Google Video Technology at your hand

February 28th, 2006

Do you want to add a Google Video in your website? Go to Google Video search a free or promotional video, click the “Put on Site” link and finally, copy and paste the code in your webpage. That’s all folks!

Web IMs are all around

February 2nd, 2006

I have checked in Technorati, that there is another Web IM around. It is Mabber and you need an invitation to try it. If you have one, please let me know so I can test it.

Another Web IM on the market

January 27th, 2006

IMunitive.com is a new Web IM on the market. The login is not working at the moment but you can take a look of how it will be in the help section. It looks a lot like meebo, but remember that meebo started this.

Instan-t 4.6.2 ready to download

January 27th, 2006

Instan-t 4.6.2 is ready to download here

New features include:

  • Many MSN bugs resolved
  • Copy/Paste with Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy and paste contacts and folders in your contact list
  • Automatic away mode time can be modified

Remember that Instan-t is a free Instant Messenger software that includes MSN, AOL, ICQ and Yahoo compatibility. In addition, you have video and audio in awesome performance. Much better than Trillian … many users say.
Let me know if you have comments in this new version

Google Talk Flash Edition

December 1st, 2005

Gtalkr allows you to use Google Talk in any browser using Flash technology.
Be aware that you will have to login with your Google Account, so check the privacy statements first.

Another MSN Bot

November 25th, 2005

Add smarterchild@hotmail.com to your MSN contacts to get weather, movies and more updated info. It’s not as smart as the the Encarta Bot, that is why it is called the “smartchild”.

Windows Live Messenger Screenshots

November 24th, 2005

Check some Windows Live Messenger Screenshots here

Encarta Bot in MSN Messenger

November 24th, 2005

Add this contact to your MSN: encarta@conversagent.com
Ask some questions like: Capital of Uruguay? Population of Mongolia?, etc.

It also opens a side panel showing the answer in the Encarta online.
If you feel bored, you can also talk with this bot for a while… :-)

Showing Listview values

November 21st, 2005

Use the following code to get the text value of the selected item in a ListView:
Form1.lstContacts.options[Form1.lstContacts.selectedIndex].text

Use the following code to get the value of the selected item in a ListView:
Form1.lstContacts.options[Form1.lstContacts.selectedIndex].value

Parse a XML String

November 21st, 2005

There is a very easy way to parse an XML String: just load it in a dataSet! Check this code:

Dim currxml as string = SOME XML WITH A ROOT NODE
Dim xmldoc As New XmlDocument
xmldoc.LoadXml(currxml)
Dim XMLnr As New XmlNodeReader(Xmldoc.SelectSingleNode(”root”))
Dim ds As New DataSet
ds.ReadXml(XMLnr)
for each aRow as DataRow in ds.Tables(0)
dim aValue as string = cstr(aRow(”aprop”))
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