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Happy new year everyone! Ok its not quite 2010 where I am but for some of you it may be! I guess this goes under the 2010 blog posts category

KVM switches? Sure, techies are quite familar with them. Keyboard, Video, and Monitor switches traditionaly allow you to control two computers using the same mouse, keyboard, and monitor as well as speakers on models that support audio. Today I present my review of a different type of KVM switch from IOGear.

I was surprised to say the least when I randomally came across IOGear's USB Laptop KVM switch for a few patiular reasons:

• Its portable and no softw...

The re-write of TRT is going well. I just thought I'd let everyone know though not to expect a release until 2010. I have some teasers though as to how the new interface well look for you today. For one its definetly not as plain as the orginal one was:

Well...

Compatibility Sword 2.4 is completed.

Changes from 2.3 to 2.4:

• Re-compiled so it can be used on machines that have only .net framework 2 installed (ie 98, 2000, xp if its not updated, etc.)
• Compatibility Sword supports translation now to other languages through the use of a file you can have it generate for you using the new /translate switch. This file must be present in Compatibility Sword's directory in order for translation to occur.

I found an interesting post and thought I'd share on adding ext2fs/ext3fs support by manually creating the files to make ext2fs ifs a plugin. Going to give it a go. Reply if you've tried this and had any sucess

Ok, before I just had a Guestbook up for feedback other than in blog posts and I still do for those who don't want to register as a member on the site, but now I've decided to take it a step further. The forums on the site well be a good place to find/or give support and feedback.

Re-installing drivers in a fresh install of Windows is never a pleasant task. Its enough to haft to go find updates and re-install the software. What if you don't have the CD's for your devices anymore or you don't want to install the extra software they often include if its not needed? Last of all, you may have updated some of these drivers throughout the life of the current install, and may want to be able to restore updated drivers.

Fortunately, there is a solution....

Today I've spent quite a bit of time working on DAD wiki. Documentation of Compatability Sword's command line options can be glanced over on Compatibility Sword's page now. I have re-uploaded all downloads except for FileDir2Prompt as zip packages so now you don't need 7-zip to extract downloaded files as promised. I have removed the long descriptions from CSword help message. It is my hope I'll have translation support for CSword in the future.

Anyway, speak...

I realize not everyone may have 7-zip handy to extract downloads here, so in a few days time I'm expecting to have self extracting files or standard zip files up instead. With these you won't need 7-zip to extract, just simply tell it where you want the extracted files to be and you're done.

Another major release for Compatibility Sword.

Changes from 2.1 to 2.2:

• Initial directory for application selected defaults to current application's directory. If no app has been specified it remains at system directory
• Leading space is automatically removed now in application arguments when filling it with directory/application paths
• You can select multiple files at the same time when filling application arguments
• Use the more option to d...

Just to let everyone know TRT development is not dead, not by any means. I've been so busy with CSword and life in general which is probably one reason why its taking as long as it has to even post an update yet have a release for 3.0.

I have some good news and some bad news. I guess I'll start with the bad news...

The bad news is I started over :p Why? Well, things were starting to get into unorganized matter again and a build was already greater in size...

Have you ever needed to do remote support for someone? A friend? Maybe your grandparents that live 3,000 miles away? Well... I think I've found the best tool for the job so here's my review of it.

Recently for this purpose I had used a tool known as CrossLoop. This tool's very useful indeed, so much so that its even been included in ubcd4win as a plugin. However, TeamViewer has some extra perks that I was delighted to find out about. They are:

• Completely portable...

Major release today... Compatibility Sword 2.1 is ready

Changes from 2.0.0.2 to 2.1:

• Minor UI modifications and some extra tweaking to use fewer resources
• Fixed a bug where working directory was ignored for applications
• Added make system command in the UI
• Inital directory for application selection starts in system directory
• CSword now checks system directory for applications if you omit the path to them (before it just chec...

2.0.0.2 corrects an issue with applications automatically assumed to be console applications when elevated that appeared in CSword after drag and drop functionality for console applications was added in 2.0.0.1. Some additonal fixes/enhancements:

• Relative path "\" is correctly recognized now. Before it would just open the current directory instead
• Title on the GUI indicates when CSword is in an administrative session

Enjoy!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I've updated all the tutorials relating to Compatibility Sword and FileDir2Prompt. You can rest assured that the examples given are now accurate to CSword 2.x usage. I well probably be posting yet again another build. I've noticed that because of the changes made to enable drag drop console application usability like was present in FileDir2Prompt that when you use the GUI CSword automatically assumes you want to run a console application when you choose t...

Probably not the most useful thing but I'd thought I'd point it out. You can use relative paths in command prompt like ., .., or \ as a directory with Compatibility Sword. Watch the directory open up for you in a new command window. You might even be able to use variables which is great, say in batch programs. Pretty useful when you need to do tasks that require mutliple windows. I was going to add this functionality through some additional switches  but apparently Windows does it for us...

News for XP users - 2.0.0.1 released. Compatibility Sword 2.0.0.1 corrects an inability to use the GUI to select a custom date when used in XP. This was not an error in the software itself as custom dates from the command line were tested and worked. This was due to XP not handling some condition checking that disables some admininistrative actions in the GUI correctly that's in place so CSword runs smoothly.

Some additonal changes have been made as well, tha...

I've been working mad over the last 3 days and for success it has been. I'm very pleased to introduce to everyone Compatibility Sword 2.0. Though such a short-time to its existence it has been carefully re-designed and tested to not only past functionality, but additional new features as well as features that have been ported from former project FileDir2Prompt. You can expect m...

At this point I'm considering the merge offical. FileDir2Prompt is in the proccess of being integrated with the full re-write of Compatibility Sword. At this time 1.3 of FileDir2Prompt well remain available for download. Other than some confirmed bugs it should still work correctly for the time being until Compatibility Sword 2.0 can be completed and uploaded. Thanks to all who gave feedback and contributed to this decision. If you would like to see some screenshots of the completed GUI ...

Ok, if you read my last software development post you might have noticed some of the problems I've been having, paticulary with C# string formatting syntax causing a majority of the bugs I'm finding.

That said, I was working on the next release of FileDir2Prompt but I have been debating whether or not I should merge FileDir2Prompt with the re-write of CSword with no profiles. Since I don't use C# for CSword this would eliminate the workarounds ...