When I moved up here in April everyone kept telling me how cool and rainy it was, and in fact it has been . . . pretty cool and rainy. That all changed this week when we reached a high of 93 F - criminy! How do I know the high was 93? I use...

Some good info, especially with unlimited data plans - this was found over at Smartphonethoughts.

I'm sure that current owners of Windows Mobile based devices are itching to get a Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade. Clinton Finch is maintaining a list of devices that have announced upgrade plans. Check it out .

Ahh - I knew there was something else to talk about today other than marshmallows . The Windows Mobile Deviuce Emulator 1.0 Community Preview (why does Micorosft have such long names for everything?) is now available for download here . This is...

I'm a bit tapped for content today, so here's how to make your own marshmallows .

A new, substantial update is here .

Since the PalmSource devcon is underway I thought this might be a relevant item: " StyleTap ™ Platform is fast, compact and comes with everything you need to run most of the thousands of third-party applications written for Palm OS® 5.2 (and earlier...

I was at a meeting here recently and they kicked it off with a good remix of Steve Ballmer's infamous "developers" video. My favorite remix version is here (9MB AVI). Coming off of MEDC I thought it would be appropriate to create a ring tone off...

I am still in the process of relocating up to Redmond from the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the things I will miss is SBC Park. Other than Fenway in the summer, there is no finer baseball experience. A couple of years ago SBC park installed...

Perhaps without the level of glitz as the series on FOX, but nonetheless a dramatic milestone was reached late last week in Microsoft Windows ChallengE. This is a world wide contest to find the #1 embedded developer team in academia. This year there...

He said "podcast". . . . There's about 500Mb more of video from MEDC here , courtesy of Mike Hall & Co.

After the giddy excitement of MEDC last week I thought I would reiterate these recently issued words of caution from the Consumer Product Safety Commsion and the CTIA: Do not use incompatible cell-phone batteries and chargers; Do not permit...

The show floor here at MEDC is humming - 33 exhibitors, 15 sponsors, plus the Sumobot competition, and the beanbags (mentioned earlier). The Symbol booth is quite impressive - their MC50 device has a scanner and camera. The camera is actually...

A double-shot of DVDs welcomed attendees of BillG's keynote yesterday morning. The DVDs contain eveything you need to get started developing Windows Mobile 5.0 apps, including a copy of Visual Studio 2005 beta2, the Windows Mobile SDK (with all of the...

There was big crowd last night for the premiere of the new episode of the Coderoom, complete with red carpet and free popcon and twizzlers . The Coderoom is a "reallty TV" series about a team of developers that are thrown together to take on a difficult...

Mike Hall just finished showing the audience how to build a great XPe based kiosk to send a Halo2 customization to an HTC Universal using OTA. He yanked out the kiosk power plug on stage to show how HORM (hibernate once resume many) works. After plugging...

I'm in Bill's keynote now - probably about 2000+ here. with virtually all of the seats filled and folks along ining up at the back wall. People started lining up at 8am this morning - reminded me of the lines at Disneyland. OK. Ford Davidson is now...

This enterprising developer shows a step-by-step process, including a detailed BOM, for adding a full Windows 2000 based PC into your dashboard: http://www.aydiosmio.net/index.php?/archives/7-Malibu-Car-PC.html Personally I'd go all the way and...

I arrived in Las Vegas earlier today for MEDC. The Mandalay Bay facilities seem to go on forever and I already see a significant community of developers about - attending pre-con sessions, readying their booths at the expo (thirty-three exhibitors), and...

Apparently the Skookum CAB works just as well on Pocket PCs - pretty convenient and only $9! (bought mine at Handango) It also seems to be very "forward compatible", if you catch my drift. More about that next week. As for me, I am on a BART train...

In prep for MEDC I downloaded Skookum . This is a neat app for your Smartphone that enables you to subscribe to various audio/video feeds and listen or view them whenever. Once you install it you need to add the appropriate "feeds", which are typically...

From the release today: The Audiovox SMT 5600, a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handset, has proven to be a favorite with users and has received numerous accolades from the industry, winning both critical acclaim and industry awards. PC Magazine...

Gearing up for MEDC, Mike Hall has published two pre-MEDC blogcasts: James Pratt, Product Manager and MEDC guru here discussing (very briefly) managed application development - mp3 Robert Levy, Program Manager for Windows Mobile, discussing much...

I received my new MEDC 2005 t-shirt today in prep for next week's show. I'm not at liberty to reveal much about the shirt itself but let me just say . . . "wow." But seriously, it looks like it will be a great show for the community with plenty of...

Interesting interview with Bill Gates by the folks over at Engadget - they caught up with him at WinHEC recently. As he said - "The phone is sort of trumps everything. It trumps media players, it trumps cameras, it trumps GPS-mapping devices, digital...