Olympic Water Drums

Olympic Water Drums

Female water drummers put on a pretty cool show in the water polo arena at the Beijing olympics. Have a look.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

What is the tenth dimension and how does it relate to our four dimensional reality? This interesting video attempts to explain the ten dimensions and how they relate to each other in a simple and understandable way. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to learn something from this.

Check it out here.

The Noob Comic

If you’ve ever played a MMORPG like Everquest or World of Warcraft, you’ll get a good laugh out of this webcomic. It pictures the adventures and misadventures of Ohforf’sake, a n00b in the fictional online game Clichequest. Hilarious stuff. Be sure to start at the beginning as it has a continuing story.

Check it out here.

Creating a System Tray Application with C#

This code snippet will show you how to create a minimal system tray application with C#.

Changing the Desktop Wallpaper with C#

These code snippets will show you how to:

• Set the current wallpaper.
• Get the path of the current wallpaper.
• Detect when the current wallpaper changes.

SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS on Vista x64

Creative have been really sloppy at providing working and fully featured SoundBlaster drivers for Windows Vista, especially for older models of the card. When moving from XP to Vista I was dismayed to find the official drivers for my Audigy 2 ZS didn’t support CMSS2, Stereo Surround, Dolby Digital, or DTS, among other things. After much searching I found a solution that combines older functional drivers with the new Vista-compatible Creative Audio Console.