Friday, August 31, 2007

Emacs abort dialog

Emacs is a popular text editor, but it can crash:

Emacs crash dialog
Personally, I don't think that an average user, who use it to edit text or scripts, will start the gdb (GNU Debugger) and examine the disassembled code to check why is it crashed. (Unfortunately I also could not do it because gdb was not installed to my computer).

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Groupwise appointment

Try to create an appointment:

Groupwise appointmentIf you try to specify the start date, a nice feature can be seen:

Groupwise appointment
Under the calendar control text labels will be slurped.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Friendly dropdown list

QNX is a realtime operating system for embedded systems. A SQL query is also embedded into their registration form:
QNX registration form with SQL query

System restart

Visual Studio 6.0 restarts your computer no matter what you want.

System restart by Visual Studio 6.0
Thanks Gusty for this screen.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Installing Nero 7 Preminum

Just three languages on one screen. Mixing English and Hungarian is usual, but German was a surprise.

Nero 7 - Multilingual install: English, German and Hungarian
Thanks to Peter Beke for the screenshot.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Raiffeisen Online

About one month ago the Hungarian Raiffeisen Online for had only one "Submit" button to finish an operation, but they tired to improve the user interface by adding some more buttons. My friend, Drifter sent me some screenshoots about the result of this development:

Raiffeisen Online
And an other one:

Raiffeisen Online
Which button would you like to choose?

Friday, August 10, 2007

Visual Studio Messages

If reporting services extension is installed to your Visual Studio, sometimes you will get the following NullReferenceException message:



Access failure:
Programmers should know what this message is:
Visual Basic compiler is unable to recover:



And finally, a catastrophic failure: