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May 2005 - Posts

Man, it is HOT up here!

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 Weatherbug, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 8:35 PM by pbernard | 2 Comments

Using a Windows Mobile Smartphone as a modem

Some good info, especially with unlimited data plans - this was found over at Smartphonethoughts. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:14 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Upgrading your device to Windows Mobile 5.0

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 . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:39 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Mobile Device Emulator 1.0 Community Preview - free download

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 a big Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:13 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Marshmallows

I'm a bit tapped for content today, so here's how to make your own marshmallows . Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:01 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Windows Mobile 5.0 Platform Migration FAQ updated

A new, substantial update is here . Read More...
Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 3:14 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Palm OS apps on your Windows Mobile device

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) Read More...
Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 1:35 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Developers Developers Developers Developers - ring tone

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 of that Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:47 AM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Take me out to the digital ballgame

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 a WiFi Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:40 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Embedded Idol

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 were Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:01 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

BillG promo for MEDC podcasts

He said "podcast". . . . There's about 500Mb more of video from MEDC here , courtesy of Mike Hall & Co. Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:50 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Hey let's be careful out there

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 a battery Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:41 PM by pbernard | 19 Comments

MEDC show floor

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 the scanner Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:31 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Windows Mobile 5.0 dev kits

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:34 AM by pbernard | 0 Comments

World premiere of The Coderoom at MEDC

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:15 AM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Mike pulls the plug

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:55 AM by pbernard | 0 Comments

In the MEDC keynote

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 talking Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:20 AM by pbernard | 0 Comments

Embedding Microsoft Windows in your car - the hard way

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 make it Read More...
Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 6:04 PM by pbernard | 2 Comments

MEDC pre-con - Beanbags, SumoBot, and Star Wars

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 5:52 PM by pbernard | 4 Comments

More on Skookum

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 Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:53 AM by pbernard | 1 Comments

Getting MEDC blogcasts onto your Smartphone

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:39 AM by pbernard | 29 Comments

World's Smallest Windows Mobile-based Smartphone Now Available Through Cingular

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 named Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:13 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments
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Pre-MEDC blogcasts

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 more Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:53 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments

New MEDC 2005 t-shirt

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 news, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 5:42 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments
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Engadget interview with BillG

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 5:38 PM by pbernard | 0 Comments
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