Lifextender v0.9.3.0 Available for Download
posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by
bobby
@ 11:43 am
Visual Studio 2008 Add-in Compatibility
posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 by
bobby
@ 9:00 am
I've update most of the add-ins available here for Visual Studio 2008. Here is a quick list of the add-ins.
MRU Cleaner
- Fixed an issue with incorrect icons
Click here to download MRU Cleaner
Explore In Windows
- Files are now selected in Windows Explorer when "Explore In Windows" is triggered from a file node
Click here to download Explore In Windows
Start Page Killer
- No changes
Click here to download Start Page Killer
Property Manager
- No changes, however, I'm aware of the issue w/ readonly fields but haven't had a chance to fix it yet
Click here to download Property Manager
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Lifextender v0.9.2.9 released
posted on Friday, October 19, 2007 by
bobby
@ 9:13 am
Lots of bug fixes, a Comskip Upgrade and a few more features.
Check out the release notes here.
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Introducing Lifextender - a commercial remover app for Vista Media Center
posted on Saturday, October 13, 2007 by
bobby
@ 10:37 pm
I'd like you all to meet my new friend, Lifextender. I've been working on Lifextender for about the last month and I think it's at a point to set loose. Lifextender is a dead-simple, commercial-removal application for users of Windows Vista Media Center. It permanently removes commercials from dvr-ms files created by Media Center.
Lifextender is available for free at http://www.lifextender.com.
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Commercial Remover app for Vista Media Center
posted on Tuesday, September 04, 2007 by
bobby
@ 3:59 pm
10.10.07 9:24am - Application Release Coming
I've been hard at work on this commercial-removing app. I'm currently testing it and throwing a website together to support it. Since I plan to have this up within a week or so, I won't be distributing the URL of the old app. Check back in a few days for a new post regarding this topic.
I'm not a fan of commercials. They make me set down my beer to pick up the remote and skip past them. So awhile ago I checked out a project called DVRMSToolbox and blogged about it here
DVRMSToolbox comes with a lot of small applications that allow you to sorta create your own flow. I'm a developer and I found this approach to be a tad bit overwhelming. While it gives you a great deal of flexibility, it also is a bit more complicated if you simply want to cut commercials out of the video file. I also had issues w/ the FileSystemWatcher and the MC add-in acting up. I just want something more straightforward and stable.
Over the holiday break, I decided to start up a new project to deal w/ commercials as well as a few other annoying issues that plague my Media Center library.
This app (which doesn't have a definite name yet) does 3 things:
1) Removes duplicate shows
2) Removes partial shows
3) Removes commercials from .dvr-ms files permanently
It's a windows forms app that runs in the background. It has a tray icon to let you know it's running and to let you 1) start/stop it's heartbeat and 2) manually perform scans.
Every X minutes, it scans your Media Center library for dupes, partials, and shows w/ commercials. If duplicate or partial shows are found, they are moved to the recycle bin. If shows with commercials are found, they are processed.
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Escape XML string characters in C#
posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 by
bobby
@ 1:57 pm
I searched long and hard (that's what she said!) for a native .NET method for escaping special characters in text and didn't get very far. Sure, there's only like 5 special characters, and 5 Replace() calls would probably do the trick, but I'm sure there's got to be something built-in.
To much relief, I've discovered a native method, hidden away in the bowels of the SecurityElement class. Yes, that's right - SecurityElement.Escape(string s) will escape your string and make it XML safe.
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MRU Cleaner for Orcas Beta 1
posted on Saturday, June 23, 2007 by
bobby
@ 10:42 pm
Title says it. Nuff' said.
Note - this version will install side-by-side with MRU Cleaner for VS 2005
Click here to download MRU Cleaner for Orcas
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Property Manager Updated 1.0.0.4
posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 by
bobby
@ 2:19 pm
This is a small, but somewhat useful update. While I've never been one to prefix my local variables w/ the infamous "m_", I know many-a-dev that do. Thus, this update now supports this as well as a few other minor changes.
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Localizing existing strings into resource files is teh lame
posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 by
bobby
@ 12:41 pm
I did about two hundred string replacements before deciding to actually spend 30 seconds to find a tool to make it easier.
http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring
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Dispatch v1.0 Released.... finally.
posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 by
bobby
@ 12:37 pm
So I won't start this post off like it's another blurb in someone's high school yearbook. About how the last 8 months have been crazy and cool at the same time, or about how funny it was when we totally streaked though the quad.
But I did want to let ya'll know as of Tues morning, Yellow Cup released v1.0 of Dispatch - a plugin for Visual Studio 2005 designed for ASP.net developers. Dispatch eases that burden of FTP deployment and allows you to focus on development. This has been my main priority over the last 8 months. Trying to start a new company (alongside a FT job), developing Dispatch and managing the beta program all at the same time can make for some late nights, early mornings and LOTS of coffee and redbull.
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