Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression.
Reuters - The United States faced increasing
inflationary pressures in recent weeks amid slowing economic
growth, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, as it described
conditions in some areas as "grim," "morose" or "bleak."
Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday as financial
shares climbed on optimism about a rescue plan for mortgage
finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as the price
of oil fell.
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Chipmunk AV Controller is a .NET application capable of controlling audio visual equipment, home cinemas and performing general automation tasks.
Chipmunk enables the easy creation of macros and commands to control devices via plugins. Chipmunk can also receive incoming events from equipment. Chipmunk incorporates a Lua scripting engine which has been integrated with Microsoft's .NET Framework, enabling users to interact with and extend core functionality.
A simple plugin API & SDK makes it easy for .NET developers to create their own plugins using any .NET language such as VB.NET or C#.
This new release targets the latest Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework and comes with an improved user interface, logging manager, and three new plugins. The new logging manager means that Chipmunk can now log incoming events, outgoing commands, and system status messages.
The Plugin SDK has been simplified making plugin development even easier.
Chipmunk now comes with ten plugins pre-installed:
RS232 Serial Plugin - for bidrectional serial communication
USB-UIRT & RedRat3 Infrared Plugins - for receiving, transmitting and learning IR commands
Global Cache GC-100 Plugin - for RS232, IR, Relay, and digital sensor input control
Web Server Plugin - for controlling Chipmunk from a web browser. Supports Lua Server Pages.
Time Scheduler - for periodic, daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling of events
Remote Control Server - for running software remote controls over wireless networks
X10 CM17A Firecracker Plugin - for sending on/off/dim/brighten commands via X-10
On Screen Display Plugin - for displaying HTML or plain text messages
Chipmunk also comes with a drag-and-drop remote control designer, universal software remote control for the Desktop and Pocket PC, and sample plugin source code for developers.
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