// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Various Alax.Info Utilities
I am sharing a couple of utilities to be able to quick check system settings. TimeZoneInformation prints in a human friendly style TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION structure as reported by Windows through GetTimeZoneInformation API. TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION: .Bias: -120 .StandardName: FLE Standard Time .StandardDate: { .wYear 0, .wMonth 10, .wDay 5, .wDayOfWeek 0, .wHour 4, .wMinute 0, .wSecond 0, .wMilliseconds…
WinHttpCrackUrl and WinHttpCreateUrl API functions are breaking URL string into components and recompose back to string. There was a mess with passwords and security issues since when putting password into URL is no more acceptable. Experienced users might remember the times when URL could embed password, e.g. ftp://john:mysecretpassword@host.com/path. Password is lo longer accepted by major…
Longman Dictionary Online updated their website and changed HTTP request syntax, so search plugin for Firefox requires update. Here is the updated Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Search Plugin for FireFox.
Given a DirectShow filter graph, what media samples are being sent through particular graph point? DumpMediaSamples utility gives a fast answer to this question. It prints out connection media type details (with details of VIDEOINFOHEADER, VIDEOINFOHEADER2 and WAVEFORMATEX structures corresponding to FORMAT_VideoInfo, FORMAT_VideoInfo2 and FORMAT_WaveFormatEx format types) and IMediaSample details obtained through AM_SAMPLE2_PROPERTIES structure. First…
Longman Dictionary, my favorite one, offers online dictionary service through its website Longman Dictionary Online http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/. I did not notice any intent to offer integration tools, instead they only made available pronouncation .wav files for words starting with two letters, but luckily it is still quite easy to integrate Firefox with the website through a…
WordPress is great but each upgrade or theme change is a bit painful because all customizations have to be moved manually and as long they are direct file edits, including fixes for not quite correct theme files. So after all at least some of the updates have to be made as WordPress Plugins. Here we…
Alax.Info Be Informed update is available. What’s new in this build? New: System event log notification; event notification can be configured to be written to Windows Application event log (case study will follow) Keywords: RegisterEventSource, ReportEvent Application Name: Alax.Info Be Informed License: Free for personal use, request commercial licenses via email or contact form Latest…