Redmond Pie » Redmond Pie Apps http://www.redmondpie.com Covering Microsoft and its competitors like no one else! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:37:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Redmond Pie’s Bookmark Icon Has Been Updated for iPhone 4′s Retina Display. Here’s How You Can Get it ! http://www.redmondpie.com/redmond-pies-bookmark-icon-has-been-updated-for-iphone-4s-retina-display.-heres-how-you-can-get-it/ http://www.redmondpie.com/redmond-pies-bookmark-icon-has-been-updated-for-iphone-4s-retina-display.-heres-how-you-can-get-it/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:47:15 +0000 Taimur Asad http://www.redmondpie.com/?p=14942 We have just updated Redmond Pie’s homescreen bookmark icon for all iPhones, iPads and iPod touches so that it is compatible with the higher resolution “Retina Display” of iPhone 4. You can add this bookmark to the homescreen of any of your iOS based device to keep yourself updated with all the latest news! Follow the simple instructions posted below to add it your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

iPhone 4

Start Safari browser on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and navigate to http://www.redmondpie.com. Now simply tap the (+) Add Bookmark button found on the bottom bar and then touch on “Add to Home Screen” button. Wait for a few seconds for it to load the high-res icon. Once it has been loaded, simply tap on the “Add” button to save the bookmark on your homescreen as shown in the screenshot above.

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]]> http://www.redmondpie.com/redmond-pies-bookmark-icon-has-been-updated-for-iphone-4s-retina-display.-heres-how-you-can-get-it/feed/ 5 WPF-based YouTube client for Windows http://www.redmondpie.com/a-wpf-based-youtube-client-for-windows/ http://www.redmondpie.com/a-wpf-based-youtube-client-for-windows/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:29:26 +0000 Taimur Asad http://www.redmondpie.com/?p=2549 Well folks, here it is! A WPF-based mini YouTube client app for Windows which brings video content from YouTube data servers right to your desktop. You mustSprink be wondering what could be the best use of this little app when you can actually browse to the YouTube site itself and search/play the content right from your browser? Well consider a scenario where you are working on a PowerPoint or a Word document and you want to catch up on the highlights of the last night football match which you missed or just want to watch some random video while you are working on a document. Sprink fits-in these little scenarios extremely well because it enables you to run YouTube videos outside your browser.

This preview release is just a small fraction of what is going to come in the next couple of months.

 

SprinkMain Window

Video Playing ModeVideo Playing Mode

 

List View List View 

 

Oh, and did I tell you that it does 3D View (A la CoverFlow) too?

3D View3D View

Make sure you have all the required software’s installed in order to run Sprink:

Features due in for next release:

  • Integration with Windows 7 taskbar
  • Ability to mark videos as favorite right from the client.
  • Support for other video service providers like MSN Video, Vimeo etc.

This is just a preview version. There is a lot more to come in the next couple of months. Please provide me with your valuable feedback and bug reports in order to improve the product.

Download:
Application: Sprink
Version: 0.677 (April 2009 Preview)

The YouTube logo used is a registered trademark of Google Inc.

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The Drive Icon Pack for Drive Icon Changer includes 20 high-resolution 256×256 icons, ready to be used with the application. All the icons included in the pack can be seen in the screenshot below:

Drive Icon Pack for Drive Icon Changer

This icon pack does not include the Drive Icon Changer program. You can download and learn more about the Drive Icon Changer here.

Also, share with us any other icon which you think goes well with the drives. Take screenshots and show off how your drives look in the comments section below.

Download Drive Icon Pack for Drive Icon Changer

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To change the icon, simply select the drive from the drop-down menu of which you want to change the icon. Then browse to the location of the icon you desire and click “Save”.

NOTE: If you want to change the icon of the drive on which Windows Vista is installed then you will need to run the program as Administrator.
Right-click -> “Run as administrator”.

Voila! you are done. You will need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. You can always go back to the original default icon of your drive by clicking on “Restore Default”.

Now lets take a look at what this app does under the hood: It creates a file named “Autorun.inf” and makes a copy of your selected icon in the root of the drive.

Contents of Autorun.inf:

[autorun]
ICON=[path of your icon]

Both of these files are set to hidden. You can see these files by enabling “Show hidden files and folders” in “Folder Options”.

Of course you can change the icons manually too by creating an *.inf yourself and then adding those lines etc. but with this application, you can change the icon and then can restore back to the original all with just a couple of clicks.

Here is how it looks after you have customized your drives with the icons of your choice. Looks cool isn’t it?

Last but not the least, you are free to distribute and use this application. As usual I have tested this application on Windows Vista only. Please let us know if it works on earlier versions of Windows.

Icon used in this application is Copyrighted to 2008 Microsoft Corporation.

Application Name: Drive Icon Changer
Version: 1.00
License: Freeware
Requirement: .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
OS Compatibility: Tested on Windows Vista
Size: 717 kb (.exe) and 204 kb (.zip)
Download Drive Icon Changer and customize your drives with your own icons.

UPDATE: Due to popular demand we received about the icons, we decided to bundled them all and have released them in a package.
You can Download Drive Icon Pack for Drive Icon Changer here.

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]]> http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-change-your-drive-icon-in-vista/feed/ 346 Turn off your notebook LCD with one-click http://www.redmondpie.com/turn-off-your-notebook-lcd-with-one-click/ http://www.redmondpie.com/turn-off-your-notebook-lcd-with-one-click/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:32:04 +0000 Taimur Asad http://www.redmondpie.com/?p=45 There are times when you just want to listen to some music on your notebook/laptop and want the display(LCD) of your notebook to remain off while Clicking this icon from your desktop will turn your LCD off. Its that simple! the lid is still open, while there are small amount of notebook manufacturer’s who provide this simple option of turning off the notebook’s LCD when not in use but many dont. I own a HP DV2799 Special Edition notebook (see my review here), while its a great notebook in almost every way it still lacks a basic button to switch off the display(LCD) whenever I want to and not only this notebook but also many new & expensive notebooks lacks this option.

This led to me developing my very own small application which turns off my notebook LCD just with one click. I wrote this application in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Its basically a simple console based application that makes use of a dll(User32.dll) file from Windows using System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace and then calls the required function.

Notebook

I am sharing this small and useful application with all of you as a freeware license. You are free to distribute and use this application. I have tested this application on Windows Vista only. Please let us know if it works on earlier versions of Windows.

Icon used in this application is Copyrighted to 2008 Microsoft Corporation.

Download
Application Name: Turn Off LCD
Version: 1.0
OS Compatibility: Tested on Windows Vista
Size: 85 kb (.exe) and 68.5 kb (.zip)
Click here to download

UPDATE:
Version: 1.01
Change Log: Removed the MS-DOS console window which was displayed whenever the display came back from off mode.
Click here to download

UPDATE 2:
Version: 1.00 and 1.01
The application works with both Windows XP and Windows Vista. For Windows XP based computers, you will need to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 before running this application.

Disclaimer:
Redmond Pie assures its readers that this file and any information enclosed within the file is free from all kinds of malicious code or Trojans that could be harmful for your computer but Redmond Pie or any of its affiliates should not be held responsible if this application caused any harm to your computer when the file(Turn Off LCD.exe) was downloaded from any sources other than redmondpie.com.

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