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What's cool on my device

February 28th, 2008

Here is a list of my favorite apps on my WinMo phone. Thought it would be useful and was sparked off from what Jason Langridge said about Communicator (as in OCS) being the first thing he always loads.

PointUI - I love this, it totally takes over the device and makes it very finger friendly.
TCMP – I don’t use CorePlayer, mainly because I’m tight, but this works perfectly.
HTC Audio Manager – Much friendlier on the fingers than MediaPlayer
TomTom 6 – I’ve tried other stuff but this is my current favorite SatNav
CMP - Comm manager pro, this does location based profile switching – I bought it
S2u2 – Really nice locker app
moBlog – Great application for blogging on the go!
FTouchFlo – TouchFlo for devices like mine that don’t have it.

I’ve also installed countless little fixes from my two favorite and probably the best WinMo sites, www.modaco.com and www.xda-developers.com

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Last night at the MMMUG

February 28th, 2008

Last night I popped along to an MMMUG, mainly to be honest to hear Jason Langridge talk about Windows Mobile and managing it using System Center Mobile Device Manager. I have to say this product looks like a cool way to manage your fleet.

It sits in your enterprise along side Exchange (it’s not a replacement and works independently) and allows you to totally manage your WinMo estate. You’ll need the next version of WinMo to use this product. But it’s pretty advanced, and lets you run a mobile VPN which is totally cool for allowing access to your internal servers from your mobile devices. You could allow access to your SharePoints (use “/m” at the end of the URL for a mobile friendly site in MOSS2007) and equally cool stuff.

Got me thinking, might have a Geek Out and setup a Mobile VPN using the gear Paul at MoDaCO suggested before, it was called Hamachi!

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Living with myTV

February 26th, 2008

It’s been a few days now since I got myTV working fully on my MediaCenter rig. Got to say I’m loving the experience!

myTV has made me reorg my filling system and it now works a bit like a dream. When I want to watch some archived TV I can browse right through to it…and it looks cool.

I’m actually going to spend money on this!

One thing I’d like to see is better updating of the database…Izd like to be able to tell it to refresh, rather than having to wait a couple of hours

I rate this one high EVERY MEDIA CENTER NEEDS THIS, now just need something in MCML to deal with films better, actually just like myTV but for films (not DvDs). This is as essentia, and almost as slick, as Webguide.

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

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Posted in Media Center, Technology

Media Center in the kitchen and DiNovo Mini

February 23rd, 2008

Over on10 Steven Lindsay as done something I’d really love to do at some point, if I’m allowed, and has installed a Media Center into his kitchen. Looks cool too, here’s the link:

The Media Center show interview & Media Center in the kitchen!?

I think this device would complement it really well (if it were a full Media Center, not an extender).

This little baby is the new DiNovo mini from Logitch and it has to be the greatest little keyboard I’ve ever seen. It would look super cool in the kitchen!

It’s Bluetooth and back light changes depending on what it’s doing, green for media, orange for normal keyboard. It’s got a Green orb, and it’s palm sized!

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Posted in Cool geek stuff, Media Center, Technology

QR Codes and beyond

February 19th, 2008

One of those interesting things that I got into about a year ago was QR codes. Interesting but not much use for them at the time. Well it looks like they’re use is set to increase in the UK soon. Microsoft have been playing about with the technology in a live beta and it’s kind of got me thinking. “What could they be used for?” so I’m going to start musing on the idea and see what useful things I can come up with. For now I’ve used it here to represent a link to this site.

I generated this here: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/.

What I think is going to be really cool is the evolution of the MSR Lincoln project, you take a picture of an object and it tells you about the object…endless possibilities there.

Si

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myTV

February 19th, 2008

Over the weekend I downloaded and installed the excellent myTV for media center. It’s written in mcml and is the best non Microsoft Vista Media Center app I’ve seen. I dont’ have access to the link at the moment to check my delicious links for a link to the app.

I’ve updated the filing of all my shows, something I needed to do anyway, and wow…I can actually navigate to stuff so easily now!

Loving this…just need a better way to view films that aren’t DVD!

Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

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Checking out Amazon associates insert from LiveWriter

February 13th, 2008

This is one of my favourite books. It’s a very friendly management piece that takes you on journeys. My all time best management book.

The Naked Leader

ISBN: 0553815652
ISBN-13: 9780553815658

hiojioj

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Power Monitoring

February 13th, 2008

This looks like a really interesting new system that I’d really love to get into.

The Greener Grass: Concept – Current State

This is an automation system that does remote control of sockets, but the killer feature is that it also monitors and reports the power consumption of those units! I’d love to be able to do that, it’s one of those things I’m starting to get interested in, how to make my tech more green.

For me making changes means understanding the current situation, to do that I’d need to measure my power output.

Also today I watched this video from MS Technet Edge about working out how much power your kit uses. They use a great little bit of tech to do their monitoring…I wonder how much I could get my consumption down to?….I wonder what my consumption is?

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Posted in Home automation, Mobile

WeFi 2

February 13th, 2008

Well its installed on my device and its immediatley picked up a free mapped hotspot on my street. Somehow I doubt thats a real one. My guess is that it works off of the name of the spot and its been insatlled with the default name.

I’ll try this properly tomorrow…with a real free public hotspot very near my house.

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Posted in Mobile, Windows Mobile