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Fosimo 1.0.1 — with Chat

I'm glad to announce that Fosimo 1.0.1 is available for download. Don't know what is Fosimo? Check out [ ... ]

posted @ 03/21/2009 1:34 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Ehud Banai and the Refugees

I will continue with israeli music a little bit... Today this is a song called זמנך עבר which is translated as your time is over by Ehud Banai — to my mind one of the most important israeli musicians in the last 25 years [ ... ]

posted @ 03/21/2009 5:42 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Render Text With Anti-alias Using TextRenderingHint (ClearTypeGridFit)

Let's suppose we have to draw a bitmap with a piece of text in C# using System.Drawing. The text characters will not look very good and smooth by default. Enabling ClearType in windows would have solved a problem but suppose we want to change nothing in windows [ ... ]

posted @ 03/13/2009 2:39 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

X2line Crosses 1 Million Application Users

Somewhere back in January or in February our applications have crossed 1 million users mark (for all apps combined) [ ... ]

posted @ 03/10/2009 3:19 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

גוונים כהים — עוד פעם שיגעון

Today I'm posting another israeli music clip ;0). It's called "עוד פעם שיגעון" which maybe translated as "craziness again" by "גוונים כהים" — israeli rock group from the beginning of 90s (can be translated as "dark shades" or maybe "dark hair tips") [ ... ]

posted @ 03/07/2009 2:31 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Economic Crisis — Nasdaq

Back in October, 2008 I predicted that Nasdaq and Dow would reach their bottom in December while on January 01, 2009 my bet was 7140 for Dow and 1325 for Nasdaq [ ... ]

posted @ 02/24/2009 1:27 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

New Comment System on x2line Blogs

I want to introduce a new comment system here on x2line Blogs. This means here on this blog as well [ ... ]

posted @ 02/21/2009 1:30 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Scheduled maintenance — 2009/02/10

Downtime is expected here on 2009/02/10 during afternoon GMT [ ... ]

posted @ 02/09/2009 2:12 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

How to bypass OS version check in setups

Sometimes in order install there is a need to bypass OS version check in setup prerequisites. Some software has Windows XP SP 2 or Windows Vista defined as minimum OS requirements [ ... ]

posted @ 01/19/2009 3:48 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Advertising opportunities — Brazil

This post is for advertisers out there or people who are looking for advertising opportunities. If you are looking to advertise for Brazil audience in entertainment area [ ... ]

posted @ 01/05/2009 4:40 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)