Author: timothytocci

JavaScript and PHP for client, server, and browser integration.
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Synchronous Delegate in VB.NET

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I didn’t know why I would need one either until the need came up (“Oh no, my UI is on a different thread!”). Delegates are described as similar to function pointers in C++ in the Microsoft documentation. When I read that I said to myself “yeah, but Visual Basic doesn’t work like that wonderful and painfully frustrating language that AT&T invented so long ago”. So Microsoft still has to learn that Chinese is painful if you’re not from China. I’m discovering in the new VB, it does kinda work like that – a little. In my case I had a … Continue reading Synchronous Delegate in VB.NET

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Overriding Backbone.sync for local use

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If you’re using Backbone to develop the front end in a local application you’ll have to override the Backbone.sync functionality to replace the REST functionality normally used by the library. Using Backbone in a local environment to store data, whether to store data in a file on the hard drive or using a local DB, is a bit different from its normal usage. The REST functionality has to be replaced with a file write or some other data storage code. The code below works for me: Continue reading Overriding Backbone.sync for local use

Analyze-It, Browser Extension, CEH, Google-Music-Search, Google-Open-Storage-Search, Google-Translate-It, Internet Explorer, Look-It-Up, Plurk-It, Share-It, Visual Basic, Wikipedia-Search, Windows3 Comments

Internet Explorer 11 Context Menu Chooser Application Version 3

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This is an application that allows you to pick and choose which of the many context menu add-ons you would like enabled in your browser. Internet Explorer does not support nested context menus so this I wrote this application to make it easy to enable and disable different menu items you may want to use (instead of separate scripts). The context menu items are broke up into 8 groups: Share-it, Analyze-it, Analyze-it-Scritch, Analyze-it-Viewdns, Plurk-it, Google-it, Look-it-up, and IE-Utility. The IE-Utility menu items are usually located in the Tools menu in the menubar on top which isn’t shown by default (just … Continue reading Internet Explorer 11 Context Menu Chooser Application Version 3

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MilSpecGreen Windows Theme

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This is a high contrast theme that I can actually endure using late at night without getting frustrated. This theme works great on Windows 10 and Windows 8. I even did a version for Windows 7 to make all of my systems match. Hope you get some use out of them. The download links and screenshots are below. Sore eyes caused me to create this theme. I actually didn’t want to create a theme at all at first. All I really wanted to do at first was to change the background color of Windows Explorer by changing values in the … Continue reading MilSpecGreen Windows Theme

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Windows Admin Command Prompt Here and Desktop Shutdown Menu Items

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Just a couple of Windows tweaks scripted into nice small nullsoft installers for convenience. This way if you want to remove them at any time in the future you just uninstall them as you would any other program, Although they were scripted on and for Windows 10, they should also work for all older versions of Windows as well. Admin Command Prompt Here Menu Item The Admin Command Prompt Here menu item will appear when you right click on, or inside of, any folder in Windows Explorer. It provide you with an elevated command prompt when you click on it. … Continue reading Windows Admin Command Prompt Here and Desktop Shutdown Menu Items

Analyze-It, Browser Extension, Internet Explorer, Javascript, Look-It-Up, Plurk-It, Share-It, Windows2 Comments

Internet Explorer Context Menu Chooser Application Version 2

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With this new version the Analyze-it context menus were updated to the most recent version. Analyze-it contained so many menu items that I had to add a counter to the interface to indicate when there are more than the twenty menu item visible limit. The menu counter is only active for page context (basic context menu the page provides – nothing selected in other words) menu items. I suppose when there are more than twenty selected text context menus I’ll have to add another one; this is good for now. The counter only indicates when you are over the visible … Continue reading Internet Explorer Context Menu Chooser Application Version 2

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Firefox Useful New Tab Page Now in the Public Index at the Mozilla AMO

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Firefox Useful New Tab Page addon is out of experimental hosting at Mozilla now and is available here; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/useful-new-tab-page/ I also placed the source code for it on Github here: https://github.com/timtocci/Firefox-Useful-New-Tab-Page in case anyone wants to check out the source code. Continue reading Firefox Useful New Tab Page Now in the Public Index at the Mozilla AMO

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Image – Talk about a gray area in the mind – wow!

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There is something to be said about how the human brain interprets everything in this picture. On its surface it’s a picture of a gray and darker gray checkerboard with a cylinder sitting upon it with a shadow being thrown upon the checkerboard. The mind perceives the two squares as different colors. It logically expects them to be different as a result of the concrete pattern established in the checkerboard itself. Because the change in color is introduced equally across all squares on the checkerboard until the color in lighter gray square is equal to that of the darker dray … Continue reading Image – Talk about a gray area in the mind – wow!