Category: Windows

Windows software

Fixing the position of the toolbar in IE 7

I don't know about you, but I prefer the look of IE 6 over IE 7. The IE 7 toolbar icons look more toyish to me, but what really annoys me is the new toolbar position, above the menu bar. Maybe I'm being anal (I'd say purist), but...

ProgrammingWindows

Making Cygwin and Windows cooperate

Cygwin uses a different path scheme than Windows. If you use a Cygwin shell with Cygwin programs, then everything works well. But if you use a Cygwin shell as your default shell (which I do, because face it, cmd.exe sucks) and...

MusicWindows

Smart PC Recorder

A free Windows app that can record audio to WAV or space-saving MP3 files. Â Smart PC Recorder

Windows

1 GB of RAM in our Windows laptop

My wife's Windows XP laptop has been pretty slow lately and I haven't gotten around to doing the old Windows ritual of backing up the data and reinstalling Windows from scratch, so I bought 1 GB of RAM from a coworker and...

MusicProgrammingWindows

Released Export2Excel 1.0.1 for Yahoo! Music Jukebox

I released a new version of my Export2Excel plugin for the Yahoo! Music Jukebox. Here are the changes: Screenshots Release notes 1.0.1 Fixed swapped column headings and rearranged columns. Added ability to dump the...

RantsWindows

Rant: Why does Windows want to reinstall drivers for USB devices when I plug them into a different USB port?

It's the same device! Why the big deal just because I used a different USB port? This is no small pain in the butt when I'm dealing with my Microsoft (haha!) Wireless keyboard and mouse, which seems to want to install 7 drivers...

MacMusicWindows

Getting FLAC

After a coworker mentioned it, I decided to rip all of our CDs to FLAC so that we'll have perfect copies and can always transcode to the latest file formats. Last night I ripped a few CDs with dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)....