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Gpick is an advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. This application is an alternative for window’s colorpic. One feature I like about this application is the same feature I found on window’s colorpic which shows a magnifier of the area where you want to capture the color. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

I am a great fan and a user of mozilla thunderbird. I have used different mail clients like microsoft outlook, opera mail, zimbra mail client, etc. I tested them all for 2 weeks or more and ended up with thunderbird. One think I like about thunderbird is that you can add new features to it for free through their add-ons. Aside from the add-ons mozilla is active and updates are always there for free. Part of my work is to [...]

When updating to the latest version of virtualbox which is version 4.0.10 errors will appear when try to startup your virtual machine. This happens when you want USB2.0 support for your virtual machine. To fix the error you need to download the VirtualBox 4.0.10 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, the file has an extension of .vbox-extpack which is a VirtualBox extension package. The extension pack is usable to all platform, I used the extension on windows 7 ultimate version. The [...]

Yesterday a friend of mine ask if I know how remove his windows 7 WAT so he could explore more with his windows 7 Operating System.  I told him that I have a tool to remove Windows XP Windows Genuine Advantage but I can help him find a tool for it and told him that he’d rather buy a genuine one because we can really never make sure that if we find one it will be permanent but he insisted [...]

image from www.codeproject.com On the last day of our class for the first semester, our instructor gave us an assignment about infix, postfix and prefix.  The assignment was to create a program that converts infix equations to its postfix form and prefix form.  I search around the net and the resources are so few that it took me days to have a sample program in C.  I am not that good in C programming but I can create C++ or [...]

Pidgin is a free chat client that can handle different chat networks like yahoo, google talk, AIM, AOL and many more all at once.  But one important thing that is not found in pidgin by default is Facebook’s chat.  To be able to add facebook on your pidgin, you just need to do some simple steps. 1.  Download the needed files and extract 2.  Install pidgin-facebookchat-1.68.exe 3.  Copy libjson-glib-1.0.dll on the plugins folder found on the directory where pidgin is [...]

If you already have a validated Windows Media Player then you can use this software.  Those that are not validate can still use this software as long as you won’t update you OS or even your media player. Media Player on tray is an alternative of what windows has provided windows xp users which can be found on this link.  Most of windows users work while listening to music, especially when you are working in an office.  Some problems that [...]