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Hello with a few days to go until Christmas, I thought I would share with you a mashup tip using Umbraco to list my recently listened to tracks using the Last.FM service and then using jQuery I am able to do an AJAX call to get the album art image remotely.

Before I start I will show you the method that can achieve this result entirely using XSLT in Umbraco however this is a slow process and is alot quicker to use the jQuery method which I will show you afterwards.

XSLT solution
Below is the XSLT code for you to view how easy it is to create a mashup just using XSLT in Umbraco.

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I have neglected my code-snippet blog, so this evening I share with you another easy but effective jQuery demo.

This demo shows how to click smaller thumbnails to swap a larger fullsize image, this is ideal for product gallery on an e-commerce site, but there are many other uses as well.

Click here to view the jQuery image switcher demo
(View the source of the demo page to see how it works, with lots of comments to help you understand what is going on)