March 2007 Blog Posts
It has been a little while since I had announced that I was working on iTunes remote using ASP.NET and C#. Well, to show that I'm still working on it, here is a screenshot of it in action. I'm still finicking with the playlist functionality, but by the end of this week I should have it nailed.
If there is anyone who wants to test this application, drop me a line. If you wish to start using this, keep the following in mind:
It's still in development: there are bound to be tons of bugs
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I have a recent post on the Vista skin for XP, but I recently stumbled across an application called TopDesk that performs the the Vista flip 3D effect. In addition, (which I personally like better), it does the Expose expanded view that Mac OS X uses to switch between tasks. The transition effects are quite smooth.
The only downside is that the program is not for free :(, but I would consider this definitely worth the $15.
UPDATE 23 APR 2007: Read my latest review here.
I was poking around the vast space of the web and found this pretty cool clip of a solar eclipse recorded by NASA late last month. The image is pretty breath taking in and of itself, but the movie clip is another matter. The clip itself only lasts 8 seconds, but it is a time lapse of nearly 20 hours. NASA provides you several versions to choose from, but after poking around their web server, I discovered that they have a 'best' version that comes in at a nice resolution of 1024x768, but doesn't have a direct link. So, take...
Now that I have an iPod and more and more of my library consists of DRM'd songs, iTunes is fixing to be my new player of choice when it comes to playing music on my server. The only thing that has kept me from ditching WinAmp is the fact that it has a really cool plugin called AjaxAmp. This nifty little thing lets you remotely control WinAmp from any browser in the home.
I vaguely remembered that iTunes had a COM API that would let you do some remote execution as well, so this week I decided to...
The past Tuesday I went to a Microsoft developer conference. I went there mostly because they were handing out free copies of Office 2007 Professional, but I was also interested to see what they had going on as far as development on Vista. I have participated in the betas over the past year or so, and wasn't too terribly impressed with how the OS ran. The main reason why I didn't it like too much was the fact that I couldn't run it on my hard disk array, which meant I had to resort to using a clunky 40GB hard...