Update Gtalk status from Spotify

Aditya — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:05:14 +0000

Spotify is an excellent free P2P music streaming service that is currently available to residents of UK, France and neighboring countries. Most of the Gtalk users like to update their status with the current track that they are listening to. Gtalk supports Windows Media Player, Winamp and iTunes. Now that Spotify is becoming a craze, I thought of making a small application to update the Gtalk status directly from the current track from Spotify.

This application is written in C#, and hence will require the latest .net Framework to be installed on your machine. At present only windows version of Spotify is supported as official Gtalk application is not available for other platforms. Feel free to post bugs and improvements, although its a small application.:)

This is a early version, hence there might be some bugs. Please report them at aditya[at]novocained[dot]com

SCREENSHOT

EDIT : This app somehow fails to work when you select “Current Music Track” option from Gtalk. Set the status to “Available” or “Busy”

Windows 7 release date leaked.

Aditya — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:59:33 +0000

Windows 7 has created much anticipation amongst the Microsoft users for its ’stability,eye-candy,virtual xp mode’ amongst others.

Windows 7 to be release somewhere near October Mid?

It has been confirmed by an Acer executive that one of their products, Acer Aspire Z5600 PC will be launched on 23rd October 2009 that will be preloaded with Windows 7. Now thats some news! So you should expect the release date to be somewhere near it. Also, if you purchase a system with Vista 30 days before the release of 7, you will be eligible for free upgrade too. The RC1 of Windows 7 is already doing rounds on MSDN and TechNet.

Look out at this post for more news on release date.

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Update Gtalk status from Spotify

Windows 7 release date leaked.