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Windows Marketplace for Mobile Open For Business For All 6.0 and 6.1 Users

by Jay Garrett on July 15, 2009

windows-marketplace-mobile-2-225x300At this year’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will support Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 by the end of 2009 (Windows Mobile 6.5 support will be immediately available).

This is noteworthy as it will allow developers to push applications to existing Windows Mobile customers, of which Microsoft estimates there are about 30 million.

Not only that, it also means that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will begin accepting mobile application submissions on July 27th and will begin testing and certifying the third-party apps soon after.

The store will open simultaneously with the release of the first Windows phones (Microsoft’s new term for mobile devices running Windows Mobile), which are set to arrive around Autumn-time.

In February, Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft My Phone, and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. In March, Microsoft gave developers details on Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

One announcement said that there would be 29 supported countries at launch, though Microsoft didn’t specify which ones…..

Well, here’s the official list :) : Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.

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pulpTunes Freeware – Access and Share Your Complete iTunes Library From Anywhere

by Jay Garrett on June 4, 2009

screenshot_tiltedI’ve just been prodded in the direction of pulpTunes – thanks Sean!

Having an iPod or iPhone is great but, if like me, you have over a years worth of constant music on your hard drive at home there’s no way you can have your iTunes collection with you everywhere – unless you have a potent laptop and/or portable HDD.

The easiest solution to accessing that music from your office, at a friend’s party, or just to share your tunes with anyone anywhere in the world seems to be installing pulpTunes.

pulpTunes is a free open source program which allows you to stream your iTunes library across the Internet from any browser.

You can either install it to a remote server or onto your own computer.

It plays nice with Macs and PC’s and has both Windows and Linux support.


  • Supports MP3 and AAC (M4A) files

  • Download songs with a right-click

  • Displays cover art if found

  • Generate direct links to songs or playlists to send to your friends

  • iTunes DJ integration (formerly called Party Shuffle)

  • Adjustable buffer level: useful for slow connections

  • 100% Open Source: malware-free guaranteed


I think this sounds a fabby idea and when I get home I’m gonna add that little orange icon to my puter

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Pandora – Forum Designed Open Source Portable Gaming Machine

April 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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Say hello to Pandora – that’s not the name of the lovely lady, I’m talking about what she has in her hands.
The handheld is roughly the same size as the Nintendo DS (actual dimensions: 140×83×27mm (5.51×3.27×1.06 in)) and it kinda resembles the Nintendo DS lite.
Pandora is an open end platform that will specialise in homebrew applications [...]

iTunes U – Learning for Free

March 26, 2009 Click to read more →
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If, like me, you can’t/couldn’t wait to escape school and its myriad of cliques, rules, bullying, pettiness and one-upmanship then chances are college and University are going to be the furthest from your mind.
Well – that was my point-of-view anyhow and as soon as school was over I was out and started working.
That doesn’t mean [...]

Open BVE PC Train Simulator Gets Overhauled

March 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Now, please excuse my ignorance.
I know many people have model railways in their attic and many a child grows up wanting to be a train driver – heck I even know someone that drives on the London Underground!
I did not realise, however, the difficulty in actually driving one of these things until checking out OpenBVE.
Better [...]

Quake Live Goes Live Tomorrow!

February 23, 2009 Click to read more →

Remember when I said that invites for testing the Quake Live closed Beta were being sent out?
Well, now QUAKE LIVE will be available to the general public as an open beta on Tuesday, February 24th!
That means Monday morning (U.S. central time) beta.quakelive.com will go down for about 36 hours and then opening to the public at www.quakelive.com on Tuesday [...]

Mozilla Files To Legalise iPhone Jailbreaking

February 20, 2009 Click to read more →

Firefox makers, Mozilla, have filed papers to the US Copyright Office in a move that sees them going head to head with Apple over the legally murkey process of iPhone unlocking.
Mozilla is backing a proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make an exemption to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow a legal iPhone [...]

4th Annual New York Wired Shop Opens

November 7, 2008 Click to read more →

Yup, those know-it-alls at Wired are going to open their fourth annual store from November 21 until December 28 in New Yoik.
There will be more than 150 items including the latest electronics, toys and transportation, which can also be purchased online from November 20.
The Wired Store will also recognise four different charities, and is set to feature [...]

Sony’s Reader Goes Open

July 24, 2008 Click to read more →

Another feather in the cap for Sony’s Reader.
An update will allow it to use EPUB books as well as the ones from the Sony e-Book Store. 
This is something that the Kindle can’t do and opens up a large range of books to the new reader which it was definetly lacking before.
Could this be the start of more open readers?
 
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Open Source Stomp Box Effects Pedal For Geeky Guitarists – Coyote-1

June 20, 2008 Click to read more →

Now here’s a thing.
To get your own custom effects pedal can be a little on the expensive side – so why not do a Brian May and build your own?
The OpenStomp Coyote-1, whilst still in the prototype phase, seems a pretty well thought-out open source guitar effects module.
It has a Parallax Propeller 8-core processor running at 80MHz that can even [...]