Utility

Google Reader

Well I guess im a little late to the party but I have recently discovered the joy that is Google Reader.

I never truly understood the purpose of RSS readers until I started to wonder how I could make my daily trawl of flash,  flex, tech  blogs faster and more efficient. It was then I re-discovered google reader (I had played with it before but didnt understand the purpose too much).

Needless to say it has pretty much transformed how I use the web. Now instead of opening 20+ tabs every day to check my favourite blogs I instead just add a subscription to the blog and then I am updated whenever there are new posts. Old concept I know but im amazed how I did without it until now.

There is one problem however. Im a little bit of a neat freak and I just cant stand seeing that there are unread items. This becomes an issue if you subscribe to a very busy site such as Gizmodo. If I leave it for a day or two without checking im liable to have 100 posts from that one site alone to read. As much as it pains me I have taken to reading about 10-20 from this site a day then clicking the “mark as read” button, just so that its nice and tidy :P

AudioBook Organiser v1.3.0 – Drag'n'Drop

Well I was just doing some audio book organising and realised that it would be great if I could drag and drop a folder straight from my AIR into iTunes ready for upload to my iPhone.

Anyways after a little searching through the docs I came up with this little ditty:

var cp : Clipboard = new Clipboard();
cp.setData(ClipboardFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT, [new File(book.url)], false);
NativeDragManager.doDrag(null,cp);
Which gets fired by my DataGrid in the view:
<mx:DataGrid width="100%" height="100%" dataProvider="{books}" editable="true"


  itemEditEnd="{dispatchEvent(new BooksEvent(BooksEvent.PROPERTY_CHANGED));}"


  dragEnabled="true"


  dragStart="{dispatchEvent(new BooksEvent(BooksEvent.BOOK_BEGIN_DRAG, AudioBookModel(event.currentTarget.selectedItem)))}">
Its pretty cool.
Anyways, the latest version and the source is below:

Please upgrade your Flash Player This is the content that would be shown if the user does not have Flash Player 9.0.115 or higher installed.

Source: http://www.mikecann.co.uk/flash/AudioBookOrganiser/AudioBookOrganiser_v130_source.zip

Audio Book Organiser v1.2.0

ScreenHunter_01 Jan. 09 18.34

Just did a quick update to the audio book organiser. Added the ability to move the storage database file. This was so that I can put my storage file on Dropbox and it will then be backedup and synced between machines.

New version and sources:

Please upgrade your Flash Player This is the content that would be shown if the user does not have Flash Player 9.0.115 or higher installed.

Source: http://www.mikecann.co.uk/flash/AudioBookOrganiser/AudioBookOrganiser_v120_source.zip

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