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Fortunately the Woodpecker Film has taken the risk and the courage to document the process for you. But beware! Precautions must be taken...

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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...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/136426http://adam.joeuser.com/article/136426Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/88984
In the first part I've explained the most noticeable changes you will see in a new WindowBlinds 5 skin but to be honest it went all crazy about translucent parts. We've got used to the translucent start panel since 4.6 which I've describe...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/88984http://adam.joeuser.com/article/88984Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/88858http://adam.joeuser.com/article/88858http://adam.joeuser.com/article/88858Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/87627http://adam.joeuser.com/article/87627http://adam.joeuser.com/article/87627Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/87423
Wouldn't it be great if I could just lookup the section by it...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/87423http://adam.joeuser.com/article/87423Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/78608http://adam.joeuser.com/article/78608http://adam.joeuser.com/article/78608Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/75506
So, for Blog Navigator 1.2, I went ahead and made it totally ...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/75506http://adam.joeuser.com/article/75506Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/75334http://adam.joeuser.com/article/75334http://adam.joeuser.com/article/75334Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/74756
I've been on a quest to improve a skin today and to do so I needed to extract a big archive in a proprietary and not widely supported format and get the images out of it and into the skin. Turned out the first part was not as bad as I expected as I've found some tools on the net to do this and Kris helped with the tool to convert the images in the proprietary format into TGA's. Now here's where the pain begun.

I needed to have my a...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/74756http://adam.joeuser.com/article/74756Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/71458
Vertical taskbars. this one is a ...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/71458http://adam.joeuser.com/article/71458Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/71386
I was tempted to post it in "Gadgets & Electronics" category, but finally decided against... I think they actually pre-date their era and may be too revolutionary for our times. We all know what happens to products like that developed by...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/71386http://adam.joeuser.com/article/71386Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/68689
They provide no solution or enrichment whatsoever, because some random tip at the program startup is highly unlikely to help me with the task I am about to perform with the software. It also is completely stripped off wider context and random as it is, serves exclusively as an annoyance and the first thing user has to turn off in the application.

That said, user still may find some tip...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/68689http://adam.joeuser.com/article/68689Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/67582http://adam.joeuser.com/article/67582http://adam.joeuser.com/article/67582Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45Adam Najmanowiczhttp://adam.joeuser.com/article/66022
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 ...]]>http://adam.joeuser.com/article/66022http://adam.joeuser.com/article/66022Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:45 -04002008-07-06T20:17:45