Pakku’s Blog

Many friend and family members ask me how I have downloaded the movie we just saw. Mostly it are movies which are just a few days in theater or will be released on DVD in a week or so.

For those people and for the once who want to know what you can download where, here a download special.

This special doesn’t show you how to download, but just where you can find your download and what level of experience you need to download. Note: although the level says: ‘Advanced’, this doesn’t mean you can’t do it, it just says that less experienced people may run into problems. Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote this DLL for school, I had to execute a lot of queries and I wanted it to do in an easy and understandable way. So here is a DLL which can execute queries, but it can also execute a query (select only) to a listview and it can export it to a dataset. Very easy to use, so give it a shot! Read the rest of this entry »

(Probably) all of you get email, and just like this guy next to this text, we all are very happy with it :-p

I recently switched from VB.NET 2003 to 2008 and I wanted to do  something with e-mail. So here is a DLL to read/download (POP3) email and to send (SMTP) email. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not in for a long conversation, so I’ll just post the link to Vista4Experts. It is a program to turn of some features in Windows Vista. So to get rid of all those UAC pop-ups, it might be an good idea to take a look at it

In Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) it isn’t very hard to print text, it can even be displayed before printing to see if it is good enough. But the print functionality itself isn’t very good, it is very hard to print a really good designed page. So what we want is something that can print text which is formatted so that it will print a very beautiful formatted page. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I read on ZDNet a hack to download via Google mp3 and stuff like that, it’s even faster than a normal p2p client like limewire. Read the rest of this entry »