2007
Improving your desktop wallpapers
July 23, 2007AutoWallpaper 3 development is progressing very nicely. At present I'm redeveloping the tray icon menu to allow me to drastically improve the options available there. I'm aiming to add thumbnails to each of the history items so that it will be very easy to look back over the previous wallpapers and quickly locate one you… [Read More]
AutoWallpaper3 update
July 17, 2007Last weekend I sat down and thrashed out solutions for the multi-wallpaper support, and I have to say I'm very pleased with the results. AW3 will split the multi-monitor wallpapers into screen sized chunks so it can properly apply effects. The added bonus is that if your monitors are mis-aligned (top positions vary) then AW3… [Read More]
A good weekend of development
July 9, 2007I spent a great deal of time this weekend working on AutoWallpaper 3. I decided that with the inclusion of multi-monitor paper support and other key new features it was worthy of a version number increment. As before version 3 is a free upgrade from version 1 and 2.Features planned:<br />Multi-monitor paper support – this… [Read More]
Journey to Azshara and Multimonitor paper support
July 2, 2007I had a little time over the weekend to look into other items on my AutoWallpaper to do list and see what I could do. First up was support for multi-monitor wallpapers. These are wallpapers that are already designed to span across all of your monitors. At present AW2 will treat these oversized wallpapers exactly… [Read More]
Update completed
June 27, 2007Took a little longer than expected but the blog update has been completed. So back to the application development.But before then I have a problem (just a small one) with Vista to sort out. For some bizarre reason it seems to sporadically loose the drivers for my DVD writer. A shutdown and powerup usually fixes… [Read More]
Blog update
June 18, 2007As part of my normal working day (not ARSoftware) I develop a series of web applications designed to allow our clients to manage much of their websites on their own. One of these web applications is the engine behind this very blog.After several months of usage and client feedback I started re-writing the engine, adding… [Read More]
Back to work
June 5, 2007Still feeling a bit of jet lag after the 6 and a half hour flight back to the UK. For those interested here is a brief itinerary of what happened: Tuesday:<br />Left home for the airport at 9 am, Plane was on time and it departed at 2 pm. The plane was less than 50%… [Read More]
Happy Holidays
May 18, 2007There will be no email support available between the 21st May and the 1st June as I am going on Holiday to America (USA).<br />
It's a RAID
Not that sort of raid, but a RAID configuration for my hard drives.<br /><br />After reading an article in PC Format about the speed benefits of RAID0 I decided to give it a go (not for the faint hearted). I had also read that if I used my mainboard's built in RAID controller and then… [Read More]
HyperCoder Pro discontinued
May 14, 2007I have discontinued and removed HyperCoder Pro from my website for the time being. Although it was running in Windows Vista there were a number of outstanding issues that I just cannot fix at this time.The main problem is the lack of VB.NET2003 support on Vista. I have tried to migrate the code to VB2005… [Read More]