Cool iTunes gadget for Vista Sidebar

I very much enjoy using Vista (despite all the FUD) although it isn't particularly more spectacular than XP Pro, it isn't much prettier than any of my KDE desktops, and it's probably quite similar to OSX (I have not used OSX for years so I'm no judge of what it does/n't do excepting what I read online from people I deem at least remotely reputable. I've been seriously considering building some gadgets for myself; however, I just found a gadget I was planning on writing (thanks for saving me the trouble mysterious gadget man!)




You can see the gadget on the right side of the full size image (please excuse the code in the IDE I'm hurriedly writing a screen capture test...)

It is a gadget for controlling iTunes from your sidebar and it shows album art as well. Very nice; however, if you do not start iTunes by default on your machine when booting up, this gadget will do so from now on. There's currently no option for disabling this either (so I may end up writing one in any case.) I've been thinking of writing a 'live thumbnail' UI utility anyhow (it would use the DWM thumbnail manager and whatever window you wanted watched you could manipulate its controls from the sidebar thumbnail. May not sound useful to you, but for myself (with several desktops in addition to a multi-monitor setup believe me it *is* useful, lol...

Anywho - Enough jawing/clacking. Here is a link to the gadget:

Vista iTunes Gadget



Enjoy!

Your Linguistic Profile:

45% General American English 25% Yankee 20% Dixie 5% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

OMFG - I know what I'm getting for Christmas...

I've seen a lot of cool nerdilicous geekery before, but this bad boy takes the cake. God bless you Lego people!

Millenium Falcon

Broken man again... What is going on?

This thing used to be a nightmare to offload. Now, the Broken Man trophy seems to be changing hands on a day to day basis.

Perhaps I should retire from Foosball...

Oh, by the way, congratulations go to the latest recipients: Dave and Leah :)

Do NOT club the baby seals

Two members of our foosing community succeeded this morning in clubbing a couple of relative newbies to foos and thereby transferring the 'Broken Man' trophy (yet again) to J.P. and Salman. Now I, for one, took great offense and umbrage at such a breach of foos ettiquette as to setup a match explicitly for the purpose of offloading the infamous trophy; ergo, I took it upon myself to challenge Vasu and The Rookie (tm 2007) to a 2 on 1 game. If I won, they would have to take the trophies back. If they won, I would have to donate $10 to a charity of their choice (specified by their holding open their pockets.) I can't believe they accepted.

(nice hats ladies)

Twenty minutes later:

Vasu and The Rookie (tm) had their individual trophies adorning their office cubes. That should teach them not to club baby seals on my watch...

The Broken Man has changed hands...

...yet again.

9/5/2007 @ 13:05: J.P. and myself crushed our opposition. You could hear the lamentations of their women, the soul-wrenching scream as the final goal went in to mark 10-0. It was magical.

Our hapless victims can be seen below:

Good luck losing that trophy you two! :)

Weekends results...

Liverpool absolutely destroyed Derby County this weekend in the Premiership, 6-0. Derby's defending was diabolical; however, nobody should be beaten 6-0 in the Premiership. To be honest, it could have been 9 or 10.

Highlights below :)



The result has Liverpool top of the league table and holding the greatest goal differential. Go Reds!