Two Slashes

So, it’s been a long time coming, but I was finally bored to crack open some of the development tools and get back to work on some of the projects I have hosted here, at least insofar as some bug-fixing.  (Which is funny, actually, since I have legitimate work and schoolwork to do…)

One of the first projects to get an upgrade is Rolling Paper, the nearly pointless little wallpaper-cycling utility I wrote eons ago to randomly swap wallpapers in a given time period, almost turning your Windows desktop into a picture frame.  (Hint:  If you’re looking to do that without any of the desktop icons in the way, you might want to check out HideIcons while you’re at it.)

While Rolling Paper hasn’t picked up any new features (I know, I need to fix that little one-folder problem…), it has picked up an important bugfix.  A bug that resulted from my stupidity and a bit of zealous copy-pasting with some of the settings code that made it impossible to use the software more than once or twice without manually rewriting the configuration every time you used it.  If you happen to be using it, you might want the update, available now on the Rolling Paper project page.

This is more a small news update than anything, but as I noticed last night, LogMeIn has decided to revise their revenue model, offering most of the features formerly found in their Premium tier service (including the ability to run at the Windows service-level) for free to all non-commercial users.

Because this means that the built-in functionality for several formerly-Premium features is now enabled, the workaround I published a few months ago is no longer my recommended solution.  (My workaround will still work, however, should you decide you don’t want Hamachi to set itself up.)