Archives
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Gordon Hogenson on C++/CLI
I read a lot of books but with my day job and various other projects and writing commitments I don’t have a lot of spare time. As a result I am very picky about what books I read and especially technical books since there are so many mediocre technical books out there.
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Recovering a Window’s Alpha Channel
Ian Griffiths who convinced me to add the window transparency features to Window Clippings writes about calculating the alpha channel for a window. Ian does a good job of explaining the theory behind the calculations.
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Using Window Clippings
As a first-time user, it may not be obvious how to get started or how to discover all the features that Window Clippings provides. This article presents an introduction to using Window Clippings 1.5 as well as a handy reference of all the settings that it provides for customizing its behavior and the resulting images it creates.
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Why doesn’t Kenny Kerr work for Microsoft?
Chris Sells posted a comment to my Controls and the Desktop Window Manager article that read:
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Window Clippings 1.5
Update: Version 2.0 is now available! Download it now from http://www.windowclippings.com/.
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Controls and the Desktop Window Manager
Of all the Windows Vista for Developers series articles that I have written, the one about the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) is by far the most popular considering the blog traffic statistics and the amount of email I receive with questions about glass.
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Window Clippings and Toronto
I’m taking Window Clippings on the road this week! Only kidding… Sorry about the delay folks. I know a lot of you have been waiting for version 1.3 to be released. One of my monitors recently died. I ordered a replacement from Dell but I’m still waiting for it to arrive. The courier company seems to be struggling with the weather we’re having here in the North West. Window Clippings supports multiple monitors and it’s important that I test those scenarios before every release because of all the calculations that are done with screen coordinates.
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Window Clippings Question
I have received some great feedback from a few users and am preparing to release a new version with a few great new little features. It should be available in the next week or so. I will talk a lot more about that soon. However, here is a question for you:
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Those Five Things Bla Bla
I find it interesting that the self-assumed chancellor of blogland has a problem with the "Five Things" meme. How dare we waste RSS on such silliness as if it were a precious natural resource we are squandering? Sigh. But then he also proclaimed private blogs unconstitutional so you have to wonder.
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Looking Back At 2006
I can't believe I can already say that 2006 is behind us. 2006 involved a lot more writing and some new tools. Let's take a quick look.