Below is a quick guide to making a C# Windows Forms application minimize to the notification area instead of the taskbar. This is something I find I have to do from time to time, mostly for little utilities that I want to run in the background without taking up prime screen space.
Input, control and automation
Tuesday 22 December 2015
Tuesday 1 December 2015
Stop the Music
One of my favourite things about the internet in general and Youtube in particular is how easy they make it to be culturally decadent. For example, yesterday I was able to spend the afternoon doing exceptionally tedious and mundane legacy system work while listening to the 1958 Lisbon Traviata. It was like using the Bayeux Tapestry as a bedspread.
However, into each life some rain must fall, and from time to time colleagues do actually want to talk to me, which means that I must choose between being extremely rude and making them wait while I try to find which tab out of the hundred or so I have open is playing, or losing my place in the opera - neither of which is ideal.
So here's a little Chrome extension that, when pressed, pauses all Youtube videos in all tabs. When pressed again, it resumes the video in the most recently-opened tab. If you want to add a keyboard shortcut, right-click the icon and select "Set keyboard shortcut". Set the shortcut to "Global" if you want it to work outside Chrome.
As my-first-Chrome-extensions go this is fairly straightforward; if you want to extend it to include other music/video players or to handle pause/resume in a more sophisticated manner, I've made the source code available on Github.
However, into each life some rain must fall, and from time to time colleagues do actually want to talk to me, which means that I must choose between being extremely rude and making them wait while I try to find which tab out of the hundred or so I have open is playing, or losing my place in the opera - neither of which is ideal.
So here's a little Chrome extension that, when pressed, pauses all Youtube videos in all tabs. When pressed again, it resumes the video in the most recently-opened tab. If you want to add a keyboard shortcut, right-click the icon and select "Set keyboard shortcut". Set the shortcut to "Global" if you want it to work outside Chrome.
As my-first-Chrome-extensions go this is fairly straightforward; if you want to extend it to include other music/video players or to handle pause/resume in a more sophisticated manner, I've made the source code available on Github.