My Micro blog

I was talking to #FN$# the other day and he was telling me he wanted to set up a blog for micro blogging. We disucssed a few things and then i was really convinced i wanted to do the same. To be honest, for a long time now, i’ve been thinking of creating something like that because, as i explained on the previous post, every day i hop around the net i stumble across many interesting things that actually are not worth a whole blog post but still are worth mentioning. Now, one would ask “why not tweet?”. Well there are several reasons why not. First of all, most of the time, 140 characters are just not enough. Secondly, the site is pretty slow. When the blog tries to pull the feed to show that small “recent tweet” on the top (the one that’s now gone) it would take some time. Thirdly, if someone wanted to check out my tweet history, the interface is just not quite what it would fit the need. What i mean is that a blog-like layout is definitely better. The images will show without having to leave the page, same with youtube and other videos etc. Also, archives are much more powerfull and definitely more easy to search through.

There is a con in all this. That is that my followers on twitter (they are not as many but still) will have a bit harder time following since they will have to subscribe to the feed or visit the micro blog. But, i will try to enable the auto post to twitter when i post a micro. I know it’s not the same but anyway i feel better like that.

So, i’ll try to be posting more than once a day there with stuff i find on the net or with what i am currently up to. Best way to keep track of me is visit the micro blog or subscribe to the feed. No feedburner, since i don’t care to show off, if anyone is interested in what i am up to just use it! Also, on the top of the blog, the recent micro is displayed. I know it needs to get a bit more elegant but i’ll work on it

The interesting part is that to display that custom feed i coded a small plugin that actually retrieves an rss feed and displays the top post just like the way you see. I’ll probably release it in the next couple of days to the public if it is usefull to anyone.

All in all, thanks to #FN$# for the motivation and the theme (he actually pointed it to me and i think it’s most appropriate). I hope you all just follow through this one and it proves that it was worth the shot. Moreover, keep an eye guys cause i have some things to post (funny videos, pics etc) that i wanted to share this couple of days. So, stay tuned people! Oh, by the way, tell me what you think!

Some of my likes these days

I’ve been thining alot lately about posting some stuff. I stumble uppon a nice wallpaper and i’m like “i should post this” and then “nah it’s just too lame to do it”. But alot of those small little thingies that everybody wants to share with friends have piled up these days. I already posted about “Doctor Who” as my latest “series mania”. But here i am with i few likes these days that i really wanted to share with all of you guys and actually hear what you have to say… So here i go!

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FindMe Startup v1.0 released

After starting this small apps series called “FindMe” i got keen on. I coded the next one pretty fast to be honest. This one is called “FindMe Startup” and all it does is it lists all the items on the two registry stratup locations “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” and “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run“. Obviously, this way, you can manage the applications that are launched on system startup (delete/add). As always there is no obvious reason why not to edit registry by hand with regedit rather than this way all items are grouped in one place and you can easily perform tasks on them. So, with this small app you can list all the entries and then select which ones to delete. You can also add a new entry on current user’s run on on the local machine’s. Nice and simple.

As always i welcome your feedback. Try it out and let me know if you find out any bugs or have any suggestions.

Download: FindMe Startup (851) - 20.75 KB

Loyal readers = Less bugs

It is obvious from the announcement post that i hadn’t seen an aspect of the program “FindMe RDC” (check out the comment from George). The thing i hadn’t noticed is the situation where a user hasn’t even used Remote Desktop before and tries to use this small application. Then, something terrible happens. When i try to open the registry key for the Remote Desktop i get nothing and then, with that nothing, i try to get more stuff. There is where my problem was. I added a small check to see if the key exists and all is fine now.

I could have updated my previous post but i wanted to make this new one to emphasize on how important it is to get feedback. This bug was found due to the help of #FN$# (he mailed me a couple of hours before George left the comment) and George. I really appreciate this guys and i want to tell all of you to check out all the ones to come and let me know for any problems you encounter or features you would like to see. So, download the new version (from the old link, it’s updated) and let me know!

Edit: I added a feature… If you haven’t used Remote Desktop before you can add a URL and it will be there although you haven’t used it!

FindMe RDC: A new set of apps!

I told you it was quite some time since i did a quality post and here i come today with a new idea and a new program. God I’m fast!

Here i was today doing a remote desktop from a public place to a PC back home. And after i was done i wanted to delete the connection URL from the drop down list (can someone add a “don’t save the damn URL” please?). Anyway. I did a quick google and i came up with a registry trick. The whole thing is saved under “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default“. So, you will find all the contents of the drop down there. Now, what was the need to create an app to handle this? Well plain boredom to do it over and over again. Open regedit, expand the tree, move or delete the urls. The “FindMe RDC” small application will list all the URL’s and will let you delete, add or move them around, quick and easy! With this you are a few clicks away from doing it. Just throw it in your flash drive and let it do the rest. Whenever you use a public computer and do a remote desktop use it to clean your tracks. You can download it here: FindMe RDC (836) - 18.47 KB or even better visit the FindMe apps page.You need .NET framework 2.0 or higher.

With this application i am starting a whole new bunch of small apps for these kind of dirty jobs. Next on the list is the startup cleaner. You will be able to see all my FindMe apps here. So tell me what you think!