HOWTO: Keep Windows On Top in Mac OS X

Funny thing, natively QuickTime does not support an "Always On Top" feature like in Windows. Let's say you want to watch a video using QuickTime while surfing the web. Yes I do that!

You would like to keep the QuickTime window on top of your web browser right? Well, here is a way to achieve that.

Afloat is a add-on to Mac OS X where once installed, give you better window management in Mac OS X for most applications.

You can download Afloat for Mac OS X here http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/

Just mount, follow the instructions, and enjoy!

cheers,

HOWTO: Build Increment Add-on for Visual Studio 2010

Tired of manually incrementing major, minor, build and revision numbers for your software application?

There is another way! I've found a great add-on where the major, minor, build and revision numbers can be incremented or set to a predefine value whenever a build or rebuild of the application source code occurs.

BuildVersionIncrement is an add-on you can download and install in the Visual Studio IDE and setup how you want the major, minor, build and revision numbers to change whenever a build or rebuild event occurs for Debug or Release solutions.

The add-on adds a GUI element where many BuildVersionIncrement parameters can be changed.

I've installed BuildVersionIncrement on Visual Studio 2010 Professional for Windows 7 and thus far experienced no stability issues. Works like a charm.

Thanks BuildVersionIncrement!

You can download the latest version of BuildVersionIncrement here http://autobuildversion.codeplex.com/

cheers,

HOWTO: Codec Pack for Mac OS X

Looking for K-Lite Codec Pack for Mac OS X? Sorry to say there is no such thing. But don't worry, there is another way. Perian "A Swiss-Army Knife for QuickTime", enhances QuickTime to play other popular video and audio encoding formats available on the net.

Perian supports:

• File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
• Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
• Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

You can download Perian directly from http://perian.org/ or http://download.cnet.com/Perian/3000-2139_4-100532.html

Just mount, follow the instructions and enjoy!

Source: http://www.coderetard.com/2008/10/22/where-to-download-k-lite-codec-pack-for-mac-os/

cheers,