In case you’ve missed it, FireFox 1.0.1 is out. Basically it’s just a security update, but we like security, don’t we?
Not all languages are available yet, but English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and some others will serve quite an audience already I guess.
Apparently there’s something wrong with their compressed-HTTP.
To have an OnPaste property in a TEdit component, I wrote a little unit/package to create a descendant of TEdit. At the moment it only has OnPaste as an extra property (event), but I will extent it with OnCopy, OnCut, since they might come in handy in the future.
Because of the ongoing S.M.A.R.T. prediction of a harddisk failure, I finally replaced the disk. First I connected the new drive to the system, partitioned it like I wanted (the old one has 3 partitions, and I liked that setup), and copied all data from the old to the new disk.
I shut down the system, disconnect the old disk, connect the new harddisk to the “old” cable and started Windows again. From within Windows XP I changed the new driveletters to resemble the old, and things are working like a charm now.
No more F1 when starting my computer. Yeah! And another 40GB extra, since I replaced a 40G with a 80G.
I’m creating an image-grabbing application, just for the fun of it. I ran into a problem on how to detect text was pasted instead of typed into a field (TEdit). Of course I tried the onChange, and when using that event things go fine when Pasting text (it’s fired right after the Paste action). But when typing into the same field, the event fires after every keystroke. Any hints?
Oh, it’s Delphi 6, so Win32 solutions please.
Corel is working with Pixmatic, and they announced to give away Rawshooter for free (press release). Rawshooter integrates with several Corel products as well as Jasc Paintshop Pro.
In this feature matrix, Rawshooter is compared to Phase One’s C1 and to Adobe’s Camera RAW.
A lot of RAW formats are supported, amongst others Fuji S2 Pro, Fuji S3 Pro, Nikon D100, Nikon D70, Canon 300D and Canon 20D to name a few popular D-SLR’s.
On the Corel site is the download page.
If you need to learn something about Visual Studio, or to be specific Visual Basic, then have a look at this tutorial. It shows you what you need to know, in a very humorous way. Even if you already know VB, it’s still worth a read.
Although still very basic and probably not in the best perl-coding-style you can think of, my 404.pl now actually redirects. I saw a lot of requests for things with “cmd.exe” in my Apache-log, so this is redirected to a Google search for “antivirus”. Also (should be done by Apache itself, but this is an exercise) /DasBlog and /simplog (blogsoftware I tested) are redirected, to this blog.
Anyone interested in the perl-script, can send me an email requesting it (it’s too embarrassing to put on the website…)
Via awstats I found out that several hosts from inktomisearch.com where accessing my websites, creating a considerable amount of traffic. By doing some DNS-research I learned that they are yahoo.com hosts. So I added this domain to the search_engines.pm.
If you need a picture for a presentation, or for a commercial folder, for a website you are creating, or you just need a new wallpaper, then check out Stock.xchng. It’s free. Currently they have more than 100.000 pictures online, and they are growing every day.
Here’s a sample of a button ready to be used 🙂
