Νεες ROM για HTC HD απο τον NRG στο XDA-Developer

Ο cooker NRG ανέβασε στο XDA τις νέες ΡΟΜ για το τηλέφωνο HTC HD
(Ο ίδιος βγάζει ROM και για τα αλλα Smartphones της HTC).

To λινκ για να κατεβάσετε τις νέες ROM ειναι εδώ
Επίσης εδώ θα βρείτε πολλα εικονίδια και wallpapers φτιαγμένα απο μένα....

Μερικές φωτό ειναι εδώ

Πολιτικός Μηχανικός !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Να τον πάρω για να μου χτίσει το σπίτι μου

Και μια απίστευη φωτό για την Ελληνική εκδοχή του Managment ..... γέλιο μέχρι δακρύων

Φωτογραφίες που τραβήχτηκαν την κατάλληη στιγμή

Καποιες ειναι στημένες κάποιες ειναι φωτό της στιγμής .

Δείτε τις

Τι είναι αυτό πάλι

Σε αυτό το Ιστολόγιο θα βρίσκεται  πολλά θέματα για τα HTC Smart Phones.
Νέες Rom νέα θέματα και εικονίδια καθώς και συμβουλές για την καλλίτερη λειτουργία τους.

Επίσης οτι θα θέλατε να μάθετε για την εφαρμογή XBMC εναν καταπληκτικό και δωρεάν Media player.

Κατά καιρούς θα ανεβάζω και πολλά θέματα για Windows και Ubuntu (λόγω δουλειάς)

Τέλος κάθε μέρα θα ανεβάζω οτι μου έκανε εντύπωση απο την βόλτα στο Internet

How to use Google Static Map API in Windows Mobile

I have noticed so many times over the Microsoft smart device forum lots of time developer ask this question to how to get Google static map according to latitude and longitude. So I have decided to write a very simple article with an example to solve this problem using some static geo data. Apart from that this article will cover, how to use Google Static Map API.

In this article I have used some static geo data like (latitude and longitude) to get the Google static map using google static map api. Here I am going to explain how to use google map api to get the google static map and how to pin location on the static map in widows mobile application.

Here we go.

Let us have a glace of Google static map documentation here

In this application I have created a GoogleMapAPIs class for format the Google Static Map API. This class contents two static methods for google map API. In these methods I have formed api for the generic purpose for passing parameters google map url.

A Google Static Maps API URL must be of the following form:




http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?parameters

To get the static map API



http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=25.1950004243,75.8362304687&zoom=12&size=240x320&sensor=false



In the above url, some Map Parameters.

center: this parameter consider comma-separated {latitude,longitude} like this 25.1950004243,75.8362304687

zoom: this parameter we can pass the zoom level 0-21

size: this parameter we need to pass image size in height and width here I passed 240x320 in string format like width x height.

sensor: if the mobile application is using using a "sensor" then we have to pass true otherwise false




http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=240x290&maptype=roadmap&markers=size:mid|color:red|Delhi&sensor=false

In the above url, some Map Parameters.

size: this parameter we need to pass image size in height and width here I passed 240x320 in string format like width x height.

maptype:it isspecifies a standard type of map like roadmap, satellite, terrain, hybrid

markers:it is used to show pin on the map which is define one or more markers to attach to the image at specified locations.

sensor: if the mobile application is using a "sensor" then we have to pass true otherwise false

Let us take an example how to call Google map api in Windows mobile application.

In the windows mobile project I have added a class WebAccessUtility.cs this class have static method to call the google map api and download the image in Jpeg format.

public static bool GetStaticGoogleMap()
{
bool isSuccess = false;
string WebUrl = string.Empty;
try
{
if (isRoadMap)
{
WebUrl = GoogleMapAPIs.GetGoogleRoadMapAPIs();
}
else
{
WebUrl = GoogleMapAPIs.GetGoogleMapAPIs();
}

HttpWebRequest httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(WebUrl);
httpRequest.Timeout = 15000;
httpRequest.ReadWriteTimeout = 20000;

using (HttpWebResponse httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpRequest.GetResponse())
{
using (Stream imageStream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
using (Bitmap buddyIcon = new Bitmap(imageStream))
{
buddyIcon.Save(strPath + strFileName, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
isSuccess = true;
};
};
};


}
catch (WebException wx)
{
switch (wx.Status)
{
case WebExceptionStatus.ConnectFailure:
throw ex;
break;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
return isSuccess;
}


This method will take care to call the API type if user call the map type is road or normal. See below screen there is a menu you can choose location first then select the map type.

Now choose the Get Map from the Menu then it will display map accordingly.

To get the road type of map then chooses the Get Road Map from the Menu.

Download Source Code here

Note: do not forget to cradle your emulator or device for the internet connectivity.

Thank you :)

WP7 on HTC HD2

Looks like there is hope on getting WP7 running on HD2 thank to Cotulla (you can follow his progress on Twitter http://twitter.com/CotullaCode )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f_NJatLVQk

In this case HTC HD2 will become the first phone that runs WM 6.5, Android 2.2 and WP 7.


NAMASTE

25 years

It's impressive how things have changed in 25 years.


1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVtxEA7AEHg

2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI

BIWUG Presentations september 2010 online

The presentations from the BIWUG session in september 2010 are available on www.biwug.be in the meeting presentations document library :

• Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
• Administrating SharePoint with Quest

I would like to thank the people from Quest for providing the excellent location as well as our two speakers – Fouad and Karine.

Technorati Tags: biwug,sharepoint,sharepoint+2010,upgrade,sharepoint+server+2010,quest,administration,community

WP7 Multi-language v2

 While working on my WP7 app I had to improve the multi-language library I've posted earlier on my blog http://sviluppomobile.blogspot.com/2010/06/wp7-multilanguage-app-proof-of-concept.html.

What's new in v2:

1. The LanguageSingleton class has now resources that can be accessed using an indexed property. In the published sample the Save messagebox uses the indexed property lang["MainPage.Messages.saved"] ) 
2. The LanguageSingleton class implements LanguageChanged property so that every window could set the localized resources when the language changes (in this case is the ItemSource for the PickerBoxDialog developed by Alex Yakhnin)
3. Implemented multi-language support for ApplicationBarIconButton (the same mechanism using button index as the one used for ApplicationBarMenuItem

I am still not sure if this is the easiest way to implement multi-language support (if someone has a better way to do it please send me a message and I will post it). There is also the M.V.V.M. way, but I think it would be more code to write to obtain the same result.

SOURCE CODE

NAMASTE

WP7 Device The End of the First Contact

            Today I got an email from Microsoft Italia telling me that I have to send back the test device :(. I think the main reason is that I was not able to deliver an App in short time, but it's not like I didn't tried. September was a crazy month with all my client coming back from holidays and start calling so the only time I had to develop was at night so the results were not as I expect them to be . Anyway I improved a lot the multi-language module (I will post later on the blog the new version) and the app for the Marketplace is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. I wish I had more time to test/improve the sqlite library, the barcode library, but guess I will have to wait and buy a device. 

             So this concludes my first contact with a Windows Phone 7 device. It was short (2 weeks), but intense :). I used it as a daily phone and the overall experience was good. There are some things that I would want them different:

1. This is the one that bothered me the most: when you are in a call the End call window doesn't cover all the display and the End call button is almost at the bottom of it and too small. The bad part is that a lot of times (especially when I was driving) I pressed a region lower than the button so instead of ending the call it went to the background and had to bring it back by pressing the title
2. When reading the emails (especially the unread ones) and delete a message the phone brings you back to the list with all the messages instead I would like to automatically go to the next email in the list.
3. The right arrow in the main screen "eats" a lot of vertical space. That space is completely wasted. It would be much better to take it out and navigate from Home screen to Application List using the Windows button. Maybe three tiles in a row on the homescreen would not be a bad idea.
4. I really miss the Call and End Call hardware buttons.It is true that you have the OnScreen buttons, but you have to look at the screen and then press End Call button which is not very "intuitive" for a person that did not used an iPhone (my mom left the phone opened for 20 minutes because she did not pressed the end call button)
5. It would be nice to be able to enable/disable WiFi and Bluetooth from the Homescreen this way you won't have to go to Start->Applications->Settings->Wifi ->Enable/Disable or Start->Settings->WiFi->Enable/Disable if you pinned Settings to start screen. It's something I used a lot in order to save battery power.
6. Bing doesn't search inside your contacts, emails or calendars. You can however use search inside People hub and inside each of the inboxes (using bing search on the phone it would enable to search emails on all your inboxes in only one search). You cannot search inside your calendar that would be pretty useful feature (let's say you don't remember someone's birthday date)
7. I miss the possibility to search a contact using the phone keyboard and not the extended one (the t9 search). The keyboard is great but I was used to search contacts with the onscreen phone keyboard in Windows Mobile
8. Still hate the application list. It is as unusable as I thought it would be. Everything is in alphabetical order without possibility to reorder items so if you are a developer you should use the first letters of the alphabet to name your app this way you have a good probability to have it in the first screen of the application list.
9. Need to add pdf read capability to emails. This is a MUST but I think it will be available at launch as the email app already takes you to the marketplace to download the reader that, for the moment, it's not available.  
10. Office is not a theme aware application. If you use light or dark themes it doesn't change and it is light :)

What are the 7 :) things  I loved about WP7:

1. Touchscreen experience 
2. Fluid user interface 
3. Great keyboard and loved that you can use more than one language keyboard at the same time
4. One tile for each email account
5. One calendar to rule them all, one calendar to find them all, one calendar to bring them all and in the darkness bind them :) - depends if your theme is dark or light
6. Notifications
7. Great development tools 

What I didn't test and used:

1. Music and video
2. Xbox Live
3. Pictures

The success of the platform will depend a lot on the apps in the Marketplace so if you are a developer try to be there from the start. 

NAMASTE