Category Archives: Software

SongBird media player / browser

This seem slike a really cool idea – a media play (looks vaguely familiar) with browser support, and remote mp3 playback. I’ve just downloaded it for a look-see, and I’ll let you know how it goes.

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Iterate through enum values

A quick example of how to iterate through the values in an enum… enum myEnum { one, two, three, four, five, }; foreach (int i in Enum.GetValues(typeof(myEnum ))) { myEnum myItem = (myEnum )Enum.ToObject(typeof(myEnum ), i); System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(myItem.ToString()); }

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Windows Live Writer Plugin #1 – YouTube Video.

**ANOTHER EDIT** Version 1.0 out now. **EDIT** version 0.2 now includes support for Google Video Version 0.1 still available (in case the new mods give you trouble). Here’s my first ever Plugin for Windows Live Writer. It requests the ID … Continue reading

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Windows Live Writer

I’ve been pointed in the direction of this tool by a co-worker, so I thought I’d have a look.  It’s always tough to review these blogging tools because you’re working out what you’re doing as you type. Picking categories for a … Continue reading

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Software with a sense of humour

Who says that developers have no sense of humour. Here’s a couple of screenshots I stole shamelessly from The Daily WTF that show that some, at least, have that spark somewhere. Blogged with Flock

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Google do spreadsheets.

Google Spreadsheets (yep, another Google Beta ) looks great. I’m not entirely sure how much use it will be to me, but for those without spreadsheet software, who may have a need to use it once in a while, I … Continue reading

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Buffalo LinkStation as a SlimServer

This post should prove useful for anyone thinking about using a Buffalo LinkStation to run their SlimServer instance. The advantages of doing this are: The LinkStation is a small and quiet device, so it can sit just about anywhere without … Continue reading

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Outlook 2007 Beta 2 RSS Feeds

I’ve been playing with Office 2007 Beta 2, as have many other people, and I like it. In fact, this post was composed in Word, and published straight here. One thing I don’t seem to be able to get to … Continue reading

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Determine if an assembly is a debug or release build

*This code originally came from another blog, although it was written in VB over there. It has lost some elegance in the translation, but I needed a very quick solution this afternoon, and I needed it in C#, so here … Continue reading

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Excuse of the Day in the sidebar

You may have spotted the “Excuse of the Day” at the top of the left sidebar. This isn't a WordPress plugin as such, but a small bit of PHP in one of the theme files. If you want to use … Continue reading

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