nyan cat progress bar renews my faith in windows apis [via asc]
Sep 24th: I'm in the process of setting up a new laptop and need to wait for the giant Dropbox sync. Getting Windows 10 to stop sleeping when locked required two different registry hacks. In 2018 :(
Jul 5th: If you have a SnapScan S1300 (very excellent document scanner) and can't get it to work under Windows 10, try following these instructions
nyan cat progress bar renews my faith in windows apis [via asc]
windows 8 is looking just like the current slick windows mobile ui. bet it looks awful by the time it comes out though
warzone 2100 looks pretty cool. yay for old games under GNU
the sysinternals page at microsoft is full of useful utilities for various windows things
JkDefragGUI is a nice front-end to an awesome defragging app for windows. much much better than the built in defragger
diskview is a neat windows app that visualizes folder usage. helped me find the 8GB of useless test video files hanging around
just installed twitterlicious for windows. anyone got any better windows suggestions, while Twitter AIM bot is still down?
winkey looks like a good replacement for whatever it was i used to use for global shortcuts on windows. having a browser bound to windows-key+something makes for milliseconds saved.
dependency walker is a lovely little tool for checking dll/exe imports and exports. via rc
shoes is probably old hat, but looks kinda cool
the vista voice-recognition exploit is hilarious
putty is lacking tabs, but wintabber looks promising.
the microsoft msi building faq seems pretty useful - i need to download the sdk and get to grips with it.
microsoft have a free windows ce emulator for windows, so you can test your sites from the comfort of a "real man's" computer.
i've been looking for this forever - oe-quotefix makes outlook express stop top-quoting, put a proper attribution line and indent without wrapping everything. perfect!
winspector is a good replacement for spy++, but i need to read the docs to figure out how to only track window creation from a single process.
a nasty four year old bug in firefox is stopping some large corps from using it. ouch! sort out your priorities guys.
bash is the font of all knowledge: MCSE = Mindsweeper Consultant and Solitare Expert
leonard digs up all kinda of cool crap - a nice little md5 app for windows, with context menu integration.
nyu has a nice win95 download page including the now-old but still useful cosmo vrml plugin.
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
ai aws books color covid emoji fonts games halflife hardware havana ibm japan lego maps math minecraft music php reading tube via-matts via-momorgan wiring
apple awesome bacon code coding comics design flickr food games javascript lego maps movie music perl php programming software tech tv video visualization web