Author: kathleen

  • Blogging with typepad and the windows 7 phone

    I really like blogging clients and am bummed I haven't found one for the window 7 phone.

    Right now the best bet is through email. Gives me the predictive keyboard and lets me edit over sessions. All the biggest requirements for blogging clients .

    In fact that is how I am blogging now.

    Sent from my Windows 7 Phone

  • Favorite windows phone 7 apps

    One of my favorite windows phone 7 apps is shuffle by album. I used to use the authors software and have followed his blog ever since. Like it so well it’s pinned to my menu.

    I also like the weather channel app – best part is that it shows current conditions on the title.

    Just downloaded and set up remember the milk. The app is called WinMilk – sure wish the outlook task was supported in the office apps but oddly enough it isn’t.

    Favorite windows phone 7 apps

  • still loving my Windows phone 7

    By the way wrote last blog post on it while on a stationary bike  – see ma – no keyboard!  And this one.

    Love the camera button and used it today takes awesome pictures .  Equipment may be disappearing front bag.

    everyone likes the tiles, especially the individual people tiles.

    and a small weird brag – my questions have been on the Zune insider podcast on two episodes now – episodes  94 and 92.

  • 21st Century Technology conference

    just spend the day there.

    it was good.  got sidetracked in the morning but ended up where i wanted to be.  learning how to create lessons with smart notebook software.

    I presented windows movie maker software twice.  The first room was great, the second not so much.

    ran into a bunch of friends including dr. Lenvay who I has not seen in years.  He did the other presentation I participated in.

     

    he showed how to use PowerPoint, Word, and Google apps to differentiate learning .  He was good.

     

    breakfast looked good • lunch was great – good goodie bags and good door prices though didn't win any.

  • Loving Windows Phone 7

    I love the Windows Phone 7 and most everyone who has seen it does.  It's light, a bit big in my hand, but I have small hands, and the display rocks.  I have the Samsung Focus.  I am SO over HTC.  Well, their Windows Phone 7 isn't bad, but this rocks.  I will probably go in and look at the LG, and might swap for the keyboard, but can live with it.

    • Wishes:

            Copy and Paste

    • Apps I want:
      My Fitness Pal
      Amazon Kindle
      GoWalla
      Words with Friends
      Audible Books
      KeePass (after copy and pass)
      AstraWare Sudoko

    I'm sure they are coming.

    Somethings are not intuitive — streaming music.

  • Samsung focus

    Loving it.  I went from HTC pure and tilt 2 so how can I not be happy?

    keyboard isn't bad.  blogging with it now.

    app selection is better than I expected.  Facebook, Twitter and foursquare all available.

     

    zune pass isn't working <pout>

     

    typepad blogging via the web interface.

  • Trying out Sprints Overdrive hotfoot

    Cute little device -I am in far north McKinney – getting ready for a dog agility trial and it is giving me enough wifi to do email and words with friends on my iPod touch

    It is 3G so it counts against my cap but since it is a few weekends month it should not be too bad.

    Have to see what I get where I train agility.

    Trying out Sprints Overdrive hotfoot

  • Zune vs iPod touch

    First I like the Zune pass and Zune software infinitely better than iTunes.

    I was in class the other day waiting on kids to finish projects so I could hard and a kid asked in I like a band. Used my Zune to find their greatest hits -downloaded the album -played a few songs and determined that I thought they sucked -deleted it hot on with my life.

    While I could have done with some thing similar with pandora I like that it doesn’t cost money and done with relative ease.

    However not very impressed with Zune apps.

    On the other hand, audible books, podcasts and iPhone apps make having the iPod touch worth having. All are better on it.

    Yes worth having both.

  • Windows Phone 7 Dev Conference

    We’ve seen just code to make app live but too fast to catch, sure it will be better later.  It’s 11:30 and most of this has been a sales pitch and how to make money on apps.  Not bad, useful in fact, but they are still talking at us.

    If you haven’t been reading my blog, my pet peeve lately is that as CS teachers were modeling the worst kind of teaching to each other.  And talking to people is the worse way to teach.

    This is cool – sitting next to a Words with Friends developer.  Local kid, went to college here and working here.  Awesome.  Former softie.  (yes, I suck people brains out).

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    So the rest of the day was talking to us.  <sigh>  But I learned a lot and it was good.

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    Thursday rocked, and someone made a suggestion that would have made it rock more – having talk to us for half a day and lab half a day would have been better.  I wanted the screen on my screen as I was having seeing theirs.

    Now, I had major issues.  I had installed the Expression Studio and the VB 2010 Professional version but the Phone tools wouldn’t installed.  I spent all morning uninstalling everything so I missed most of the lab, but I got most of it set up before the XNA part and just finished debugging it a bit ago.  Basically a twitter app, and it looks very pretty with very little work.  First time I programmed in Blend.

    The afternoon went better, we did the first parts of an XNA game and since I’ve taught that to kids, I really grog that process.  I can’t wait until I have time to finish the lab.

    I have some really good concrete ideas for some apps, so we’ll see what I can get going.

  • Windows Phone 7 Dev Conference

    I was a bit offended by the fact that there were two Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders greeting people at registration.  I need to talk to one of my favorite teachers about it, because she is a former SMU Dancer, and former Mavericks Dancer (and one of our former students).

    The Mascot was cool.  So maybe since the Cowboys and the Cheerleaders are icons it might be okay.

    First, there are not a lot of women here, but there are a few.  We’re here to learn about programming, but I am sure that there are non-locals here and having some Dallas icons is okay.  Just wish they had more clothing on, but at the same time, the room is so cold I’m wishing for more clothing myself….