Posts tagged “hacks”

Desktop Clutter

If you want to show the door to the InBox, Recycle Bin, or Microsoft Network, here’s how: Run REGEDIT and drill down through the layers to find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Desktop\ NameSpace Click the plus sign (+) next to NameSpace to reveal several numeric fields. Clicking on any one of these will

Test

This is a test to see what will happen to the category icon if I add an entry without selecting a category … Ah. What happened was this: The <MTCategory> tag was not there, so when it tried to load the .gif associated with that category (the uncategory) it looked for a file name simply

Outlook Rules

Does anyone know if it’s possible to modify the rules in MS Outlook 2000 with a text editor? The “Rules Wizard” is just too annoying for me. It can’t handle any sort of boolean statements and I hate the way it ‘sorts’ the ‘order’ in which it ‘processes’ the ‘rules’. I’ve been looking hither and

How to Add a Right-Click Blog This! Menu to IE

I’ve written a little tutorial. If you’re in a group / community blog at blogger and can’t access the “Settings” page to give yourself the right-click “Blog This!” menu, here’s how.

Wall-Mounted Singing Fish

Are you enthralled and amazed by the wonder that is the wall-mounted singing fish?! I know I was … until I discovered that it’s not really an actual singing fish. It’s a hoax! It’s motorized! It’s simply a toy! [Update: eGads! Not only is it a toy, but the kids at MIT have figured out

Batch Files

Can anyone ever possibly have enough Batch Files? I didn’t think so.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.