| Blog General Travel Sport Hockey Technical Gaming Pages Travel Plans Live Music Links About Blog Archive Current Blogs March 2010 (1) February 2010 (3) January 2010 (5) December 2009 (1) November 2009 (1) October 2009 (1) September 2009 (1) August 2009 (2) July 2009 (1) June 2009 (2) May 2009 (3) April 2009 (1) March 2009 (1) February 2009 (13) January 2009 (1) 2008 (25) 2007 (67) 2006 (23) 2005 (32) 2004 (10) Blog Tags General 10 in '10 (4) Books (1) DVDs (2) Funny (12) Gadgets (5) Hawt (1) Movies (13) Music (6) Pets (3) Recipe (14) TV Shows (1) Web (27) Travel Calgary (2) Edmonton (12) New York (7) Niagara Falls (2) Pittsburgh (5) Washington (4) Sport Basketball (1) Running (3) Hockey Pittsburgh Penguins (25) Technical .NET (3) Java (4) Software (3) Work (2) Gaming Commodore 64 (2) Master System (1) Mega Drive (1) Xbox 360 (15) XNA (1) GamerTag ![]() The rarely updated blog of Joel Dixon | Viewing blogs tagged SoftwareSaturday, January 29, 2005A Good (?) Idea# Posted by Joel Dixon at 29/01/2005 17:57:00Updated by Joel Dixon at 19/08/2007 11:17:49 When trying to cut an image from paint I was squinting my eyes to see where my hairline cursor was sitting. I've used Hypersnap-DX to take screen captures for a while now - and it includes an integrated zoom window. While doing my cut from paint, I was thinking that it'd be good to have the same kind of zoom window available with a keyboard shortcut. I know that Microsoft has their Magnifier (press Win-U), but it only provides a small window on the top of the current monitor. I'd like a way to zoom with my secondary monitor (I'm on a dual monitor setup) when I press a keyboard shortcut. I was thinking that this might be something I have to make myself, until I remembered a product called UltraMon that provides these kinds of utilities. I had a quick look at their site and couldn't find it. Then I remembered the reason that I never bought UltraMon - my videocard came with software that provided all of UltraMon's functionality. Sure enough - after a quick look through the nView Desktop software I found exactly what I was looking for. Now, when I press Ctrl-F12 the secondary monitor changes to a 10x Zoom window. The window also swaps monitors when my mouse does. See snapshop below (the right half is the zoomed window, and my mouse is somewhere in the top left of the first monitor. And yes, I'm currently listening to Live - I absolutely love "We Deal in Dreams"). I love finding things that I didn't know I had! ![]() # Posted in the Technical section and tagged as: Software Comments (2) | Add Comment Sunday, January 09, 2005Microsoft AntiSpyware# Posted by Joel Dixon at 09/01/2005 13:58:00Microsoft has recently released their AntiSpyware software, which is basically a product of their acquisition of Giant Software. I gave it a quick go - and it looks really good. Setup was easy, and it downloaded the latest signature files in no time. I was a little surprised when it finished though - it said I had no Spyware: ![]() I guess I practice safe-computing? Another neat feature that I didn't know it had - you can get it to erase the history of some common programs etc: ![]() I'm going to keep the real-time protection running - and see how it goes. # Posted in the Technical section and tagged as: Software Comments (0) | Add Comment Tuesday, January 04, 2005Software I use# Posted by Joel Dixon at 04/01/2005 22:22:00In case anyone's interested - here's a list of the Software / Utilities I use for my various home projects: Firefox - My favourite browser. Opera - I use this browser (along with IE) to test my websites. It would probably be my browser of choice if it wasn't for Firefox. Total Commander - A split screen file manager for Windows. Having two directories side-by-side to easily copy / move makes a lot of sense when you start using it. IrfanView - A very easy-to-use and powerful Image viewer / editor. Converting files is a breeze. UltraEdit - I was using TextPad for my MDI (Multi Document Interface) needs for a while - but it got too annoying. We use UltraEdit at work, and it worked well in most instances, so I purchased it for home. GetRight - The download manager I currently use - though I don't use it that frequently (dial-up). Quintessential Player - I bought MusicMatch Jukebox ages ago - until they required extra money to upgrade (I hate that), so I switched to QCD. Works very well in my experience - and it's freeware! # Posted in the Technical section and tagged as: Software, Web Comments (5) | Add Comment | Blog Search Recent Blogs Yeah ... Baby! xkcd Parody Donate money for my next stupid run Feta, Sushi and Underwear Pimpy McHat Attack Chai did it! 10 things for 2010 Party like it's 1999 Literal Music Videos Green Day - Melbourne, 2009Feed Blog EntriesRecent Comments Green Day - Melbourne, 2009 posted 3 months ago by joeldixon The Offspring is probably the one that I most want to see next - except for maybe Daft Punk. I'm ... link Green Day - Melbourne, 2009 posted 3 months ago by Brad Can't believe it took you this long, but as far as first concerts go Green Day would have to be ... link Great Australian Run - 2009 posted 3 months ago by joeldixon Thanks Hitman - the "we stuffed up the distance" article generally takes a few days to be released - so ... link Great Australian Run - 2009 posted 3 months ago by Hitman Hey Dixon, I haven't read any articles suggesting otherwise, so I will take you at you word that you ran ... link I ran a[n eighth of a] marathon today! posted 5 months ago by joeldixon I should be fine. I'm sure the 15km will only be around 850 meters, after the measuring errors etc :) link Comment Standings 1. the man with no name (45) 2. Hoff (39) 3. Gav (27) 4. Hitman (25) 5. Brad (22) 6. Eryc-Ads (13) 7. Deep Lurker (6) 8. thefury (5) 9. Dieter (4) 10. Zelks (4) |
![]() About This Site | Contact Me | ||