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FreewarePocketPC.net Library
TESTING: This is a huge library of Pocket PC freeware provided by our friends at FreewarePocketPC.net!
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By PaulOBrienNetInfoBox check your all current settings about the enabled network adapters. This means, that when you establish some connection like ActiveSync/WiFi/3G/GPRS/CSD and run NetInfoBox (or by hitting Refresh button if the tool is already is up), you will be able to see everything about this connection like:
- Status and type of selected adapter
- MAC address
- IP address
- Network mask
- Primary DNS
- Primary WINS
- Speed limit
- ID of the adapter
For more information please follow this forum post or check the developer web site
25 downloads
Full screen dialer
By PaulOBrienFSD - Full screen dialer is a large button dialer for easy finger dialing !
What does it do/not do?
FSD is a more finger friendly dial pad than the WM default one.
FSD is skinable.
FSD does not have any speed dial/redial or anything more complicated than basic number entry.
FSD is a full screen dialer!
FSD will run on WM5/6 or WM2003 devices with .NET CF 2.0.
FSD uses the default dial pad once the call has been started.
Call/End hardware buttons do not work within FSD!
Pressing the call button with no number loads iContact
Pressing the end button with no number quits the app.
Skinning from anywhere!
for more information and requestes please visit this forum post
22 downloads
PocketCM v0.16
By PaulOBrienPocketCM is a finger friendly contact application for PDA phone, it will allow you to scroll to you list of contacts, call them and edit them.
Actually it's the rewrite in native of ContactManager, a .NET version of a finger friendly contact.
Are you using a VGA device? You'll need to download and install a VGA theme here.
If you are using a device with a 240px square screen, you'll need the a theme that support this screen size.
What's different from other contact application:
It can be used with fingers, no need to get your stylus. Finding contact with your finger is really easy, it's different than other software: if you press you finger on the left or right border of the screen it will allow you to select the letter you're searching for, release the finger, it will show you the contact starting with this letter. Why does it work? Human being cannot point directly to the right letter on a small screen, however human are very precise while moving their finger. So you press the screen, see the feedback, adjust the position to the right letter... and you're done!
It's animated: the list scroll with your finger in a natural movement, the transition between contact detail and contact list are animated.
You can set contact as favorites, they will appear in the favorite list, perfect to get a quicklist of contacts under the finger.
You can edit your contact picture from the software, simply tap on the contact picture.
You can customize about everything by changing the setting.ini: color, font, background image, etc...
From ContactManager here's what's new/modified:
- Native version: this version doesn't use .NET compact framework, it's written in C++.
- Faster version: I've put some time improving performance, on my device, it goes quite well, tell me about you.
- Faster display: drawing is also optimized, however, it may have some issue for advanced theming, tell me about it.
- New fade effect while calling/edit conact/set picture, this offer a better transition between application, tell me what you think.
- Contact update if added/changed/deleted from other application (including activesync).
- Memory footprint: No more .NET crap, picture of contact should also take less memory.
- Ability to remove contact picture.
- Edit contact now goes to edit page directly.
- New contact now goes to edit page directly.
- New theme packaging (a theme in one file instead of many).
- Letter bar between contact.
- New setting for non latin alphabet (coming with localization but now it's technically possible).
- SMS conversation panel: hitting SMS button now goes to an SMS page. It will allow to send an SMS display previous conversation with this contact...
To close PocketCM Contacts, press for 250 ms to phone button at the bottom right of the screen. To minimize PocketCM Contacts, tap in the upper right corner.
Update Description:
- New white and black theme by default.
- Support both VGA and QVGA (no need for a specific theme).
- Faster loading (like really faster).
- Gradient filling for most of the theme (without image, so smoother gradient).
- Faster switching to landscape/portrait.
- Lot of bug fixes (mainly because of code merging).
- Theme are still zip file, but with zip file extension (may change in stable release, depending of feedback).
- Localization options: the language can be choosen from the option menu.
- New theme engine: give lot more option to themer/skinner, better performance and more coherency.
- Edit before call option: press a call button for 250ms, you'll be able to edit the number.
- If you press a contact for 250ms in the list, you can call the contact directly.
- SMS optimization, read message faster, doesn't block the device.
- Support for second and third e-mail address.
- 40% improved startup time.
- PocketCM 0.10 support.
- Fixed for landscape mode..
- Bug fixes.
- Lighter executable, about 200Kb less.
- Fixed an issue with the cab installer.
- Current index position indicator.
- Better list scrolling feedback at beginning and end of list.
