Dragon's Eye News

A new version of CTR has been released.

0.3 - June 27, 2007. Modified so that a full screen redraw is always issued after the screen is rotated. Ensures that all current apps will redraw with current CT settings.

Go get it...

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/pages/CTR.html

ClearType Rotator v 0.02 is available through the previous link.  It's mostly functional with the only remaining work to do being:

1. Remove the UI.  That's the plan at the moment although I may just make it an alternate interface.
2. Change the icon.  It was borrowed from some .NET sample code.
3. Implement loading the ClearType Tuner powertoy.
4. Implement a "load on startup" setting.

What it does at the moment is:

1. Rotates the screen to a user-specified orientation.
2. Saves the current ClearType settings.
3. When the screen orientation is changed, if CT settings have been saved CTR will automatically restore those settings.

All of this is through a menu available from an icon in the system tray.

I got tired of not having the ability to rotate my Fujitsu T4215 Tablet PC screen to a specific orientation, rather than having to cycle through them using the rotate button, so I put together a tiny program to rotate the tablet screen to a specific angle.

RotateScreen Archive

Feel free to use this program however you like just keep the copyrights intact and don't claim that you wrote it.

Usage:

RotateScreen [0|9|1|2]

The numbers represent angle rotation, either 0 degrees (normal laptop orientation), 90 degrees, 180 degrees or 270 degrees rotation.

The July/August issue of the SCMA e-ceili has a nice review of the May 2007 ceili by Brandon Jones.

The night moved along fast. There was some teaching, then some dancing, then more teaching and more dancing. Every few songs the whole floor would take a breather to get drinks and snacks. There were about 37 people there -- couples, singles, families, all kinds, all types. The whole group was wildly energetic. They danced and laughed and just had fun the whole time.

I'm glad you enjoyed it Brandon and hope you can make it out to future ceili 's.

I finally got tired of resetting Cleartype whenever I rotated my tablet screen and started work on Cleartype Rotator.

This is just the beginning. At the moment it can capture your font smoothing settings for each screen orientation and automatically restore those settings when you rotate your screen.

The UI is just an work-in-progress interface for testing the functionality. This will evolve into a utility that lives in the tray and with no real UI. You'll be able to quickly load the Cleartype Tuner and have CTR capture your settings when needed, rotate the screen to a specific orientation and enable/disable CTR.

If anyone is interested in trying it out, let me know.

The proposed European High Power Laser Energy Research (Hiper) facility -- a device intended to demonstrate the feasibility of laser-driven fusion as an energy source -- is entering the preparation phase after completion of a two-year study by an international team of scientists.

As reported by Photonics.com

Fusion energy is an attractive, environmentally clean power source using sea water as its principal source of fuel. No greenhouse gases and long-lived radioactive waste are produced. Demonstration of the scientific proof of principle is expected between 2010 and 2012 as part of an ongoing international program. What is now needed is to move from the scientific proof of principle stage to a commercial reactor. HiPER provides the critical next step along this route.