The Apple iTouch media player. or more properly called the iPod touch, was recently released.
perhaps it can also be called the iPhone without the phone.
Some of the features include:
multi-touch interface
3.5 inch widescreen display
wi-fi web browsing
Available with an 8Gb (or 16Gb) flash drive and can store up to 1750 songs (3500), 10,000 (20,000) iPod viewable photos or 10 (20) hours of video.
The re-chargeable battery will support up to 22 hours of music playback or up to 5 hours of video playback.
Prices in the UK are £199 for the 8Gb version or £269 for the 16Gb and are scheduled to be available for shipping from the 28 September. (Prices in the US are $299 and $399 respectively).
A session at the recent MixUK by Rob Blackwell, Una Walsh and Jonathan Greensted discussed various examples of what you can do with Windows Live Services.
These include the Contoso University and the Contoso Bicycle Club.
The sites themselves (which require you to install Silverlight) can be seen at
Michael Foord (known about the Python community as Fuzzyman) presented a session on Python in your Browser with Silverlight at the recent MIX:UK. His blog is available at
Although I find it easier to view as a “normal” html page. This can be switched to from the slide version by selecting the 0 (zero) option from the bottom of the page (move your mouse to the bottom of the page and wait a few seconds for the options to appear).
IronPython is a Python compiler originally created by Jim Hugunin which runs on .NET and is now supported and developed by Microsoft.
To experiment with using IronPython in conjunction with Silverlight you can use the IronPython Web IDE sample created by Foord at
I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Silverlight for a few months now and have just returned from the MIX:UK conference held in London Sep 11-12 to a “sell-out” crowd of 500. This is a Microsoft sponsored event where people get the opportunity to learn more about new and forthcoming technologies.
I found the talks by Scott Guthrie of particular interest which helped to consolidate my understanding of the Silverlight technology
He gave a number of talks at the conference, and makes the slides freely available. The slides can be obtained directly from Scotts Blog or from the following links
The Ajax View proxy provides the ability for remotely monitoring client-side wep application performance and behaviour.
This is currently an early research prototype available from Microsoft Research.
The Ajax View project at Microsoft Research aims to give developers easy visibility into their web apps’ performance and behavior as the apps run in end-users’ browsers. Ajax View uses a server-side proxy to rewrite JavaScript “on-the-fly” and automatically inject instrumentation code into a web application. This instrumentation provides end-to-end visibility into app performance, behavior and critical state. “On-the-fly” rewriting allows Ajax View to serve different instrumentation across users and over time, capturing more detail about app behavior while minimizing per-user performance overhead.
A web debugging proxy which is used to log traffic between an application and the internet. It allows you to “fiddle” with the in-coming and out-going data.
Available for Internet Explorer and Firefox amongst other applications.
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