Hi there, It's been a while since our last post, but rest assured, as we've been breaking our bones developing the next generation of SphynxSoft applications. While both CrocLock and Magic Wand are being developed, we decided to give the good-old burning utility called One Click CD & DVD Burner another go. It is by far our most popular software product, but as we got caught in development, ...

There are cases when you would like to have Task Manager disabled, for instance, when you wouldn't want your users to kill the application by terminating its process. This is a feature we have implemented until now in both SleepWalker and CrocLock and we'd like to share some high quality code with you. What's noticeable about the code below is the fact that the Task Manager option does not appear ...

During the latest development stage of our Magic Wand sub-component that deals with processes and their additional icons we had to write a snippet to take icons from their resapective executables, and then to push them in a ImageList component. I came across an already-written piece of code that seems to work just fine. Credit for this nifty unit goes to an unknown programmer; we could not trace i ...

The sphynxsoft subdomains are back online after a small server outage. It seems that the SphynxSoft subdomains stopped responding because of the DNS values having got mingled. The only public subdomain was pointing to http://blog.sphynxsoft.com/, so the blogs were not accessible via the shortcut. I fixed the issue early this morning, so the damage should be minimal. Happy surfing!

One thing I find annoying about technology is the fact that it quickly becomes deprecated. I remember my first "professional" computer I bought myself about five years ago, and this should be a pretty illustrative example of what I mean. Back then, it was one of the top configurations on the market: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor, a VIA-based AsRock motherboard with a damn good chipset, a ...