The Mobile Minute 79

No witty comments today (..as if) – just working away, trying to not have to shovel the driveway too much.. I think we’ve gotten something like 10” 12” of snow so far..(and lovely topping of ice last night).  

Oh, our new digicam showed up yesterday (Merry Christmas to us) – a Canon A95. Hits most of our requirements, easy enough for her to handle, and, most importantly, it fit the budget.  Kudos to Canon for making the connection cable USB – on both ends – but, I’ll probably just use my CF card reader and not futz around with the Canon software, doing any image editing in Paint.NET 2.0

Software / Hardware

• Microsoft Windows Journal Reader Supplemental Component  – Allows programmatic access to Journal file (as long as you can handle XML…) (via Tablet PC Talk News)
• Paul from MoDaCo gets hands on with an i-mate SP3i
• Pocket PC Thoughts has an interview with Valentin Iliescu – the developer behind the great .NET CF-based chess game

 Development

• Sarah blogs about the difficulty accessing individual video frames on HTC Cameras  She links to the .NET CF wrapper that Neil gave us in August for the HTC (SPV E200) camera.  (Thank you again, Neil!).  All you swell folks from HTC that are reading:  Open up the camera API please!!!
• Jim Wilson’s December You Can Take It With You article is up – Moving from the Desktop to Devices: Multithreading and the User Interface  (Some of you may be familiar with this topic from the .NET CF quickstart)
• Craig Neable is blogging.  Subscribed.  Read his post on eVB  (*shudder*twitch*twitch*)

Information / Services

• American Airlines Timetable WAP  & travelocity mobile (via Mobitopia)
• Mobile SeatGuru
• Saw a number of posts today reminding us about Google SMS

-Nino