I accidentally found this feature this morning. I was wondering where the hell WinAMP was keeping my “bookmarks” and favorites. I got sick of typing in my radio station via IE. In that big window that opens up, there was an Internet TV link. They have everything from 24 hour rave videos, bootleg Smashing Pumpkins concerts, Anime, and pR0n with rave music in the background. It’s pretty phat because the window has room for an instance of the IE ActiveX which displays the provider’s chosen webpage. The rave one is based in… a dot co.kr domain… don’t know where the heck that is, but they pick some phat music to stream, and got a nice pixel art DJ chik. Anyway, it’s just crazy that I just found this today, and that there is this much media content in WinAMP; my, how far she’s come from version 2… 3 and 4 were just bad memories. I wish I knew what codec they were using for the video and audio.
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WTF is occasionally connected?
Question brought up on the Central Dev list by Phillip Kerman in what it would take to convince the peeps at MSN to conver this app to Central. Looking at the Help for MDataGrid, it already has a Centrino logo, <strike>so maybe something similiar has already been done, similiar to Intel’s Hotspot finder for Central</strike> which is from Intel’s Hotspot Finder app.
At any rate, the Flash movie, although slow, shows how a laptop get’s online, and then later off. It showcases how their app downloads the latest content, and caches it so when the user is offline on the airplane, they can still utilize their applications as if they were online… just like Central can do with it’s advanced caching capabilities and and local media storage.
<a href=”http://www.centrino.msnbc.com/”>http://www.centrino.msnbc.com/</a>
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Glasses for an Owl
Via <a href=”http://www.mediadiva.net/mt/”>her majesty</a>.
There isn’t enough room to fit all of the cheesy cliche’s that describe this. The first nerdy-bird, a cyborg owl, etc.
At any rate, I think this is f’n phat; anyone who questions ethics of technology should definately be admired, but if that is ever taken too far, you can body check ’em with uplifting stories like this one.
<a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/12/owl.eyes.ap/index.html”>Blind owl gets new eyes</a>
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Flashcom Bible: The Book That Never Was
Dude, Tuna on Triscuit’s rock!
Ok, so I actually started college a semester late compared to her majesty simply so I could balance my time between my full-time job, contract, and <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764538276/qid=1076557927//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-0888755-7226428?v=glance&s=books&n=507846″>this book</a>, The Flash Communication Server MX Bible. I wrote 4 chapters for it:
– Chapter 13 – Using Components
– Chapter 16 – Creating Flashcom Components
– Chapter 17 – Monitoring
– Chapter 25 – Director GamesHowever, I think the book can be called officially vapor-lit (or whatever the term is nowadays). I haven’t heard hide nor hair of it, nor really care at this point as the content quickly dates itself beyond usage more than 6 months from now.
At any rate, I remembered it today while being asked about book writing on Flashn00bz, and later all this hub-bub on <a href=”http://www.fullasagoog.com/”>Full As A Goog</a> about the new release of Director MX 2004. I was hooked since the Breeze party weeks ago. I remember an article I wrote about 3D games in Director utilizing Flashcom, and one problem I had during writing was accessing a property on a Remote Shared Object’s data property that didn’t exist. Flash gives a hoot… Director gets pissed, and throws an error while running… and then promptly stops running.
I can’t remember how I fixed it, but just briefly skimmed/read one of the Macromedia Resource articles about <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/director/articles/flash_in_directormx2004.html”>changes to the Flash Asset Xtra in the new version of Director</a>. It said you could access a property that didn’t exist without Director getting all huffy. Gawd, that’s a nice feature. Talk about making 2 environments working nice together.
Anyway, anyone know if I can release these 4 chapters now? I can’t remember signing anything castrate’esque, haven’t heard from Wiley in about a year, and figured the community could use this stuff rather than the digital mold currently festering atop it deep on my D drive. What do you think? I know there are some writers out there.