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A friend of mine has recently asked if it's possible to write a console .net application to make a thumbnail of a website. The task is pretty trivial with Windows forms actually. But him being the Linux guy and all... I decided to pick up the challenge

An interesting use case. In winForms all you really need to do is drop a WebBrowser on your form and once it's loaded the p...

Last week it has been brought to my attention that Blog Navigator can no longer post web articles. Alas, this was only a symptom of a much worse disease, but first things first...

This month in a noble effort of making the Windows platform more secure for us and our (perhaps future) kids Microsoft rolled out a new set of updates, among which is this one innocently called MS05-013 and located in Microsoft Knowledge Base under a mysterious KB891781.

You will find more about the update and ...

You could think bitmaps stretching is easy with VCL in Delphi? Well... it is... almost... when it does not involve 32 bit bitmaps (those bitmaps with per-pixel alpha channel). I've spent a few hours looking for a routine for speedy resizing of such bitmaps (but a routine that woudl not loos the alpha channel. Maybe it can be done somehow with WinAPI, but I have not managed to find a way. Besides - it would most probably not woth on DOS derived Windows (Win 9x). So af...