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Moving…

Zach — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:00:21 +0000

Moving to Zachowe.com. Projects page on new blog will be updated soon.

Update your bookmarks.

Thanks.

Wallpaper changer on the way…

Zach — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:08:33 +0000

I do a lot of projects, ranging from Zuse to SharpIM to my newest wallpaper changer. I have lots of wallpapers and I wanted a wallpaper cylcer but I couldn’t find one that was free. I decided to do what programmers do: write their own. So I wrote this one up in about an hour. It’s simple, free and coming soon. Stay tuned.

Zuse moving to a more practical way of scrobbling

Zach — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:35:15 +0000

You heard it right! Now that Microsoft has somewhat opened up their Zune player to Windows Live Messenger status updates, I’ll be trying to gather now playing song info in realtime directly from the Zune player. But I may need a complete rewrite of Zuse in C++. I’m sorry for my lack of effort in development on the current version of Zuse. I have been busy in bigger projects.

Stay tuned.

Holy Bible social application is coming to MySpace and Bebo

Zach — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:16 +0000

Currently I’m working hard to improve the functionality of my first social application. I’m also bring it to MySpace and Bebo. It is already on Facebook. It should be finished by the end of June.

Zuse 1.2 beta released

Zach — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:54:53 +0000

There are bugs, so just get over it. It will, however, detect if there’s a new song or songs on your Zune profile to scrobble but won’t be able to tell you which song or songs just quite yet. Hopefully I figure out why it still sometimes tells you all your recently played songs on Zune are songs you played hours ago… (sometimes it does this and other times it does not.) I’m pretty sure this is directly related to cacheing on possibly both the client and server side.

I’m not promising I will fix every bug that exists in this new version, but I will do my best to pinpoint and locate the troubled areas in the code.

Thanks for your understanding and continued support.

Enjoy the new build.

Zuse 1.2 coming within days

Zach — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:08:14 +0000

Although I’m seeming to have a problem related to fetching a non-cached fully updated recent song list from Zune Social, everything else, including detection of songs newly played. I’m starting to believe that Microsoft has started trying to block requests from my program. But that’s probably not the case, even so, their caching methods are tripping up me and the continued development of Zuse.

I’ve already started to plan 2.0 release features. More details soon.

Zuse not ready yet…

Zach — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:25:41 +0000

Sorry guys, I have to delay the next release of Zuse for a while… it’s getting quite complicated. If anyone wants to help and knows C#, feel free to contact me.

Just post a comment on this post with your email address, screen name, or whatever works for you.

Once again, sorry… I’m not going to set another date publicly though. And don’t ask when it will be done. It will be released when it’s complete.

Bringing back an older project

Zach — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:08:19 +0000

SharpIM was originally a instant messenger server and client library I started back in 2005. It was orignally called TakIM. It’s written entirely in C# and currently works using .NET or the Mono framework. It uses it’s own custom IRC-like protocol. The first version will be released sometime this year.

New version of Zuse coming, tons of bugfixes…

Zach — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:55:28 +0000

It’s big, it’s good, it’s fixed and it’s coming to your box no later than Feb 18th! This is a bit of a wait for such a big release. I’m busy with school work, homework, life and other projects, but rest assured it’s coming.

Stay tuned.

Zuse: The first Zune-Last.fm plugin

Zach — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:51:05 +0000

Zuse is a tool I wrote for submitting your recently listened tracks from the Zune software to Last.fm. Zuse works by using the XML from your Zune Social taking from it your recently played songs on the Zune software. Zuse then looks for the song length on a Yahoo Music API. For that information, it determines how long ago the newest track on the list was played. However, I cannot tell exactly when it was played because of the lack of information in the XML retrieved from your Zune Social profile. However what is being worked on is a way to determine what songs have already been submitted to Last.fm.

Check it out! http://code.google.com/p/zuse/