Perforce backup and recovery

I’m moving into a new office; thus, finding it a good time to refresh the P4 server.  After reading up more on the process, I found that I have an OS upgrade, a P4 upgrade, and a physical move upgrade.  It’s seeming more and more like starting fresh is the...

Removing suggested videos from YouTube

Want to stop suggested videos from appearing after your video is done playing?  Simply add a query string parameter to the end of the video URL, like this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KT6sHWe7Sz8%3Frel%3D0 That “rel=0” makes it so that the suggested videos...

Thematic fonts

Google fonts is a pretty awesome collection of web fonts.  There must be at least 500 of them.  Recently, I’ve gone through all of them for a project and, because it is such a time-consuming task, I took note of fonts that could possibly be used for very...

Using the escape key to close a WPF window

After being disappointed with Android development, I’m ramping back up on WPF.  I have a full screen app and no buttons visible, so I would like to implement the ESC key to close the window instead of using ALT+F4. Looking around the net, I can do this by...

Creating outlines from photos

In Paint Shop Pro, I would click Filters >> Find Edges.  But for Photoshop, it’s a combination of the following: Filters >> Other >> High Pass Image >> Adjustments >> Threshold Referenced from here.

Drawing text around a circle

I was recently creating a mockup and had need to draw text around a circle, like in an analog clock face.  In Photoshop, this involves two things: Understanding that text can follow an arbitrary path. How to draw a circular path. I came across a good video tutorials...