Michael S. Clark

It’s a bit fresher.

I recently created an application called Karaokidex to index, rate and play (using KaraFun) karaoke tracks (mp3+g) for use during karaoke shows, and it had it’s live debut on 3rd May at the Red Lion Caravan Park in Arbroath. It also allows you to rate each track, allowing you to differentiate between different versions of [...]

Baffle your coworkers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set. [Via: Lifehacker]

Clever network admin Pete decided to mess with his wifi-piggybacking neighbors by flipping all the images they’d see on web pages upside down. [Via: Lifehacker]

I changed some of my “default” software (the applications I install on my vanilla Windows) recently, based on the previous post. TextPad out; NotePad++ in. TextPad is proprietary, NotePad++ is freeware (this seems to be a theme), and TextPad doesn’t seem to be updated very frequently Paint Shop Pro out; GIMP in. When PSP was [...]

I recently purchased a small funky rubber USB flash drive from Integral with a view to making it a platform for storing portable applications, i.e., applications that can be executed directly from the drive without installing anything on the host machine. This is especially useful for anti-malware and browser or email apps. Here’s a few [...]

I’ve just found my house and car on Google Maps Street View! They said they’d done Dundee, but I didn’t realise that meant the whole of Dundee and Angus too. w00t!

I’ve joined Twitter and add a feed widget.

The online tee-time booking system that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live. It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server. The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, [...]

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory. Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]