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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 the yellow sparkle. This will show you a list of all search entries that come with ...

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 to Twitter always wins. The art of compressing a message to fit nicely into 140 chars is not ...

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 my numbers since the beginning:   US CA UK ...

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 device. I pressed F5 in Visual Studio .NET, and checked my P4000’s screen for the usual “Do ...

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 My Phone, Azure vs Live Framework, Win32 vs WinForms vs WPF vs Silverlight, WebForms vs MVC, etc). ...

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 control library, where controls perform their own painting based on templates and ...

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 Apple. Because I wanted to explore development of multi-touch applications, I didn’t ...

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 for the slimLAUNCH.Passwords extension are now available on CodePlex. For the moment, it’s ...

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 figure out how click-once would fit in this scenario), I’m not using click-once, but instead ...

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 change often. It also could cause two applications to look like they’re using the same build of ...