If you’ve got Google Earth it’s worth having a look at the moon landing recreation that’s been added for the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing. The Apollo 11 mission fly-through is a real highlight. http://earth.google.com/moon.
In other space related news, after the recent cheese in space failure, El Reg has decided to put a paper plane in space. For god’s sake don’t let them name it El Shag.
For personal reference. A list of useful Firefox Add-ons.
A couple of useful applications out there on the internets.
UltraMon is for multi-monitor setups.
Startup Control Panel. First used this as a replacement for msconfig on Windows 2000. Very handy installed as a control panel applet (though it doesn’t have to be to work). Shows all the different places (registry keys, startup folder, etc) that applications may have hidden themselves away to start at boot/logon.
The other day, while admiring Google’s LHC logo, Stephen Hawking’s (who is neither dead, kicked by a horse, or played Superman) appearance on Star Trek TNG came up. Yes Nick, he really was in it, and this clip I found on Youtube is what started the episode that was on BBC 2 a few weeks ago. I could barely believe what I was seeing…
Either this is extremely clever video editing software that is way over my head (right up prof pigeon’s alley), or a complete lie. And I don’t know which.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/video-tech-uses-photos-to-enhance-alter-shots-its-the-photosh/
…at the Olympic games.
What can’t be improved by adding a monkey? That age old question was obviously playing on the minds of the people at BBC Sport. Their answer: Certainly not the Olympics. And so we are to led through the Beijing games this summer by an animated (slightly scaring looking) monkey. Brilliant.
Monkey’s journey begins - BBC Olympics blog
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite There’s an article on mozillaZine introducing some of the new features we’ll soon be able to use in Firefox 3. http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=23728
If, like me, you’re job is maintaining a large Visual Basic 6 application you’ll know the pain of creating context menus. You’d like them on the form you’re working with, but if its an MDI child form you’re forced to place them on a different form if you want to see your MDI parent forms menus while your child form has the focus.
This isn’t fun, because you know how two places for code that should all be together. Not to mention that most of the time you’re creating menus at design time, not at run-time.
In the past I’ve come up with ways of at least keeping the code in the form showing the menu by having the menus simply set a return value which the calling form can then just read and do whatever with.
Recently I read an example of run-time menus (I forget where) that used the idea of control arrays to allow for creation of menus at runtime. I liked this idea and ran with it.
Here, I offer up a couple of classes for simple creation and use of context menus at run-time in a VB6 application. It uses no weird system DLL calls. I hope it saves someone weeping over menus. It did me.
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