) from the explorer window, but still keep Windows Search running as an app by itself. Just click on Continue reading →

May 25th, 2010 by Marcus 

Dilbert classic

This is a classic Dilbert Strip. Still as fun as it was when it was published… and that’s a lot of years ago… Somehow this seems to be a nice way to start the week on… …continue reading.

May 24th, 2010 by Marcus 

Clean up script

As I mentioned in my previous posting. I like to keep my machine clean. Windows has a lot of nice apps for cleaning up and tuning the computer. The commands run in this script are the following System Maintenance (“%windir%\system32\msdt.exe”) – kind of like TuneUp Utilities OneClick msconfig – if you need to remove stuff Continue reading →

May 21st, 2010 by Marcus