2007 November | Binary Fortress Software

Say Hello to the new Android

13. November 2007

I had a chance to play around with Google’s new Android platform, and I must say it looks very promising. I know this is only the first release, but from the list of libraries included with the SDK it looks quite comprehensive. Configuring Eclipse to use the SDK was a snap, and the emulator with [...]

DisplayFusion v1.4.2 Released

11. November 2007

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I am very happy to announce the latest release of DisplayFusion! This new version fixes a number of very important issues, including images appearing on the wrong monitors. With help from Keith and Erik Lammers I was able to trace the problem to Active Desktop. I was unaware that selecting the option “Hide Desktop Icons” [...]

C# and Generic Collection Sorting

8. November 2007

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Have you ever needed to sort a generic collection in C# and had problems? Well, it’s a whole lot simpler than many online tutorials would lead you to believe. First of all, you need to create a class for your custom object: public class myObject { public string Name = ""; public DateTime [...]

Windows Live Writer 2008 Released

6. November 2007

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I never thought I’d ever say this phrase: I’m excited about the release of a Microsoft blogging tool. Yes, that same Microsoft that never seems to have a clue when it comes to anything web related. They are always playing catch-up to just about everyone else, except in the case of Windows Live Writer. What [...]

A Forgotten Love Affair

6. November 2007

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Do you remember the Dreamcast? The infamous system that was way ahead of it’s time, but died an early and unfortunate death. I never knew the joy of owning one, but I worked at a games store that had one setup as a demo, and I enjoyed many a game. It was a sad day [...]

Outlook 2007 Kills Baby Animals

5. November 2007

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Well at least that’s what Outlook 2007 is going to make me do. The last couple days at work have been spent re-writing all of our HTML email templates to work with Outlook 2007. In a stroke of genius, some knob at Microsoft decided, “hey guys, instead of using the Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine, [...]