Smartwombat Blog : July 2004

July 2004 - Posts

Outlook Express + Hotmail, cool

I did try using my hotmail account with Outlook Express (DAV) as client ages ago, when it first came out. It was not working because of some stupid server errors. Then some years later I found an article on Codeproject how to access Hotmail from C# usng DAV but that was not working either because some stupid server errors again... today I tought that I go and give another try and it is working just fine. I am now starting to change my opinion about Outlook Express and think about it as something worth to consider as a serious application and worth to develop for (see how the latest Sendo phone using it).

posted Friday, July 23, 2004 12:09 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

Random links

Visual Studio Extensibility Center
Rss is from here. I am digging into extensibility soon and planning to write some nice macros and other stuff.
Inside Look at the Birth of the iPod.
Some interesting details about how iPod was developed.

"(PortalPlayer) was attractive to Apple because we had an operating system," said Knauss. "That was a real selling point for Apple. We had the software and the hardware already done, and Apple was on a tight schedule."

Knauss said the reference design was about 80 percent complete when Apple came calling. For example, the prototype wouldn't support playlists longer than 10 songs. "Most of the time building the iPod was spent finishing our product,"

"The interesting thing about the iPod, is that since it started, it had 100 percent of Steve Jobs' time," said Knauss. "Not many projects get that. He was heavily involved in every single aspect of the project."

Knauss said Jobs' influence was sometimes idiosyncratic. For example, the iPod is louder than most MP3 players because Jobs is partly deaf, he said. "They drove the sound up so he could hear it," Knauss said.

Microsoft Shareholders Rake It In
Article on recent news on MS shares.

posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:04 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

Allegiance source code download from Microsoft Research.

“Over twenty years ago, Rick Rashid, the senior vice president of Microsoft Research, came up with an idea. Networked games. The idea was ahead of its time. Today, millions of people all over the world play and compete in multi-player online games.

Rashids original game gathered a loyal following. He developed his ideas into the game Allegiance, which Microsoft shipped in 2000.

Now Microsoft Research is releasing the Allegiance source code. “

Must try this although the source code download is rather big: 512 MB.

posted Friday, July 16, 2004 3:10 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

Microsoft buys Lookout

My favorite outlook plugin.

“Today we are delighted to announce that Microsoft has acquired Lookout.....”

Lookout.

posted Friday, July 16, 2004 2:26 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

Interview with Miguel de Icaza

“To the uninitiated, the basic idea behind the open-source Mono project--to bring .Net to Linux--is kind of hard to grasp. How can Microsoft's .Net development platform, which is all about making life easier for Windows programmers, be used to write applications for Linux, Microsoft's bete noire? “

click here.

posted Friday, July 16, 2004 1:08 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

Interview with Charles Simonyi.

read the article (codegeneration network).

posted Friday, July 16, 2004 12:59 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

The Order of The Red ***

Mike is a "scambaiter," dedicated to fighting back against those who send out the notorious 419 e-mails, promising untold wealth to anyone gullible or naive enough to disclose their bank details.

cool story... and check out 419eater.com

posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:45 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments

Some interesting stuff...

Bill Gates owns your body?
It sounds like an April Fool's Day joke, but it isn't. Microsoft has actually succeeded in patenting the human body as a computer network...

New PlayStation Targeted for March 2005

KDDI plans Flash-based phone interface

Mobile TV coming of age
With mobiles starting to dominate our daily lives, there is growing interest in the idea of TV on the phone.

Sendo X review.
Over the internet firmware upgrades, Outlook Express integration, Now! screen, camera with flash, document viewer.

posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:22 AM by gyurisc with 0 Comments