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Product Road Maps

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2009/02/11/Product-Road-Maps.html

I have rough maps of where my development effort is going to go on both Mail Print. So why dont I make them public? I certainly get enough requests for new features, many of the requests are followed by demands for when they will be implemented. There is also the problem of letting your competitors know what you are planning, there are a few products which are obviously inspired by my software. The problem these people have, is they are always a step behind, this is where I want them to be.

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Implementing the Light Box effect

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2010/10/26/Implementing-the-Light-Box-effect.html

Implementing the Light Box effect. Im sure you have seen the effect by now, clicking on an image thumbnail dims the page you are looking at and opens the full size version of the image in the middle of the browser window. The original implementation of this was Lightbox. Now we seem to be overrun with clones. Doing very similar things. So rather than writing another clone and getting dragged down the same path I thought Id show you the steps to adding the lightbox effect to your own site. So the first st...

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Capturing printer data

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2009/01/02/Capturing-printer-data.html

Is pretty flexible at capturing print streams, as well as handling Windows applications its easy to setup printing from AS400, UNIX and mainframes. I do occasionally get requests to capture data from a serial or parallel port, usually from some closed or embedded application. Often these closed systems have no mechanism to export data so people want to capture reports as a export mechanism. Up till now I havent been able to suggest a solution however I just came across Photologic. Which camera to take.

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Which camera to take

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2010/08/17/Which-camera-to-take.html

Which camera to take. We just got back from our summer holidays in northern Italy, as we were travelling around quite a bit I wanted to travel as light as possible so didnt take my SLR. This time we made do with a Canon G9 and the camera in my iPhone 3GS. There is an iPhone app called Best Camera. Which is good at editing and uploading photos to Flickr although it does seem to loose some EXIF data. My photos tagged with iPhone on Flickr. Raw printing in Windows 8. Implementing the Light Box effect.

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Creating a null printer in Windows

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2009/02/25/Creating-a-null-printer-in-Windows.html

Creating a null printer in Windows. I get quite a lot of requests for support on how to set-up Print Distributor. To create a null printer that discards any documents. It seems there are applications which produce regular unwanted reports that cant be turned off. Actually you dont need Print Distributor to do this, everything is already available in Windows. Start by opening the Printers folder and launch the add printer wizard. Raw printing in Windows 8. Implementing the Light Box effect.

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New front door

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2010/09/27/New-front-door.html

Ive just about finished fitting new composite doors to the front and rear of my house. The old doors have never really fitted well, in the winter the wind blew straight through the house. We bought the doors online and I fitted them myself, this is the most difficult diy job I would tackle. Raw printing in Windows 8. Implementing the Light Box effect. Which camera to take. Creating a null printer in Windows. HelpSpot Help Desk Software.

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Shareware Radio Interview

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2007/05/24/Shareware-Radio-Interview.html

Mike Dulin interviewed me at the European Shareware Conference. You can listen to the interview here. Raw printing in Windows 8. Implementing the Light Box effect. Which camera to take. Creating a null printer in Windows. HelpSpot Help Desk Software.

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Tuning VMWare Fusion

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2008/03/19/VMWare-Fusion-Virtual-Processors.html

When you configure a virtual machine in VMWare Fusion by default it runs the machine with one virtual processor. I was curious to see if running with two processors would make a difference so I ran a quick test using my software build time as a benchmark. Runing with a single processor the build time was 140 seconds, running with two it dropped to 118 seconds, a decrease of about 15%. Raw printing in Windows 8. Implementing the Light Box effect. Which camera to take. Creating a null printer in Windows.

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Software Trial Protection

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2008/02/08/Software-Trial-Protection.html

So the choice I had to make was whether to buy another product or code my own system, I decided on the later. This post is really a specification for what I need to write. I thought it might be useful for anybody else looking at developing their own scheme to see what my requirements are. As I sell mainly to businesses traditional piracy hasnt been a big issue for me, more of a problem are issues like under licensing within an organization and handling refunds. The splash screen will indicate how much lo...

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Xcode Linking

http://www.tonyedgecombe.com/2010/12/24/Xcode-Linking-to-different-libraries-depending-on-configuration.html

I've just started a cross platform project in Xcode and one of the problems I came across is it doesn't seem possible to link to different libraries depending on whether you are building the Debug or Release configuration. I did find an old message. On the Apple developer forums that indicates you can do this with dependent projects, the trouble with this is when you clean your target all the dependent projects will clean as well. Not as nice as the Visual Studio solution but it does seem to work.