VibrantPlayer – an open source MP3 Player!
In 2008 I created a Java Swing-based MP3 player which I called "VibrantPlayer". My intention was to create a beautiful looking media player which could be styled through custom themes, extended via downloadable plugins and which should offer the possibility to edit the ID3 meta data of MP3 songs.
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Applications often look sterile and lifeless. Adding a background image is a simple yet effective way to fight boring and dull interfaces.
read moreYes, no or maybe?
You sometimes run into situations where a simple true or false boolean value simply isn't enough and you are looking for three possible states: yes, no or maybe. This tiny tutorial shows you how to achieve this in two ways: the traditional way in a good software design manner or the short and tricky way.
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My name is Manuel Schwarz. I work as a Security Engineer in Zurich, Switzerland. This is my private blog where I write about programming for the android platform and Java in general.

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