If you have a PC, or Media Center PC at home which has music, photo’s, or video how do you get access to this content while you’re out on the road ? – perhaps give Orb a try. <from the Orb site>Orb gives you secure access to the digital media on...

Want to run an RDP client or VNC client on your Pocket PC – here’s two options… From PocketPCThoughts.com – VNC Viewer.NET (a completely managed VNC viewer) or use Nyditot software to set screen resolution and orientation and run the H/PC Pro RDP client...

If you’re interested in creating themes for your Pocket PC device then you should check out ThemeMaker McDeb by KAMWare – the tool supports landscape orientation, and up to VGA resolution. – Mike

Microsoft is going to have a booth at this years Embedded Systems Conference (ESC West) – the event is running March 6–10 2005 San Francisco, Moscone Convention Center. So, I’m thinking it would be good to have a geek meet sometime during...

Jack W. Crenshaw has written an article for Embedded.com which is titled “ Time to re-evaluate Windows CE? ” – Jack looks at a specific API, GetTickCount( ); which returns an unsigned int, this value is incremented every millisecond. The unsigned int...

John Eldridge has started blogging, John has been working in the Windows CE team since 1995, mostly at the lower levels of the operating system, kernel, drivers, bootloaders etc… John is going to be talking about debugging Windows CE operating system...

I’ve just received the latest newsletter from ThinkGeek – looks like they are getting ready for geeky valentines… There are some cool items on the site including binary clocks, LED watches (remember those ?) – Mike

I had meetings today in building 122, all of the external parking spaces were taken (there were a couple of visitor parking spaces free, but it wouldn’t be right to snag one of those) – so I parked in the parking garage across the road from the building...

In today’s Windows CE 5.0 online chat (which was pretty busy from start to finish) one of the questions that came up was whether Windows CE supports the ability to call managed code from native code (kinda like a reverse P/Invoke). There is limited...

In case you missed the near silent roll out of ActiveSync 3.8, here’s the details and download locations… Microsoft ActiveSync 3.8 is the latest synchronization software for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones. ActiveSync 3.8 contains...

MEDC 2005 Call For Papers Microsoft MEDC 2005 ( Mobile and Embedded DevCon 2005) organizers invite you to submit proposals to speak at MEDC in our conference breakout sessions. MEDC is one of Microsoft’s most important annual technical training events...

Windows CE 5.0 and Windows XP Embedded SP2 ship with a ton of online documentation, but, do the products ship with the *right* documentation, or enough documentation for you to build and deploy the operating system images you need for your device ? If...

Hey, don’t forget that tomorrow, January 26th we have a Windows CE 5.0 online chat. January 26, 2005 – 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Pacific time – Go here to enter the chat room. We have regular Windows CE 5.0 and Windows XP Embedded SP2 online...

Windows CE 5.0 Live Chat! January 26, 2005 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. Pacific time Additional Time Zones Do you have tough technical questions regarding Windows CE 5.0 for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented...

The Windows Embedded Student ChallengE has close to 100 teams signed up, interestingly there are not many European teams at this point – what’s up with that ??? The deadline for signing up a team is extended to Feb 6th 2005 – So, come...

Hey, excellent news, the Windows CE 5.0 video tutotials are now available for download – when you download the files, run the installer (or open the .ZIP and extract the .WMV files directly) – if you go for the .MSI install process then you...

Jim Y Wilson is working on Project Socrates , this is a project that uses Windows CE to teach embedded system development, it looks like the content is designed for students but would also be useful for anyone getting started with Windows CE development...

Check out the new Windows CE 5.0 articles covering platform development, device driver development and testing, and application development. How to Create, Customize, and Debug an Image for the Windows CE 5.0 Emulator Article Summary: This article provides...

The Windows Embedded ChallengE is back on (note the extremely clever capitalization of “C” and “E” in ChallengE), this time the competition is open to students across the world to enter teams – The competition challenges...

I received a TON of feedback from my recent post Linux in Embedded Systems - The Windows side of the story. this looked at Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded and how they compared with Linux (thanks everyone for your comments!) – a number of the comments...

This from Engadget – Teddy the Bear has MAC OS-X running on his Pocket PC I’ve seen two versions of this article, the one from Engadget , and one from Wired – To access the Mac, Teddy installed a Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, client...

Are you concerned about interoperability between Microsoft and other products ? The month long webcasts will be focusing on interoperability – why it matters to the business, common strategies and methods, and guidance on specific implementation...

The combined Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) is coming up in May – are there any specific topics you would want to see covered at this years event ? content topics could cover: Windows XP Embedded SP2 Windows CE 5.0 Native Application...

Version 2.0 of the Mobile Application Development Toolkit is now available for download. Overview The Mobile Application Development Toolkit provides all the resources you need to start building mobile applications for Smartphone and Pocket PC devices...

The Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2005 (MEDC) is coming to a Las Vegas near you, MEDC 2005 will be held at the Mandalay Bay , Las Vegas 9 th thru 12 th May 2005 – SAVE THE DATES !!! What to expect at this years event…...