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Skype Challenge - A Year On

Some you might recall that I issued a Skype Challenge last April where the rules were essentially: To go an entire month without using either a landline* or a mobile phone** to make or receive phone calls. You have to make all calls via Skype You can't accept calls, unless they come via Skype You...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-26-2008
New Mobile Development Community Site

From the makers of the " Smart Devices Framework " the team at OpenNETCF Consulting have launched a new community website, http://community.opennetcf.com . This follows a long trend of these guys supporting the mobile development community. In a previous post I talked about a Skype chat that...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-04-2007
Move over Palringo, Fring is here

From Mauricio's post I just signed up for and downloaded a new IM/Skype client for my Windows mobile device. Having only recently removed Palringo (which was a cute concept but not overly useful) I am being a bit critical of messaging/VoIP clients and I must admit I wasn't impressed with Fring...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 07-10-2007
Skype Challenge Update

It's now the 5th day since I announced my attempts at the Skype Challenge and by all accounts I feel that I'm failing. That said, I'm going to keep persisting and attempting to reduce my phone dependency. Here's a few thoughts on where technology is currently failing: Acknowledged problems (problems...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-19-2007
Palringo - I don't understand the name let alone the concept...

I saw this post across on the Modaco feed referencing a product called Palringo and despite a number of comments to the effect that it is a cool product I just don't get it. So last weekend I was talking about the Skype Challenge (more on that later) in which I was trying to use Skype to replace my phone...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-19-2007
Long live Windows Mobile 2003 SE!

In a flash back to a couple of years ago I decided to find my old Dell Axim X30 and see whether it was up to the job. I seemed to recall trying one of the early Skype Pocket PC clients back on one of the old HP iPaq devices so I guess I wasn't surprised that Skype have a version of their client that...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-16-2007
More Skype Challengers

If I'd bother to do a Google search before announcing the Skype Challenge I would have noticed that Nicholas Wolfgang over at Bios_Level had already laid down the challenge . Funnily enough he invested in the Belkin device and has documented a number of challenges that he has faced along the way. The...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-15-2007
Skype WiFi phones - WTF?

Phase 1 of my Skype Challenge is almost complete - I handed back the i-mate SPL I was borrowing so I'm now without a Windows Mobile device (I still have my SIM card in an old Esicsson phone until I get around to sorting out my voicemail etc). I must admit I've been having some issues selecting the right...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-15-2007
The Skype Challenge

This morning I was flipping through the Sunday Times (for the most part this paper is little more than an abstract collection of ads with a bit of sports trivia appended to the end) and noticed a Post-it note attached to the front of the paper: I thought that the previous person had left this behind...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-14-2007
Skype Find and More

Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of Skype (the next version talks about being able to invite non-Skype contacts, which would be very cool - unfortunately it is only in beta and VERY unstable). Instead of going with the standard options I decided that I would install the Internet Explorer Addin...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 04-14-2007

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