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No decent blogging application for the ipad

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What started out as a rant about how Office Web apps doesn’t seem to work well with the ipad has become a rant about how the ipad, just like the mac, doesn’t have a decent blogging application. Fine, the ipad seems to be marketed more as a content consuming and non-content creating device but my… Continue reading No decent blogging application for the ipad

Will it Blend: Custom Scrollbar in WPF

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DISCLAIMER: I write this post more for myself because I tend to forget how to do things. There can very well be other proper ways of doing this, but this is the “good enough” solution, at least for me. I was playing around with WPF again since it’s been a while. I wanted to customize… Continue reading Will it Blend: Custom Scrollbar in WPF

Useless Tutorial: How to have 2 Accounts with same login name on youtube

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I stumbled on this when I logged into YouTube using the wrong password and found myself logged into an account where I had no activity/uploads whatsoever, when I distinctly remember adding favorites and uploads on my account. Apparently, this is what happened: 1. A while back I created a YouTube account with the username Foo,… Continue reading Useless Tutorial: How to have 2 Accounts with same login name on youtube

Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series

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Just a quick note:  I’m sure MS will be providing controls to this interface in the future so we don’t have to spend too much time building these controls ourselves This post, as with the previous one, was meant more as an Expression Blend Exercise for myself to be explore the features of Silverlight /… Continue reading Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series

Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!

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I was reading through the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 Series and found out that there is currently no panoramic application template or control provided as part of the standard application platform. Nothing stops us from creating our own though. To make things easier, I’ve made a behavior library for everyone… Continue reading Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code!

Consuming data from Nimbus Using LinqToXML (Updated) on iPhone + WP7!

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I’ve been starting to explore iPhone development lately. At first I was taking my time at learning at Objective C which went fine for a while but one of the guys on the project was asking if I could help build some apps for Project Nimbus, translation: build stuff fast. We talked about MonoTouch.NET which… Continue reading Consuming data from Nimbus Using LinqToXML (Updated) on iPhone + WP7!

Fixed Red Light & Low Audio Quality problems in Win7 on my MBP

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I started out with two problems, the insanely low audio quality + this strange red light emitted from my headphone jack, and not being able to update to Bootcamp 3.1. I've been wrestling the internets to find out how to fix both these problems and it turns out, the former can be solved if you… Continue reading Fixed Red Light & Low Audio Quality problems in Win7 on my MBP

TechFriday: iPadding V1 – The Designer Story

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With the whole iPad buzz going around last week, I decided to build last friday’s TechFriday app around the theme. Introducing iPadding v1! It’s basically a WPF application that allows you to drag and drop shortcuts onto the screen and save it for when it’s presentation time. My desktop is constantly cluttered and as much… Continue reading TechFriday: iPadding V1 – The Designer Story