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Well not really, I think it just was a failure to test it thoroughly on my part, but it’s still odd.  Apparently, in Firefox, a checkbox’s .value property is always “on” even if it isn’t really “on” so all the pictures were coming out with critical backgrounds.  Using “.checked” solved that problem.

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One of these days I’ll style it.

Whenever my mic stops working, I must remember to try the following diagnostics in the following order to avoid maximum frustration with the dumb thing: [Read more →]

Thanks to Clutch for pointing out that ES.NET could use up an obscene amount of memory.  While technically memory leaks aren’t possible in .NET unless you leak unmanaged objects, in this case I was constantly creating large bitmaps and forgetting to .Dispose them, and .NET was taking it’s time in cleaning them up.  This has been fixed in 1.6.1.  Download now.

[Edit: Fixed a couple bugs in my fix... Capture Clipboard/Desktop won't crash now, and hotkeys work again.  Oops.  Download updated to 1.6.2]

If you want to create a script that toggles a setting in a Source engine game like Left 4 Dead, you need to know the console variable name that controls it, but sometimes you don’t know.  One way to figure it out is to blindly search using the “find” command to look for a command that looks like it controls what you need.  The other way is to dump the cvar list to disk, change the setting in the GUI, dump the list again, and compare the two lists. [Read more →]

I have a bit of a backlog of stuff so I guess I better start posting some of it. [Read more →]

So recently I got a $15 iTunes gift card and now a 22-free songs code for iTunes so I decided to check it out. I expected a slow lumbering beast that would try and take over my whole OS so I booted up my favorite XP Virtual Machine and created a snapshot so I could then install iTunes on it without fear of it breaking anything permanently.

It was worse than I had feared. [Read more →]

If they can skew the truth, so can I! Except mine will be more accurate and not as skewed. Still fun to do a LITTLE skewing though. [Read more →]

I made some changes to my mod of Garry’s Directory List script. The latest version of garry’s script is seen here.

Mine is here.  The biggest change is I’ve gone for the look of the new Windows 7 Content view for files and folders … I like it very much. [Read more →]

Google Chrome’s dev branch is finally looking a bit more stable so it’s time for an update to Google Chrome Portable. [Read more →]