Kivela Developers blog, star date 47410.2

intelliTunes – iTunes addition

intelliTunes - GimmeSomeTune clone.

Download the latest version here or visit the intelliTunes page here.

Since this is I-needed-it-so-I-build-it-ware you can always email me if you have a question / suggestion or found a bug ! The application is basically a port of the functionality I miss when I am on my windows machine and that the GimmeSomeTune application gave me on OSX.

With its unique set of features, intelliTunes for windows is the perfect companion for your music collection in iTunes, on your iPod and your iPhone.

Fetch artwork.
No other software we know of lets you fetch artwork for your songs in iTunes for Windows so easily and quickly as intelliTunes.

Just start playing a song - intelliTunes will do the rest. After all, that's what you have a pc for.

Fetch lyrics.
In the same, easy way intelliTunes fetches artwork, it also fetches lyrics for your songs.
More accurately than any other software we know about.

How does it work ?

Download the zip file containing the setup.exe here, and install the application.
I would advise to add the application to your windows startup folder. The application will not auto start together with iTunes, so I should be started manually (or through your startup folder).

Doubleclicking the tray icon will start iTunes if it wasn't running, or play/pause if it was already present. Rightclicking the tray icon will give you the option to change the settings, review trackInfo or view lyrics.

Drop me a line if you have any remarks / comments.

Rtf stripper

Have you ever had the need to parse an rtf file to normal text ?

One option (and the easiest one) is just using the RichTextControl, setting its RTF property and getting its text property.

If however your not in a UI project it just smells to add a controls reference to do just a simple parsing, or to be more precise a simple stripping.

Since one of my collegues needed such functionality we ended up converting an old c function to the following.


public static String Strip(String rtf)
{
String strCopy = "";
bool slash = false; //indicates if backslash followed by the space
bool figure_opened = false; //indicates if opening figure brace followed by the space
bool figure_closed = false; //indicates if closing brace followed by the space
bool first_space = false; //the else spaces are in plain text and must be included to the result
int length = rtf.Length;
if (length < 4) return "";
int start = 0;
int k = 0;

return strCopy;
}


Hope it can save somebody half an hour

Cheers Stefan

Insert hyperlink button on Moss announcement lists

A while back we decided to add an 'insert hyperlink' button to the announcement lists on our team system project portals (sharepoint services 3.0). After looking up many articles claiming we had to change our Schema.xml files, javascript files or even creating custom buttons, I discovered the following solution.

First go to your announcement list and choose 'List Settings'

Click on the 'Body' link to alter the field:

Then choose 'Enhanced Rich Text' to enable the wanted buttons:

Et voila

Enabling double tap as double click in osx

It took me 3 months before even bothering to look it up, and now I found it, I can't imagine not using it, so just a quick share to other macbook / airbook owners.

Even in OSX it is possible to double click by double tapping the trackpad, although it isn't as 'it just works' simple as you would expect.

So how do we do the magic ... Just open system preferences - Keyboard and mouse

Then 'Trackpad' and change the 'Clicking' checkbox to checked state and all of a sudden the checkbox below that one will change from content, just hit apply and voila !

Before:

After:

Strong signing a third party assembly in .net

Just a quick tip for all you codeplex/codeproject code downloading junkies

Solution for assigning a strong name to a third party DLL using your visual studio command prompt.

E.g. Lets say the name of the third party DLL is myTest.dll.
Step 1: Dis-assemble the assembly
ildasm myTest.dll /out:myTest.il

Step 2: Re-Assemble using your strong-name key
ilasm myTest.il /res:myTest.res /dll /key:myTest.snk /out:myTestSN.dll

for verification you can use following command,
sn -vf myTestSN.dll