- Option menu to choose theme (Theme don't need to be called theme.cmt anymore, they can be called anything.cmt. Put them in the program folder, hold the phone button for a second, choose option, then choose theme, and pick the one you like).
- SIP setting is persistant and independant of Windows Mobile: You choose the SIP you like (or no sip) and it will be used by PCM no matter what SIP you're using in WM.
- Staying pressed on a message mark it as read/unread.
- Fixed PCM looks without theme (it's definitly better with a theme, but is usable).
- Bug fixes.
- And yes for some really annoying people (I hope they have some sense of humor), an option to get out of fullscreen.
- PhonePad to quickly find your contacts.
- SMS menu, tap an SMS do something:
o Mark as read/unread.
o Resend message.
o Delete message.
o Delete entire conversation.
- SIP selection in SMS (coming for Notes), tap on the header of the SMS panel to get a menu:
o Change/Hide SIP.
o Delete entire conversation.
o Change target SMS number.
o Call a contact number directly.
- Bug fixes: PocketCM shouldn't hang when receiving messages.
- Internal change in SIP handling.
- Ability to run the classic contact application (press the phone button for 250 ms).
- Fullscreen: PocketCM now takes profit of all the screen space and offer more option easily accessible.
- Icon panel at bottom with easy access to favorites/SMS/Filter.
- SMS counter on icon panel.
- SMS view is sorted by date.
- SMS counter update correctly when setting read/unread from other apps.
- Support for custom font in settings.
- Index for searching across city/company.
- Improved loading time.
- Bug fixes.
- Fixes a regression bug (unable to create contact).
- SMS character counter.
- Contact with unread SMS appears on top.
- Tapping on an SMS change read/unread status.
- You can create contact when you receive SMS from an unknown contact.
- PocketCM handle incoming SMS: bring the window to top and highlight the contact (Note that it doesn't affect the way the message is stored, standard messaging application is still responsible for storing the SMS, also a soft-reset may be required for it to work).
- Contact caching: will load contact from cache, so a lot faster (note that obviously the first start ever is still slow).
- Update touch theme with background.
- Transparent Edit boxes for note and SMS.
- New setting to allow more number to be recognized as SMS number.
- Bug fixes.
- CAB: Uninstall should set WM default contact manager as contact manager.
- Add support for note, tap on the contact detail information, to go to notes.
- Tap on the contact picture to go to the contact menu.
- Bug fixes (contact add/deletion, unicode, etc...).
- Performance enhancement.
- Keyboard search: type a letter and it filter the contact containing what you type.
- Support for transparent SMS conversation.
- More settings.
- Bug fixes: SMS threading.
- Other bug fixes.
- Version fixes: crash when filtering contact while loading, SMS sending, SMS threading, finger sliding, category listing, separator transparency.
- Category support.
- Delete support.
- New contact from scratch support.
- Bug fix: unicode SMS, SMS sending, D-pad crash, etc...
- Better D-PAD handling.
- Performance enhancements.
- Contact icon (thank DADy).
- Fix regression bug with favorite introduced with 0.7.
- No more keyboard (you can now get a real soft-input panel here).
- Added mail button, you can now send mail directly from the contact screen.
- Fixed refresh bug for VGA device.
- Fixed animation bug for favorite screen.
- Other minor bug fixes.
- Support for unicode config file (index letter should be localizable now).
- Bug fixes in theme and support for background image.
- New Touch v2 theme by default, old one can be found in theme section.
- Various smaller bug fixes.
- New setting for scrolling animation duration.
- New transition effect for favorite.
- Cab installer.
- Complete rewrite of the application from scratch. Better design.
- Major loading and performance improvment in most part.
- SMS panel: see your previous conversation, send message.
- New transition effect: fade to black and flip.
- Localization support with localized index.
- Memory footprint improvment.
- New theme packaging: one single file to distribute your theme.
- SIP test: keyboard that suggest word based on letter position, try it!.
- Better landscape mode support.
- Better VGA support.
- Contact list is updated if added/removed/changed from other source (ActiveSync for instance).1
5 downloads
SSContact v1.1.3
By PaulOBrienMore support and updates at this forum post
2 downloads
By PaulOBrienv0.0.4.7
TouchLaunch is simple application launcher, which scans startmenu shortcuts, and list them alphabetically. This is very early alpha and my first program release.
