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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: sraymond on November 09, 2003, 04:50:35 pm

Title: OT: TrueLaunchBar
Post by: sraymond on November 09, 2003, 04:50:35 pm

Here's an interesting product...  http://www.truelaunchbar.com/plugins/winamp.html (http://www.truelaunchbar.com/plugins/winamp.html).

$20 is a bit steep, but I like the concept.

Scott-

Title: Re:OT: TrueLaunchBar
Post by: nila on November 09, 2003, 05:07:48 pm

In theory this can already be achieved with a little bit of work within MC.

• You create a set of task bar buttons set to control MC (I also have ones for rating the songs). - They give you: Play, Next, Previous, Stop, Pause (and whatever else you want).
• You install: Playing Now plugin from Rhino - that tells you the song info

From what I can see that's pretty much that replicated but for free and more configurable :)

Title: Re:OT: TrueLaunchBar
Post by: crowfan on November 09, 2003, 05:47:19 pm

I have the eval version of TrueLaunchBar.  It's *awesome*, but I think $20 is steep for it. I can't understand why this functionality isn't built into Windows. I would love to get rid of that stupid Office toolbar in the upper-right of my screen, and this product would free me, but I still think $20 is steep.

crow

Title: Re:OT: TrueLaunchBar
Post by: xen-uno on November 09, 2003, 10:52:31 pm

crow > I would love to get rid of that stupid Office toolbar ...

Get rid of it. Put your app shortcuts at the base level (right click on the Start button>Open All Users) in your Start menu as shown...

(http://home.revealed.net/xen/JanStart.jpg)

It works great for frequently used programs.

You can also add the office apps to the quick launch bar (right click on far right edge>Open Folder).

R_x