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Category Archives: Windows Mobile
HelloTwitFace – now with Summize search!
For the past week I’ve been toiling away on integrating Summize into HelloTwitFace. Summize replaces TweetScan as HelloTwitFace’s replies and search tabs. This was a challenge as I’d already built in RSS reading capabilities to read the TweetScan results, but … Continue reading
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Facebook chat is coming to a jabber client near you soon
[EDIT: Linked it up ] A few sources are today talking about facebook opening up their chat application to jabber capable clients. I’ve talked about this before and I can see this being the killer thing for the fb chat … Continue reading
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PointUI gets an update to make it look WM7 ish
Over the weekend I had some time to catch up and found that PointUI has been updated to version 2.5 and with that it’s seen quite a major overhaul of the UI. It now looks kinda WinMo 7 ish in … Continue reading
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hellotwitface minor update
Ok. That caught me out. I think twitter updated their xml format on Tuesday. On Wednesday hellotwitface stopped working, it wasn’t immediately obvious but they added an extra tag inbefore the user tags on the friends timeline. It’s now fixed … Continue reading
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HelloTwitFace 2.0 Available
It’s taken me a couple of weeks but here is version 2.0 of HelloTwitFace! This was quite a major update, the main portion of which was moving away from using m.twitter.com to using the API and the great new tweets … Continue reading
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next hellotwitface update
Another hard night of geeking out and I’m almost there. There are a few ui changes to make and I still have to work out how to create a cab that doesn’t overwrite all files but its getting there. The … Continue reading
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Coding horror
This weekend was purposed to see the launch of some additional features in hellotwitface , unfortunately that wasn’t to be. The reason, the resulting 37mb cab file! It was that big because I used an API I found on the … Continue reading
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Living with the Touch Dual
I said I’d write this up eventually, well after using the device for a while about my experience with it. I could do it in two words, but that would be a short post, “Really Great!”. To put it simply … Continue reading
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The best things in life are free…well a pound!
One of my favourite shops for gadgets in England is a chain called Pound Land! They’re really great at bringing in some basic technology really cheaply, actually for £1 gbp! Previously I’ve bought a USB hub, a retracting USB cable … Continue reading
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HelloTwitFace update
I’m planning on updating HelloTwitFace at the weekend, probably late on Saturday with new feature I’ve been working on. I’m going to move the twitter tab away from simply using http://m.twitter.com to using the twitteroo 1.4 API to build my … Continue reading
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