My contribution to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101841/linq-how-to-perform-max-on-a-property-of-all-objects-in-a-collection-and-ret Based on  another answer there, here is what I’ve just added to my enhanced version of SilverFlow library’s FloatingWindowHost (copying from FloatingWindowHost.cs at ...

The other day my Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (was either a gift from Microsoft Hellas or had ordered it myself from Microsoft Company Store with the credit Microsoft used to give pro-crisis to MVPs) started behaving erratically, failing most of the times to right-click and sometimes doing left clicks instead with some delay, or […]

Seems some Microsoft software (probably Bing bar) version is changing Internet Explorer title bar to write “optimized for Bing and MSN”. To remove this: Use Start/Run or Start/Find and type there regedit then press ENTER to launch the Registry Editor. At the tree on the left navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main ...

An annoying feature of Skype of recent Skype versions is that by default it shows an icon on the Windows taskbar apart from the one at the taskbar tray while you’re signed in. This also means it shows in the ALT+TAB key sequence when switching between open windows, which you might not always want to [...]

Εχω ασχοληθει λιγο μονο πειραματικα και ερευνητικα.Δες το Kinect Toolbox εδω, και επίσης το toolkit του Coding4Fun εδω.Επίσης τα παιδιά έχουν και blog.Σύμφωνα με τη Microsoft υπάρχουν ήδη ~300 partners που κάνουν application development για Kinect. (source)

  Τα Windows 8 εγκαταστάθηκαν (Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM). Αν χρησιμοποιήσετε το εργαλείο εγκατάστασης που προτείνει η Microsoft τότε απλά κατεβάζετε 5MB, ξεκινάτε την εγκατάσταση μέσα από τα Windows που ήδη έχετε και όλα τα υπόλοιπα έρχονται στον υπολογιστή σας κατευθείαν από το Internet. Για ένα Λειτουργικό Σύστημα τέτοιου μεγέθους η διαδικασία ...

Since widescreen format in monitors gets more and more common, how about a twist to the classic tabbed windows UI? Imagine being able to pin a tab and have it move to a side-view area in the same window. That are would keep the pinned tabs separated from the rest using a splitter / split-view [...]

A friend just called me this morning that their notebook with Windows 7 Starter started today showing the same icon for every Start menu item and for shortcuts (e.g. on the desktop) and when trying to open them the same program would always try to open them. Seems he had right-clicked and done “Open With…” [...]

If you type help IF at the Windows 7 command-line (can launch this by searching at Windows Start menu search box for “Command” or by typing cmd there and pressing ENTER), you get in one of the help pages printed out for the batch files’ IF command: %ERRORLEVEL% will expand into a string representation of [...]

I recently came across a very useful Microsoft tool (FCIV) that can compute and store (as XML) checksums (MD5, SHA1 or both hashes) of folders/files you want and can also be used to later on verify the checksum lists to see if they’ve been tampered with. Would be nice to have a GUI wrapper around [...]

Sometimes you may wish to rename a file to mark it as being not yet finished or in need to be worked on etc. In such a case on Windows if you want to make sure the filename shows first/last depending on the sort order you can prefix its name with a "_", an underscore [...]

Ο Ed Bott έγραψε ένα πολύ καλό άρθρο, επ'αυτού που μιλάει και για τα χάλια των δήθεν ''τεχνικών'' δημοσιογράφων: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1575&tag=nl.e539 Δεν ξέρω για εσάς, αλλά κάθε τρεις και λίγο όλο και κάποιος προκύπτει να έχει ακούσει την ιστορία και ρωτάει τι παίζει. Τις προάλλες με ρώτησε και η μητέρα μου(!) - το άκουσε σε ...