Prisn – 0.1.3.0
Made up a little app called Prisn. Name chosen by the Trugger list. It's basically a clone of Prism, with some features that I wanted that weren't there (yet?).
It's also worth it to note that it's probably missing some features that Prism has.
Prisn already includes icons for:
- Clipperz
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Docs
- Google Reader
- RememberTheMilk
- Zoho Writer
If you have any extra icons you want added in the next release please mail them to me.
Anyway, hope someone finds this useful.
Feature requests etc. in the comments.
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2, and Silverlight 1.0 RC
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Buzzword Preview
A document editing service to compete against them all, Buzzword is in Beta and looks beautiful! I would seriously contemplate using this instead of Word! I'm not even joking.
The menu bar is so intuitive, and "just works". When you click one of the icons a menu bar slides out like the Word Ribbon.
Documents can be "Shared" with other users. So, for example, you could set a Reviewer to add comments on designs etc. This feature seems to work in real time.
Here's a screen of a document being edited.
Nice. I just hope it's going to be completely free!
New WickedOrange Site
The WickedOrange site is being redesigned. Check it out at the sandbox if you're interested.
The site is being done entirely with asp.net, so I might add a few nice features.
Windows Live Writer Beta 2
The most amazing blog client I have ever seen.
It actually shows you, in real time, how your post will look!
Yes, that's how my post looks depending on the current style in WordPress.
This little tool actually makes me want to blog more. I'm going to have to find something to blog about.
Check out the Plugin I got for inserting source code snippets:
Friend Shared Function GetBytesString(ByVal bytes As Single) As String If bytes >= 1099511627776 Then 'terrabyte Return System.Math.Round((bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024), 3) & " TB/s" ElseIf bytes >= 1073741824 Then 'gigabyte Return System.Math.Round((bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024), 3) & " GB/s" ElseIf bytes >= 1048576 Then 'megabyte Return System.Math.Round((bytes / 1024 / 1024), 3) & " MB/s" ElseIf bytes >= 1024 Then 'kilobyte Return System.Math.Round((bytes / 1024), 3) & " KB/s" Else 'byte Return bytes.ToString & " b/s" End If End Function 'gets a nice looking string file size.
Beautiful!
I am amazed. Check it out now.
Smx Languages and all and all
Things are progressing with production on Smx.
For example, I found a Beta Tester on the forums, and he is willing to do testing for the "WindowBlinds Support" feature planned for a future release.
I have also met a Cuban who is doing translation to Spanish, the first official language translation for StartMenuEx.
Looks like its going places, now if I could start making some good money off of AdSense then I'd be really happy.
If anyone is willing to do a translation for StartMenuEx, then I'm sure all your people would be grateful, so get off your ass.
LaunchPad, Titan Quest, Prey
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LaunchPad
This is a new piece I'm working on. It a program launcher, which is activated by holding both mouse buttons down at the same time.
Heres a pic of it in action (icons are customisable, I just chose em because they're purdy).
As you can see, it appears above all other windows, and you can quickly run a program or whatever.
When you hover over an icon it shows full opacity (the other method greyscales the icon until hover, which will be customisable), and it shows a title on the screen wherever you want it...
See the cool shadow effect. I actually googled for a way to draw a shadow with text, then realised I just had to draw the text twice (black and white), with a spacing of 2 pixels.
Anyways, I'm going to be releasing a beta to the people in Smx Forums only, so if you wanna try it out then I suggest getting over there and joining up!
- Titan Quest
This is a pretty sweet game, we actually had a nettie last night and played only this (well we did play some COD2, which I completely pwned everyone with a sniper rifle by the way) and it was quite interesting. I was the only archer so when everyone runs ahead to pillage the treasures and shit, they just end up giving it to me anyway if its a bow or whatever, so it was mellow. Well made game unless you haven't installed the latest patch and it crashes every five minutes.
- Prey
Loving it. I pushed the graphics up to full and my laptop handled it! Running an ATI MOBILITY 9600/9700 SERIES here, so I couldn't believe it. Could this engine be better than HL2 engine? Definately!
The gameplay is pretty sweet too, I suggest checking out the demo if you haven't already bought it.
Internet Explorer 7 : Beta 2 Preview
Released on March 20th...
I'm downloading it now, gonna give it a test run...
EDIT : Sucks!