Monthly Archives: November 2005

TimeSnapper: Automatic Screenshot Journal

Have you ever had to fill out a timesheet and tried to remember what you were doing through the day?
TimeSnapper is a great little .NET app (also known as snapper) that sits in the system tray and takes screenshots every few seconds (configurable).
At the end of the day you can playback and browse your day’s [...]

Graham Gardner (momguy) joins Readify

A big Readify welcome to Graham Gardner (momguy). You can find out more on his website www.momguy.com and he has also started a blog.
The nickname “momguy” comes from his experience with intrastructure and expertise in Microsoft Operations Manager – MOM for short.
That brings the count of the updated Readify Bloggers OPML to 23.
Technorati tags: Readify, Microsoft Operations [...]

UserDomainName and local user accounts

If you want to determine the current domain and username of the user running your application, be aware of this caveat from the MSDN documentation on SystemInformation:
“If a local user account exists with the same name as the user name, this property gets the computer name.”
This applies to:

System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.UserDomainName, and

Environment.UserDomainName

The Problem
Say you had a local user [...]

Morning news roundup

Here’s a collection of interesting articles I came across in the morning’s blog reads

NUnit Converter – Convert your NUnit Tests to VS2005 Tests
Chris Pratley: OneNote Mobile – Next version of OneNote will include a version for Windows Mobile
Buck Hodges: Team Foundation Beta 3 VPC is available (Beta 3 refresh VPC coming soon)
Eric Jarvi: How to [...]