Hi there everyone. I recently just bought a jailbroken iphone off of ebay. I was quite happy with it. The phone came within 10 days express from the USA. Once received I open it up charged it up and put my vodafone sim card in. It totally worked. I have very happy with it. It works fine and its brobably by far the best phone I have gotten in a while.  One of my grips with the Pocket PC is the stylus use and the touch screen not being very responsive when using your fingers. With my iphone I have no such problems. I think I need to get a data plan now as my pre-pay sim just doesn't cut it now. The full web page browsing on the iphone is just awesome with safari.

While looking at some forums. I stumbled upon this neat plugin that replaces your Windows Mobile Home screen. It makes it look very iphone like. The best thing is it is very fast. Also its totally free and has an auto update feature. The software is currently in beta but they are working hard to improve it. Being Australian myself I had to promote it as its being developed by a bunch of Aussie lads. Below is a screen image of it and also a you tube video of it in action.

Also its available for download from here  

Ever wanted to wrap table data in XSLT this template will help you out I found it pretty handy. 

//put this template in between your <td> and </td>
//remember to change $yourTextString (!)

<xsl:call-template name="text_wrapper">
   <xsl:with-param name="Text" select="$yourTextString"/>
</xsl:call-template>

//this will display the first 30 chars of $Text then pass the rest to
wrapper_helper
//if no string is left it will stop
<xsl:template name="text_wrapper">
<xsl:param name="Text"/>
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="string-length($Text)">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring($Text,1,30)"/><br/>
      <xsl:call-template name="wrapper_helper">
        <xsl:with-param name="Text" select="substring($Text,31)"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      no more string!
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

//this will also display 30 chars of the string, and pass the rest back to
text_wrapper
<xsl:template name="wrapper_helper">
<xsl:param name="Text"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring($Text,1,30)"/><br/>
  <xsl:call-template name="text_wrapper">
    <xsl:with-param name="Text" select="substring($Text,31)"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

I just came across a cool windows media player replacement for Windows Mobile. Someone has created a media player that has a similar interface to the one on the iphone. Which is a lot more user friendly then the standard Windows Media player. I have attached a link to it and also a youtube video of it in action. link to download

I found this interesting article that talks about what is wrong with Windows Mobile now and how future version are going to fix the problem. Here is a link to the article it is a very interesting read.

link  

I found a video previewing the features of the new Windows Mobile 6.1 I am hoping this will be a patch upgrade to my existing Windows Mobile 6 phone as there are some pretty good looking features in there like threaded messaging and also a better looking theme and seems more faster as well. Below is a video of someone playing with it on there motorola phone.

The up and coming Rambo is coming to cinema's soon and here is a preview of it looks sweet. 

Mplayer has now been ported to windows mobile. I have been playing with it for a week and it is actually not that bad. It does crash a lot but on my HTC Touch which isn't that grunty of a pocket pc machine it seems to run and play video's fine. The only problem is that I had to overclock my touch from 200mhz to 247mhz to make the video playable. Once doing that I could actually play wmv video's less jerky on mplayer then on windows media player. I have included a link to the site where you can go get mplayer if there is anyone else interested in trying it.

link  

This keyboard is amazing. It is a iphone style keyboard for Windows Mobile. It allows for quick and easy text input. It integrates as another keyboard type that is selectable which means it integrates well into windows mobile. Also it has smart text recognition. This is better explained on the developers website.

 link to the website

PocketCM is a finger friendly contact application for Microsoft Windows Mobile PDA phones, it will allow you to scroll to you list of contacts, call them and edit them. It is written in native C++ code.

This is an awesome plugin for eclipse that allows you to integrate with other bug tracking systems. It offers really good integration if you are using bugzilla, jira or trac for your bug requests. The url is below for those interested in trying it out. I have using it at my current employer and the interface is pretty sweet. 

http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/start.php

Cool little application mainly for system admins. Allows you to telnet or ssh to machines. This tool could be useful if you have a wireless network at work or home and you have a wireless enabled phone. You could check job stats or if backups have occured. Very useful.

link to download  

Features:

• support Telnet protocol
• support SSH1 protocol (not realesed for SF edition yet)
• support SSH2 protocol
• partially emulate terminal VT100 (basically enough for working with Midnight Commander and others console programs)
• full screen
  
• different font size for console
• portrait and landscape orientation
• 240x240, 240x480, 480x480 and 480x640 resolutions
  
• change font size and orientation without shutdown session
• three variants of software - for MS CF 1.0, MS CF 2.0 and MS Smartphone
  
• special float keyboard for CF1 and CF2
  
• user can to change keyboard location
  
• choose transparent or opaque mode
• minimize one
• change keyboard size

I was at work and needed to write a password changer. I wanted to use regular expression to check that the password was in a specific format to allow it to be changed. This website proved to be handy because it allowed me to write my regular expression and then enter in some test data to see if it behaved the way I expected. I thought other people might want to do what I am doing so here is the link to this cool online web application:

link 

I recently purchased myself a Mitsubishi Colt VRX. The car has proven to be quite economical and also quit nice to drive. The car that my colt was replacing was a 1999 Subaru WRX. Now at first you guys would be thinking what is wrong with me? Well I have had the subaru for 5 years and I was wanting something a little more practical for when me and the partner have kids. Well at first I was thinking what am I doing but once I had gotten the colt I was pleasently surprised. It handles quite well and is quite zippy. It has a 5 disc mp3, wmv cd stacker that I have tried out and seems to play all my different format of mp3's and wmv files. The car has power windows and the like which was really nice and the rear windows come tinted from factory as standard. The only thing I recommend is getting the front passenger windows tinted too as it looks a little silly. I have had reversing sensors put on and they work quite nicely.Letting me know if I am within 40cm of an object. Overall I am quite happy with my purchase. The fuel ecconomy of the colt has worked out to be roughly. When I got the car from the dealer it had about 1/3 of a tank  in it and I have managed to travell about 170km on that haven't filled up yet. The tank stores about 50L of fuel in it so that is quite ecconomcal compared to the WRX. I will post photo's with this soon. 

I have finally released a version of some smartphone software I have been working on. This is a beta version of it and it still requires a fair bit of effort on my part to get it more upto a standard that I think is useful.

Here is some information about the program:

This application is work in progress. It is the start of a application
for smartphones. That allows people to store information about when they workout at the gym or home. It also allows you to put your stats into different calculators so that you can see how you are progressing.It will eventually allow users to input there workout information and store it. As well as plot graphs of progress.

Current Features:
    * Calculates Body Mass Index
    * Calculates Basal Metabolic Rate
    * Calculates Body Fat
    * Calculates Target Heart Rate
    * Allows Inputting of Weight Collected overtime and storage of it in
      XML file.
    * Uses Metric System only

Anyway here is a link