tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92061202028920271932011-11-28T01:51:24.992+01:00My place for publishing random thoughts...Lars Bargmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620957409211386681noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9206120202892027193.post-543366260154549002010-07-03T13:19:00.000+02:002010-07-03T13:20:51.363+02:00<p>So, the other day I started thinking… I do not watch television very often, mostly because when I feel for it, there’s nothing on that interests me…</p> <p>Well, several companies have established their own on-demand service, and that’s fine… but then again, it’s not…</p> <p>For example, if I happen to do something a sunday, and I come home at night and I really just want to see the days Formula 1 race, I can’t… If I missed an episode of some series and want to watch it, I can’t..</p> <p>Well, I actually can watch it, if I know where to look for it… But I don’t want to know where to look… I just want it to be available…</p> <p>So what if, I thought, all the media-companies in the world made a single access-point, for all media… Like a Google TV or iTunes, but for television… and with much bigger ambitions?</p> <p>What if <u>all</u> television-media would be assembled in one spot, searchable and available on demand, for a fee off course, at any time you want it? …in decent quality??</p> <p>I, personally, would love to see a single website happen, where I could pay, say $100 every month, and just have everything available to me… and I do mean everything… I want to be able to see shows from danish TV2, Formula 1 from german RTL, Lost from some american channel and so forth…</p> <p>I imagine the logistics behind a concept like this, would be pretty simple too, actually… How many seconds are any item being streamed versus total stream-load, would be pretty easy to calculate, right? </p> <p>Imagine all this being available with an easy API for developers… It would bring a whole new wave of boxes into our living-rooms (not unlike what Google TV is going to do) and would probably spawn some pretty cool desktop-apps, as well… and plugins for the different media-centers would probably be the first thing to come out of that…</p> <p>I know this is probably never going to happen, but I can dream, can’t I ? </p> <p><img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" alt="Winking smile" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_LP4QjhnFd5g/TC8dEPuLGcI/AAAAAAAAABc/ivHYUr4ylnU/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" /></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9206120202892027193-54336626015454900?l=larsbargmann.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lars Bargmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620957409211386681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9206120202892027193.post-295029138647121812010-07-03T12:14:00.000+02:002010-07-03T15:28:40.969+02:00<h4>ChromeHelper</h4> <p>As a Chrome-user (actually ChromePlus) I have been rather happy about the possibility to make different profiles, that all have their own settings, cookies, bookmarks and whatnot… The only issue was, that it was too difficult to manage…That’s why I wrote a small application, that makes life much easier in this regard…</p> <p>It is a small tray-application (sitting next to the clock) which will show a nice looking menu when right-clicked… There’s some options that needs to be set before use, but that only takes like a minute or so… (Tip : Right-click the buttons in the settings-dialog for manual input)</p> <p>Take a look :</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_LP4QjhnFd5g/TC8MifOczKI/AAAAAAAAABM/lfaBMP_Z0kQ/s1600-h/Screentshot1%5B3%5D.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" class="wlDisabledImage" title="Screentshot1" border="0" alt="Screentshot1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_LP4QjhnFd5g/TC8MjRA_KmI/AAAAAAAAABQ/E_TFMADkGCc/Screentshot1_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="465" height="194" /></a></p> <p>&#160;</p> <h4>ShortcutMenu</h4> <p>As much as I love the new Win7-taskbar, there’s just a little thing that I’m missing… The ability to make a menu, like a single item that opens a menu/stack/whatever with more items to choose from…</p> <p>Off course, I made a small application for that too…</p> <p>Download and install, and when invoked it will ask for 2 things :</p> <ol> <li>A folder, in which you put shortcuts and/or files. Basically this folder is shown in the menu… </li> <li>A place to store a shortcut. When this shortcut is invoked, it will show a nice menu, so you can actually place this anywhere you want. I usually just drop it at my desktop, and from there, dragging it onto the taskbar… </li> </ol> <p>Screenshot :</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_LP4QjhnFd5g/TC8MkFl_YVI/AAAAAAAAABU/BGRjIwSZbLE/s1600-h/Screenshot1%5B5%5D.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" class="wlDisabledImage" title="Screenshot1" border="0" alt="Screenshot1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_LP4QjhnFd5g/TC8MlDzY1hI/AAAAAAAAABY/DiPtQzWGWtQ/Screenshot1_thumb%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="465" height="197" /></a> <br /></p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>Both applications can be downloaded (FREE) here :</p> <p><a href="http://www.sixstringsoftware.net" target="_blank">SixString Software</a></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9206120202892027193-29502913864712181?l=larsbargmann.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lars Bargmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620957409211386681noreply@blogger.com0