HDHomeRun TV Dump

HdHomeRun TV Dump is a GUI that installs over the native HDHomeRun application and allows owners to quickly take control over the free to air live TV stream. Implementing DVR capabilities on your computer becomes a easy as 1-2-3.

It is designed to make interaction with the device easy by automating as much as possible any task a user would like to execute.

It’s main features are:

• Quicker & easier to understand and install than other DVR solutions like MythTV and Windows Media Center.
• Auto-detection of existing HDHomeRun devices on the network.
• Auto-detection of busy tuners.
• Automatic selection of an available tuner for watching or recording a live TV stream.
• Manual recording support.
• Scheduled recording support (enables DVR capabilities with the HDHomeRun)
• Watch live TV streams.

HDHomeRun TV Dump should also work with devices that supports the MPEG4/H.264 video codec but this functionality is still untested.

Pendant le début du mois de juillet, j’ai décidé de me lancer dans la photographie macro. Ce que j’ai découvert durant cette expérience est étonnant.

Comme tout le monde, j’ai naturellement décidé d’utiliser les fleurs comme sujet. Quoi de mieux que le mois de juillet, où les fleurs sont belles et épanouies, pour essayer de faire de la photographie.

Je suis donc parti à la recherche de fleurs avec mon appareil, mon trépied ainsi que des tubes d’extension (21mm).

DNS343Monitor

DNS-343 Monitor is a tool for monitoring how much space is left on your DNS-343 NAS device.

The DNS-343 is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that can hold as much as 4 drives. Since all the drives are shared in a Network, each disk can quickly become full. This tools allows you to see the remaining space left on each individual drives.

It’s main features are:

• Show space left and used for each drives.
• GUI supported.
• Compatible with all firmware versions.

Note: This tool requires administrator privileges on the DNS-343 for retrieving free space left.

MSBuildReorder

Please note that MSBuildReorder source code is now moved to GitHub. Source code can be downloaded from the project’s GitHub page.

MSBuildReorder is a tool for “reordering” (buildorder) a multi-process C++ build log. It allows a developer to convert the build log as if it was generated with a single processor.

Building a solution that has multiple projects can quickly become bloated with too many lines that are not related to each other. For this reason, finding the actual cause of a build fail is harder than it should be. MSBuildReorder is able to read the log and reorder the projects in a sequential order.

OfficeReadOnly

OfficeReadOnly is a tool that allows a user to open any Office Documents as a Read-Only document directly from the File Explorer.

It’s main features are:

• Integrates into Windows File Explorer or the with the “Send to” folder.
• Supports Documents, Workbooks, Presentations and Diagrams.
• Supports both Microsoft Office 2003 (*.doc) and Microsoft Office 2010 file extensions (*.doc, and *.docx).
• Can be used from the command prompt.

Microsoft Office does not supports opening files as read-only when right-clicking a document from the File Explorer menu and it does not support opening file as read-only from the command prompt.

bin2cpp

Please note that bin2cpp source code is now moved to GitHub. Source code can be downloaded from the project’s GitHub page.

bin2cpp is a command line tool for embedding small files (like images, icons or raw data files) into a C++ executable.

It’s main features are:

• Easily converts small files as C++ source code for embedding into a C++ executable.
• Content extraction supported by a unique function call for each embedded file.
• Supports a multiple embedded files at once.
• Makes it harder for resource hacker to modify or steal the embedded files.
• No third party libraries required for retrieving the data of the embedded files.

bin2cpp is not implemented using executable resources. Instead, bin2cpp creates multiple function calls for retrieving the data which makes it harder to steal the executable’s content. It also makes it even harder to replace an existing resource of the executable.

Introduction

Do you plan to take photographs of fireworks during the next few weeks? If so you might take a look at this article that explains how to properly shoot fireworks with a DSLR camera.

Getting a nice firework picture is it not as simple as going outside, finding a firework display and starting to shoot bits of lights in the sky. There are things you can do to increase your chances of success or fine tune the end result.

Introduction

I have been working on multiple projects since I bought my camera. Most of them are related to super telephoto shots, macrophotography. Other requires a very long exposures or even a bulb exposure modes.

For all these kind of photography, camera shake is your greatest enemy. You really need to reduce the shaking to a minimum. The first element I bought to reduce camera shake was a tripod but that wasn’t enough. When pressing the shutter button, a light shake was induced by my fingers and that would sometime ruin the image.

Introduction

I recently bought an Avistar Elite .46 ARF by Great Planes for flying with a flight instructor at my local hobby club. Before we went to the club and start flying, he and I (mostly he) made some adjustments to the plane for getting the perfect trainer for me. Basically, I changed some settings to get better results from the stock options.

Here are all the modifications that I did to make this trainer the perfect plane.

Introduction

At the beginning of the 2014 season, I decided to join a local RC club to get to know good experienced people that would give me advices on the best practices for flying. I also decided to find a flight instructor that would assist me and help me with all the technical details that I am still lacking. When we met, he strongly suggested that I leave the Hobby Zone Super Cub behind and get to a wooden motorized trainer plane like the Avistar Elite .46 ARF by Great Planes, which I did.