Monday, May 24, 2010

Facebook Privacy Checks

Here is a list of Facebook Privacy scanners I've found.1.) Save Face by Untangle is an automated script that will go through your settings and disable them.http://www3.untangle.com/savefaceAll you have to do is drag it on to your Bookmark toolbar for later.2.) Reclaim Privacy, which is a scanner which...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

InvalidateRequerySuggested on GUI Thread

I've been having issues where buttons weren't getting enabled on my WPF application, only by clicking the form would they work.I found that I need to force the refresh using CommandManager.InvalidateRequerySuggested but that didn't work, the reason being I wasn't on the GUI Thread, I was on another...

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Dieting for Programmer

Right,I've decided to do a post on dieting, not exactly technical but very much of the, "Healthy body, Healthy mind" manta, so my history, I used to be nearly 16 stone so I'm not from the "always been thin, eat what you like" bunch of twats most diet people are.So here is my diet plan / life plan thing.Firstly,...

Monday, May 17, 2010

GPS Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimals C#

I have been trying to connect to a device and get the GPS Data, I was using the library provided by Microsoft's Coding4Fun. http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/31/912287.aspx and written by Scott Hanselman... how can he be wrong!?The issue I came across was the precision was out by quite...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Get WhoIs Information from a domain name in C#

I needed to get the WhoIs information for a domain using the simplest way possible.I could have used a WebService such as WebServiceX.net's http://www.webservicex.net/whois.asmxBut I decided to just talk to the whois servers directly, all I needed to do was open a socket send a request and then read...

Remote Desktop Sharing Files

With remote desktop the way to share files is via the Local Resources tab, you can then select a drive.This can be tiresome as you would have share a whole drive over the Internet / Network, the workaround I use, is to create a Mapped Drive to the folder I want to share.I then share that mapped drive,...