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On this page you will find an overview of all articles that I have written myself. The more recent articles deal with software development with .NET (C#, Visual Studio, VSTS, Azure, LINQ, Entity Framework, Web services, WPF, Silverlight, ...) in particular. The older articles were often written for the purposes of courses or demonstrations at my computerclub and these articles are mostly about Delphi, PHP, databases, Javascript, Windows, Office, Multimedia applications, Atari, ...

Use the left panel to filter the more than 115 articles by category. These articles can be used freely for personal use. Placing the full articles on other websites is not allowed without the permission of the author.

Magix - Quality video DVD & video files

Short article about the best settings which can be used to create high quality DVD videos with Magix.

Magix - Multimedia travel coverages

This article provides a few ideas, tips and tricks on how to create nice looking multimedia travel coverage. It demonstrates how to create animated maps, use panoramic photos, ... in DVD videos.

Magix photos on CD&DVD

This is a small report, which is written in Dutch, about the application Magix Photos on CD&DVD. This software makes it possible to create good looking multimedia presentations which can be played on a DVD player on your TV.

Ulead DVD PictureShow

Short report about the features of Ulead DVD PictureShow which can be used to create photo slideshows on VCD, SVCD or DVD.

ACDSee - View, manage and edit photos

ACDSee is one of the best viewers for all kinds of graphical file formats. But this application has a lot more features; it allows you to resize/crop images, convert images to other file formats, rename files in batch, manage albums, view file info and EXIF info, ... In this article, which is written in Dutch, I will show how ACDSee can be used to view, edit and manage photos.

Improve photos with some easy steps

This short article, which is written in Dutch, demonstrates how you can use ACDSee and Corel PhotoPaint to edit a photo. Brightness, contrast and sharpness are often the key ingredients to improve a photo.

Different kinds of memory cards

This document gives a short summary of the different kinds of memory cards for digital cameras like Compact Flash, SD, MemoryStick, Smart Media, xD, ...

Save images as JPG

JPG or JPEG is the most used file format for photos and images. This file format offers compression but this also leads to quality loss. In this small document I will show the differences between compression, file size and quality of JPG files.

Picto - Creating a glyph for a TSpeedButton

This article demonstrates some features of my freeware application Picto. This article shows the fastest way to create a glyph containing 3 images which will represent the different states of a button. This new glyph will be used for a TSpeedButton in Delphi or C++Builder.

Picto - Creating a TImageList with glyphs

This article demonstrates some features of my freeware application Picto. It shows you how to fill an imagelist with the small icons of all sorts of applications on your hard disk. Afterwards we will copy this TImageList component to Delphi or C++Builder and use it for a TTreeView component.

Picto - Creating web buttons

This article demonstrates a few features of my freeware application Picto. This example will show how to create images which can be used as beveled web buttons.

Icons and filetypes with icons

This article gives an overview of all file formats which can contain icons like ICO, CUR, EXE, DLL, SCR, ICL, OCX, BPL, RES, DCR, ANI, ... files.

Photo editing with Picture Publisher

A training course on general concepts and features of software programs to edit photos. The training will cover topics like how to draw and add text, cropping, contrast and brightness adjustments, sharpening, ... In this course we will use Micrografx Picture Publisher.