Fiat is the first car company which uses and implement Windows mobile. The car realy have a usb port! And a Windows Start Icon key(picture left). Seems that i have to buy a new car (gadget freak) ;-)  

this is more or less a test posting the UI have changed completley and i want to figure out how, what and why took some while and email support to figure out how this works. Done some ugly trick to get the tags in my [Select Tag] list posted all of the tags, which i copied from the start page .NET,.net development,.NET General,.Net ...

If you don't know about GmailSync, please read this post first. What's New: a) Files > 10 MB:GMailSync now support files > 10 MB. It splits these files into chunks of specified size and then upload them individually. The file chunks can be later merged by running GmailSync with the argument ''merge'' from the command line or simply ...

Later this year, SysInternals/WinInternals founder Mark Russinovich and David Solomon are offering a top-notch class on troubleshooting that covers current OS versions as well as upcoming changes to the OS in Vista (next Windows version) http://www.sysinternals.com/Troubleshooting.html This class appears to be similar to the PDC05 precon session ...

Found it through digg ''MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help ...

Web Applications:   Disaster Management System: (Gain: Mapping, Database, Payment Gateway integration, Web Services) - A web based application integrating Google Maps or Virtual Earth to show the locations. - Integration with Relief Organizations for tracking / distributing donation in affected areas. - Payment system to accept donations to ...

This article hit WAY too close to home for me: Too many CIOs cut enterprise software deals that look fabulous to the CEO and CFO but commit the people who do the real work to a nightmare of unrealistic expectations.[http://www.cio.com/archive/091505/schrage.html] I have lived through several such projects in my career.  In most cases, if you ...

Technically, I moved this blog to Slashstar almost a year ago (April 14, 2004), but I've been cross-posting all of my content to both locations. Well, last week I upgraded Slashstar to Community Server - which among other things means that, at least in the short term, new content will no longer be syndicated. (I may eventually upgrade that provider

While we're at it, lets bring back Cobol and Pascal!  Why not!?! Continual movement is the way of the tech industry.  Out with the old, in with the new.  You must keep up, not begging for the old technologies to be around past their time. (Note: I know Cobol isn't dead, but the people who use it are getting older/fewer and the job ...

I have got my share of  freebies...Order these for free[It may be possible that this offer is only for UK residents]

One day, after I was completely frustrated searching for a book on Microsoft Smartphone Programming in which I can find advanced topics, I decided to take it upon me to write such book. So, a couple of days after those inspired thoughts, I have the book in words on OneNote.   NOTE: Please don't believe the above story and visit this link for ...

Inpired by Mike's list, I put on things on my USB on a separate page here.What's on your USB Stick?

A long time ago, I started working on an Outlook plugin to allow you to synchronize your appointments, contacts, and tasks with a web service to allow you to maintain the same data across multiple Outlook instances without the use of Exchange.  I've mentioned many times about releasing some source code, but finally I'm getting around to ...

mszCool posts about some great log parsing tools for IIS 6. That's exactly what I've been wanting for so long! I remember back in the day when I had Apache dumping my access log into mysql with a little log handler I hacked up. Was nice to do dynamic queries on activity, amount transfered between certain times, or traffic based on IP or path. ...

Our community website www.devmobile.net is up and running for a week. On this website, you'll find interesting news, resources, event notifications and several articles covering mobile computing and other areas of interests. We would be very glad if you sign up with the community and show the support by contributing anything that you come across ...

[This isn't strictly about Smartphone, but it is illustrative of how far Windows is spreading from its desktop roots. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), vendors displayed 72 different devices that were built around Windows Mobile, Windows CE, or Windows XP Embedded. Windows for Devices has collected information about all 72 and ...

This SlashDot article ''Parens on Patents'' really struck a chord with me, and brought back alot of anger I have repressed for some time.  (yes, I am seeking professional help now  :p ) Basically, it discusses the fad of patenting software or its various features, and the subsequent stifling affect it has upon development. Many of ...

With Christmas around the corner, my family has been pestering me with the question, “What do you want for Christmas?”  For a while, I've been wanting to build up my technical book shelf, since it is kind of small.  I'm mainly looking for books into networking and databasing (or XML, basically application data storage).  ...