Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Da Vinci Reversed Text For PC

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Well, I am not satisfied until I discover something acceptable for my goal.  This goal would be to reverse all of the English text on my Windows PC in a manner consistent with Da Vinci’s unique backwards-right-to-left writing style.  It’s done for other languages on Windows, so I don’t see why it couldn’t be done on English with some kind of a hack.

Somehow, I think reversing the video output horizontally (mirrored) would achieve a decent result without any side-effects other than EVERYTHING being horizontally reverse (including images and buttons, and all UI elements).  However, then I would have to get used to moving the mouse cursor to the left when I want to go right, and right when I wanted to go left.  Unless of course, there is a way to invert the mouse’s horizontal directions as well.

The closest thing I’ve found is a Da Vinci backwards font.  However, this doesn’t achieve the result of making all text read right-to-left.  Besides, the system actually uses many different fonts, and making it hacked to use a single font like that would take a lot of work, and make it darn near boring.

If you have any ideas I could try, please let me know!

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Gah! Windows Media Failure

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

I’m back to rant again. Look out Microsoft, it’s your turn again. Might wanna duck…hahahaha…well, it might not be that bad. Windows Media Player only acts like a Windows Media Failure. It’s flat ridiculous!

It’s almost without fail…haha, that when I play music with WMP, at some point it stops working…(I might actually think it’s closed too), and begins to chew up CPU and RAM like there’s some kind of famine going on. If I’m not careful, and check the task manager (tsk tsk manager), and the WiMP has only decided to take up SOME of the CPU, then it sits there in the background forever until I realize there’s something slow.

Seriously? Does it have to act this retarded? Geeze. I don’t even have any special plugins or custom settings on it. I’ve just freshly installed Windows 7 only a couple of months ago.

Anyhow….it certainly IS a Windows Media Failure, which is why I nearly never use it anymore, and when I do, I’m reminded why I try not to. This is why I actually un-installed the stupid thing before I re-installed Windows. I’m actually considering doing it again.

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Another Rant About Windows

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Ok, I think this is gonna be short, because frankly, I’m sick of talking about it already. MS Windows 7 RC1 told me a few days ago that I had 12 days before it would start rebooting by itself. Well, only a day or two later, it said, “You have 2 days left,…” WHAT?!?! TWO days??! So it went from being nice and giving me a decent amount of time, to only 2 days which is entirely unacceptable! I have hundreds if not THOUSANDS of apps and tweaks and various things I have installed. There’s no way I could get this ready in that amount of time even if I didn’t already have a million o

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Mouseless and loving it!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

I’m pretty proud of myself! I found a mouse-replacement application that uses the keyboard. It’s similar to Microsoft’s own accessibility application “Mouse Keys” which is built into windows. I hated how this application was completely cumbersome and hardly customizable.

When I found that there was a script included within the AUTOHOTKEY help files that did the very same thing only better..I instantly loved it! I can now customize any part of it even, since it’s an AUTOHOTKEY script. I’m remapping the keys so that I use the Caps Lock key instead of the Scroll Lock to activate the mouse keys. Also to use the right hand of the “home row” as the basis of my mouse keys. Now I can stay at the home row and still be productive in the GUI portion of Windows.

WOOT.

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