Goal: To be able to run Scheme on Windows, particularly the flavor "Simply Scheme". There is a great computer science book called Simply Scheme by Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright. Professor Brian Harvey also taught a great class CS61A at the University of California, Berkeley. Our goal is to be able to run Simply Scheme [...]
Category: Software
Turn Off Windows Sound Notification Banner
Operating System: Windows 10 In an earlier article I posted how to How to Disable Windows Volume Popup, but that required a small 300 KB program to be installed. In my opinion the real-offensive element is actually the browser notification banner that gets attached to the media control popup. This is what I mean: Both [...]
Dark Mode for Sumatra PDF
Windows: version 10Sumatra PDF: version 3.2 64-bit A dark mode for Sumatra PDF is really easy - you just need to tinker with 3 lines of code in the settings. Why Use Sumatra PDF? In my opinion, it's the best PDF reader. It's small in size, super-fast and doesn't have any annoying cruft. Why a [...]
How to Disable Windows Volume Popup
You are working on code or writing something important, you are in the flow, you reduce or increase the volume a bit for the perfect sound-level and pops-up this ugly big annoying Windows 10 volume control disrupting not only your thought process but captures the screen real-estate for 5 seconds before it fades away. This [...]