New releases, and an easy way to change Vista partition sizes
Monday, April 28th, 2008 by Paul Roberts Posted in ColorCache, Geeks Corner, LogMeister, PTFB Pro | No Comments »Recent hotfixes from Microsoft seem to have caused problems with the process monitoring functionality in PTFB Pro. If you're seeing unexpectedly high memory consumption from PTFB after a recent Windows Update, please update to the latest release, 3.5.1.1. This fixes ... (Read full post)
LCD Monitor Calibration
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by Paul Roberts Posted in Geeks Corner | No Comments »Towards the end of last year I finally made the switch from a good quality CRT monitor to a widescreen LCD, in this case HP's w2207. When I got the monitor, I loved it's crisp text and glossy look, but ... (Read full post)
CBalloonMsg - an easy-to-use non-modal balloon alternative to AfxMessageBox
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 by Paul Roberts Posted in Free Source & Utilities, Geeks Corner | No Comments »While working on a new app I decided it would be nice to use balloon-style tooltips to convey simple messages to the user rather than relying on ye olde ::AfxMessageBox. It would be a less disruptive way of warning the ... (Read full post)
Vista-specific UI
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 by Paul Roberts Posted in Geeks Corner | No Comments »Although Vista's UAC and lackluster file performance still bug me, I must admit I am starting to enjoy its graphical and user interface enhancements. I've been looking at how to add these to our products, and I came across one ... (Read full post)
Getting serious with Vista, and a new round of releases
Monday, February 11th, 2008 by Paul Roberts Posted in ColorCache, Geeks Corner, PTFB Pro, Product Releases, PromptPal | No Comments »Well it had to happen sooner or later: I've now begun doing actual development work within Vista. This pretty much rules out Visual Studio .Net 2003 as the development environment. If you turn off UAC you can manage to build ... (Read full post)