Category Archives: Windows
Updating your music collection with PowerShell
I’ve been banging my head against the wall on account of different music players which can’t play the subset of songs I have encoded as either Vorbis or AAC. So I’m slowly converting my entire music library over to MP3, … Continue reading
Microsoft Outlook ruins my evening
I had a funny experience yesterday. I don’t typically use Microsoft Outlook with my home email account. But it was bundled with the copy of Office 2010 that I installed a few months ago, and I figured: heck, if I … Continue reading
Windows 7 hotfix for unnecessary chkdsk at boot
I’m posting this here so I can find it again later, because this one caused a surplus of annoyance before I finally found a solution… I have a Windows 7 x64 laptop which would randomly (once or twice a week) … Continue reading
GTK+ and Haskell (gtk2hs) on Windows
Update: Jacob Stanley has a great article on installing gtk2hs on Windows which goes into more detail, including a tutorial on GTK theming. Gtk2hs is my favorite way to do cross-platform GUI programming in Haskell — and it’s the toolkit … Continue reading
Windows tool to clean up OS X junk files
I wrote a little old-school Windows HTA script to delete the .DS_Store, .Trashes, and ._* junk files and directories typically littered across non-HFS media by Mac OS X: You can download it from my GitHub account if you have a … Continue reading