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Archive for March, 2007

Exceptions tracking (Delphi)

Nobody’s ideal - nobody creates bugless applications.
Unfortunately it’s rather hard to track errors on the final user’s computer without additional software.
Do you think that user is happy when see “Access violation error at address FFFFFF”?

Windows Vista - first look

I’ve finally managed to save some money for PC upgrade.
I’ve decided to add some RAM memory - installing Windows Vista with 512 RAM would be a bit crazy.
Ok, I’ve installed new 2GB RAM and I was ready to install new Microsoft’s child.
Installation was quite short and there were no problems.

JPC Project

So, you hear about it first time, isn’t it? Me too.
It’s not really popular yet, although it seems to be a great thing.
Imagine that you can run for example FreeDOS on… Pocket PC or anything else that have Java Virtual Machine!
JPC makes it possible - it is a Java x86 emulator.
There’s just one small […]

Fighting with comments spam (updated: 2007-03-24)

Since few days, I’ve received about 300 spam comments…
Of course, I have Akismet, but it thows away only about 60-70% of spam. I had to delete rest myself…
I’ve been searching solution for few hours:

Most captcha plugins for Wordpress are made for WP 1.5 and don’t work in WP 2.0
Captchas are extremely weak
There is no […]

EXE Cryptors and Packers

Does your software weight too much? Are you aware of reverse engineering? These are common programmers’ problems, but we can deal with them very easy. All we have to do is use special software for encrypting exe files. There are many, many and once again many commercial software to do that, but should we […]

Internet Explorer - Apocalypse

Some time ago, there was a domain - “goggle.com” - made special for those, who misspelled “google.com”.
When it was loaded in Internet Explorer, it installed tons of spyware, viruses, backdoors etc.
Here, you can watch real Internet Explorer Apocalypse, it’s also nice directed and the music is very good chosen.

Adsense Tips Chapter #3: Statistics

While experimenting with Adsense you have to know if your last modification has changed anything. So far, Adsense Publishers don’t have access to more interesting statistics, I hope it will change soon. However Google tries to help us - gives us AD channels. It’s quite nice feature, but it’s still not enough…
But don’t worry! […]

Adsense Tips Chapter #2: Position

Position is one of most important things. If you place your AD units in wrong place, you will loose clicks.
Here are few universal positions:

Upper-left part of the website
Above and under menu

Remember: most people will read your website from top-left to right-bottom!
Google gives us an very usefull information - before we even think about a […]

All about Joost

This time I’ve got something special for you - Joost review!
But let’s go back to the beginning - what the hell is it?
Let’s check what’s written in Joost FAQ:
Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and […]

Free skins components for Delphi

So, I guess that you are looking for a good set of Delphi components to make your applications look professional, aren’t you?
You are in the right place!
Today, I am going to introduce you, in my opinion, the best skins components for Delphi ever made - AlphaControls.
There are two editions of this components: lite(freeware) and […]

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