I gave a go at doing a Flotzam skin, which you can see if you run the latest version of Flotzam. The animations, which bounce, look more interesting than the screenshot, which is taken from my dual monitor machine using print screen. The skin is called balls and can be found in the settings. I d…
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Last week, we held a WPF boot camp for a set of folks here in Redmond. It was a great event and, most pertinently, we taped the entire thing, just as we did last year. (We should have the videos posted in the next few weeks.) And, just as last year, we have had some great sessions on real worl…
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Perhaps you remembered last year’s MIX, in which we featured Flotzam, a WPF screensaver mash-up that showed MIX07 feeds from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and blogs. Well, we are doing it again this year with a twist: we are running a contest and will feature community created skins of the applica…
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I recently made some screencasts using Camtasia about remixing Flotzam and I then encoded them using Microsoft Expression Encoder using all the default settings. However, the quality was crap compared to the .wmv emitted from Camtasia and I couldn't figure out why. My good man Tim Sneath…
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I just configured my development environment to be able to debug into the .NET Framework source code that was just made available (see Shawn Burke's post for how to do this -- it's rad!). One of the things you have to do for this to work in Visual Studio is to uncheck the "Enable Just My Code&q…
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I wanted to pull some data from YouTube above and beyond just what I could get from RSS. In particular, one of the things I was hoping for was the ability to get at the http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ namespace, which uses the media: tag prefix by convention. Because the YouTube data is AT…
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Recently found out about a couple cool Facebook projects worth checking out built on the Facebook Toolkit (which is the #4 most downloaded project on Codeplex of over 3000 projects): Synchronizer 1.0 by Lutz Roeder - Synchronizer is a Facebook desktop application that allows you to synchronize prof…
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