Mr Man's Blog

VS.NET 2003 posters

A nice tip from Suresh Behera. Here you can find some Visual Studio 2003 posters: http://weblogs.asp.net/sbehera/archive/2005/09/28/426154.aspx.

Videocard upgrade. 9700 -> X800XT

I finally decided to give my pc a second chance by upgrading the videocard. I replaced my Radeon 9700 with a Radeon X800XT.

Now I can play Half life 2 on a decent resolution with all the details on:)

Developer Toolbar for IE

Microsoft finally released a beta version of their Development Toolbar for IE. Now you'll have the same functionality as the web developer extension for Firefox. Such as inspecting the Dom object, disable scripts, view image information, show a ruler, resize the window and etc.

Beware! You have to reboot your pc after installing the application.

Google Sidebar VS Desktop sidebar

When Google released beta 2 of the desktop search application I got interested and give it a try. After trying this out for about 1 week I noticed that the google sidebar missed some essential plugins like: Disk usage and a weather forcast for foreign countries.

Today I found a new sidebar called the desktop sidebar. And this is even better than the google sidebar. I like this so much better. For instance, the desktop sidebar is skinnable and has a standard disk usage application and a weather forcast for the netherlands. And it looks kinda cool! The desktop sidebar cummunity is much larger which results in a lot of available plugins.

The desktop sidebar has functionality such as: weather forcast, displays rss feeds, notes editor, msn plugin, performance monitors, shutdown buttons and a very nice clock:)

Highly recommended! Click here to give it a try.

HOWTO: Secure your clipboard.

Via the ASP.NET website I found out that my clipboard wasn't secured at all. Every website I visit could read my clipboard with using javascript. Stupid me......

Click here for the article.

PSP vs Game Gear vs GB SP

Programming on a 20 inch Widescreen:)

After a delay of 2 weeks. Dell finally delivered my 2005FPW 20 inch widescreen:)  When I turned the screen on it really gave me a *wow* feeling.

Compared to my 17 inch CRT this is like a huge monster. This is definitely a must have for every developer. Look at the screenshots I made in Visual Studio and outlook 2003. It looks pretty amazing don't you think?

This screen can produce a resolution of 1680x1050 (16:10)  with a response time of 16ms. Gaming in Half Life 2 will never be the same:)

I recommend everyone to buy a 20 inch widescreen! Click here for detailed information. 

Click on the pictures to zoom in.

Playgear Skins en Printer settings

Yes! Eindelijk heb ik de PSP in handen. Het is inderdaad een verbluffend apparaat en ik heb meteen drie spellen gehaald. Everybody's golf, Lumines en NBA showdown. Op dit moment ben ik helemaal verslaafd aan Everybody's golf. Het doet me een beetje denken aan mario golf op de oude gameboy.

Om m'n PSP te beschermen heb ik de Logitech Playgear gekocht. Het is op zich een hele mooie en een robuste case. Het is alleen jammer dat de case zo log en zwaar is.  Ach ja je kan niet alles hebben he. Het leuke van de Playgear case is dat  je het kunt pimpen:)

Via google heb ik een forum thread gevonden met enkele Playgear skins en de bijbehorende de printer settings (Zie het onderstaande screenshot).

Forum met Play Gear Skins  :http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psp&message.id=475432

Klik op de plaatjes om uit te vergroten.

Hieronder m'n favoriete skins: