My first Wordpress Plugin

Hey guys! I wanted to let everyone know about a new project I am working on. I just began coding my very first Wordpress Plugin/Widget.

Sure it's going to be hard, sure it's going to be a "trial and error" game, but it's going to be a great learning experience and hopefully very useful tool.

The widget will be a sidebar version of my new favorite open source web app, OpenTape. See mine in action here. It will allow you to listen to your mixtape right on your sidebar.

OpenTape provides a sleek/simple/friendly way of sharing your mixtape with the world. You can load OpenTape up with as many songs as you want and send your friends a link to listen. OpenTape is hosted on your personal server so you have full control of your mixtape.

Check back soon for more updates on my progress. If you have any feature request please contact me at michael@michaelwschultz.com or leave a comment below.

The Giving Tree

The elves over at MacHeist have done it again. More FREE Apple software. They started with free Mac apps, now iPhone apps as well. Head over to The Giving Tree and check out all the goodies that are available. You can watch iPhone apps "grow" on the tree and once they are big enough, they will begin to wiggle, just like they do on your iPhone! Once they start wiggling, click on them and you will be entered into a drawing for a full version of that app for free. You have to click quick, they only wiggle for about 4-5 seconds. You will be notified wether you won within a few seconds.

All the fun started last night at midnight, so I'm guessing this is a Christmas Eve event, but what a fun one it is. Keep me posted if you win any apps. I won Mr. Sudoku (App Store link) last night on my third try!

Tangram Puzzle Pro

Brought to you by the folks at The Embassy Interactive, Tangram Puzzle Pro (App Store Link) is an interactive puzzle game with intuitive controls and tons of puzzles and I mean, TONS! The newest update brings the total number of puzzles to 420!

A free version of the app, Tangram Puzzle Pro Lite (App Store Link) is also available with 6 puzzles that you can try and get a feel for the game.

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If you like Tangram Puzzle Pro, leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I hope to be reviewing more iPhone apps soon so stay tuned and grab my rss feed.

New Rolando Trailer!

Rolando - Launching December 18th for iPhone and iPod touch from ngmoco:) on Vimeo.

Rolando is by far my most anticipated iPhone games to date. It has been in the works since the AppStore was created but has yet to see the light of day. I think the developers really took their time to make sure the game is fluid and polished. Rumors are that the game will see for $9.99 when it is released tomorrow Thursday, December 18.

Meet my Live friends

I have been an Xbox Live user since it's launch in 2002. Since then I have made new friends and teamed up with old ones to defeat the hoards of enemies that we all face. In all honesty, not everyone on Live is a joy to play with so I wanted to highlight some of my friends so that you too can find some fun people to game with. Enjoy. For updates on my friends list, visit my about page from time to time.

Click each thumbnail to see a full body avatar.

iDigg (me)

I Love Ski

Bop Kidder

xFortitudex

aga1nstALL0dds

Optimus Konvict

xINSANExduffman

CAPN Amazin

schruteforhire