Remote Control via Twitter

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…

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Subclassing Windows in C#

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…

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Xbox 360 Networking

So before Christmas I bought an Xbox 360 (60GB HDD version). Reasoning was “it will be good for the kids hand eye coordination” which in reality was a thinly veiled “I want one and the kids might like it too” (as it turns out they don’t)… Anyway, one of the…

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SMS Gateway follow up

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…

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Have a prosperous 2009

In an effort to get my blogging back on track, and show some activity on my website, this is a quick post to wish everyone a prosperous 2009 !! I have a number of posts planned, including more details on the Outlook to Windows Mobile Gateway SMSing project, more details…

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