-finger friendly scroll function
-quick alphabet shortcuts, either letterbar on screen edge, or abcgrid(similar to iContact )
-you can use todays' background image as this launcher's background
-supports custom icons ( 46 included in cab )
-you can categorize shortcuts in unlimited number of categories
-finger gestures to move through categories,left and right sweeps changes category
16 downloads
By PaulOBrienVAXED is a good known PalmOS old blocks game that has roots in Puzznic. THis is a port for Windows Mobile with is quite interesting !
for more information and updates please visit the project web site
5 downloads
PocketToolman v2.0
By PaulOBrienPocketToolman is a freeware tray utility for Windows Mobile 6
[*]Suspend - allows you to power-off the Pocket PC without having to press the Power button. You can also add the Suspend icon in the tray for easy access
[*]Soft Reset - performs soft reset.
[*]Settings - quick access to Control Panel applets.
[*]ScreenOff - switches off the screen. You can create a shortcut to invoke ScreenOff. Great for binding to a hardware button to easy access
[*]Lock Device - allows you to lock the Pocket PC when it's running. Using the same system password for unlocking.
[*]Stay Alive [Power] - allows you to temporarily stop your Pocket PC from auto power-off.
[*]Battery Meter - displays the battery life percentage in the systray
[*]Disconnect - Disconnects current RAS connection
[*]PIN Lock - Invoke the PIN prompt. *You must have the PIN prompt enabled for this to work.
[*]Add Bluetooth icon in tray for easily power on/off Bluetooth. *Supports Microsoft Bluetooth Stack ONLY
[*]Add WiFi icon in tray for easily power on/off WiFi
[*]Disable SMS 'Message delivered" popup
[*]Disable HTC screen off after a call has been connected
[*]Enable/Disable window animation
[*]Enable/Disable menu animation
[*]Enable/Disable sliding keyboard to wake up phone
[*]Increase System Font Cache
[*]Increase File System Cache
[*]Increase File System Filter Cache
[*]Enable GPS Photo for HTC TyTN II
[*]Disable camera default 90-degrees clockwise rotation
[*]Hides contacts on SIM card - On my TyTN II, after a soft-reset, the flag is restored to show contacts on SIM card. With PT, if you set it to run at Startup, what PT does is apply the setting during execution, then applies again after roughly a minute after soft-reset to ensure SIM contacts are set to hide.
[*]Enable/Disable SMS Delivery Report
[*]Enable/Disable Flight Mode
[*]Data Connections - Allows you to disable data connection entries to stop them from connecting automatically. You can also set data connection to be AlwaysOn
[*]Use one line to show date in Today Date plugin if possible
[*]Make reminders show only once
[*]Enable/Disable Lunar Calendar
[*]Change 4-way pad behavior in PIE
[*]Enable/Disable ClearType in PIE
[*]Enable/Disable running scripts in PIE
[*]Enable/Disable running ActiveX controls in PIE
[*]Enable/Disable ClearType in Landscape mode
[*]Show EDGE network icon instead of GPRS
2 downloads
QDz v0.0.6-w
By PaulOBrienQDz is a free contact application that sorts your contacts alphabetically and categorise them into several tabs.
You can use it to find your contact quickly and send an SMS or call the contact conveniently with this intuitive user interface.
- Phone call.
- Mail (SMS, Outlook E-mail, Hotmail, MMS, POP3).
- Camera.
Update Description:
- Add 'Copy to Clipboard'.
- Add show company name option.
- Add hide QDz after call/mail option.
- Add move to prior/next tab UP/DOWN key option.
- Bug fix.
- Add contact loading dialog.
- Add simple/picture contact list mode.
- Add category filter.
- Hide window after calling/sending.
- Add default contact picture option.
- Add external mailer application option.
- One-click contact opening and call or sms inside contact.
- Make the exit button really exit.
- Fixed some bugs.
6 downloads
RJV SMS Scheduler for PPC
By PaulOBrienA free SMS Scheduler for PPC.SMS Scheduler for PPC Features:
* Unlimited number of scheduled SMS
* Unlimited recipients (individual contacts and groups)
* Send to Group facilty (scheduled or outright)
* Program doesn't run in the background
* Schedule resumes even when screen is OFF or after doing a soft reset
* Notification for each sent message
* Supports landscape (QVGA) screen mode
* Best of all it's FREE!!!
3 downloads
MView v1.1
By PaulOBrienMView is a simple molecular imaging software for Pocket PC 2002/2003. With MView you can for FREE edit and view your *.xyz, *.PDF and crystalographic *.bul, *.sur files.
The version 1.0 can show up to 199 atoms with diffrent view modes (balls, sticks and scaled ball sticks) stereo or mono view. Additionally you can find extra options in OPTION menu like perspective efect or simple randering (still under construction).
If you are familiar with crystlography than for *.bul files you can find interesitng option REPETITION in x, y and z direction (OPTIONS MENU).
