The Mobile Minute 142

Software / Hardware 

• NewsGator Mobile is now in public beta. Check it out.  Thanks to Neil Cowburn for the link.
• Jason Fuller of the Windows Mobile team gives us some guidelines for setting up GPS on WM5

 Development

• SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition is now in CTP (via Steve Lasker)  and from the SQL Server Everywhere blog.  Download here. BOL is here.  Here’s one piece of the functionality that I love: “Full support for all of the Sql Mobile features, including the SqlCeResultSet and RDA”. Sweet.
• P&P’s Mobile Client Software Factory (MCSF) is has reached CTP stage.
• Alex Yahknin shares how to make a .NET CF label control transparent.  …and how to use MSXML2 in .NET CF 2.0
• John Kennedy tells us about Adapt Your App – a collection of items to help you make sure that your app adapts to the latest screen resolutions and orientations.  Here’s a list (nicely organized by OS and resolution) of emulator images for Device Emulator 1.0  Speaking of.. here is a Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 that contains WM5.0 images with MSFP
• Also from John Kennedy is a link to the MobileDeveloper wiki that gives us some guidelines for writing Ajax apps targeted to Windows Mobile devices.   
• Check out the Windows Mobile Starter Kits   And don’t forget to check out the eHow-Tos – see John Kennedy and Jenny Kays (they’re swell!) and other folks and learn a thing or two!
• Neil Cowburn welcomes us to the new OpenNETCF
• Peter Foot tells us how to disable the touch screen

In Other News . . .

• … Since I last blogged, Scoble has left Microsoft. Good Grief!