If you are using Windows 7 you may have noticed that Microsoft decided to remove the Network Activity icon from the tray area and instead, substituted it with a dull plain white icon. According to this video at Channel 9, the design team for Windows 7 removed it because they wanted to make Windows quieter. […]
Screensavers are no longer what they used to be… I guess that’s because people now use their computers more than before so there’s no time for those colorful and fun assortment of random animations to show up. But I’ve always been a fan of screensavers. Some of them are truly works of art, some are […]
If you had access to the Internet circa 1995 then you may know or at least, have heard about, a program called PopUp Killer. At that time, it was the only solution to prevent pop-ups from disturbing your Internet experience. Back in the day we didn’t have spam, or web worms/viruses — we had pop-ups. […]
The story of why and how Core Audio .NET came to be, in three chapters Chapter 1: The Good Ol’ Audio Mixer API Up until Vista, Windows used the same API from Windows 95 to let third-party programs consume a series of resources (exposed by the drivers) that allowed them to discover and manipulate all […]
Back in 2001, when I began working on DXVUMeter (an ActiveX control used to display audio in various formats) I wanted to implement the ability to display the monitored audio in the frequency domain, that is, be able to apply a Fast Fourier Transform over the sampled audio and display it. [Again], I found a […]
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