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The End of the CrunchPadA strange story broke today about a new touchscreen tablet computer that was due to be unveiled this month by the people behind the TechCrunch website.. It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad...And then the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication. http://www.techcrunc...11/30/crunchpad-end/ |
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Coding Snack: CovArt Ops - Scan music collection for missing covers/artworkA dc member requests: "Topic says it all. I know it is somewhat possible with iTunes by going coverflow happy and looking for the grays, but I hate that program. Ideally, I'd want a big list, sorted by album title. An album could be determined by the directory, as I use one directory per album. Please please PLEASE do not make different artists turn it into different albums, since that's what's making most programs I found throw up with 15 similar covers for different artists - directory criterium alone is all I need. It should look for the cover in a cover.jpg, folder.jpg, front.jpg as well as tags in the files if files doesn't work. Albums that end up without any cover art should light up red in the list. It would also be nice if it was possible to see how the program found the cover (from a file (filename), from tags, etc) and whether it is consistent. A way to get the directory the album is in (Copy to clipboard) would also be awesome. Reason I'm looking for this is that I lost a crapload of my album art when iTunes messed up my computer, and I'm not letting it back on lest it destroy stuff again.. but I do want to go through my 500+ albums to restore covers where they might be missing. P.S.: Used the Dina font for years, always been a lurker without account till now. Great website! ^^" Click here to read about the program written by DC member skwire, CovArt Ops.. |
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Nice DonationCoder.com write-up on dotTech.orgIt's a really nice feeling when the site gets written up somewhere, especially when it's by someone who has spent time at DC and gets the spirit of the site. Ashraf at dotTech.org has just posted a very kind and sweet writeup and talked about some of the programs on DC that he likes best. I am sure many dotTechies have heard of DonationCoder. For those that have not, let me give you a brief introduction. DonationCoder.com is a website where many programmers feature their freeware software. What makes DonationCoder different, verses other freeware providing websites, are three main aspects.. http://dottech.org/headline/12520
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Tech News Weekly: Edition 48-09The newest edition of Ehtyar's Tech News Weekly is now out, table of contents:
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Freeware Mission Roundup: Free Applications for WebmastersBlogger czar at the great site Freeware Mission has put up part 2 of his multi-part series on applications for webmasters and developer; many of these are web services not desktop applications. Some definite good finds: After a long research, I decided to make a list of most used free applications for web developers and designers. All of them are tested on Windows XP and Vista. I’ve also added editor’s rating (level 1 to 5.One is poor, five is excellent) and level of “easy of use” (level 1 to 5.One is easy, five is hard) I will continue researching and adding more free tools to the list. |
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TheGameCrafter: Cool new site to help you make and sell indie board/card gamesI'm crazy for these sites that really try to automate the production and selling of indie products, especially for people like me who like to minimize the need to interact with actual humans. This is a very cool new site that will let you go from board/card game idea and artwork, to a fully assembled game that is make on demand for single orders. You design your game pieces, board, card, instructions, art, and upload them to an account -- there are lots of different parts you can include in your game and everything is automated. The site calculates the production cost of a single game set, and like cafepress and other merchandise sites, you can then set how much markup you'd like to sell it for. You then split the any markup profits with the site. It's a wonderful idea i think. You won't mistake these games for high-quality big production run games, but that's not the point -- the point is to make it easy for anyone to make a game they can sell in very small volumes and have a lot of fun doing it. They even have a neat online gallery shop where you can buy games other people have made. Games are as low as $7 (cool!) I'd love to see some people at DC making some games on the site -- if you do let me know and we'll give some away at DC! Now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go back to the site and order a handful of fun looking games just for the fun of it.  http://www.thegamecrafter.com/ |
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