Addinistrator - Now Shipping

   For those who haven't noticed, my new applications are shipping with Addinistrator.

   The basic idea of Addinistrator is allowing users to have much better control over their Start menu and other entry points for Media Center applications. It lets you choose which two Start menus are visible, create your own start menus and edit the contents of existing ones, delete and shuffle programs around etc.

   It also interfaces with my existing products, EMUCenter and Yougle.

   If you have Yougle installed, Addinistrator allows you to add internet radio stations to the 'Radio' menu (Yougle is used to actually play the streams) without having to stuff around with MCL files. Just enter the name, URL and a thumbnail image and you are away.

   If you have EMUCenter installed, Addinistrator allows you to create Start and Program menu entries for non-Media Center applications (windows applications, emulators etc.). Simply choose 'Add Program' and you can launch Internet Explorer, your favourite games, MSN chat etc.

   Only the 'Work In Progress' builds currently have Addinistrator - if you feel like trying it out, give it a go.

   I'm thinking of making the program available to the development community as a whole. One other feature I'm thinking of adding is making it a replacement for 'RegisterMCEApp' - allowing you to register programs through Addinistrator. Why? The main reason is a simple one - I'd like to make Start menu creation and the sort order of your Start menu items part of the XML file format, to allow applications to register themselves without needing to make seperate x64 and x86 installers to make the required registry entries.

   There's also another upshot - users will be warned if they are about to lose a strip from their Start menu and Addinistrator will let them choose which strips they want to keep.

   If you would be interested in bundling Addinistrator, or tying your package in to offer more functionality, please let me know by posting a comment.