In this just 1.0 version simple editing of atoms is added but you can only select and delete selected atoms.
3 downloads
Meditation Timer v3.3.0
By PaulOBrienMeditation Timer uses an optical signal, a bell or a wood block to control the duration of your meditation.
It includes a progress bar, auto-dimmer, medition logbook (MS Excel compatible csv-file) and several texts for inspiration and rezitation.
Update Description:
- Includes a 2nd bell, a detailed report, customizable list of texts, additional intervall timer, metronom for recitation.
- Incudes Mediation Log and is Windows Mobile 5.0 compatible.
3 downloads
toosten flight mode V2.1
By PaulOBrienSmall free Tool for Phone edition pocket deactivates PC, which switch the equipment into the flight mode, i.e. the phonedevice.
"toosten flight mode V2.exe" change mode
"toosten flight mode V2.exe /fm=on" flight mode
"toosten flight mode V2.exe /fm=off" aktivate sim
8 downloads
Eric Carr of KISS Theme - FREE
By PaulOBrienFree Eric Carr, from KISS, Theme
7 downloads
Cell MP3 v1.0
By PaulOBrienCellMP3 allows you to control the playing of your MP3 collection from any web enabled device including Cell Phones, PDAs, Laptops, etc. It basically turns these devices into remote controls for your MP3s. The remote control will have all the standard capabilities of any good MP3 player.
Impress your friends by changing your music with just a touch of your cell phone OR connect your computer's soundcard to outdoor speakers and control your music FROM OUTSIDE during your next BBQ.
Please go to the url below to get more information and documentation about this software.
Currently Not Available
4 downloads
By PaulOBrienA classic gomoku game. The object is to place 5 X's in a straight line before the computer can. If you do, you win!
Home page: www.soft4ppc.com
Support: [email protected]
4 downloads
Mobipocket CONTROL-EMUL8R Plugin
By PaulOBrienUse the TiltCONTROLto control Mobipocket. With the Mobipocket CONTROL-EMUL8R Plugin you can use the motion of your Pocket PC to flip the pages of a book in Mobipocket.
What is the CONTROL-EMUL8R Software?
CONTROL-EMUL8Ris a program that runs on your Pocket PC, which allows you to controlany application on your mobile computing device by tilting it in your hand.
The CONTROL-EMUL8Rsoftware uses theTiltCONTROLdevice to emulate either the stylus and the touch-pad, or the D-Pad to controlany application. To control an application all you need to do is install the CONTROL-EMUL8RPlugin for the application that you want to use the TiltCONTROL to control. Then launch the application that you want to use, and plug the TiltCONTROL in. If there is no CONTROL-EMUL8RPlugin available for the application you want to use, you can either create your own using the Plugin Creator, or contact us at ECERTech.com, and we will look into creating a CONTROL-EMUL8RPlugin specifically for the application that you are using.
Visit the CONTROL-EMUL8RPlugins section to view the latest available Plugins.
What is the TiltCONTROL?
The TiltCONTROL is a small device that attaches to a Windows Mobile Device such as a Pocket PC or SmartPhone. The TiltCONTROL is able to detect the precise angle that the Mobile Device is being held at, and send this information to the attached Pocket PC or SmartPhone.
By plugging the TiltCONTROL into any supported device you can control any application or game on your Pocket PC or SmartPhone by simply tilting the device from left to right or up and down. Use it to play games, scroll up and down the pages of documents or web pages, or flip the pages of an electronic book with the flick of a wrist.
In addition to being able to control applications with motion, the following applications are also available, which allow you to do even more with the TiltCONTROL:
TiltMOUSE. A program whichturns your Windows Mobile Device into awireless mouse, which can be used in mid air, for your Personal Computer.
TiltDISPLAY for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.An application that usesthe TiltCONTROL to determine what orientation the screen of your Pocket PC should be in, and instantly changes from portrait to landscape as you rotate the device.
V-TECH Vehicle Performance calculator. An application that uses the TiltCONTROL to measure the acceleration of your vehicle, and from this can calculate the performance characteristics of your vehicle such as 1/4 Mile performance, and display Horsepower and Torque curves.
TiltLEVEL. A program which runs on your Windows Mobile Device and and uses the TiltCONTROL to measure then graphically display the current angle that the PDA is being held at .
Pocket Pedometer. An application that uses the TiltCONTROLto calculate the number of steps the user of the Pocket PC or SmartPhone has taken.
10 downloads
Diamond/Pro Tweak
By PaulOBrienAdvanced tweaking application for your HTC Touch Diamond/Pro
This tool allows you to simply apply all the important Diamond tweaks.
