OK so I am on bit of a roll lately, after initially playing around with the last.fm api back in april and struggling to get my head around its quirky security and methods, I finally got some time this week to finish what I started and create an air application that links up to the users last.fm account and streams the music directly to their desktop. LPlayer enables you to search for an artist and play the radio station (similar artists) as well as being able to ban and love tracks. More functionality is planned in the future but for now I have so much more to get done.......! Anyway if you want to download the application feel free to get it here:

The applications does require that you have a last.fm account which you can do here. It then links up to your account to get authority to use it and then bingo - non stop tunes from any artist or similar that you can think of!!.

Well after two weeks of stringent beta testing from those who volunteered, to whom I am very grateful, and after a few tweeks and corrections, it is now time to release my first AIR application to the public. So I have recently published the application to the Adobe marketplace. The application is pretty simple as I mentioned in my previous post. I do have plans for the future to continue developing the interface and adding functions as and when I or any one else who suggests them feels that they are needed.
The application has gone through a few name changes over the last couple of weeks from airBooks before (had to change this as Adobe do not like the 'air' reference, to ultraBooks (found out it was an extension for Quickbooks) to what it is now 'uBooks'. The application has worked well for me in the past in billing and keeping track of payments and of timed projects so I can only hope that other people will find it useful also. So if you want to download it you can go straight to the Adobe AIR marketplace by clicking the image above or you can go to the download webpage I have created here. Again if anyone finds any problems or bugs please do contact me here.