Michael S. Clark

Since implementing crossfading of tracks in Karaokidex, I’ve indicated the crossfading by gradually fading out the background colour of the first track’s row in the playlist DataGridView and fading in the background colour of the second track’s row. This caused a really annoying flickering. The problem is the DataGridView is not double-buffered by default, nor [...]

Since Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2008, setting file associations has never been easier. The publish options dialog has four pages; once of which is the “File Associations” page. After one or more entries has been added, and the app published, the ClickOnce app will now be launched whenever an associated file is opened [...]

Up ’til now, when I’ve been developing and ClickOnce application, I’ve had to include a UACLauncher as a default option to support any user that is not the administrator on their own machine. The console app has elevated privileges that are passed on to the re-launched ClickOnce app. If I didn’t include this, the application [...]

I’ve just completed the transfer of all the websites I host to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. For as little as $0.25, you can set up web sites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting. This is the penultimate service that this server provides as I have already transferred email to Google Mail [...]

Jivin’ Jim now has his own website, including videos, with a theme customised by yours truly! Jim, as you may remember, is currently using Karaokidex to run the karaoke parts of his gigs. He asked me to give him a website, so there it is. Click here to visit.

We’ve always liked Weather Underground for its no-nonsense, real-time weather info. Today they’ve released a new service called Full Screen Weather that mashes up Google Maps with weather data for nothing but maps and up-to-the-minute weather info. [Via: Lifehacker]

Robots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik’s Cube are nothing new, but we’re pretty sure we haven’t seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before. [Via: engadget]

We finally began redecorating the livingroom last weekend, and we decided to wall-mount the television. The Plasma Centre provided all the supplies: UM101M Tilt – Black Universal Slim Tilting Wall Mount PAVS-2 – PAVS-2 530mm Cable Management Trunking 3x PAVS-S – PAVS-S Premier AV Support Shelf Unit Now all we’ve got to do is finish [...]

I tried to use the window Aero Snap feature on Windows 7 today that allows you to snap windows to the left or right of the screen by holding the title bar and dragging to the left or right edges. This work well for systems with one monitor, but with dual monitors, the desktop is [...]

Like prior versions of Windows, this is one of your options when right-clicking an item; it does what it says: it sends a copy of the object to the option you choose. The default choices with a normal right-click are the Desktop, a Zip folder, a fax or mail recipient, or any additional drives connected [...]