Archive for February, 2006

Olympics Are Over :(

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Well, I have watched a ton of Olympics these past few weeks, the most I have watched of any Olympics. I really enjoyed it :) Some of the things I remember:
The Good

South Korea’s domination of Short Track - 10 medals of the country’s 11 total medals

Hendrick becoming the third American athlete to win 3 medals […]

MySystemSpy

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Been working on a new program for the past few days, right now Im calling it MySystemSpy. It pulls advanced hardware and software properties of your system that are either hard to find in windows or not present anywhere without the help of some other kind of tool. It uses WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), and […]

Google DeskTop Search update!

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Seems the day I had downloaded the Google Sidebar (see previous post), they had a new version, which includes a feature in the Desktop Search which is “Search Across Computers”. It seems that this feature, when enabled, sends info like web history, etc to Google, which is a BAD thing. Luckily, it is disabled by […]

Google SideBar and Desktop Search

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Trying out some new tools to play with, one of them is the Google Sidebar. Its a bar that resides, get this, on the SIDE (I know.. its crazy) of your computer screen, that contains all sorts of different pieces of information, such as News, Weather, Scratch Pad, To Do List, and even a Photos […]

EZScreenCap v1.0 Released!

Monday, February 6th, 2006

EZSCreenCap is a program I wrote in VB.NET that allows you to capture screenshots of your desktop. You can quickly capture full screen images, regions of your desktop, as well capturing images at timed intervals. The captured images can be saved in BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF formats. Its small, easy to use, and […]

Super Bowl XL

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Well its that time again, the last two football teams play in a game that is televised all over the world, and where companies pay millions of dollars for a few seconds of advertising time. It’s Super Bowl time! People all over the country have an excuse to pig out, be lazy, and sit in […]

Can You Raed Tihs?

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Found this interesting little tidbit while browsing my geeky programming forum :)
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EZScreenCap Under Development

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Another program soon to be listed free on this site is EZScreenCap. It is yet another program that deals with capturing still images, except this time it is used to gather screenshots of regions of your desktop. I have the basic functionality working, using a transparent panel on a form that captures the desktop image […]