We’ll go through some solutions to the problem of building a single instance application in WPF, like Firefox. This means running your application again will not create a new instance but instead just pass any arguments to the current instance.   WPF – Writing a Single Instance Application By default, it comes up with two main items in the solution – "Window1.xaml" (which...

Are you having problems trying to keep multiple copies of folders on different computers updated? Drag and drop a folder onto the left box. Alternatively, click on the box and browse for the folder using the explorer. Drag another folder and drop it on the right box. Click on the Sync! button which appears! http://code.google.com/p/nsync/ nsync is a free, open source software that performs synchronization...

3 New Controls 3 much needed controls that if you’re a Windows Forms user, you’d be wondering why WPF didn’t already have these. Long awaited DataGrid control (if you’re in 3.5 SP1 check out WPFToolkit as an alternative) Calender control DatePicker Control Visual State Manager Another new feature supporting the WPF-Silverlight continuum is the VisualStateManager, which...

  Adobe Photoshop is definitely their flagship product and is the best graphics editing software(by some distance), here’s a roundup of some awesome tricks, tutorials, articles and pictures on photoshop. Photoshop in your garage. How to make an key icon in photoshop Following on from a previous article on toolbar icon design we’re going to tackle it’s Big Brother, the Application...

Here’s a collection of 10 interesting & cool photos that are bound to leave a lasting impression. A train in India. Reflection. Bicycles in the trash. Horse. Red plains. Best Friends? Don’t look at me! Catching the moon. Jam on iTunes Acoustic. Stuntman.

Excited about the release dates of your favorite software (Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator CS5)? Here’s a list of upcoming software release dates that us geeks would like to mark out on our calendars!   Visual Studio 2010 – 22nd March 2010 Current Status: RC (release candidate) http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx Microsoft...

Have you always pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get the task manager? In Windows 7 or Vista you’re brought to a login screen like page offering you multiple options. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Escape gets you directly to the task manager instead. Here, you can close applications in the applications tab and processes in the processes tab, but be careful which processes you close. In general, Windows doesn’t...

In my opinion, a revolutionary set of ideas that if adopted and implemented well will change computing we know. Now we interact with the computer using the mouse and multitouch. This expands on multitouch! See the video after the break. 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Google has recently purchased 3 companies and expect to receive great new services from our friendly search giant soon! Picnik is an online image editor, DocVerse enables you to work on Google Docs(and have its collaboration functionality) from within Office and Aardvark provides ‘human’ answers to your questions. Here we take a look at these 3 services! Picnik Picnik makes your photos fabulous...

WPF provides a powerful foundation for amazing animation effects (hopefully GPU accelerated). Here’s part 2 of my roundup on a few easily done effects you can add to your project. In this part we take a look at some powerful transition libraries.   Fluid Kit Fluid Kit contains a transition container that enables rich transitions between views. The transitions themselves are pluggable...