Jing the Wonderful

 

A friend recently talk me about Jing.  He said that it was a good tool to take screen shot or do quick screen video.  "And what's new?" I said.  "Try it", he reply, "you will see".   

And I saw.

Jing look like a docked sun on the side of you're screen.  You can easily access to it by moving you're mouse over it.  You can  do some screen capture just by one click.  

Before saving it give you the opportunity to add coloured arrow, text and to high-lite some zone of you're capture.

Once you're capture is finish you can save it on a local drive or online!  You can create a free account to screencast.com so all you're capture will be available for all the people.

So like me if you want to try it, it a free software and it's well done.

www.jingproject.com/

Video Tour: Here

DiagramLib

Description

DiagramLib is a library that give the opportunity to draw some schema like Visio.  I did this librairy doing a addon to Microsoft Visual Studio.  The goal was simple use the drag&drop to quickly build a schema.

 

Features

• You can draw many different shapes like: oval, rectangle, rounded rectangle, diamond and the special class shape.
• Each shape is completely manageable by the UI.  You just need to right-click on a shape to get the Property windows, exactly like Microsoft Visual Studio.
• You can draw connection between shapes.  Those connections will automatically be re-draw to optimize the path as you moving a shape.  Also the connections have the same customization feature as all shape.
• The board will automatically expend if needed.
• You can save and load the schema.

Code

To be able to use the library you just need to add a reference to it. 

   1: private GraphControl oBoard;

   2:  

   3: this.oBoard = new Compuware.DiagramLib.GraphControl();

   4:  

   5: this.oBoard.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;

   6: this.oBoard.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);

   7: this.oBoard.Name = "oBoard";

   8: this.oBoard.ShowLoadSaveOption = true;

   9: this.oBoard.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(605, 372);

  10: this.oBoard.Tracking = false;

Download

I did a quick test application to play with the class that you can download here: http://boucheros.no-ip.org/TestDiagramLib/

If you prefer doing a Test application by you're self here is the DLL: Boucheros.DiagramLib.rar

 

ScreenShot

For any Question or comment feel free to live a comment.

What you must have to enjoy IE7

Recently I got some trouble with the so lovely Firefox, so I got no choice to suffer and use IE. But then I take the time to search how I can improve the application. Here is my top 4 of some add-ons that are really nice....

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a set of tools for quickly creating and debugging web pages. Tools include such areas as exploring the DOM of a page, locating specific elements on a page, and outlining code blocks. It's really look like FireBug, a MSUT to any developer. Download from here.

Inline Search

Inline Search is a quick way to search for content on a web page without pulling up the Find Dialog as well as providing the ability to find as you type and highlighted search terms.

http://www.ieforge.com/InlineSearch/HomePage

Extended Copy Menu

Again for all developer... Adds a “Copy As Html” and “Copy As Plain Text” to the context (right-click) menu.

http://ryanscook.com/adminsBlog/2007/02/firefox-ie-copy-context-menus.html

IE7Pro

IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer which adds a lot of features and extras which make your Browsing faster,More Responsive and Sleek. It add also:

• New Module: FasterIE,It will increase your IE surfing speed.
• Add Session Manager function, it include save, load, copy, send by mail
• IE context menu add save selected source code to file and clipboard as html, text, links
• Online bookmark support IE8 webslice now
• New ActiveXObject interface.
• View page info SaveAs dialog support multi-select now
• Add serverinfo plugin again

http://www.ie7pro.com/index.php?language=en

Voila! I hope you will enjoy those.

François