Category: Blog

I am always looking for the perfect way to listen to my electronic devices in my car. headphones arent safe even my bluetooth. i have gone throigh 5 or 6 and so far was not successful until this one. and yes each one was better than the last.

I know the ultimate solution is to trade up to a new car but I'm not ready yet.   Would like to replace this Escape with an Escape Hyprid with Sync, but that isn't for a while yet, if at all.

Anyway, this Zune Premium Car Kit found a good frequency quickly, and manages to overpower the station as I drive around town.  Something that has been difficult for any other FM car transmitter.

It's worth the price, especially if you can get it at discount like Amazon like I did.

My first mistake was to write the problem in Visual Studio 2003 .Net since that's what I teach with.

When I opened it in Visual Studio 2008, it works out of the box.

Here's the form:

So the code is just as easy as the C# code:

I just found the 52 weeks Coding Challenge by Dream in Code and decided to take some time I am supervising my students to try coing a Twitter program.

So I've created a little C# program that sends a direct message.

I got the actual code from http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet4094.htm

 and the idea from http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic150412.htm

The implementation code is incredibly simple:

"kathweaver", "password", txtTo.Text, txtMessage.Text);

I've got my twitter username, twitter password hard coded and am sending the text from a textbox for the recipent and the message.

Make a movie, but basically, if you want to blog about something on your computer screen, it's super simple.  Especially if you use Typepad.  There is an output accessory,which you install into SnagIt — go to the Output Accessory Manager and install it.

Once you install it, you click on the Send Tag, Pick Typepad, and it has an input window for the blog — better yet, watch how I just did it.

However, Camtasia is a bit more awkward, as I have to upload the movie to Screen cast, and then link to it while I am actually logged into Typepad.  I think as I have a tweet out about it.

Here is my sample.

I have been using mail2web forever, mostly to pull email when I haven't been at my home machine.  Several years ago when I started using smart phones, I started to look for a solution that would give me the perfect email experience.

I define that as having all my email available, always in one place.  When they make Exchange accounts available, I jumped for it.  In fact, kweaver.org is listed with them, and I have a redirection to get to the TypePad Blogs.

By using Exchange, I have about a weeks worth of mail on my smart phone at any one time.  I have the last six months or so mail on the exchange service and I automatically archive to my Windows Home Server — have the archive on a file on the server itself.

It's rare that I need the over six months old mail but it's nice it is there.  I archived all the messages I got from my friends when Marcie, my Excellent Agility beagle died, and when I need to remember how special she was, I go read a few messages, which I couldn't do at the time.

My husband and I coorespond via email when he is on trips — he has his home account set up on his blackberry in addition to his office mail, and it's nice to go back to the archived messages and see where either one of us was — I usually move all that mail to it's own folder.

Outlook 2010 is looking REAL good, and it will be nice to go to Exchange 2010 when it is available, and I'm sure Mail2Web will be right up there with it.

But if you just need to check your pop mail at someone's computer, mail2web is good for that too.

So I've had my Tilt2 for over a week.  Well, I did a swap on Friday, was very unhappy because the screen scratches like you wouldn't believe.  Swapped out phones and bought a case which makes a HUGE difference.

Other that I love it. 

One of my favorite applications is My Mobiler.   See it at http://mymobiler.com/.  My Mobiler allows me to have my phone hooked up to my computer and be able to manipulate it.  Better yet,I can make a movie with it though some frames are missing.

My biggest problem is adding voice.

However, I'm finding using the Camtasia recorder works best.

I wasn't feeling really well when I got up, and as soon as I ate some breakfast, it came back up to visit.  Having gastro-intestinal issues isn't good for a diabetic, and I don't want to spread whatever I have.   So in the interest of public health, I left.

So far, it's going better than last year.  I made it.

I've had a very long day though.  Had to fight with my 8th period class, and I never win with them.  Well, I do, because they are the ones that told me who took the MP3 Player.

Anyway, I'm working with three very nice people, and our charity is the Fine Arts Chamber players.

So far, we've been able to build a local DotNetNuke site, connect to the SQL server and I am attempting to the create the initial site.

I scored by having and bring an air card.  I'm making a list of essentials for tomorrow.

New phone time and i am trying a Tilt2 and even making this blog post with it.

i got a Fuze this summer because my orginal Tilt broke. it sucked it was too small. one thing i already dislike is that the software isnt automatically capping.

I looked and I have to remeber to do that. Someone – was it Palm – used to cap automatically based on what you typed.

The fuze was okay but overall too small. I like the size of the Tilt and Tilt 2. i like a big screen and i like the the solid feel. I also like the larger keyboard.

the tilt 2 seems slow. it does graphics on the web pages – hopefully a way to turn that off so it seems to run slow. i also type ahead a lot when i am blogging – like right now so maybe the processor is a tad slow for what it is trying to do.

i also like the pure but really like a full qwerty keyboard so i will probably keep this.