FOr more information and updates please visit the developer web site
0 downloads
Bluetooth Toggle
By PaulOBrienToggle your bluetooth on and off with just one click. Just copy the application file on your device and place it in /Windows/SmartMenu/Programs then when you click it once it will turn the bluetooth on and after clicking it again it will switch it off thats it, nice and easy saves time and clicks.
23 downloads
By PaulOBrienNullKeyboard is a keyboard utility which disable the screen keyboard so it wont mess up the things while you don't need it for example when browsing an Exel table sheet.
You may need to restart your device in order to use it !
14 downloads
HTC Action
By PaulOBrienAccess your phones main features with just one finger tap on the screen. New SMS, New Task, New Appointment etc. are now easy to access with the new HTC Action. You can assign this little application to one of your hardware keys and have all those options on one click.
28 downloads
PIM Backup v2.2
By PaulOBrien- speed dials
- tasks
- added escape character in text, so the parsing of csv text works in all cases.
CAUTION, a bad parsing can still appear for backups made in earlier versions.
- added binary backups for fastness and reliability. (A tool will be provided in the future to allow to convert text backups to binary backups and vice-versa).
- schedule problem fixed.
- added UNC folders names for default folders (inbox, outbox, sent items, drafts, deleted items) in messages, so the restore could be done on a device having another language.
- fixed the problem of messages stored in folders at the same level as Inbox
- creation of temporary backup files can be either in memory or in the backup destination folder.
The exe contained in the zip file, should be copied and launched on the pocket pc, and not on a pc.
2 downloads
Halloween theme
By PaulOBrienHalloween theme skin for your Today screen made by MyLostBlog, available for VGA and QVGA
For more information please visit the MyLostBlog web site
7 downloads
BlackFlip v0.5
By PaulOBrienThe rules of the game are really very simple : there are black and white tiles which need to be flipped so that each row is either all white or all black... Different lines can even have different colors. Yes, as simple as that !But the twist is that you can only do a single path, which can't overlap with itself. To draw that path, simple click on the puzzle, and move around. You can backtrack at anytime. To validate the path, simply click on the destination point and it'll flip all the tiles !
The grey border around is a neutral zone : no flipping on it, and it's not involved in the color check. So you can move on that one as if you were moving in and out of the puzzle. Doesn't sound like much, but using the grey tiles effectively is the key to solving the hardest puzzles.
The games main feature is it's incredibly hi number of puzzles : more than 6000 !!! These range from very easy (0 stars, solvable in a few seconds) to very hard (5 stars, only solvable in a few minutes and by advanced players)...
This early release is pretty crappy, misses a few graphics, and doesn't actually have more features than that. But all the puzzles are available/solvable, and your progress is saved.
If you like puzzle games, this is a must-have ! If you don't like puzzle games... Well... Just give it a try, it's a matter of seconds before you learn how it works and see the potential of the beast. Just don't play directly on the harder puzzles...
TODO-list for the next versions :
- Better general interface
- Sorted menu (by author, difficulty, etc...)
- Winning/losing animations
- In-game level creator
- Level generator with difficulty settings (not as fun as real levels, and... well, just finish the 6000 levels first...)
- Etc...
ALL the credit for the game idea goes to Mitchell Corp. for creating the original Polarium game (for Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance). If you like this game, considering buying one of those versions, the author definitely deserves the money !Blackflip PocketPC is a port from the flash version by [F]laboratorium.org. All the credit for the graphics and the levels go to them and all the users who contributed to making/sharing all these puzzles. The game will be updated regularly to have up-to-date versions with the latest levels !
Have fun !
9 downloads
PocketCM Keyboard v0.11 RC3
By PaulOBrienIt offers a visible feedback of the key currently pressed, you can imagine that your finger is on the keyboard... and now you can easily see what key is pressed.
You can move your finger, the key will change, release it, the key will be triggered (so it's the opposite of a physical keyboard: the actual action is when you release the key, not when you push it).
For VGA Support, please download a VGA skin, for instance here. Unzip the file of this zip archive in the PocketCM Keyboard directory (program filespcmkeyboard for most of us).
Why another keyboard for Windows Mobile? Because:
- It can be used with fingers.
- It suggest word based on letter position.
- It trigger the key when your remove your finger from the screen, not when you press it.
- It can be customized.
- It's a standard Windows Mobile SIP, so to use it you have to select it as the input method, therefore it can be used in (almost) any application.
Other reasons includes:
Customizable layout: as you can see the layout is "azerty" for the screenshot, by default PocketCM Keyboard comes with a QWERTY layout. Creating your own is just a question of editing a text file.
