Tag Archive for 'Windows'

Icon’s Story – Flash Animation

Published on September 19, 2009 in Funny Flash Animations. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

This is a Flash animation Fepe published a lot of time ago, but it’s worth to be posted…

It’s the war that starts, once in a while, between our desktop’s icons when we leave the PC powered on and go somewhere else…

So now we know what happended if, when we get back, get to find the desktop in ruins! :)

You have to press “Play” below for it to start…

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Configure Hotmail, Live and MSN e-mail accounts to use them with POP3 in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003

Published on August 23, 2009 in E-Mail. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

vista-wow-windows-live-logo_256x256[1]

As you may know, Microsoft has decided some time ago to open its POP3 support for Hotmail, Live and MSN e-mail accounts…

Here, you’ll find the needed information to make them work on your favorite e-mail client…

First, I’ll leave the configuration data (that you can use in any e-mail client) and, then, I’ll explain step by step how to configure the accounts in Outlook…

Server type: POP3
Incoming mail server (POP3): pop3.live.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.live.com
Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA): Yes.
SMTP Authentication: Yes, use the same settings as the incoming mail server.
POP3 Encrypted Connection: Yes.
POP3 Port: 995
SMTP Connection Encryption: Yes, TLS.
SMTP Port: 25.

Read the step by step instructions…

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3D Pinball for Windows (Space Cadet) Cracker – How To Modify High Scores

Published on August 17, 2009 in Game Cheating. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Everybody knows the Pinball game that appeared with Windows 95 Plus!… It’s still in current Windows versions…

Pinball_Cracker_Game

Although it may seem incredible, there are still some fanatics of this game…

I’ve made this program in 1999 (some time ago 8-)) to let you modify the High Scores so you could make those fanatics believe you had beaten them…

Pinball_Cracker_Game_High_Scores

(You should be a little more subtle than me)

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Office Document Property Resetter

Published on August 10, 2009 in Tools. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

This is a tool I’ve made two years ago to solve a problem a friend of mine had. He had at his work a bunch of Word and Excel files created in different computers and wanted to cleanup their properties so they didn’t show the configured Author/Title/Subject/etc. tags.

Office_Document_Property_Resetter_DOC_Prop_1

This would have been a simple problem to solve if there were a few files… They could be cleaned up manually…

Office_Document_Property_Resetter_Word_Menu

Office_Document_Property_Resetter_Word_Prop_1

But there were lots of them!

So… I made this tool :)

Office_Document_Property_Resetter_Main

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Prevent Windows Update from restarting the computer

Published on August 5, 2009 in Windows. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

You’re working… Windows tells you there are updates to be installed and you innocently say yes…

WindowsUpdate_Installing

After some minutes you get the infamous message:

Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now? Restart Now. Restart Later.

It doesn’t matter if you press “Restart Later”, it will reappear in some minutes to check if you changed your mind…

Please tell me what to do!

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Attendance Control (wxWidgets Version)

Published on August 1, 2009 in wxWidgets. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

wxAttendanceControl is a GUI version of Attendance Control.

It’s been prepared as a further introduction exercise to the wxWidgets GUI (Graphical User Interface) usage (the basic introduction exercise was the Celsius to Fahrenheit application).

For the complete exercise explanation please visit the original Attendance Control exercise.

wxControlAsistencia1

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Celsius to Fahrenheit

Published on July 31, 2009 in wxWidgets. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

If you just want to convert temperatures by using a website, you should visit the online celsius to fahrenheit conversion tool. Otherwise, keep reading…

This is a very tiny and simple application I’ve written to teach the basic usage of wxWidgets as an introduction to GUI (Graphical User Interfaces).

Its purpose is just what it’s name says: converting from celsius degrees to fahrenheit degrees (and sideways).

CelsiusAFahrenheit

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Attendance Control

Published on July 30, 2009 in C/C++. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

“Attendance Control” is a console application made as an exercise to integrate the different C++ concepts taught in class up to the middle of the year.

The main objective is to be able to develop a employee attendance control which records the times (and justifications, if corresponding) of each time the employees arrive, go to lunch, return from lunch and go back to home.

Sistema de control de asistencia de personal
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DNI:

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Wake On LAN (Remotely power on a computer)

Published on July 29, 2009 in Tools. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Have you ever wondered how you could power on a computer remotely?

Well, with this program you can do it!

C:\>wol

Wake-On-Lan (WOL) Tool v1.0 by NeoEGM
http://www.neoegm.com/software/wake-on-lan/
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Usage: wol 

Wakes the computer with the specified MAC address.

Accepted MAC address formats: 01-4B-8E-00-52-A1
                              01-4b-8e-00-52-a1
                              01:4B:8E:00:52:A1
                              01:4b:8e:00:52:a1
                              014B.8E00.52A1
                              014b.8e00.52a1
                              014b8e0052a1
                              014B8E0052A1

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UpTime (How much time has the computer been powered on)

Published on July 26, 2009 in Tools. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

With this tiny tool, you can know how much time has the computer been powered on…

UpTime

GNU GPL v3 UpTime is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (attached)…

As usual, here are the links…

For the ones who want to easily read the relevant code:

DWORD dwMilliseconds = GetTickCount();

int nSeconds = (dwMilliseconds/1000)%60;
int nMinutes = (dwMilliseconds/1000/60)%60;
int nHours = (dwMilliseconds/1000/60/60)%24;
int nDays = dwMilliseconds/1000/60/60/24;

char pszStr[256];
sprintf_s(pszStr, 256, "%d days, %d hours, %d minutes and %d seconds", nDays, nHours, nMinutes, nSeconds);

MessageBox(NULL, pszStr, "UpTime 1.0 by NeoEGM <http://www.neoegm.com/software/uptime/>", MB_ICONINFORMATION);

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