Archive: Posts Tagged ‘music’

Play Any Song Instantly With LiveSong

Messenger Plus! November 26th, 2009

Play any song instantly, using streaming technology powered by Last.fm and Grooveshark: With LiveSong, you don’t need the MP3 file locally. Listen to a song that somebody recommends you without worrying about where to find it.

Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?

Windows Live June 16th, 2009

Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage?
Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis was simple: a small [...]

Xbox 360 gets socialized

Web, Xbox June 1st, 2009

Microsoft announced today on its E3 Press Conference that Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm integration will be brought to the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Tweeting will be easy as nothing from your Xbox.
You can now view photos, make friends, and otherwise interact on Facebook directly from the game console. With Facebook Connect, available from your Xbox [...]

Love Coldplay? Get new Live album “LeftRightLeftRightLeft” for free!

Stuff May 17th, 2009

“Playing live is what we love. This album is a thank you to our fans—the people who give us a reason to do it and make it happen,” says Coldplay. Do you love Coldplay? Check out “LeftRightLeftRightLeft”, the album that the band is giving out to every visitor of the remaining concerts on the Viva [...]

Windows Live and You: “I use a variety of the Live services” (Jonathan Kay)

Windows Live and You May 15th, 2009

This time I spoke with a member of the Windows Live Community about his thoughts and ideas. Many of you might know Jonathan Kay as a helpful Messenger expert.
mynetx: Nice to see you! Windows Live and You—that includes some personal questions as well. You could start with describing yourself and your connection with Windows Live, [...]

How-to: Convert audio and video to a different format

Windows April 26th, 2009

Somebody sent you a *.wmv video, but you need it in *.mpg format? You bought *.wma music, but your mobile player only supports *.mp3? A friend of mine has created a tool making it easy to transcode audio and video files to different formats. How does the tool work?
The easy way: BVEncoder

How-to: Backups maken en herstellen van uw Plus! voorkeuren

Messenger Plus! April 16th, 2009

Op een dag was ik eens te denken over nuttige scripts voor Messenger Plus! Live. Ik ging eens kijken in het huidige programma en speelde wat met de “Importeer / Exporteer voorkeuren” optie in de Messenger Plus! voorkeuren. Wat ik daar zag, was de optie waarmee je maken van een binaire *. PLD bestand met [...]

How-to: Backup and restore your Plus! preferences

Messenger Plus! April 13th, 2009

The other day I was once again thinking of useful add-ons adding functions in Messenger. I went around and played with the “Import/export preferences” option inside the Messenger Plus! preferences. From what I saw, the option is creating a binary *.pld file containing your settings. You would have to export it, copy it via some [...]

Am Pranger: YouTube

Web April 7th, 2009

Das Videoportal YouTube sperrt in Deutschland alle Musikvideos. Eben war hier noch das Silbermond-Video „Irgendwas bleibt“. Nun ist nur noch ein Hinweis: „Dieses Video ist in deinem Land nicht verfügbar“, erklärt YouTube, mit 100 Millionen abgerufenen Filmen täglich erfolgreichste Videoseite im Internet.
Silbermond sind nicht allein: Seit Dienstagabend hat die Google-Tochter deutschen Zuschauern den Zugang zu [...]

Projects

Uncategorized February 1st, 2009

I have created several scripts and tools—here is a small excerpt.
Messenger Plus! Scripts
Bible Quoter
Provides access to bible quotes right in the chat window (supports: ESV, > KJV, NASB, NKJV).
More info…
Bing
Searches Bing for a term and displays the result directly in the chat window.
More info…
Last.fm Scrobbler
Submits your currently playing media to Last.fm.
More info…
LiveSong
Play any song instantly. [...]