Category Archives: Win32

Speed Reader

I spent a small portion of my free time this week working on a small Java application that would help me do a bit of speed reading. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, you can read more about it on the wiki article here.  The basic idea is to increase the speed at which [...]
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Drawing Strings in Swing using Graphics2D

I’ve started a new project again, and this time I’m working on a speed-reader application using Java (more details on that later) One of the problems that I’ve always had with Java Swing UIs is figuring out how to directly draw centered Strings while inside of a paintComponent(Graphics g) method of some JComponent So let’s say you’re [...]
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Problems with iTunes Genius

I recently got a 5th generation, 8gb iPod nano over the Christmas holidays, and boy is it sweet.  My last iPod was a 1st generation iPod nano, and the 5G nano is definately a huge improvement over my last iPod. One of the cooler things about the new iPods is the Genius Mixes features.  From the [...]
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Unbricking Your Router

I live in a house where I’m the resident tech guru, so its pretty much my responsibility to fix any technical glitch regardless of who actually caused them. Last Friday, one of my family members got the bright idea to do a firmware update on our router…too bad he used the wrong firmware version for our [...]
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JumpStacks v1.00 Release

In order to coincide with the glorious (bleh) release of Windows 7 this week; I’m proud to announce that v1.0 of Jump Stacks is ready for immediate download.  I’m pretty confident that not a lot of you out there have bothered to try out v0.01.  Personally I’m starting to question the practicality of this [...]
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