Accent recognition and suggestion: the keyboard know accentued letter... so for instance, the french word for summer is "été", if I type 'e', 't', 'e', the keyboard will suggest "été". No need to go to a sub/hidden keyboard doing some accentued letters.
Once you get used to it, you can grab it with two hand and type with the thumb... goes pretty well.
Missing/planned feature:
- Landscape mode: most landscpae device already have a KB. Do you need landscape support?
- Keyboard color customization.
- Better suggestion button.
- Ability to create keys that enter more text (for instance a ;-) smiley key.
Uninstall the keyboard manually:
Since v0.4 it shouldn't be useful to do it manually, however, here is the procedure if it doesn't work as expected.
After removing the cab, there may still be an entry in the keyboard list. To get rid of it, using your favorite registry editor.
Remove the key (and subkey):
Update Description:
v0.11 RC3 (27-10-2007):
- Bug fixes for VGA support.
- Performance improvement.
- Feedback windows appear after a short delay (or after sliding the finger), allow faster typing.
- Keyboard position should be more coherent.
- No more fade animation for symbol pad (faster typing, for just a little less eye candy).
- Bug fixes for symbol pad.
v0.10 RC2 (25-10-2007):
This is another bug fixes release, the objective is to get a stable version before starting adding big new feature. However, some nice stuff are there.
- Performance improvement while typing SMS and mail.
- Better landscape support: the key are larger.
- Better handling of switching from landscape to portrait.
- Update layout.
>> German Layout (thanks Krille).
>> Polish Layout (thanks Mr Groch).
>> Portuguese (thanks kalavera).
- Bug fixes.
- Fix bug with suggestion in Excel.
- Fix bug with symbol pad on ',' key.
- Speed improvement: you should be able to type really fast.
- Memory optimization.
- Bug fixes for layout containing [].
- New default french (français) layout.
- Bug fixes:
>> Suggestion box disappear if leaving input box.
>> Better suggestion handling.
>> Typing fast after autocorrection doesn't make wrong suggestion anymore.
>> Layout issue with "" fix.
>> Symbol pad now appear near the symbol letter if they don't fill the screen width.
>> Using arrow key break suggestion.
>> Tapping on "add word" then moving the finger out will not add to dictionary anymore.
>> Key notation using [#...] now support larger letter.
>> Fixed setting saving, now setting layout then skin won't drop layout setting change.
>> Switching to landscape now redraw the keyboard correctly.
>> Other minor bugfixes.
- Speed improvment.
- New keyboard icon, however please give feedback about the future icon.
- Option screen now allows you to choose the current dictionary.
- New dictionary file name: the extension has to be "dict", not "txt" (note that custom word, remains in word.txt).
- Support for key trigger more than one letter (for instance, choosing the "..." key will simulate three typing of '.').
- Feedback is also show for symbol keys.
- Suggestion shouldn't be shown for password.
- 0.7 is also a bug fixes release:
>> Fixed memory leak.
>> Fixed some issue related to theme and dictionary loading.
>> Symbol pad sometimes appear above the window.
- It is a bug fixes release:
>> Fixed crash when tapping on some part of the keyboard.
>> Feedback disappeared after moving out of the kb.
>> Memory leak with suggestion.
>> Suggestion with letter from symbol pad were buggy.
>> Keyboard disappeared after moving out from symbol pad without selecting a letter.
>> Symbol pad was only available on special characters.
>> Some timer weren't killed properly, possible battery drain.
- Multiple symbol pad can be defined on any key.
- Build-in copy/cut/paste (press enter key for 250ms).
- Automatic back space repeat.
- Double tap on shift key to lock.
- Customizable symbol pad (available on any key trough settings).
- Customizable image on every key (through settings).
- More key available for layout: tab, esc, home, end, etc...
- Feedback window now is always centered.
- Bug fixes (row number, etc...) and optimization.
- Option dialog (deactivate autocompletion, choose layout and skin).
- New skin: "Dream".
- Speed optimization.
- Better support for more row: now the number of row is determined by the layout, you can even have different number of row for each layout.
- Better localization support.
- Suggestion box positioning improvment.
- Bug fixes.
- Clean uninstall: uninstalling the keyboard should cleanly remove the keyboard from the list.
- Fixed issue with skinning (not able to load images) and enable Windows Mobile suggestion in messaging app.
- Performance optimization.
- Bug fixes.
- Skin support.
- More settings.
- Ability to disable auto-correction.
- Suggestion box is placed near the caret.
- Suggestion box color (can be customized).
>> Green: I'm gonna replace your text with that.
