OpenOffice issue

Wow, they keep coming. OpenOffice appears to be offine for some mysterious reason. Looks like grounds for a re-release.

Update: I tested a fresh download of the latest OpenOffice and got a similar result. Looking into if this is a bug in my computer or a bug within the program.

CAFE issue

If you use CAFE, or the Extras.exe file, there's a problem with starting up OpenOffice documents. Here's how to fix it:

1. Download this file: cafe.zip
2. Unzip and replace this file: /cafe-manage_associations/cafe.ini
   

Should fix problems with OpenOffice file associations.

February release information

Major release changes:

• 50+ program updates
• Added and removed some programs, repaired others whose install was wonky
  
• Fixed autorun.inf and exe icons.
• CAFE -- added support for 100s of file formats -- Kitchen Sink is now a glorified file-opener.
• Extras.exe will start both CAFE and HotKeyz to increase system integration.
• Much better web page support (mostly through Google Docs cuz its so easy to update and I can give others write access if I need to)
  

There are hundreds of small changes but that's it for now. Having some trouble distributing the latest Kitchen Sink file so I haven't gotten any feedback on whether or not its any good. We'll see I guess.

Release: 0.9.8.6

Its been six months and here's the latest-and-greatest:

kitchensink-0.9.8.6.7z

I should have solved the problem of people needing to download the DLLs (1) and (2) but users may still want them as they run a bit faster when they're on the local system.

I will make a torrent available if people ask for it. For right now I just want to get some initial feedback.

Updates: program start and blog

I decided I hated reading the old blog format so I'm trying another, much cleaner one. You like?

As for the portable archive, I generated some BAT files that I then converted into EXE format.

Contents of batch file (thanks to m^(2))

@start "" "%~dp0pstart210\pstart.exe"
@set path=%~dp0dll;%path%

CoSince some users won't want the system shortcuts or CAFE program, I put those in a separate EXE file called Extras. Here are its contents:

@start "" "%~dp0cafe-manage_associations\cafe.exe"
@start "" "%~dp0HotKeyz\HotKeyz.exe"

Unfortunately the created file comes up as a virus on ClamAV (but no other antivirus program). Sigh.

Where did these icons come from?

Attribution time -- all the icons I use are by some extremely talented people.

• The totally badass "official" icon as well as for "Network" tools
• A few icons also by this guy.
• Most of the Pstart menu is populated by these.
• Icon I use for Firefox - Secure version

CAFE config files for XnView

Two programs I've been working with include XnView and CAFE.

CAFE is an associations manager, which is a funny way of saying that when you double-click a file it opens a program to use that file. For example, Microsoft Word opening .DOC files. But lets say you don't like Microsoft Word and want DOC files to open with your editor -- but not perminantly.

CAFE uses a config file (cafe.ini) to manage itself. Well, I set up my previous version of Kitchen Sink with this config file but the latest version doesn't really use Irfanview, which I decided I don't like as my primary viewer.

However, for those of you that *really* like XnView, here's a config file to make CAFE open up everything that XnView can view with XnView.

Maybe someone will find a use for that.