foo_w7shell 0.2.8.1

Just find three differences

foo_w7shell 0.2.8

You wanted Aero Peek and Flip3D? Well, you’ve got it.

Personally I think these features are useless for foobar. And a bit buggy:

• Image of the same size as thumbnail looks ugly in Flip3D (I have no idea why MS decided to show thumbnail instead of live preview there).
• Window must to be shown at least once to make Aero Peek working. It’s a common issue for any app.
• Too frequent painting of a live preview image drains a lot of CPU, so it is made not so “live” as it should.
• When window is maximized, there are some glitches with its frame size in Peek mode.

Blame MS for all that stuff

P.S. I’m still on RC, so someone should test it on RTM. I wanna to know if something changed.

Oops!

I’ve just realized that foo_w7shell page was truncated when moving to another server. Actually I have no idea why it was the only page corrupted, but still hate MySql for such tricks.

And I was wondering why people are downloading old versions (0.2.7.0 and even 0.2.6.2). That’s because they simply had no actual links and used old ones cached by various search sites.

Sorry, ppl. And update it now.

301 Moved permanently

Yay, moved to another hosting. The new one seems to be more stable and not so fucking slow.

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Shit happens

My home Asus WL500gP router just fucked up. It turned on all LAN and WAN lights and did nothing more. A bit of googling – and I knew that power adapter is dead.
Luckily I had an old wall charger from some WinMobile device giving required 5 volts, but sitting with solderer at 5AM and replacing a mini-usb jack with another one is not fun.

Now it works, but I had to disable WiFi, ’cause the new power adapter is a twice less powerful than the original one and cannot make the router working stable. I’ll miss internet on my iPod…

iPhone OS 3.1: noway

It has a bit faster spotlight (they added some indexes, lol), that’s true.
But a bug with sorting non-english track names makes navigation completely unusable. All such tracks are put into “123″ section even though locale supports required symbols and they’re shown as jump letters.

I’m lucky iTunes allows upgrade to an older version, because I don’t have a copy of my library on a PC.
So waiting for next beta…

ArtDoctor 2.0 console

Works with firmware 3.0 both on Windows and Mac OS X (using Mono) – tested on iPod Touch 1g (Windows 7, Snow Leopard) and iPhone 3GS (Snow Leopard).

This is still experimental, so comments and bugreports are welcome!

Download: ArtDoctor2con.

Still have no time to make GUI, sorry.

New iTunes library is here

I’ve just got why you should use new iTunes (8.2) since beta 5. They have replaced old iTunesDB library with new one based on SQLite, so sync is a bit odd thing now.
Device itself doesn’t use iTunesDB at all, but iTunes still does – I think it’s for compatibility reasons. When syncing, iTunes writes both iTunesDB and new library files to device. If there’s no iTunesDB file on device, iTunes will also purge new library and all your music will appear as “other” data.

I wonder whether new library will completely supersede iTunesDB or will they continue coexisting for compatibility reasons. But anyway, linux guys would be happy since SQLite format is open and much more clear for understanding.

Sync: “Slide to cancel”

Yeah, I’ve just found out how to handle this and terminate sync when user slides cancel switch.

We need following functions (meta-language):

ERROR AMDObserveNotification(HANDLE proxy, CFSTR notification);
ERROR AMDListenForNotifications(HANDLE proxy, NOTIFY_CALLBACK cb, USERDATA data);

and callback delegate:

typedef void (*NOTIFY_CALLBACK)(CFSTR notification, USERDATA data);

First, we need AMDObserveNotification to subscribe notifications about “com.apple.itunes-client.syncCancelRequest”. Then we should start listening for notifications (second function) until we get “AMDNotificationFaceplant”.
That’s it. When notification got, you should unlock and close lock file handle (don’t sure if you need to post “syncDidFinish” to proxy, seems it doesn’t matter) and terminate sync gracefully.

P.S. The same notification is also got when you unplug your device, so you should always be ready for errors.