>> Blue: your word seems correct, tap here for alternative.
>> Red: I don't know your word or any near word, is it a new one?
- Suggestion can be undone: after fixing your text, a button with your previous text appear, tap on it to go back.
- Shift key (can't be locked yet, it's coming).
- Tap and hold symbol key for 500ms and quick symbol will appear, choose your symbol and release (perfect to quickly tap a ? or ! without switching keyboards).
- Performance improvment.
- Bug fixes.
- Better default english dictionary (and smaller).
- Support for VGA devices.
4 downloads
By PaulOBrienPocketReperion is Windows Mobile Software that brings you instant live GPS Tracking in Google Earth, Virtual Earth and Google Maps.
The client can upload your GPS positions to our server every 10 seconds or more. You can configure the minimal distance that you should move before an update is sent. The client is also capable of storing the positions offline, so you can upload them at a later time when you have a cheap internet connection. Updates are really small, 100 bytes on average.
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Cultural and environmental factors influence green speed
The effects of nitrogen and mowing height on putting-green speed are well-known. Less obvious are the long-term effects of secondary practices, such as topdressing, aerating and grooming-among other practices-and the interaction of these practices. As a result, getting the "right" speed for your putting greens may not be as simple as adjusting mowing height or fertility. despite conventional wisdom.
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln surveyed 107 golf courses in Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa from 1994 to 1996. The superintendents provided information on nitrogen rate and frequency, mowing height and frequency, irrigation frequency, verticutting and topdressing frequency, aerating, grooming and using plant growth regulators (PGRs) in their programs. The researchers also collected environmental data such as temperature, humidity, surface hardness and soil-moisture content from several greens on each golf course. They obtained information on each course's type of membership (private, semi-private or public) and the type of mowers the grounds crews used (riding or walk-behind). The researchers' primary interest, however, was the "speed" of the putting greens relative to the overall greens-management program of each golf-course superintendent.
Using a USGA Stimpmeter, the research staff determined each putting green's speeds. The stimpmeter is a device that enables users to make an accurate, standard measurement of ball-roll distance (BRD) (often incorrectly referred to as green speed). (See related article, "How To: Measure putting-green speeds," January 1997.) Longer BRDs indicate "faster" putting greens.
What did researchers discover? That interactions among management practices occur and that the use and intensity of one management practice may influence the effects of others. The next step, then, was for the researchers to subject the data to further analysis to determine whether two practices "interacted" and whether these two depended on each other.
The number of golf courses and their relatively broad geographic distribution resulted in differences among creeping-bentgrass cultivars on the surveyed putting greens. To evaluate cultivar as well as seasonal differences, the researchers collected data from cultivar trials located near Lincoln, Neb., and Manhattan, Kan. They measured BRDs in the spring, summer and fall on 18 different cultivars.
Cultivar, location and seasonal effects on BRD BRD measurements did not differ among cultivars at either the Nebraska or Kansas location (see table, page G 52). Although the newer creeping bentgrass cultivars have markedly different growth characteristics, these differences did not influence BRD.
Location and time of year, however, strongly affected BRD. It was consistently longer at the Nebraska site compared to the Kansas site, primarily due to a slightly higher mowing height at the Kansas location. Seasonal effects also were evident, with the longest BRDs occurring in the spring and fall.
Because of the seasonal effects observed in the cultivar study, the research staff also analyzed BRD data for the management practices according to season (spring vs. summer). We'll confine this article to discussing those management practices or their interactions that resulted in statistical differences. (In other words, if we don't discuss a management practice here, then its influence on BRD was not noteworthy.)
Spring BRD differences * Nitrogen (N) and topdressing. Researchers found the longest BRD when superintendents aggressively top-dressed (16 times a year) and fertilized (at 0.33 pound N per 1,000 square feet per month) their greens. When N rates exceeded 0.5 pound per 1,000 square feet per month, BRD decreased with increased topdressing frequency.
* Nitrogen and grooming. As N rates and grooming frequency increased, BRD decreased, except when N rates exceeded 0.75 pound per 1,000 square feet per month. At N rates greater than 0.75 pound per 1,000 square feet per month, BRD increased as grooming frequency increased. It is not surprising that high N application rates resulted in greater grooming requirements. The increased BRD at higher N rates, however, was less than 6 inches and few golfers would notice it.
* Verticutting and topdressing. BRD decreased with increases in verticutting and topdressing-practices that superintendents often conducted concurrently. When topdressing and verticutting are frequent and aggressive (more than 16 times per year), you may not have adequate time between treatments for recovery from the resulting surface disruption. Such disrupted putting surfaces result in shorter BRDs.
