utility

We highlighted this project a year and a half ago, That's a great shot... Greenshot, and it's been chugging away, moving slowly and steadily to a v1.0 release. And now... Greenshot 1.0 is finally available for download now!We are very proud to announce that Greenshot 1.0 is finally available for…

Paul Long, Technological Evangelist, presented an overview of Netmon 3.4 protocol analyzer  (a Windows-based utility) as well as a question and answer session at the 2010 File Sharing Windows Protocols Plugfest.   Paul demonstrated protocol analysis scenarios including parser usage,…

Users of Brian Peek’s TweeVo application have obviously noticed that the application hasn’t been working since early September.  Twitter forced all applications to use the OAuth authentication scheme, and now TweeVo has been updated to work with this new requirement.  You can download…

CCleaner is one of the most popular programs for cleaning up the extra files and leftover data on your PC. Although I haven’t had much use for it on my more modern PCs (Windows 7 apparently does its own maintenance regularly) I know I’ve used it in the past to restore friends’ older and somewhat…

Want to know if the earth is shaking?  How about if someone is moving your laptop?  Create a utility to detect movement so you'll know right away when something is happening! The Windows 7 sensors platform exposes a standard way of communicating with hardware for determining location,…

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights. Try it:…

In this article, I'll demonstrate how to use your current location to figure out and set the time zone.  It turns out that this isn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be, so read on to learn what went into this seemingly straight-forward idea. This code requires Windows 7 due to the use of…

In this article, I'll demonstrate how to use the new Windows 7 location feature to download photos taken in your vicinity from Flickr and use them to update your desktop wallpaper. The utility is written as an addin for my previous Utility Runner project (the MEF application). Wallpaper changers…

The How-to Geek just uncovered an app that brings Windows 7’s AeroSnap feature to older operating systems including Windows XP and Vista. This feature, a popular new option in the Windows 7 OS, automatically resizes your windows when you move them from one side of the screen to the other. For…

Do people visit your desk when you're at meetings?  Do they leave you messages for when you get back?  If you're like me, you end up losing those messages half the time.  Here's a fun screensaver program that let's people leave messages for you right on your desktop.…