Browsing archives for December, 2006

BHO (IE Addin/extension) manifest visual styles xp

27 December 2006 | 1 Comment

Tried to cram as many relevant words in the title for this to come up in Google when people search for it. Adding visual styles (common control manifest) to a BHO (Browser Helper Object, or in it’s other names Browser-Extension/Add-in/Band-Object) is not trivial. Thankfully enough our good friends at MS didn’t bother to document this, [...]

Some nice stuff from 2006

22 December 2006 | 0 Comments

Taking an opportiunity to share my excitement about some stuff Movies: These weren’t released on 2006 but I watched them only in 2006, I think, anyhow they are great movies The life aquatic – A fantastic movie, sort of mockumentary about that famous French diver. A good friend of mine says that watching it is [...]

Nintendo DS Lite

15 December 2006 | 1 Comment

I got a DS-Lite during my last stay at the states. I also ordered an EZ-Flash IV Lite, which is a flash card for the DS Lite that allows you to put tons of (your backed up) roms on a flash card and play them off the DS Lite. The DS Lite is lots of [...]

libraries for fetching stuff off the net, WinInet, libcurl

15 December 2006 | 0 Comments

I used to use WinInet until now, had it wrapped around with some code that evolved over the years, t’was ok. Then this other I suddenly had to send a packet out of a specific connection and guess what… WinInet doesn’t support that. Neither does WinHTTP (WinInet’s predecessor). So, looking around I bumped into libcurl, [...]