October, 2005

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Apple's new iPod does TV

From the December 2005 issue of PC World magazinePosted Monday, October 31, 2005 iPod for TV Junkies: Apple's latest iPod plays video on a good 2.5-inch, 320-by-240-pixel color LCD. Now, for $2 each, iPod users can download select ABC TV shows, any of 2000 music videos, or Pixar animated shorts from Apple's iTunes store. The new models come in 30GB ($299) and 60GB ($399) versions. You can...Last Updated:Thursday, September 02, 2010By:alferoSource #

Who Needs Law School?

[Excerpt from Yahoo! News]Who Needs Law School?Statistics from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics would seem to back up Gates. According to the bureau, computer software engineer is projected to be one of the fastest-growing occupations in the next few years.The agency predicts that "despite the recent downturn in information technology, employment of computer software engineers is expected...Last Updated:Thursday, September 02, 2010By:alferoSource #

iXtend for iTunes

i designed a little program for those of us who use iTunes and need to manipulate the information it contains. With iXtend, you can export playlist and track information to m3u, pls, or xml format.The xml files are properly structured such that they should be usable in any application that uses xml. Please try it out and let me know what you think. Feed back can be sent to support[At-No-Junk]hiazle.com...Last Updated:Thursday, September 02, 2010By:alferoSource #

HP Rolls Out Sleek Consumer PCs

[Excerpt from AMDZONE]Editor's note: This is the first time HP has put out a press release even mentioning AMD for a product. Could the company have finally woken up? Note they downplay AMD by not mentioning the CPU until the end of the press release where the specs are. This after having the hotest selling desktop in September being AMD based for them. Makes a lot of sense right?-- Advanced...Last Updated:Thursday, September 02, 2010By:alferoSource #

How TO: Execute Files in .NET

Dim sProc As New Process() Try If File.Exists(strPath) Then sProc.StartInfo.FileName = strPath sProc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True sProc.Start() 'sProc.WaitForExit() End If Catch exFNF As FileNotFoundException MessageBox.Show("The file: '" & strPath & "' could not be found!",...Last Updated:Thursday, September 02, 2010By:alfero#

Creating a Movable Borderless Form

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