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I made a clock

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Some people make Hello World. I made a SmartPhone clock.

It won’t be available for download, though, because I promptly turned it into an XML parser. Google Calendar data is made available through XML feeds.

That’s a weeks worth of appointments from my Google Calendar XML stream! This is turning out to be easier than I thought.

Emulating Windows Mobile in Windows XP 64

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We’re in luck! I got the Emulator and Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK installed properly on my Windows XP 64 machine. Upon installing the SDK a template for Mobile applications magically appeared in Visual Studio 2005.
Here’s what I installed:

Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for SmartPhone
Microsoft ActiveSync 4.2
Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys
Standalone Device Emulator 1.0 with Windows Mobile […]

Google Calendar and Windows Mobile

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I just got a Windows Mobile 5.0 SmartPhone from Cingular! It’s the Samsung Blackjack and I must say, I love it so far. The only qualm that I have with Windows Mobile is the lack of utilities to sync Google Calendar with PocketOutlook (the calendar system of Windows Mobile).

Okay, that’s not entirely true. There are […]