I’m starting to see quite a number of applications that are a combination of software and services available on the web. Evernote is one pretty awesome application that has both a desktop as well as a mobile client, that allows you to sync your notes across your devices. It has some pretty intelligent features as… Continue reading Cool Software
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SingTel Heart Race Test!
I had the great opportunity to help Crayon Digital get enabled on Silverlight for one of the projects they had to deliver for the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix and I have to say, they’ve come up with some pretty sleek stuff and I’m sure you GUYS will agree 🙂 Check out the Heart Race Test… Continue reading SingTel Heart Race Test!
Yet another deep zoom application
Came across another really awesome Silverlight Application that makes use of Deep Zoom done by Kelly Blue Book which I believe they call The Perfect Car Finder. Tim Heuer talks about it more in his blog post. Building deep zoom applications can actually be pretty straightforward. All you need to do is make use of… Continue reading Yet another deep zoom application
Mix for Students: facebook development on .NET
I did a session on facebook development using the facebook developer toolkit where I also showed how I integrated my Piss Off Silverlight application into a facebook app, which I now call PissBook. I’ve registered the pissbook url but have yet to point it to my app as it seems that facebook isn’t allowing me… Continue reading Mix for Students: facebook development on .NET
Embed a font
If you want to embed a font into your Silverlight applications, add the font into your project: Set the Build Action file property to embedded resource: Use the following code snippet to use the font as a font source for your components: Assembly ass = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); Stream stream = ass.GetManifestResourceStream("EmbeddedResource.Font.pricedow.ttf"); this.test.FontSource = new FontSource(stream); this.test.FontFamily… Continue reading Embed a font
Evernote
I found out about this new application today called Evernote and I am just loving it! I haven’t had a chance to fool around with it too deeply yet but a few cool features that I really like is that you can sync your notes on both your desktop as well as mobile device to… Continue reading Evernote
Bored to death
It was raining and I was a bit lazy to go home early so I decided to look for something to do. I wanted to try out some of the basic networking stuff with Silverlight and remembered googlefight I thought it was a simple enough concept to implement so I figured I’d give it a… Continue reading Bored to death
SharePoint and Silverlight
3I did a session for the SharePoint forum held July 1, 2008 and for those who are interested to try out the S+S BluePrints for SharePoint, the samples have so far not been updated to work with Beta 2 yet. So while that’s on the way, and you want to give a hack at trying… Continue reading SharePoint and Silverlight
Some cool Silverilght Demos
http://hsn.tv http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/vegas/default.htm Of course there is the NBC Olympics player which you can now try out at http://www.nbcolympics.com/video
Sound problem with T61p – fix
I had just recently gotten at T61p for work and I have to say it’s a very sweet machine, with all its 1920X1200 pixels. I did have a problem when my machine was running on battery, the sound seemed to choke every 1.5 seconds or so. My friend forwarded me the fix and i thought… Continue reading Sound problem with T61p – fix
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