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Working with Dev-Cpp on Windows Vista
5 July 2007 in Personal Experience & Random tidbits | Comments (0)

Recently I needed Dev-Cpp (free C++ IDE for Windows and Linux) to compile some old code, unfortunately, current versions (4/5 beta) don’t support Windows Vista.

Doing some online searches I found out at a SourceForge post mentioning a workaround:

• Open the menu “Tools > Compiler Options“, select the “Directories” tab and add “C:\Dev-Cpp\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2″ to the list.
• On the same window, choose the ”Programs” tab, and add ”C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\” before every executable name. (You can also edit Windows Environment variables, but this is definitely a safer way)

Naturally, put no quotation marks and eventually replace C:\Dev-Cpp\ with your Dev-Cpp installation folder.

After this, everything should work fine.

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4 July 2007 in Fun & Random tidbits | Comments (0)

Google Desktop now available for Linux
28 June 2007 in Linux & Random tidbits | Comments (2)

Finally the Google tool (my favorite) is available for all main platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can search your Linux files and applications on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1 and Red Flag 5.

The big advantage Google Desktop has over built-in search solutions (like the Mac’s Spotlight or Vista Search) is its ability to include Gmail messages in its results, and the use of Google’s advanced search operators, which are nice to learn once and use both on the web and desktop. For more on Google Desktop power using, see how to get more from Google Desktop. GDesktop is a free download, now truly cross-platform.

Intel Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit
23 June 2007 in Programming & Random tidbits | Comments (2)

This is something new to me, as I didn’t knew Intel provided such product.

Intel Laptop Gaming TDK is a package that provides an easy interface to help extend your games by adding mobile-aware features to make for a better laptop gaming experience.

Intel gives you, the game developer, C++ code that you can incorporate directly into your game, royalty free, to take advantage of the platforms mobile technology.

Intel provides support through the online mobile software forums staffed by Intel software engineers to provide information on using the TDK for fantastic mobile game play.

Click here to know more about the Intel Laptop Gaming TDK.

Key features:

• Queries for the mobile platform on power status, including power source and battery power statistics.
• Wi-Fi support to provide the connectivity status and wireless signal strength.
• The ability to get real-time processor utilization information.
• Non-threaded APIs for functionality, threaded APIs for best performance.
• Support for Windows XP* operating system.
• Samples showing control of game elements and suggestions for usage.
• User guide, release notes, and system configuration requirements.
• Known issues, bug fixes and work-arounds.
• Installation instructions.
• End user licenses.
• Laptop Gaming TDK User Guide.

You can Direct Download here the free Intel Laptop Gaming TDK (.msi 2.7MB).

Cool shortcut in Windows Vista
20 June 2007 in Random tidbits & Windows | Comments (0)

If you still have the Quick Launch toolbar in you taskbar, pressing the Windows key plus the index of the shortcut in the toolbar will launch that application.

For example, on my desktop Windows + 1 launches the ‘Show Desktop’, Windows + 2 the ‘Flip 3D’, etc.

It would be even great if you could see the indexes on a tooltip when you hover the shortcuts.