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Download:

Click here to download Pandora Keys from:https://samuelhaddad.com/downloads/pandorakeys/

Source Code:

https://github.com/SamPlusPlus/Pandora-Keys

Features:

  • Media Key support
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts
  • Control Pandora from any application.
  • Auto updater for new features

Screenshots:

Desktop Application for Pandora.com

Requirements:

  • .NET 4.0
  • A Pandora.com account
  • Enjoy listening to music

Why Did I make this?:

I am a big fan of both Pandora, Jango, and streaming music in general.  I think they are great. However, I also feel that being a web-based application they lack features that exist in a desktop media player. For example, keyboard shortcuts and notifications are features I cannot live without.  After creating a desktop wrapper for Jango.com called Jango Desktop. I set out to create one for Pandora. There were already a few on the market, but I found they did not do what I wanted or were no longer being developed. My favorite used to be Open Pandora however it no longer seemed to be supported and many of the features no longer work. My code is based on the Open Pandora project but has the functionality that I was looking for.

Contribute:

Pandora Keys is open source. Please check out the project and jump right in. Programmers, graphic designers, or just your ideas, whatever your skills may be you are welcome to join the fun.

Donate:

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Disclaimer:

Pandora Keys is in no way affiliated with www.pandora.com. By downloading Pandora Keys you claim full responsibility for the use of this application.

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When I was working as a Desktop Support Technician in college, I wrote a .NET C# Dell service tag finder because I dealt with well, many Dell computers. I decided to write a little program that I could carry on my flash drive with me and all my other technical applications. What I like most about this application is the ability to quickly get to the Dell Warranty and driver information. I hope that someone else finds this useful as well, if you do let me know.

DellServiceTagFinder

Download Dell Service Tag Finder: Source | Executable

This is was possible using Windows Management Instrumentation and if you are interested in pulling other information from your computer I recommend you read up on it. For this example, I used the Win32_BIOS Class, but you can find all the WMI Classes here.

Preview of Source:

        String dellServiceTag;

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Load Service Tag
            ManagementClass wmi = new ManagementClass("Win32_Bios");
            foreach (ManagementObject bios in wmi.GetInstances())
            {
                dellServiceTag = bios.Properties["Serialnumber"].Value.ToString().Trim();
            }
            Display.Text = dellServiceTag;
        }



Notes:


This application requires the .NET Framework or you may receive application errors.


The service tag is pulled from the BIOS so if you ever had your motherboard replaced and the service tag was not reset it will be blank.


The service tag is really the Serial of the machine, so other models such as HP will display the Serial, but the express code will be wrong. I will look into this when I have multiple machines to test on.

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WARNING: This project is outdated and not maintained.

Download:

Please read the disclaimer and the rest of this page before you download, then head over to https://samuelhaddad.com/downloads/twittertalk/ when you are ready to install the application.

About:

Twitter Talk is a Launchy-like program. It stays invisible until you are ready to use it. Just hit your hotkey and up pops twitter talk. Now you can post to Twitter what is on your mind right away. By default, the hotkey is ALT + T, but that can all be customized.

Screenshots:

Twitter Talk Default Window

Twitter Talk's Settings Window

Requirements:

  • .NET 3.5 runtime framework
  • A Twitter account
  • Administrative rights

Credits:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ for all the Twitter icons.

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Open In Firefox

As a web developer, I am constantly testing my websites in many browsers. Particularly Firefox and Internet Explorer. Firefox was built around the idea of extensibility. There are many add-ons that allow you to customize Firefox the way you want. One great add-on is IEView this little tool allows you to right-click on any web page in Firefox and select View this page in IE, and as the name suggests it opens the page in Internet Explorer.

Now, what if I wanted to do the opposite?  The closest solution I could find involved manually modifying the registry, but it was this post that inspired me to write a one-click installation to install this capability.

Download Open In Firefox here.

Please leave me your comments and let me know if you have any troubles. This was tested with Vista IE7 and XP IE6 as well as 32bit and 64bit systems.

Requirements:
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package (Only if the program will not launch).

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WARNING: THIS PROJECT IS OUTDATED AND NOT MAINTAINED.  

Download:

Click here to download Jango Desktop from: https://samuelhaddad.com/jangodesktop/

Contribute:

As of 10/19/2009, Jango Desktop is going open source. Please check out the project at http://code.google.com/p/jango-desktop/ and jump right in.  Programmers, graphic designers, or just your ideas, whatever your skills may be you are welcome to join the fun.

Current Features:

  • Media Key support
  • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Ctrl + up rates the current song great
    • Ctrl + down rates the current song bad
    • Ctrl + right arrow rates the song ok
    • Ctrl + ? (no shift so really ctrl + /) shows the current song playing
  • Lyrics
  • Run from system tray only (Minimize to tray, double click icon to bring the window back).
  • Auto updater for new features

Screenshots:

Requirements:

  • .NET 2.0
  • A Jango.com account
  • Enjoy listening to music

Why Did I make this?:

I am a big fan of both Pandora, Jango, and streaming music in general. I think they are great. However, I also feel that being a web-based application they lack features that exist in a desktop media player.  For example, keyboard shortcuts and notifications are features I cannot live without. I found that there is a desktop application for pandora that tries to remedy some of Pandora’s flaws.  It is called  Pandora’s Box developed by Daniel Mackey from http://cdfan.com for Jango there has been nothing until now.

Update History:

You can read all about updates and bug fixes here if you are interested.

Donate:

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Special Thanks:

I want to give a special thanks to the following people:

for testing and finding bugs in the application.

Disclaimer:

Jango Desktop is in no way affiliated with www.jango.com. By downloading Jango Desktop you claim full responsibility for the use of this application.