eBay on Media Center- August 20, 2006 Duncan tipped me off to a new video he just posted looking at mceAuction, an eBay add-in for Windows Media Center. Developed by long-time and highly respected Media Center developer Christoph Buenger of Scendix, this is a great example of the cool stuff you can do and winner of the, "eBay Star Developer Award 2006". New features include: Show item's location in Google Maps Get notification when you got outbid, your watched auction end in a few minutes, ... Shows...http://blog.seanalexander.com/2006/08/20/eBayOnMediaCenter.aspx Packaging Hell - Time to Rise Up!- August 14, 2006 THANK YOU to maverick Mark Cuban and CNet's Blogma for ranting about a topic I've also been on the warpath over for years- product packaging that makes the customer the enemy. We've all experienced it- tough plastic-molded around the product we just bought, the knives, the scissors, the bloody incisions on our fingers. One brand name these are known under in the business is "Thermoform". Thermal molded plastics. I call it "The Polycoffin". But the blame doesn't..http://blog.seanalexander.com/2006/08/14/PackagingHellTimeToRiseUp.aspx |