The latest version of TickTalker is now available. The only change this time is to remove it from the ALT+TAB sequence as there’s no reason for it to ever be included. You can download it from here.

Another day, another update. Here’s what’s new: I had an off-by-one bug that led to 1pm/am being announced as 13 regardless of the 24-hour mode setting. It also was related to making midnight be announced as “zero o’clock.” All better now. At startup now TickTalker will register itself with Vista so it shows up in [...]

I’ve just updated TickTalker with a few minor-ish updates: The settings dialog no longer shows up behind other windows the first time you bring it up. Added a setting that allows you to update the “Speaking Rate” which really means you can now slow it down or speed it up as much as you like. [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve written any code but today I finally got around to writing a small application that I’ve really been wanting to have. It’s called TickTalker and it’s basically a “talking clock” of sorts. The application runs in the background and accessible through an icon in the system tray. You can [...]

Another song that was released both by The Frames on The Cost album and Glen Hansard’s side project called the Swell Season with Marketa Irglova. It’s fairly accurate I think though not perfect. The chords on the chorus especially are worth trying different forms of the same chords as he seems to change it up [...]

I hate how it’s actually not possible to update your xbox account with a different Windows Live ID (formerly known as Passport account) than the one you first used when you signed up for Xbox Live. I bought one of the original Xboxes when they first came out which was well before Windows Live Custom [...]