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Simple alarm system for those on a budget..

Microsoft Agent is an unprecedented technology to create innovative, new conversational interfaces for applications and Web pages. It provides powerful animation capability, interactivity, and versatility, with incredible ease of development. Microsoft Agent is a technology that provides a foundation for more natural ways for people to communicate with their computers. It is a set of software services that enable developers to incorporate interactive animated characters into their applications and Web pages. These characters can speak, via a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine or recorded audio, and even accept spoken voice commands. Microsoft Agent empowers developers to extend the user interface beyond the conventional mouse and keyboard interactions prevalent today. Enhancing applications and Web pages with a visible interactive personality will both broaden and humanize the interaction between users and their computers. There are a limitless number of roles and functions that developers can create for these personalities to perform…

A simple viewer of images stored in the DICOM 3.0 File Format (C#). The file should have raw pixel data, uncompressed. Window Level functionality is also provided.

BSEtunes is a MySQL based, full manageable, networkable single or multiuser jukebox application. With BSEtunes the user could listen single- or multi selected songs, random songs, complete albums, songs in playlists etc. You could filter the random playback or create unlimited numbers of playlists. For selections drag the content from one panel to another. BSEtunes contains also an intergrated wpf coverflow clone.

Newton Dynamic Extensions for the WPF

Create the famous game using only labels, panels and pictures

A .NET class library for capturing video and audio to AVI files.

This project demonstrates an implementation of the waterfall spectrogram and use of statistical data to trigger events in near real-time. This demonstration utilizes the Wave classes developed by Ianier Munoz.

In a forthcoming article I will be describing a DirectSound based Wave Player-Recorder, with some unusual features.

The GUI will include a simple volume control for playback. Since I wanted that control to be synchronized with the system Volume Control utility, I needed to use WinMM.DLL functions and I thought this interim article outlining how those functions are used, and showing in particular how such a control can be synchronized with the system Volume Control, might be of general interest.

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