What a cool idea. I remember before built in GPS were common in devices, you could pick up a Bluetooth GPS device and use it just the same.

Technically with WiFi and high-speed cellular connections you could still do this sort of thing with drives on remote machines, but sometimes you really need additional "local" hardware storage.

msmobiles.com has a good write up of the device here.

The Seagate® D.A.V.E.™ (Digital Audio Video Experience) platform delivers the best way to move, store and connect your digital life, wirelessly connecting mobile devices with up to 60 GB of extra storage. It’s the best way for mobile entertainment device manufacturers and mobile network providers to help their consumers unify content management.

You know the more I think about it, the Seagate D.A.V.E. is missing something... I'm just not sure what... Maybe this technology is just too good, maybe it is too much...

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two."

If you want a solid Windows Mobile RSS application, NewsGator Go! is one of the best, and now it is FREE!

NewsGator Go! gives you the ability to track and manage all your RSS content on your mobile device. Get news, sports, entertainment and other information delivered to your Blackberry, Java Mobile Smartphone or PDA, and Windows Mobile Smartphone or PDA.

Windows Mobile: Free Download

Whether you are standing in line at a coffee shop or taking a stroll around the park, with NewsGator Go! you don't need to feel left out when the latest news breaks!

• Get your news and information while on the go
• Keep your mobile in sync with all NewsGator products
• Email interesting articles to friends or co-workers
• (Windows Mobile only) Play streaming video and audio

NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile works on Windows Mobile version 5 or 6.

90 Artists Remix Stan Lee's Best Characters

That stained glass Spiderman is totally sweet! And magneto with duckies. That would be a good "Come up with the best story for this 'situation' contest".

"Magneto vs. The Duckies" or "No More Spandex"

Oh no! The evil Magneto has kidnapped the President's...   daughters'...   three little duckies: Huey, Dewey and Louie and has forced them to fight him to the death!

The duckies only chance was if someone could raise the $3,014,170,389,176,410 ransom Magneto demanded for their safe return. Unfortunately for the triplets, the president was a little short after spending over $611.5 billion.

Desperate Huey decided to contact their great uncle, who even though a bit of a Scrooge, surely wouldn't want to see his three grand-nephews end up on Magneto's dinner table. Their uncle was quite shocked, and embarrassed after having told most of the world that he was worth, "one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents", and telling his nephews that it was more like "five multiplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion dollars and sixteen cents", he didn't have the heart to tell Huey now that it was really more like $137 billion.

Instead he chooses to tell them about how when he was their age he had to defeat villains far worse than Magento... every day... on the way to school... and uphill both ways... [Click! Huey hangs up]

Louie the youngest of the twins, decides to use a trick that their brother Phooey would always use when he got in trouble: cuteness...

Immediately Louie falls back into the curl of Magneto's right arm and stares back up at his "favorite person in the whole wide world". At first, Huey and Dewey think Louie must have lost his friggin' mind, but then they too remember their forgotten brother, and join Louie in his mastermind scheme. Dewey decides the only thing cuter than a little yellow fluffy duckie, is a sleeping little yellow fluffy duckie. He then hops up on Magneto's shoulder and begins to purr. Why? Because it is extra cute!

Huey, determined not to be outdone by his younger brothers, recognizes that Magneto has some kind of helmet fetish, and decides that certainly Magneto would appreciate him being his own personal hood ornament.

Right then, Magneto's heart grew three sizes larger, and he thought to himself, "How Cute!" He then proceeded to explode causing reality to turn purple, and time to stop.

[The End]

 

Your Turn

Don't worry your safe from my humor, with the entire Internet between you and me, you shouldn't suffer any long term effects. But if you liked, or didn't like, or think you can do better I'd love to hear your version. Feel free to post as a comment or link back from your blog. You could pick another picture as well, if you like.

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".