Thursday 27 March 2014

Start 8 Start button: the proper button image restored

Start8 is an add-on to Windows 8 that restores the start menu to the bottom-left of the Desktop, Windows 7 style. It's $5, but worth the price to get a functioning desktop OS back.

For some weird reason, Stardock, the company behind Start8, put out an update that took away the Windows 8 icon and replaced it with a selection of funny-looking alternatives. Probably a copyright thing. You can set your own image though, so I made one that looks like the Windows ogo.
Save this image to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start8\StartButtons" folder
Save this image to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start8\StartButtons" folder, and select Custom Image in the the Start8 options.

Unity DLL dependencies

The DLL directly referenced from Unity can be in the Assets/Plugins/x86 etc folder. The DLL's it references for some reason have to be in the main project directory.

Monday 10 March 2014

CalDAV Google Calendar in Thunderbird

  • Open Thunderbird File->New Calendar 
  • Select On The Network 
  • Select CalDAV 
  • Set Location to: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/SPECIAL-SAUCE-GOES-HERE/events 
The "special sauce" that takes the place of SPECIAL-SAUCE-GOES-HERE is found on your Google Calendar (gCal) account.
  • Login to your gCal account. 
  • Go To Settings 
  • Click on the Calendars tab 
  • Click on the name of the calendar you wish to add to Sunbird/Thunderbird 
  • Look for the "Calendar Address" entry, next to the XML ICAL HTML buttons is a Calendar ID in parenthesis. 

It looks something like this for all but your primary calendar: nxu54xul23v3g...@group.calendar.google.com
For your primary calendar it will just be your gCal account login: <your-name-here>@gmail.com