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September 2007 - Posts

• Convert ICO to PNG

  I was looking for a free and simple application to convert icon files containing multiple resolutions, to multiple PNG files. I'm sure there must be such an application out there, but the few I checked were too complicated for my needs. I did what too Read More... Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 6:39 PM by slimcode | 3 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Strange Yahoo! search results

  Something very strange just happened to me while searching on Yahoo!. First, a prelude: Half an hour ago, while performing a search on Yahoo!, I got an empty result, with a message telling me there was a problem, and that I should retry. I did not capture Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:36 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Giving Opera a real chance

  I've been a FireFox user since version 0.8 or something. What drove me to FireFox was add-ins. The huge amount of tools I could add was calling me, and the tabbed interface was for me a great advance. It wasn't speed. Back then, browsers were fast enough, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:55 PM by slimcode | 3 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• PostsPerMonth Web Control

  Scott's post about a blog's heartbeat , and his Paint.NET template to create your own heartbeat image tag gave me the idea to try creating my own custom web control. For a non-web developer like me, that was fun. The following zip file contains the control, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:01 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• slimKEYS SDK updated

  For those interested in developing plug-ins for slimKEYS , I've updated the slimKEYS SDK to match the latest version. I added a slimSEARCH sample, which performs arithmetic operations when you enter something like "=pi*2" as the search term. This sample Read More... Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:03 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Searching for recent stuff

  Just found out that Google allows you to search for pages that appeared either the past day, week, month and more. For example, you can search for "slimKEYS" only in the past day using this URL: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=slimKEYS&as_qdr=d Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:15 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Implementing something you don't call...

  I've said it in the past; developers must stay humble . Humility just hit me again. Have you heard the news? slimKEYS 1.1.0 is out! You're already using slimKEYS? So you may already know it uses an auto-updater to periodically check for updates. If you Read More... Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:25 PM by slimcode | 1 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Computerrrr? Computerrrr?

  Since Scott is writing his blog posts using speech recognition , I decided it was time for me to try this out. I even bought myself a new USB head phone with a microphone. I must admit I'm having a lot of difficulty with it. The first time I was with Read More... Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:25 PM by slimcode | 1 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• slimKEYS 1.1.0 is out

  I finally managed to release version 1.1.0 of slimKEYS. The main new features to remember are the added customization of slimLAUNCH items, new percent and negative values you can use with slimSIZE areas, and revamped slimSEARCH entry management (more Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:19 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical