I had a couple of suggestions passed to me today, one to allow drawing in the picture box area and arrange by the drawing, and two to build a few of the pictures into the executable and allow them to be used via a switch.

So for you folks out there who asked, you shall received, I just uploaded ArrangeByImage 1.2 (download from ArrageByImage Page above) which satisfies both requests.

Three new switches have been added “-heart”, “-star”, “-smiley” that will arrange the icons based on one of those three images that are saved in the executable so no additional picture is required.

Finally, there is now a check box that switches the program from selecting a file to allowing you to draw in the image area.

Made an update to ArrangeByImage so it now supports command line switches. This is in keeping with the general purpose of this site which is to annoy your co-workers. Now you can run ArrangeByIcon on a friends computer and watch their confused face. Have Fun!

New app released, ArrangeByImage.  My co-worker Mike and I modified some code he found and came up with this.  Check out the link for full back story, screen shots,  and the app with source code.   ArrangeByImage allows you to arrange the icons on your desktop based on the black lines in a bitmap image.

So this poor guy stopped by our office with his son to ask a quick question.  What did the people in my office do? Well they gave his son silly string of course and pointed him down the hall at his dad.  He enjoyed it so much he kept asking for more silly string, we were out unfortunately.

silly string attack

Ok I had a briliant idea for a prank today but it was a big enough scale I foolishly thought to ask permission first, which of course means I was told no.  However with some of the leg work done I have decided to post what I have so far here incase there are any enterprising IT employees out there in the world with a Cisco phone system.

So my idea, I thought man that tune on Cadie’s blogspot page is annoying, I should make a ring tone out of it. So I did.  Then I thought, I should put this on a few phones, but wait! I should do one better, I should put it on everyones phone.  Then came the dilema, how to do such a task.  Well it turns out such a thing is no large task at all on a Cisco phone system like we run here at my unnamed work.  Where was I, oh right, well Cisco phone systems use a TFTP server to host all of their ring tones and they store them in a .raw audio format, so making them is easy and adding new ones is easy, for more information on that try here.  The really fun part about that is if you are an administrator and you have access to that TFTP server all you have to do to replace all ringers at your site with an annoying ringer is copy all the .raw files out of that path (to back them up, then make enough copies of cadie.raw and rename them for each real ring tone you currently have.  Then copy all of your fake cadie ringtones over and voila all phones ring with that annoying tune.

One last thing for anyone interested in the cadie song I ripped an MP3 from the youtube video and uploaded it here for you pleasure.