Application transparency, minimize to systray in Windows NT/2000/XP
While working in Windows, I always miss what I use in Linux. Previously I blogged about virtual desktops, window catalogue, desktop preview etc in Windows.
Just like that, I’d like to share another of my favorite application - PowerMenu.
This tiny application(consists of 3 files) allows you to have transparency, minimize to systray, prioritize and put the window on top of all others. You can download here, it is only 48.9 K!
I would suggest to copy the files from PowerMenu_1_5_1.zip into C:\Windows folder and create a shortcut in the Startup. This will help you to start PowerMenu with Windows login.
Here some more screenshots taken by me:
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DataStreams - CSV Reader
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When developing applications for big companies who had some legacy systems/applications running, and you are required to do the Data Extraction from the legacy systems import to your application. This, sometimes, can be really hard, especially when there are missing data in some rows, or some data extractions are comma delimited, some tab and some with other format like XLS, XML etc. Here’s the definition from their website:
DataStreams is a component library for .Net developers to easily integrate data from various formats like CSV, Excel, and XML into their applications.
Csv Reader is an extremely fast and stable .Net class for stream based parsing of virtually any commonly found delimited data format, CSV files, tab delimited files, etc. It’s usable from C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, or any other .Net language. It’s compatible with the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 .Net frameworks.
Relenta unique CRM
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The first impression potential customer visiting your online presence is very important, as we can see Relenta is pretty much aware of this because it has very simple yet effective, sleek and user-friendly website design.
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2. The CRM software is so complicated and confusing that employees either avoid or are incapable of using it.
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As a simple, yet robust alternative to bloated software, Relenta CRM helps you get things done quickly and effectively. Our product development is focused on usability and overall user experience, rather than sheer number of obscure features and cluttered interfaces.
AdesClrPicker v2.0 in Linux
In my previous post I have reviewed AdesClrPicker in Windows, and now I’m doing a review in Linux. I will be testing it under Ubuntu 7.04 - the Feisty Fawn.
Before I begin, I need to note that AdesClrPicker is not developed to run on Linux, it’s a Windows application. So if you encounter any kind of problems, bugs while running it on Linux Ades Design is not responsible, neither am I!
Here’s a short list of what we need:
- Ubuntu 7.04 installed on your machine
- Wine - Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
- Latest Firefox version installed in Wine
I have tried using AdesClrPicker in native Linux applications and the picker can detect and pick color but it cannot send color codes to the AdesClrPicker which is running in Wine. Since it was developed for Windows users this kind of things incompatibility might happen. Just remember that AdesClrPicker does work fine in Windows OS. Having said that let’s go to the first step and run it:
we start AdesClrPicker:
blackman@blacky:~$ wine AdesClrPicker.exe
we start Firefox in wine:
blackman@blacky:~$ wine /home/blackman/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe
So, after starting Firefox in Wine we can now pick colors and make use of this wonderful and yet very small in size application - AdesClrPicker!
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Replacement for Google Analytics - 103bees!
After some considerations, I have decided to stop using Google’s Analytics. I will be instead using 103bees to gather information about incoming traffics to my blog.
I will update on how did it go with 103bees within next week hopefully. But to tell the truth it looks promising! So chances are high that I’ll be another proud bee keeper!
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