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Windows Mobile 6.5 on my Touch Diamond2

Just upgraded my phone to WM 6.5. So far so good. http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=249&act=sd&cat=2 Read More

posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:38 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Mobile

Shake and Save

I have been trying to figure out some use for the gyro sensors in Touch Diamond2. Here is one idea: Shake and Save. Some instructions/code for the gyro stuff: http://sensorapi.codeplex.com/ Read More

posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 4:38 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile

Live id gains ground and starts supporting OpenID. Windows 7 has some cool new features: Mount vhds natively and even boot the host from a mounted vhd Simultaneously joined to a domain (at work) and in a workgroup (at home) as well as easier home Read More

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:23 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, Mobile, Silverlight, PDC

Run .NET without installing .NET

Ok, finally you can run .NET code without installing the .NET framework! I am of course talking about Silverlight 2 which was released earlier today. Silverlight 2 can be considered as a cross-platform .NET Framework that allows you to develop applications Read More

posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:07 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile, Silverlight

Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview

Microsoft has a downloadable dev preview version of a software package that makes Windows Mobile 5/6 device a Windows SideShow device. Damn, somebody wise had decided that my laptop does not need a bluetooth interface! Link to download Read More

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:28 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Mobile

Microsoftin mobiilitilaisuus mobilistipaikassa

Kävin tänään piipahtamassa Microsoftin järjestämässä mobiiliaiheisessa tilaisuudessa autotalo Magneetissa. Kerrankin autoilijaystävällisesti valittu paikka! Parkkipaikkoja riitti (tosin pihan paikat olivat Read More

posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:41 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Finnish, Events, Mobile

Live Mesh

This seems like a good idea. However, so far the tech preview is not open to non-US citizens (I don't understand this kind of restrictions in the age of modern information society) and msmobiles.com had some doubts whether Microsoft really understands Read More

posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:39 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Technology, Mobile

I explain SMS Notifier on video!

A few weeks ago we shot a short video about SMS Notifier together with Waldo. In short, SMS Notifier is my hobby project that is a digital SMS answering machine for Windows Mobile devices. See the video here. Project homepage is here. Read More

posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:08 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Mobile

Silverlight in S60 devices

Nokia has announced at Cebit that it wil support Silverlight in its devices. The press release does not mention which version and precisely which devices, but maybe we'll know more at the MIX08 keynote tomorrow where it is supposed to be demoed. This Read More

posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:55 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Technology, Mobile

New versions of SMS Notifier available

I finally made some updates to my SMS Notifier app. The following new features were added: Windows Mobile 6 Standard (aka Smartphone) is now supported A bug introduced by Windows Mobile 6 that calendar appointments were a few hours off should now Read More

posted Friday, December 21, 2007 2:44 PM by aalialikoski | 10 Comments
Filed Under: Mobile

Compact framework on Symbian devices

redFIVElabs has a beta release available to selected testers here. I wonder if I should get a S60 device just for testing this? Read More

posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:50 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile

msmobiles.com - Release of .NET Compact Framework for Symbian imminent

Red Five Labs from South Africa is about to release .NET Compact Framework implementation for Symbian devices - no download yet but if you are visiting Symbian Smartphone Show in London you can get a preview at stand 55. http://www.redfivelabs.com/content/download.aspx Read More

posted Monday, October 15, 2007 3:14 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Mobile

Automatically adjust your phone ring volume

Chris Mitchell has written an interesting article in MSDN Magazine on automatically adjusting the ring volume on Pocket PC phone devices. Built on C# and compact framework. Read More

posted Friday, October 12, 2007 2:09 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile

SMS Notifier source code up at CodePlex

OK, now the source code is (again) up at CodePlex. Read More

posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:44 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile

SMS Notifier source missing

I was approached by a person named Marko, he was wondering where the source code for SMS Notifier is, since it seems not to be at Codeplex. I hope Marko reads this, since he did not leave any contact details in his message. I put the source at codeplex Read More

posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:28 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile

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