Yesterday on Leon’s Blog, secretGeek, I noticed they had released v3.4 of TimeSnapper. One of the features that caught my eye was the ability to develop/add plugins to it. I love plugins, I’ve written plugins for Windows Live Writer, Outlook, dasBlog, and more. Everything should have an SDK or plugin’able architecture. I championed it at [...]
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Windows 7 and my Windows Mobile phone
February 26th, 2009
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After upgrading to Windows 7 on my laptop I found that I could no longer sync with my Sony Ericsson X1 (Windows Mobile 6.1) Phone. It didn’t even seem to be charging (over USB). Looking in the system Device Manager I found a missing driver for the ‘Generic RNDIS’ device. A bit of goggling uncovered [...]
Windows 7 Sticky Notes
February 26th, 2009
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I am loving the Sticky Notes app in Windows 7. The only issue I have with it is the dreadful font it uses – well my issue is not the font, it is the fact that you cannot change it to something more ‘normal’. I mean, I can easily change the font for Outlook Notes. [...]
On becoming the Geo Guy
January 21st, 2009
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Apparently I am rapidly becoming ‘Geo Guy’. I seem to be adding Geo / Gps support and plug-ins to everything I use… I just finished adding ‘Insert GPS Link’ support to PockeTwit (a great little Windows Mobile twitter client – really, go and get a copy now…) Previously I added GeoRSS support to dasBlog for [...]
Remote Control via Twitter
January 18th, 2009
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Twitter is one of those applications / services that I’ve had trouble getting to grips with. For me it seems it’s like shouting about what you are doing right now to a huge audience that is not listening. Who really cares that @kjhughes is heading to the shops to get some Mint sauce ?? Maybe [...]
Subclassing Windows in C#
January 16th, 2009
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I’ve been toying around with creating an Outlook addin recently that adds a new panel to the main Outlook inspector window. Actually it is going to be a ‘folding’ or ‘collapsing’ windows similar to the docked ToolWindows in Visual Studio. Anyway, the stuff around getting the correct window handle for the Outlook inspector window [...]
SMS Gateway follow up
January 9th, 2009
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I’ve had a lot of interest in my SMS Gateway app since this post. SMS gateway consist of two components : SMS Gateway AddinThis is an Outlook addin that adds a new toolbar to your Outlook instance. The toolbar allow the user to choose a mobile / cellphone number (from their contacts) and enter a [...]
Sending an SMS Message from Windows Mobile 6
October 6th, 2008
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Programmatically sending an SMS message from your Windows Mobile is fairly simple these days. You’ll need the WM6 SDK. Start a new Visual Studio ‘Smart Device Project’, add a reference to Microsoft.Windows.PocketOutlook, then use the following code…using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook;..and..public void Send(string to, string msg) { if ((to != string.Empty) && (msg != string.Empty)) { SmsMessage message [...]
MSCRM reports not working
September 25th, 2008
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A couple of problems I’ve come across at work with implementing MSCRM. These could be bugs, or may not be, who knows (I don’t have the time for a detailed analysis…) I have a MSCRM 4.0 multi tenant implementation – I ‘disabled’ the first (and default) tenant and suddenly all reports (for all tenants started [...]
Business of Software 2008
September 8th, 2008
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Last week I attended the ‘Business of Software 2008′ conference in Boston, MA. I cannot rave enough about this conference – the quality of the speakers, the content, the organization – everything, was fantastic.It was organized by Neil Davidson (CEO and Founder of Red-Gate Software) and Joel Spolsky (FogCreek and JoelOnSoftware). They did a fab [...]
