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The slimSEARCH plug-in for slimKEYS is a beast sometimes difficult to maintain. The number of web sites you can search into evolves with time. Within a slimSEARCH hotkey configuration, you can add predefined search entries using the green plus sign without...
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It’s clear to me now. Blogs are for tweets that can’t fit into 140 chars. Often do I find myself with a nice idea that can fit into 140 chars, but that would also benefit to be exposed in greater terms on my blog. But the ease and quickness of posting...
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It’s been almost 3 months that the Windows Marketplace for Mobile is available for Windows Mobile 6.5 users, and more than a month for 6.0 and 6.1 users. We’re now in 2010, and I thought it was a good time to update my download/purchase stats. Here are...
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I’m currently testing a Windows Mobile application. I’m doing final tests directly on my real devices. I had my HTC Touch Pro2 phone hooked via USB, and the tests went perfectly. Then, I unplugged it and plugged my old HTC P4000 to make tests on an older...
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In the iPhone world, it is not rare to see developers share their numbers with the rest of the community. I decided to do the same with the Windows Mobile Marketplace , after its first two weeks. I submitted three applications to the Marketplace, two...
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It could have been the very poor download numbers I’m getting for my three apps on the Windows Mobile Marketplace . It could have been the total confusion I’m seeing within Microsoft about overlapping projects (FolderShare vs SkyDrive vs Live Mesh vs...
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I don’t have any answer for all the data I’m about to write here, but I thought it would be interesting to share with you the results of my performance tests using Bitmap objects under the .NET Compact Framework. My Windows Mobile applications use a custom-made...
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My friend Odi and I were “chattwitting” about a possible Apple Netbook or Tablet PC, and we didn’t have the same vision about what that computer would look like. I could not imagine there was a big enough market for a Tablet-only computer for the market-savvy...
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I promised it a very long time ago. It was asked recently. That gave me the kick I needed to finally open the doors to the slimLAUNCH.Passwords extension, so everybody can check the sensitive code it’s made of, in case I’ve goofed somewhere. The sources...
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Brant, a fellow developer and slimKEYS user was asking me how slimKEYS was auto-updating itself. I thought this would make a good blog post, so here is my answer, Brant! The installer Because I’m exposing a plug-in interface (and I’m too lazy trying to...
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I have a few VS.NET 2008 projects that share usage of libraries I made for Windows Mobile. I used to include the libraries’ projects directly into each solution, but this is leading me to rebuilding those libraries each time, even if the sources do not...
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In case you haven't heard yet , slimKEYS is now free to use. Totally free. No catch, No ads, no malware, nothing. Why would someone earning money from a product decide to make it suddenly free? Because I never made any money with slimKEYS. Now, you're...
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A new version of slimKEYS was released yesterday . The main two new features involve slimSIZE and slimVOLUME, in somewhat related features. New with version 1.4.9255, you can tell a slimSIZE hotkey to grow or shrink a window, instead of only forcing a...
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I'm an HTC P4000 owner, and I really like having a phone with a sliding keyboard. I had my eyes on the new HTC Touch Pro for a couple weeks now, but I just noticed (via @wmdev ) that HTC released a second generation Touch Pro, called Touch Pro2 (what...
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Like many others , I was getting an error code 29506 when trying to install SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 on my Vista x64 machine. Searching for a fix kept sending me to posts talking about running the MSI as administrator from the beginning,...
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I got this by email yesterday. It was too good to leave as an email... And I'm against an email chains, so better start a Twitter chain! ;) And...
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There's a new slimKEYS release around town, version 1.3.9063. Why the "3" in "1.3"? Simply because there was a minor change in the plug-in programming interface, and I'm a purist. But I'm not ashamed of increasing the minor version...
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I’m back from PDC 2008 , sitting at my computer, trying to apply in more concrete ways what I’ve learn there, and evaluating how this will affect my projects in the near future. Indeed, Windows Azure was a great announcement, and seems a great platform,...
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So day one of PDC 2008 is coming to an end, I’ll be going to the “Show Time” special session in a few minutes, then check if there’s a party around. What did that first PDC day bring me exactly? Well, I can now put a name on something obvious that had...
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Update : I will use a special PDC badge instead. I’ve decided to give away slimKEYS licenses to anyone who recognizes me at the next PDC 2008 in Los Angeles. That’s right, free as in beer. Just watch carefully for me and my PDC Badge , in case it reads...
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My son Clément really likes computers and Pocket PC devices. More than pens and papers. I even gave him my old HP Jornada 545. He’s also having some difficulties with handwriting and precision. So I thought I’d use that attraction to my Windows Mobile...
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Today, I released a minor update to slimKEYS, version 1.2.8479 . The three most important new features are: slimSEARCH: You can configure any web search entry to replace spaces by a specific character instead of the default “+”. This is particularly...
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DutchTab for Windows Mobile is out of beta, and now officially supports both Pocket PC and Smartphone devices running Windows Mobile 5 or 6. This application is a joined venture with my friend Pascal who made an iPhone version of DutchTab at the same...
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What is DutchTab ? It’s a Windows Mobile application I’ve been working on for the past weeks. My friend Pascal Bourque convinced me (pretty easily) to migrate an application I made years ago for splitting lunch bills at Xceed . We decided to make that...
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A new version of slimKEYS is now available . Though the list of new features is slim, it took me more than just a few hours to get through translation of the interface to French, and to finally make slimVOLUME support 64-bit Vista systems. In the first...
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