Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I was contemplating the other day how to extend AB Commander to make it able to collaborate with several third-party software products. For example, it would be cool to add some support for the 7z files, which are created by the file compressor 7-Zip . It shouldn't be too difficult, ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
When developing my software, sometimes I need to try a few changes to the application icon, to see which image looks better. Unfortunately, replacing the icon within the application file does not make Windows recognize the new icon when displaying a shortcut to the file: it displays the old icon ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
While testing my software for compatibility with Windows Vista during the last couple of years I've noticed that Vista often does not want to play nice with other computers on my LAN. If there are only XP computers connected, everything was fine: they could see each other, I could move ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
(It's been a very busy time here lately: the taxes, a new product that's almost done, but just can't quite get finished, and as a result, no spare time for this blog of mine. Dear Subscribers (both of you), I'm very sorry, please don't give up on me, I'll try ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
This story began about 15 months ago, in November 2006. That was the time when Microsoft was getting very close to releasing Windows Vista, and it was the time for me to start getting serious about making sure my applications were compatible with it.
At that time I was using ...
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