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First 3rd party application for Vista Mobility Center: Turn off internal display
But while Microsoft packs the basics like display brightness, battery and wireless settings, there are a few other things that would be nice to have, like say the option of turning off your display with a button press.
Microsoft lets computer manufacturers create custom Mobility Center tiles, but has discouraged other 3rd party developers from making custom Mobility Center applications. While some people would see that as a reason to give up and move onto another project, others take it as a challenge. And so Rafael Rivera Jr. decided to see if he could answer a request Long Zheng made earlier this year to add an internal display control applet to Windows Mobiltity Center.
The end result is the first publicly available 3rd party add-on for Windows Mobility Center that we're aware of. You can download the tile from Rivera's site. It comes in x86 and x64 varieties. Once you install the tile, you should notice a new "Internal Display" option pop up in your Mobility Center, which you can bring up pressing Windows+X on your Windows Vista machine.
Rivera's blog post also includes information that could come in handy for anyone looking to develop their own Mobility Center tiles.
[via istartedsomething]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
