Touch Diamond Supports Native Podcasts

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MSmobiles is showing that the latest Touch Diamond ROMs are now including an RSS Hub application which, combined with the other native media playing capabilities, allows you to subscribe to, download, and listen to Podcasts without the need to sync with a desktop computer. If your podcasts also included embedded album art, the TouchFLO 3D Music panel will be able to display this. If you are syncing music with Windows Media Player, there’s a work-around …

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.NET and Windows Mobile the preferred choice for developers

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Jason Langridge puts it well: “Infoworld has just published an article highlighting the recent results of a developer survey run by Evans Data where they looked at which platforms were being targeted for development. The great news was that the .NET Compact Framework came up #1 with 43% of developers targeting that with Java Micro Edition coming a very close second with 42%. In terms of OS platform Windows Mobile came up #1 again with …

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Touch FLO 3D’s Slight Redesign

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I just upgraded my Touch Diamond to the now shipping version 1.37 ROM, and there’s a definite difference in the timing of the animations in TouchFLO 3D. Here’s a video: As I mentioned in this post and my review, the animations were pretty slow by design. I recommended that reducing the timing on the animations would increase the perception of speed, and that’s exactly what they did. You’ll also notice that when swiping a finger …

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Device Mapping Remote Desktop on the Touch Diamond

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If you’ve ever managed a server or helped a friend with some computer problems remotely, you might be familiar with “Remote Desktop”. This software is based on Terminal Services and allows you to log into any supported system (with proper credentials and firewall ports open) with a small bit of Remote Desktop client software. Versions of this have often been available for Windows Mobile and Windows CE. The problem has always been trying to use …

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Accelerometer Features on the Touch Diamond

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We’ve seen accelerometer features implemented before on Windows Mobile devices such as VueFLO in the HTC Advantage, and even the old Tilt Control add on for the old iPAQ Pocket PCs years ago. Generally the accelerometer implementations haven’t been anything that spectacular or user-friendly. The Touch Diamond is about to change that. The “Teeter” game that the Touch Diamond includes, is extremely cool. Basically you tilt the phone and the little ball on the screen …

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