I’ve been using it for a week now, and I can’t live with it. I am still using the trial version, but I’ll buy it for sure when it ends. A personal license costs 39$, but it’s nothing compared to the power of the plugin: themes, customization, several useful options, regular expressions engine to match and group tabs, etc…. Just great!. A shame it is not open source:D

It corrects a rare bug using the alternate identification string sometimes triggered on *some* laptops like the asus V1S and some macbooks.

More details and downloads HERE.

More details and downloads HERE.

When I go to sleep, I start the Windows Media Player usually with a large playlist, or even the loop function activated. I do not want, however, the device playing all night long wasting my battery… Well, it’s the very definition of Sleep Timer, ain’t it?

I put together a couple of lines of code, and made this **extremely basic** sleep timer. I did something similar many years ago for the iPaq, and now I’ve don it again. I spent more time trying to make the cab installer that the code itself:D. The code is almost worthless to put here, but I’ll do it just in case someone wants to modify it to start a different process other than the Media Player.

The “Suspend the device” function, calls the SetSystemPowerState API which according to the MSDN its effect may vary on each device, as it relies on some OEM power management implementation. It will not be necessary in most of modern devices, but I included it just in case.

Sleep Timer Source Code ]]> http://somemorebytes.com/wp/index.php/2010/07/sleep-timer-for-windows-media-player-mobile/feed/ 0 http://somemorebytes.com/wp/index.php/2010/04/13-great-software-devs-quotes/ http://somemorebytes.com/wp/index.php/2010/04/13-great-software-devs-quotes/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:52:43 +0000 somemorebytes http://somemorebytes.com/wp/?p=467 Browsing around I came across this post and loved it. This deserves as many copy-paste backups as possible, so here is one more:

• “The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.” – Tom Cargill
• “In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.” – Author Unknown
• “I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” – Bjarne Stroustrup
• “A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.” – Mitch Ratcliffe
• “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” -C.A.R. Hoare
• “The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice.” – Author Unknown
• “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” – Gerald Weinberg
• “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” – Edsger Dijkstra
• “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates
• “Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.” – Fred Brooks
• “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” – Rich Cook
• “There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” – Jeremy S. Anderson
• “Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” – Ralph Johnson