Up until now I have not had an opportunity to create any Silverlight procedural animations that were more complicated then positioning an object with some simple easing. I thought it would be fun to attempt to duplicate one of the transitions used on the iPhone. While making a phone call, if you choose to [...]

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In a move to make the Windows Mobile PC more usable, Microsoft announced that mobile phones running there operating system will include both Adobe’s Flash Lite and Adobe Reader LE. Microsoft has over 11 million phones running Mobile PC and hopes to grow that to over 20 million by next year. This [...]

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Just seconds ago Apple released the long awaited update to the iPhone.  It’s about a 162mb download but well worth the wait.  Check out apple.com for a video of all of the new features.  There are a few cool features, but the GPS positioning is the most exciting for me.  Here are the features I [...]

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Over the holiday my wife was so kind as to use her hard earned Holiday bonus and buy me an iPhone. For the last two years I have had my trusty old Sprint Treo connected directly to my companies Exchange and personal POP3 server. Now that I have made the first step in switching to [...]

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For those of you in hibernation for the last few years, Google is taking over the world, one free service after another.  This weekend I decided to break ties with Godaddy’s crappy email hosting (5 accounts, 1 GB storage, $20 year) and switch to Google Apps.   My reasons were quite simple, Free is Free and [...]

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