DVD back on the rails
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 by Paul Roberts Posted in Geeks Corner | No Comments »This has nothing to do with development, other than it causing a hold up as I was doing my regular DVD backups. Hopefully documenting my experiences here will help others... Basically I noticed that my Lite-On ATA DVD drive had started ... (Read full post)
Delphi Color Format for ColorCache
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 by Paul Roberts Posted in ColorCache, Geeks Corner | No Comments »Recently a user asked if there was a way to get ColorCache to produce colors in Delphi format: $00BBGGRR (where BB, GG, and RR are the blue, green and red components of an RGB color) Happily, the answer was "yes". ColorCache doesn't ... (Read full post)
To cut a long URL short
Thursday, July 19th, 2007 by Paul Roberts Posted in Geeks Corner | No Comments »There's a really useful web-based service I've been using for a while, so I figured I'd give it a mention: http://tinyurl.com/ Basically, it takes a long, unwieldy URL and gives you a much shorter URL that takes you to exactly the same ... (Read full post)
Vista Post-install Run for ColorCache, PTFB Pro and PromptPal
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 by Paul Roberts Posted in ColorCache, Geeks Corner, PTFB Pro, PromptPal | No Comments »As promised, we've modified our installers for ColorCache, PTFB Pro and PromptPal to include the new technique for the post-install run under Vista. The latest releases for PTFB Pro and PromptPal also contain some useful bugfixes, so be sure to update to ... (Read full post)
ColorCache Version 4 - Preview
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 by Paul Roberts Posted in ColorCache, Featured Announcements, Geeks Corner | No Comments »ColorCache version 4 is close to release now, so I thought I'd take a closer look at its new Preview facility. The Preview lets you take an existing web page page then instantly recolor it using the various color schemes you ... (Read full post)