{"id":172,"date":"2004-11-10T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=172"},"modified":"2004-11-10T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T20:31:44","slug":"control-your-media-player-via-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2004\/11\/10\/control-your-media-player-via-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Your Media Player Via Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;ll they come up with next? For all the focus on what a great product Firefox is &#8211; and make no mistake, it is terrific &#8211; the real differentiator for me is the community effort to extend its functionality into fascinating new areas. Besides blurring the line between thin and thick clients, they allow for a far richer user experience.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s example? <a href=\"https:\/\/update.mozilla.org\/extensions\/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&amp;id=219\">FoxyTunes<\/a>, which permits one to control iTunes, Windows Media Player, WinAmp and a variety of other media players via a status bar control in Firefox. I&#8217;m using it on my Windows box with iTunes, and it works like a champ. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the community aspects, however, I think it&#8217;d be great for Eclipse to explore this functionality as well. Devs controlling their music player of choice from within the IDE shell? Cool, cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;ll they come up with next? For all the focus on what a great product Firefox is &#8211; and make no mistake, it is terrific &#8211; the real differentiator for me is the community effort to extend its functionality into fascinating new areas. Besides blurring the line between thin and thick clients, they allow for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}