WLW Plugin Update: Amazon Book Lookup Plugin

August 22, 2007 — You can find information about my original post topic here. I originally developed the plugin back in September 2006 and am just getting around to updating some of its functionality.  I have had several requests from users to update the plugin to include the Associate ID tag which gives credit to the associate when a…

My run-in with Pete Rose

August 22, 2007 — I was in Las Vegas on vacation last week.  A “run-in” probably isn’t the right wording, but it sounded interesting, right?  On Saturday we were walking through the new Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino and checking out the Miracle Mile Shops when we came across a sports memorabilia store.  It was none other than “Charlie…

T-Mobile Wing and Pagepool Memory Modification

August 22, 2007 — I recently acquired a T-Mobile Wing since my wife needed a smartphone and wound up with my old T-Mobile Dash. I love the Wing with the Pocket PC layout and Windows Mobile 6 with Office Mobile Professional.  The only thing I noticed and also have read online was that T-Mobile released it with a configuration…

Writing to the Event Log in C #

July 30, 2007 — When I’m writing code, I don’t like to spend a lot of time fumbling around the framework.  Like tonight, I was looking for a simple way to write to the event log in Windows.  I went to Google and did a quick search and found the Microsoft knowledge base article entitled “How to write to…

Windows Vista Speech Recognition

July 29, 2007 — I was in Seattle this past week, and I got to thinking about the advancements in speech recognition.  As I was thinking, I started wondering if the speech recognition functionality was any good in Windows Vista.  So I decided to give it a try myself. Setting up is very easy.  The process is completely wizard…