"Always on top" for Firefox (or any other Windows app)

Power Menu is a small app I wrote that adds Always On Top, Minimize To Tray, Priority and Transparency sub menus to all top level system menus. Note: Some features are only available on NT/2K/XP.

Tummy via Windows Tutorials, Howtos, and More!

Goes well together with Last.tv… except Last.tv just stopped playing clips for me for some reason. Well, at least it did play a few tunes before jamming, which is more than what you can say for the Last.fm Player, which hasn’t played anything for me again today.

Corel updates WinDVD to stop AACS hackers

Corel Software [announce] that they have issued a mandatory update for all WinDVD owners who wish to continue to use the software to view Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. The update is being issued to address the recent cracks that have extracted volume and title keys from AACS-protected Blu-ray and HD DVD titles.

ars technica

DVDAuthorGUI Menu Editor Problem: Black Preview Screen

When authoring my own DVDs, DVDAuthorGUI is working better than any other tool I’ve tried, apart from this one problem: the preview portion of the Menu Editor window is always black. It reacts to left mouse button clicks by flashing the actual background, which has thus far made it just barely usable.

Installing DScaler didn’t help, neither did wiggling the different decoders’ priorities using DSFMgr (both linked to from DVDAuthorGUI’s download page).

I just discovered that by changing the number of frames from 1 to 100 when creating the m2v still, it actually stays visible (when clicked) long enough to be able to place the buttons. But it’s still pretty damn difficult and most likely not how it’s intented to behave. I think I’m going to try to work around this by making the m2v still long enough to be useful, and replacing it with a single-frame still after having positioned the buttons.

DVDAuthorGUI: Menu Editor with black preview

Gmail problem: photos not showing

Thumbnail images aren’t displaying

The Gmail Team is aware of this problem and we’re working to fix it. In the meantime, you can still view these image attachments by clicking View, Download or View all images. Thanks for your patience.

updated 2/20/2007″

Gmail Help Center

I am so tempted to reply ‘No’ to the Was this information helpful? question.

And it looks like I’m not the only one getting very frustrated with this issue.

How to run Gmail Notifier only for some users

By default, Gmail Notifier (for Windows XP) is set to run for all users. I wanted to change this so that it’d be run only for myself and not for other users of this computer. The solution was finding the ‘gnotify’ entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (actually, it wasn’t there by that name at least for me, but by a key value beginning with {0228e555…) and then moving it to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, while logged in as myself.

I’m pretty sure this’ll break the uninstall as for this particular key, since it’s no longer where the installer thinks it is, but it’s a minor issue and should be easy enough to fix by removing the key from its new location manually.