So i was quite excited when i was browsing around the Kindle Facebook page and saw some buzz about how the kindle 2.5.2 update was available for international users. It posted a link to the engadget article who in turn links to the forums. I had a bit of difficulty downloading the files listed on… Continue reading TechFriday: Amazon Kindle 2.5 Update!
Tag: techfriday
Techfriday: Looping Panorama for Windows Phone 7 Series
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
TechFriday: iPadding V1 – The Designer Story
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
Happy Holidays Everyone!
I was listening to some Christmas music today and the holiday spirit got the best of me. I managed to make a customizable e-greeting card using Silverlight 4. Since MS has only released a developer beta and no go-live license, users will have to manually download the Silverlight 4 beta plugin. I modified the html… Continue reading Happy Holidays Everyone!
Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance
As promised in my previous post, I’ll be talking about how to create jumplist integrated single instance applications, much like how Outlook, Windows Media Player. At first, i thought it would need to involve a bit of windows messaging but then I found this blog post that details how to create single instance WPF applications.… Continue reading Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance
Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
We’re having our Singapore launch of Windows 7 this November and in honor of that, I’ll be devoting my upcoming (and long overdue) TechFridays to everything Windows 7. For this post, I'll be talking about how you can use the Visual State Manager for WPF to manage the different screen states in your application in… Continue reading Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
Everybody’s excited about Windows 7 and there might be a few of you guys out there wanting to take advantage of some of the new features of the OS in your applications. In this post, I’ll show you how you can quickly add Jumplist support to your existing application (Yes, even WinForms applications) In order… Continue reading TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Okay, I missed Tech Friday, so I decided to make it Tech Weekend instead. I attended the June Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX last Thursday and was able to catch up a bit on the new technologies. I have been busy with a few other things at work and I am ashamed to say, I have been lagging… Continue reading TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers
Not the most techie thing to do but hey, today isn’t the greatest day to be using much of my brain as most of it is concentrating on agonizing on pain. I was browsing around the blogs I monitor and found a post by Long Zheng talking about a little experiment that showed how much… Continue reading Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers
Tech Friday: The Orientator
I was thinking of an app to build for tech Friday and I remember running in to @willyfoo the other day. He mentioned he needed an application that would read in EXIF data from photographs and rotate them based on the orientation meta tag. It was quite a good exercise cause it allowed me to… Continue reading Tech Friday: The Orientator
being in tech 