Ever had a bunch of music files in iTunes that you decided to move to somewhere else and you end up with the ! in front of the filename since iTunes can’t find it? Well here’s an easier way to delete them than manually selecting each one and deleting it. Maybe someday the software engineers who develop iTunes […]
How do you install Windows Messenger 5.1 on Vista with UAC enabled?
The first question you may be saying to yourself is, “I thought the Microsoft download page for Messenger 5.1 said Vista wasn’t a supported OS”. Well, it isn’t, at least not officially, but it does work (sort of). The answer to the question above that you don’t want to hear is, “You can’t”. Windows Vista […]
Outlook 2007 Message Split View
When responding to a forum post, isn’t it nice to be able to have the original message scrollable separate from where you are typing your response? Do you wish there was a way to do this when replying to a horrendously long email in Outlook? The other day, I accidentally found out how to do […]
Voice chat in Team Fortress 2
I know this is off-topic, but it has been a frustration of mine since I reinstalled Windows and I just resolved it. I reinstalled Windows only to find out that Steam and Team Fortress 2 did not like my Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum and my mic set as Line 2 instead of microphone. Initially I set […]
Showing different text (or elements) in a disabled ToolTip versus an enabled ToolTip in WPF
I originally started this post with a title of “WPF ToolTip Child Element Visibility Based on the Parent of the ToolTip IsEnabled Property… and you are not it with a dirty dirty dish rag on your toe reading behind a dirty magazine”, but I decided that in the best interest of my sanity (read: “what […]