Jeff Bezos Hawks the Kindle It’s still not clear whether electronic books are the wave of the future or a consumer products cul-de-sac. Technology continues to improve, and there are certainly lots of good reasons for a device like Amazon’s Kindle to be the leading edge of a major wave of adoption. A few of [...]

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Rendering GIFs with transparency under Win32. It’s gotten a bit easier since I first wrote about it for DDJ in 1998. This article shows a couple of ways to implement transparent GIF rendering: the IPicture interface, and GDI+.

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An article that takes a look at Intel’s free JPEG Library for Win32, and compares it to doing things the Microsoft Way.

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  PC Magazine July, 2002 Remember when PC Magazine used to give away their utilities for free? Ah yes, those where the days. The earliest PC Magazine utilities were distributed as PC-BASIC programs printed up in the Utilities section, which made good typing accuracy an important skill. Eventually this was supplanted by electronic distribution via [...]

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Tom Armstrong and I wrote an article describing our technique for building an ATL control that displays bitmaps with transparent sections.

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