December 2009 Entries
Awesome tool! On Windows 7, you may have noticed the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. This is automatically installed when you have a wireless adapter. You may have also noticed that you can’t do anything with it! What the virtual wireless adapter does is allow you to essentially multiples your wireless adapter to join more than one network at once. As a matter of fact, you can also use it to share your connection. That’s right! You can actually host a wireless network from your PC! This way, if you have a wired connection, you can share it with...
I found a cool app recently: TouchFreeze. I was tired of bumping my touchpad on my laptop while in the middle of typing. This simple utility disables the mouse clicking while typing and for a half second or so after. So simple, but so useful! Occasionally I’ll click right after typing and it will take me a moment to realize why I lost that first click, but then I remember. Much better that than how often I’ll be typing and suddenly my cursor will be moved to a random point on the page without me noticing right away! From...
My latest Coding 4 Fun article has been published. I have a simple application that demonstrates how to create a jump list in your Windows 7 application. It shows how to create a setup utility that registers a file extension, and shows how to pass arguments to a running instance of your application (necessary to invoke actions on yourself from jump list commands). Enjoy! Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2009/12/09/9933039.aspx
I’m up to 13 projects on CodePlex! Most of them are Coding 4 Fun projects, but I have a few of my own too. I have a few more to post and hopefully I’ll get to them soon. If you haven’t used CodePlex for your own code yet, you should. Even if you aren’t thinking of it as some big project, you get some great benefits. First of all, it’s backup. You don’t need to be so worried if your system goes south. It’s backed up. Furthermore, it’s in source control so you can go back and see previous...