Hell, I hope desktops never go the way of pocketpc's. Imagine being so dependent on OEM's that you could never upgrade your device without their permission. Many laptop owners are in a similar boat, and it will probably only get worse. And laptops are getting very popular these days...
Unfortunately there's a downside to having U2 living in your house full time.
The constant Irish-accented chatter?
Hehe! That and the cost of food, booze, electical, and all the arguments with the neighbors over the noise level..... come to think of it, it's no different from when the inlaws come over. :-)
In comparison, Apple released updates for all their iPods, including their oldest, when they unveiled FairPlay DRM.
Actually, that's not true. Those of us that bought first-gen iPods (when 5GB was the only choice) were abandoned. Even though the hardware was exactly the same, Apple refused to add AAC and Windows support to that model.
Pretty harsh, considering the second-gen model came out within a month of my purchase (and the Apple store never told me a new model was coming... and had some wacky "17 day" return policy or something like that).
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Is it possible to run Windows Media Player 10 Mobile on WM2003 as opposed to WM2003SE? I use an Axim X5 and I'll probably be using it for a while. I think it would be nifty if I could make small little slideshows and use my axim to shot them to people.
I have come across a workaround that I thought I would share with you. After creating the photostory, import it into Windows movie maker, from there you can save it in a format that "older" media players can play on PPC/Smartphone. I tried it on my Ipaq 6315 and it worked well. You have to experiment with bitrate/size, but you can get away with a low bit rate since the 6315 is not exactly a screaming processor.
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What's so revolutionary about this? Tons of PPC slideshow viewers are capable of this. Just a quick list of the PPC slideshow'ers and the transition effects + special features they have off my forthcoming picviewer/editor roundup
A temporary alternative is what I call it. Photo stories (a.k.a. videos) have become very popular lately, especially in Microsoft software. The beauty of it is you can bring it from Device A to Device B and still play it back with the transition effects. It beats the image viewers as not every device has Spb Imageer, Resco Picture Viewer, etc. Now the huge fallacy in this argument is that not every device is capable of playing photo stories created in PhotoStory 3 - evidently seen in the main discussion of this thread (not every device has WMP10 Mobile). But at least you can port it over to the PC and MCEs and still play it, as opposed to the picture viewers.
Granted - with poor encoding, image quality may be a little lacking, but the fact is, if you do it right, it could turn out to be the better option for most.
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I have come across a workaround that I thought I would share with you. After creating the photostory, import it into Windows movie maker, from there you can save it in a format that "older" media players can play on PPC/Smartphone. I tried it on my Ipaq 6315 and it worked well. You have to experiment with bitrate/size, but you can get away with a low bit rate since the 6315 is not exactly a screaming processor.
Thanks for sharing. It's a seemingly obvious solution that I had to resort to when I first tried Photo Story a couple of months ago when it was released. While it was nice, it seems to kill the entire "automated" process that Photo Story delivers. What use is "user-friendly" automation, when manual control takes over at the end of the day?
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Thanks for sharing. It's a seemingly obvious solution that I had to resort to when I first tried Photo Story a couple of months ago when it was released.
Yeah, whoops ops: I should have mentioned this in my rant - this is the only solution at the moment.
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Actually, that's not true. Those of us that bought first-gen iPods (when 5GB was the only choice) were abandoned. Even though the hardware was exactly the same, Apple refused to add AAC and Windows support to that model.
Huh? You mean iPod Software 1.4 for the Scroll Wheel iPod doesn't work? IIRC, the Scroll Wheel iPod was 1G, the Touch Wheel was 2G, the complete touch was 3G, and the Click Wheel 4G. I could have sworn one of my colleagues had one and we updated it, but it was some time ago...
Mind you, you probably need a Mac box to do the initial update, as the original iPod was only supported on Macs, but I'd be surprised if no one developed a workaround...
Again, Microsoft used to do this: WMP 7 (or was it 7.1)? was released as a RAM download.
Actually, it was a free upgrade (build 0103) for the official, build 0096 WMP8.0 that came on the PPC2k2 upgrade CD's. The latter was never available as a free download at Microsoft, only the build 0103 upgrade, which was useless without installing the (mostly paid-for) WMP8 upgrade first.
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Tons of PPC slideshow viewers are capable of this. Just a quick list of the PPC slideshow'ers and the transition effects + special features they have off my forthcoming picviewer/editor roundup
ops: I should have mentioned this in my rant - this is the only solution at the moment.
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