Archive for the ‘ Misc ’ Category

Vista Tweak 1: Turning off User Account Control

  • June 28th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

User Account Control is probably the most annoying new ‘feature’ in Windows Vista and while it provides a good protection against unwanted programs it can become bothersome quickly when many applications have to be installed. I recommend to leave UAC turned on unless you have enough reason to turn it off. To turn off UAC [ READ MORE ]

hidden.resource moved to new domain!

  • May 25th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

As you can see hidden.resource has been moved to it’s own domain, namely www.hiddenresource.net. At that opportunity I also gave the site a Wordpress update and a new look (including those slick 16-bit style pictures at the top). Besides that HDRS is going to focus more on Game Development with ActionScript 3.0 in the future [ READ MORE ]

News Flash

  • March 25th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

Been quiet here recently! One who writes code much, writes blog post few! ++ STOP ++ Flash Game Programming Wiki is down! Had my web server package changed which required a physical server transfer. Looks as if something on MediaWiki got broken by that. All stuff is still there but the site doesn’t open on [ READ MORE ]

Need more reason to NOT use Vista?

  • January 25th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

… If you use a Logitech mouse you already got it! The company now officially made it clear on their support forums that there will be no support for Mouseware for Windows Vista. Instead they point their customers to use the generic mouse driver that ships with Vista. But have they told you that the [ READ MORE ]

Windows Vista the Protection Monster … and at which costs!

  • December 26th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

Still think Windows Vista is a great OS? It might look great but whats going on under it’s shiny surface? Peter Gutmann has written an extensive article about Vista’s underlying content protection systems. If you plan to use Vista, read it! And then think again! Quote: “The only reason I can imagine why Microsoft would put [ READ MORE ]

Guerilla Spam

  • December 10th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

I’m getting some strange kind of Spam recently. Check out my Photoshop Script Positing! Around every week I’m getting one or two comments saying “great script!” or something similar and the URL obviously point to sites that have nothing to do with design or somebodies personal website. Instead they look like marketing websites. At first [ READ MORE ]

So you want to be an Indie Developer?

  • November 24th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

Some links to nine articles about the topic on ‘becoming an Independent Game Developer‘, found via Digg. Some more interesting, some less, the last one from a Mac perspective. There seems to be a lot of discussion about if it turns out to be paying off or not etc., in short, things that don’t interest [ READ MORE ]

Using Vista is like walking on thin ice … Vista’s EULA product activation worries

  • November 23rd, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

“…Once you activate the product, then you would assume that you are golden to go ahead and use the product, right? Wrong. You see, even after you activate the software it will, according to the EULA, “from time to time validate the software, update or require download of the validation feature of the software”. It will once again “send [ READ MORE ]

Tools of the Trade Part 4: Console

  • November 21st, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

This is not really a true productivity tool but I think it has enough value that it deserves to be mentioned. If you’re on Windows and work with the Command Prompt a lot, you might be fed up with the overly dull look of the black Windows command console and you look over to the [ READ MORE ]

Flash your own Converse Sneaker together

  • November 19th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

Just found this yesterday via Adobe Consulting Blog … Converse – Chuck Taylor, Jack Purcell, Basketball Shoes, Design Your Own Converse Shoes. Click on the first shoe under Collection. You can design your own sneaker with your own style of color combination and even add a personalized text at the side or back. I first [ READ MORE ]

Tools of the Nuisance Part 1: XMLSpy

  • November 18th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

If you’re working with XML on Windows and you like your tool full-featured there’s a good chance that you have worked with Altova XMLSpy, a first of all very good and powerful XML editor but on second look becomes a nasty bugger that calls home as if there is no tomorrow. Thats fine and good! Let [ READ MORE ]

Vista and the missing compatible Software

  • November 17th, 2006
  • Posted in Misc

I’ve made a partition with Windows Vista RC a while back to check out how well my used Software will run. First off I like Vista, I really do! It’s polished Aero Look is reason enough for me to switch from the vomit-colored Windows XP. But I soon realized that something important is currently missing [ READ MORE ]