Pretty impressive third-party UI replacement for Windows Mobile. Not only is it impressive, but it is free too.

PointUI

Home's intuitive controls and highly responsive user interface makes using your device a breeze. Here are a few of the key features Home has to offer:

• Control your device via touch or your thumb with the directional control
• Smart Lists Navigation ™ with bookmarks allows you to easily locate an item in even the largest lists
• Choose the slide navigation that suits you
• One touch access to calls, email, text messages and music
• Easily see who and when calls were received, made and missed
• Using the Applet Ribbon ™ you can easily access the time, tasks, appointments, calendar and up to date weather forecasts and current temperatures
• Easily manage your sound, wireless, battery and device settings
• Easy create new emails, text messages, multimedia messages, tasks, appointments, documents and spreadsheets
• Load and switch between running applications effortlessly

InsideMicrosoft has some details on the next version of Windows Mobile.

Exclusive Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures » InsideMicrosoft-part of the Blog News Channel

Awesome news!

Here are some highlights but definitely check out the article.

• Touch Gestures: reminds me of iPhone
• Motion Gestures: reminds me of WiiMote
• Advanced UI and UX: reminds me of Vista
• Focus on being able to use fingers to interact, instead of stylus
• Improved media capabilities
• Possible Multi-Touch support
• Should ship in 2009

Users

Web Sites

Microsoft Windows Mobile Home

Windows Mobile Owners Circle

Windows Mobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Windows Mobile Community Sites

PDAdb.net - Comprehensive Database of PDA, PDA Phone, PNA & Smartphone Specifications

Pocket PC Thoughts

msmobiles.com - All about Windows Mobile phones  Microsoft Smartphone , Pocket PC and more

Best Sites for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs, and Smartphones

Newsgroup: microsoft.public.pocketpc

Handango Mobile Software

PocketGamer

PocketGear

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine

Pocket PC FAQ - Pocket PC, Handheld PC and Windows CE FAQs, Reviews, Commentary, etc!

Pocket PC Addict - Pocket PC Forum, Accessories, News, Hacks

Windows Mobile News, Reviews, and Opinion

Developers

Web Sites

.NET Compact Framework Developer Center

"How Do I?" Videos for Devices

Pocket PC Developer Network

OpenNETCF Community

Channel9 - Windows Mobile Developers Wiki

Newsgroup: microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer

Newsgroup: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

Blogs

Compact Framework Team Blog

Mike Zintel

David Kline

Roman Batoukov

Steven Pratschner

Nazim Lala

Anthony Wong

Sandeep Prabhakar

Mark Ihimoyan

Scott Holden

Ryan Chapman

Richard Greenberg

Mark Prentice

Neil Cowburn

Alex Feinman

Chris Tacke

Peter Foot

Daniel Moth

Maarten Struys

Pete Vickers

Jim Wilson

Alex Yakhnin

Chris Craft

Jason Langridge

Jon Box

Jonathan Wells

Nino Benvenuti

Don Sorcinelli

If you have ever used Total Commander for Windows then you know how fast it is. It gives the command prompt a run for its money.

I was looking around the other day, and notice there is a version for Windows Mobile and it is FREE. Grab it here.

Main features:

• Copy, Move whole subdirectories
• In place rename, create directories
• Delete (no recycle bin)
• Zip and unzip
• Properties dialog, change attributes
• Built-in text editor
• Search function (also for text)
• Select/unselect groups of files
• Select with [Sel] button
• FTP client
• Registry editor
• LAN access
• Send/Receive via Infrared (OBEX)
• Brief, full and large icons mode
• Single or two file window mode
• Option to hide all files in ROM
• Directory hot list as in Total Commander
• Directory history through drop down list
• Tree view
• Configurable button bar
• Simple help function
• Supported languages: English, German, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Swedish

Today a friend of mine called me, and asked me to help him with a problem he was having.

I soon learned that he has an ASP.NET application set up on Windows Server 2003, but he couldn't get the application to load in the browser. Anytime he tried it would always give him a "404 File Not Found" error.

We checked all the usual suspects: IIS running, ASP.NET installed, Web site and virtual directory set up and configured correctly, permissions, checked for a App_Offline.htm file, and so on.

Everything looked good, and we still couldn't see the page. I thought this was odd, we should be seeing something. I then decided to try viewing some static items like images, and some html pages that we in the Web site as well. Wow, these would actually come through fine every time. For some reason, ASP.NET just didn't like us.

I have to admit, I didn't see the answer at this point and I turned to the Web. It took some considerable search-fu, but after a little while I was able to find the source of our troubles.

By default Windows Server 2003 has a security policy enabled that prevents Active Server Pages from running.

Here's all you need to do if you ever run into this:

Open IIS manager, and check Web Service Extension folder, make sure ASP.NET extension is listed and marked as "Allowed".

I couldn't believe it, on Christmas Eve 2007 my XBox 360 came down with the "Red Ring of Death". I was a little worried at first, because I have had my XBox 360 for well over a year now and I didn't think it was still covered under warranty. I checked and repairs would cost around $150, but then I found out that I wouldn't be charged anything since Microsoft has extended the warranty for up to three years.

What was really cool is the return process can all be done online: http://www.xbox.com/support/contact.

I choose this option and received my free return shipping box today, in about a week even with the holidays, and the weekend. All in all, so far, it hasn't been a bad experience at all.

So tomorrow I'll mail my XBox 360 back to Microsoft and hopefully soon I shall see her again, safe and sound and ready for me to unlock the Dead Rising Zombie Genocider Achievement.

Zombie Genocider (20)- TYPE: 1 Play REQ: Defeat at least 53,594 zombies. [NOTE: The population of Willamette, Colorado before the zombie outbreak was 53,594.]

Another year and another 365 days, actually another 366 days since 2008 is a leap year.

Cool Fact:

February 2008 has five Fridays - it starts and ends on a Friday. Between 1904 and 2096, leap years with same day of week for each date repeat every 28 years which means that the last time February had 5 Fridays was in 1980 and next time will be in 2036.

Deck out your device with free winter wallpapers, and free seasonal ringtones at Microsoft's Windows Mobile Owners Circle.