Kindle - Get Quiet Time Setting - settings

I need to get the quiet time setting so my app will not play any sounds when the user has Quiet Time turned on in their Kindle. Does anyone know how to do this?
I was hoping it would be simple as Settings.isQuietTimeOn but I can't find anything about this.
Thanks,
Chris

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Multiple Output App

Ok, so I'll try to simplify this as much as possible.
There's this game I play. So I need to grind boxes which you get after completing parties. Each account is limited to 2 boxes per day. So either I can go through all accounts, 17 I have yet, and attack and hit and get box and then do that on all accounts. Or..... there's another idea. That's where this question comes in.
I need an app that will hit the button on multiple cloned apps of the same game. The button is fixed and the app is online.
Now is this possible? Can anyone help?
Thnx
You can write yourself a Script in AutoHotKey which you can download from https://autohotkey.com/
Writing it won't be so tough but yet very time taking but once finished it can do your work exactly in the way you want.
Here is the documentation on "how to use it", https://autohotkey.com/docs/AutoHotkey.htm
Let me know if you face any further problem :)

How to stop Windows Auto leveling on audio (mic specifically)

Hello Stackoverflow community!
My mic always sets itself on 100, but i don't want that to happen.
Since i sound like a earrape guy on teamspeak for the users. And i don't want that. How do i change this? Can i modify the registry somehow? Or change the default value for the normal mic Setting for good?
I couldn't really try anything but manually reseting the mic-level bymyself. But that is not permanently.
I'd be greatful to find some good answers. Thank you.
Meanwhile, i have written a little program myself which fixes the issue for me.
It sets the volume to 70%
Read the Readme file for more information
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rw4962krpwgqxax/Stop%20Auto-Leveling.zip?dl=0

Wordpress: Very slow loading

I'm not a developer and our original developer doesn't know how to fix this, so I'm pretty desperate, hope you guys can help!
I have ran the website through different analysis:
Pingdom: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dlRIXt/www.sanefitnesshk.com
Google Developers: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsanefitnesshk.com%2F&tab=desktop
I've already installed W3 Total Cache.
If you need any more information, please don't hesitate to ask as I don't even know where to start to fix this problem.
Thank you so much!
Try to "defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering".
Hope it helps you some extent.
It's probably admin-ajax.php that does the most damage here. I can see it loading for 16 seconds, and no HTML rendering takes place before this.
You can see it with Chrome Developer Tools, but more clearly on webpagetest.org where you also can see the screenshots from different seconds.
More people having the same issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-slow-server-response-time (If you have issues with Wordpress, you should create a new question.)

Do you use online or local help in Visual Studio / Are there downsides of one over the other?

Well I am sure that most people have seen the following:
This time, I did not install the local MSDN so I do not have the option of Local help, however I usually always use the first option of look online anyway.
I was wondering if there are any downsides to not installing MSDN?
The only one I have found so far is that dynamic help does not seem to work. As this is a feature I love, I think I will install MSDN.
I was just wondering, are there any other downsides and what do others use?
Edit -
It is hard to really select one answer here and I did various experiments and came up with my own conclusion. They are all good points so +1 to everyone - I was going to put this as an answer and mark it, but that feels rather cheap... so I have edited the question and will have to think about who to mark as answer.
I have been experimenting with different combinations and it is weird to say the least. On a new project, I just pressed F1 at random places and it is amazing that the differences are huge in the pages which are returned - For example, just selecting a <form> tag and pressing F1 came up with 100% different results between online and offline help.
I love the dynamic help feature but I always have an internet connection... I am confused and just not sure what I should do! Another benefit I have found is that through offline help, you can sync the sidebar and navigate around VERY quickly and find other articles - which is much harder online.
I think I will install help, but I am really not that happy... I hope the help feature is improved in VS2010 (haven't had a chance to play around or see) because it shouldn't be this hard to try and choose!
#blaketaylor.nameindex.ht - I personally find Google a bit mucky when I just want to figure out one property or item etc... I like looking in MSDN / Documentation first as there is usually a good example and then just look at Google after if I cannot figure it out - the dynamic help feature is a brilliant feature which I love and skips straight to the correct part in the library, and you do not get this without installing help.
#Shiraz Bhaiji - Agreed with your points, however, I think 2GB's is not really huge. I like your comparison.
#Yassir - It disabled the dynamic help feature, 2GB's isn't huge, I do like Google and SO but I like to try and get it done on my own first.
#Stephen Nutt - Agreed about speed, but it isn't really by much. How do you see local and online help at the same time? I love Dynamic help but when I click a link, it goes straight to local help and I see no options.
I have never found the local help to be of any use. I stopped installing it years ago and have never looked back.
Google is my help.
The main downside to not installing local help is that you do not have access to help if you do not have access to the internet.
The benefits of not having it local are:
Always up to date
Does not use space on your harddisk
I really don't think you might need it unless you don't have no internet connection all the time
also it takes about 2Gb of your hard drive !!
All you need is google and SO :)
I always use local help - it is much faster to navigate around in. When I do a search it always brings up the results count in my local help and online, if I see nothing in my local help I just click on the online tab and see the online search results.

API for getting screen region changes?

I am writing a sort of screen-recording app for Windows and wish to know when and which regions of the screen/active window have changed.
Is there a Windows API I can hook to get notified of screen changes?
Or would I need to manually write something like this? :(
I always figured that Remote Desktop used some sort of API to detect what regions of the screen had changed and only sent back those images - this is exactly the behavior that I need.
I don't think there is an API in Windows that can tell you which parts of the screen have changed.
One possible way is using a video mirror driver like UltraVNC uses.
I think you'll find some clues here Screen Event Recorder DLL/Application, here About Hooks, and here Writing a Macro Recorder/Player using Win32 Journal Hooks
It would seem that you're going to have to do a fair bit of work to detect screen changes. This posting at tech-archive.net for instance. With this you can copy to RAM a reference screen and then take another and compare the two. It'd be up to you to define what kind of a change is a meaningful one. It's similar material to this article on desktop capture.
I think Remote Desktop streams GDI like commands. I don't know how they capture them in the first place.
Thanks for your help everyone. I ended up writing an image differencing class which seems to calculate the changed rectangles suprisingly quick. I've posted the gist of how it works here.
At the moment I'm just doing it in a timer but planning to do it after input events too.
Thanks heaps for your links Boost - I've only just looked at this thread again so I'll check them out soon.

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