A PC Apart

Your Mood In Stereo

Blaine Linehan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:44:33 +0000

Stereomood.com is my new favorite online radio. You don’t pick artists or a particular station to listen to. Instead, you pick your mood from the tag cloud on the homepage. Signing up is free and will allow you to create playlists and send individual song invites out to friends. I will admit that it’s not necessarily [...]

QuickTip: Blanking a PowerPoint Presentation

Shawn Albright — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:23:08 +0000

Have you ever had the need during a PowerPoint presentation to blank the screen? If so, by pressing either “w” or “b”, you can do just that. Pressing “w” during a presentation will blank the screen to white, while pressing “b” will send the screen to black. Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Add this to [...]

SupportSpace.com – An Outsider’s Musings

Shawn Albright — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:51:15 +0000

Are you technically inclined? Are you interested in helping the technologically inept in society? Are you one of the technologically inept I was just referring to? Then no matter which category you classify yourself, SupportSpace.com might be for you. So as it happens, I was reading through some back issues of a popular PC magazine I [...]

Google Maps API – Actually Useful

Blaine Linehan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:30:40 +0000

Have you ever wanted to make a map in Google Maps? Maybe put your friends houses on a map and share it? Or maybe even add a map to your blog and let visitors type in their locations and then display the map of all your visitors? Well you can! Google has always been very good [...]

Lights Out! – Java Game

Blaine Linehan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:53:17 +0000

I created this game as a final project in one of my Java classes. I haven’t done many games at all, but I’m particularly happy with how this one turned out. I’d be happy to provide the source code in an update if anyone is interested in it (if I can remember how in Java). (click [...]

The 7th Circle of Dell Hell – Batteries

Shawn Albright — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:39:17 +0000

Looks like I’m going to start off my first ever blog post with a rant. :) I always enjoy the annual visit from our Dell rep. She’s open to feedback, but probably wishes I didn’t share mine so freely at times. I’m passionate about Dell’s products. Fortunately our rep is open to hearing both the good [...]

Windows Live Writer

Peter Linehan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:54:28 +0000

Blog editors that come with many blog platforms can be small and cramped with everything fit onto a small portion of a web page. If you tend to write long entries or include a lot of media, a desktop tool might be more convenient. Recently Microsoft has updated its Windows Live Writer (WLR) blog editor. [...]

Movie Database and Library Project

Blaine Linehan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:28:04 +0000

I’ve been thinking about and tinkering on a movie database project for the last couple of years now. I want something that can catalog and display my movies, all the relevant information, movie posters, and also allow me to play digital copies of each movie. I’ve looked at ALOT of different software packages to help with [...]

Toshiba Portege M750 Review

Blaine Linehan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:07:44 +0000

When I was looking around at buying a new laptop, I found the reviews fairly sparse or else they didn’t cover what I wanted to know. So I thought I’d review the Toshiba Portege M750 tablet laptop that I decided to purchase. This is also my first multi-page post so let me know if it works [...]

Javascript Character Replacement

Blaine Linehan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:22:14 +0000

So you need to replace all the occurrences of a character in a javascript variable… Well that’s not too hard. I’ll put the code into a function that you can call from anywhere in javascript. I decided to use a regular expression in the replace syntax… No real reason though. But it works. The idea here is [...]

SQL Dates and Strings

Blaine Linehan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:22:16 +0000

Anyone thathas ever tried to treat a string as a date in a SQL command for SQL Server knows it’s a pain in the ass. And if you haven’t tried it, then I’d do something else instead. BUT if you HAVE to do it, then here’s one trick that worked for me. I had a list [...]

Reading my files in PHP

Blaine Linehan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:36:29 +0000

So I’m working on a project for a local radio station, and most of it’s finished. But there’s this little bit at the end where they want to have all the transactions from the project inserted into a CSV file local to the server. In another post I’ll outline the whole project and share the [...]

Stick to your desktop with DeskPins

Blaine Linehan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:58:25 +0000

“Pinning” should be our new favorite word. I’ve been using DeskPins for only 3 days now, and it’s pretty cool. It lets you “pin” a window to the desktop so that it stays on top of other windows. I use this to keep track of windows that I have created to hold statistics that I [...]

Photosynth – A very cool new thing…

Blaine Linehan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:20:23 +0000

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] View the synth. Do I really need to say how cool that is? It’s not perfect, only 87% synthy. But I took 141 pictures to make it. “Synthy” basically means how well the pictures match together. So [...]

Enso: Humanizing Your PC

Blaine Linehan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:10:51 +0000

I just downloaded and started using some software called Enso. This is some really interesting software. Enso takes over your CAPS LOCK key and actually puts it to good use. Now most of us don’t use the CAPS LOCK key much at all (and for those of you that do, Enso lets you change the [...]