May 18th, 2006
I don’t have a landline. I haven’t for years. That means that whenever I have to give out my phone number on some form, even if I don’t want the person to have my cell number, they get it.
I hate that.
Also, now that I work on Windows Mobile, I have two SIMs with unlimited minute plans on them. But, back when I was on Visual Studio, I had a 1000 minute plan, and sometimes went over.
Well, for people who are in a similar situation to me, some nice free services are filling in those gaps. Skype is now providing free outgoing calls (SkypeOut) from your computer to any real phone number in the US. That satisfies that second problem of going over your minutes. And now AOL has AIMPhoneLine which will give you a free local phone number that has voicemail. It saves the voicemail as an mp3 and sends it to an aim.com email address associated to your screenname. I’ll never use that address for anything, and I’ll never check it. Luckily, they have a setting to send you a text message to your cell when you get a new voicemail.
So, it’s great all around now. If I didn’t have an unlimited voice plan, I’d use the Windows Mobile version of Skype on my HTC Wizard for outgoing calls, and then give out the AIMPhoneLine number to people I don’t actually want to reach me.
Now the world has gotten much better.
I might even start trying out CallWave to get call screening and mp3 voicemail on my primary cellphone, now that I’m trying out all of these other free services.
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April 25th, 2006
My primary device is an HTC Wizard/QTek 9100 (well, that’s more the T-Mobile MDA styling – mine is more of the square styling). I’m currently running an internal build of Crossbow on it, but since I have to flash it so frequently in order to test out the new changes that we’re making, I’ve had to really trim down the number of apps I install/configure to the bare essentials….I figured that I’d share this out in case people are interested. Note: I’m specifically leaving off games here as people have significantly varied interests for games (unless it’s CardFu of course).
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April 24th, 2006
I’ve posted the first (incomplete) version of the design doc for CardFu. Over the next few days I should be flushing that out more and then I can start with the proof of concept (a fully authored deck using the cards I already have designed, in order to make sure that the CDL is properly thought through).
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April 24th, 2006
So, this weekend I needed to clear off all of the pictures that I had taken on my Motorola v600 because I was loaning it out to George. The problem with transferring the photos over Bluetooth OBEX is that file creation dates are lost.
Luckily, the v600 saves the pics with filenames in this format: MM-DD-YY_TTTT.jpg. I decided to write up a quick little app that used a Regular Expression to grab the time info from the filename and then update the file creation/modification timestamps so that the photos would have the proper meta information.
I did a quick search online and found a great short code sample on Code Project that told me the API to use to change the timestamps (it’s File.SetCreationTime(file, dateTime) by the way) and I verified my RE using my favorite RE editor, Expresso, and twenty minutes later I had my tool.
I’m going to add a bit more customizability to it (in case there are cameras out there that use a different filenaming method) and post it up here. Should have it up later this week.
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April 19th, 2006
Getting things ready here. Subscribe to the RSS feed to know when to come back.
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