My apology for stopping development My Outlook Today and SongWidget.

My Outlook Today

Most of reason to stop development for My Outlook Today is that I don’t use outlook. When I worked for Sony, I had many meetings every day and I had to work out time to write code. ( It was my motivation! ) However I left from Sony in Dec 2006 and lost motivation to develop it.

Also SongWidget was submited 1 year ago. SongWidget isn’t appeared on Yahoo! Widget Gallery through status is “Version 0.3.2 is approved and enabled” now. I often send request support team but they always response that “we comfrim it” only!!

…After a year.

I am using Google Calendar in company I worked for and in private, so I restart to develop Yahoo! Widget. I submit “My Google Calendar” and new version of “My Outlook Today” last week. My outlook Today is already approved here. http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/my-outlook-today My Google Calendar widget is still “Version 1.0.0 is pending: Screenshot requested (1024)”

I did re-use source code between My Google Calendar and My Outlook Today and I could release new ones through I don’t use outlook. I would like to keep updating ones as much as posibble.

Please let me know you have any questions and requests of My Outlook Today and My Google Calendar.

You might think why Movable Type.

As you see, I used the WrodPress for this blog.

In Japan, the Movable Type is more popular more than other countries because we could use the Movable Type freely(only individual use) before the Movable Type Open Source is released. And now also.

I also have another Japanse blog with the Movable Type and develop some Movable Type plugins.

I found the SyntaxHighlighter plugin for WordPress, but didn’t find for Movable Type. So I have developed it.

I have submitted it to Movable Type Plugin Directory. And you can download following page:
http://blogspot.makotokw.com/portfolio/movable/syntaxhighlighter/

The guidgen that is tools to generate GUID. I often used it to develop COM.

In the Visual Studio 6.0, the Visual Studio included the guidgen. However, the VS.NET dosen’t include it but Windows SDK includes it. Therefore I forget and lose it sometimes.

Then I developed the guidgen web application and released it here: http://labs.makotokw.com/guiden/ “guid web application” use ExtJS and BlzGuid.js.

Please use it! And let me know if you found any problems!

I released a JavaScript library with Silverlight application for playing the Windows Media files on the Firefox. It’s named “Lyra”.
You can download it and see more detail below:
http://api.x-jukebox.com/lyra/
And Lyra is open source and is freely distributable under the terms of an BSD license.The repository is open in my project site: http://projects.makotokw.com/trac/arcadia/browser/lyra/trunk
The Lyra has some limitations, current version is alpha version. At the first, I will use to the Lyra for mRadio is supported on the Firefox. The mRadio (http://x-jukebox.com/mradio) plays 200 sample contents (.asx file) of Mora seamlessly. ( “Mora” is Japanese Music Store look likes iTunes Music Store)
Please let me know if you have any questions!