Category Archives: Coding

Night vision colour filter for Compiz

Posted on Thursday, November 26, 2009 by micolous

I’ve hacked together a really quick colour filter for Compiz that is a “night vision mode”. That is, it turns everything to greyscale, then drops the green and blue channels to make everything red. Such themes are typically popular with … Continue reading →

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RetroLAN fun!

Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by micolous

For StreetGeek 9.08, some people may have noticed that I changed the format of the presentation software for that event. I really should have blogged about this, say… a month ago… but I really just ran out of time to … Continue reading →

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Disabling Utility Manager and profiting at the same time

Posted on Sunday, September 6, 2009 by micolous

There’s this accessibility utility in Windows called Utility Manager that has been around for ages, and can be activated at any time during logon by pressing Win+U. I noticed in Windows 7 there’s no easy way to actually disable this … Continue reading →

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games-action/pink-pony 1.2.1

Posted on Saturday, August 29, 2009 by micolous

I’ve bumped games-action/pink-pony to 1.2.1 now in my overlay.

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Mapping Steam

Posted on Thursday, July 16, 2009 by micolous

I’ve been playing around for a little while with the idea of mapping the Steam Community social network. A couple of days, I decided I’d dig up the old code and get it going again. I ported some old code … Continue reading →

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