Summer BRD differences * Nitrogen and mowing. Mowing heights of less than 0.156 inch did not affect BRD when N rates were between 0.125 and 1.25 pound per 1,000 square feet per month. At mowing heights of 0.156 inch or greater, an increase in N decreased BRD.
* Nitrogen and verticutting. N rates between 0.125 and 0.75 pound per 1,000 square feet per month increased BRD when combined with more frequent verticutting. At higher N rates (in excess of 0.75 pound per 1,000 square feet per month), BRD decreased with more frequent verticutting.
* Mowing and grooming. BRD increased as grooming frequency increased at mowing heights less than 0.188 inch. Researchers measured the longest BRD at a mowing height of 0.156 inch where the superintendent groomed the green every day. (Only one golf course surveyed followed this practice.) To realize an increase in BRD at the most commonly used mowing heights of 0.125 and 0.156 inch, you must groom the green at least four times each week. At a mowing height of 0.188 inch, BRD-in fact-decreases with increased grooming frequency.
BRDs for all seasons * Irrigation. Irrigation frequency also influenced BRD. Superintendents who irrigated five times per week or less had longer BRDs than those who irrigated six to seven times per week.
* PGRs. The use of PGRs increased BRD regardless of season. Although only 8 of the 107 golf courses surveyed used PGRs, all had longer BRDs than courses with similar management practices that did not apply PGRs. The PGR predominately used by surveyed superintendents was trinexapac-ethyl (Primo by Novartis) and paclobutrazol (Scotts' TGR).
Other influences * Environmental influences on BRD. Temperature and humidity did not significantly influence BRD. Soil moisture, however, did affect BRD; greens with lower summer soil moisture had longer BRDs.
* Membership and mower type. Golfers on private courses experience longer BRDs than those who play on semi-private or public courses. Private-course BRDs were 4 percent faster than semi-private-course greens and almost 9 percent faster than greens on public courses.
As for mower type, superintendents who used walk-behind greens mowers had 20-percent-longer BRDs than those who used riding mowers. This is about a 12-inch increase in BRD.
The bottom line The number and variety of surveyed golf courses provided a large range of management practices. Researchers found that practices normally associated with increased BRDs worked toward that end only when other cultural practices were at specific levels. Although superintendents have, for years, decreased mowing heights and N fertility to increase BRD, the negative agronomic effects of such practices were also well-known. The modification of other, less stressful cultural practices, such as topdressing and grooming, may help you achieve your desired end result without sacrificing turf quality and health. Carefully weigh the positive and negative effects a management change might impose and keep in mind that alternatives may exist that are less stressful.
Dr. Roch Gaussoin is an extension turfgrass specialist at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln.
The author would like to acknowledge the assistance of Anne Rist, graduate student, and the superintendents who participated in the survey.
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(The Root) — In the 1967 landmark case Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court settled the question of whether love was colorblind in the eyes of the law. By invalidating anti-miscegenation laws that criminalized marriages between blacks and whites, the court acknowledged that the foundational right to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" transcended race and extended to matters of the heart.
Mildred Loving, the African-American wife of fellow plaintiff Richard Loving, a white man, would later support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples with a simple pronouncement: "That is what Loving, and loving, are all about."
In 2012 the court has boldly taken up two cases that may well decide the fate of marriage laws — gay-marriage laws — for the next generation.
One case determines the legality of California's Proposition 8, a referendum that stripped same-sex couples of marriage rights; while the other case, Windsor v. United States, challenges the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that prohibits benefits to gay couples who are legally married and allows states to disregard same-sex marriages performed in other states. The central question is whether these laws violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Both cases will be argued in March 2013 and decided in June.
The fate of those decisions remains in doubt. Though the current membership of the court is tilted toward conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts proved that he was willing to transcend political divides in the much-anticipated challenge to the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare"). Likewise, Justice Anthony Kennedy, long considered the court's crucial "swing vote," wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark case that struck down antiquated sodomy laws and helped pave the way for subsequent LGBT legal victories.
There is reason, therefore, to hope.
The court's review also comes after a major shift in public opinion on this subject. A recent Gallup poll shows that 73 percent of young people ages 18 to 29 expressed support for marriage equality, and a Quinnipiac poll shows that the majority of all Americans are in favor. And George Will, a vintage conservative and Washington Post columnist, put it best when he said, "Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It's old people."
And it seems that African Americans are pioneers in this gay-marriage thought revolution.
Exit polls conducted on Nov. 6 found that 52 percent of black and Hispanic voters favor marriage equality. President Obama's expression of support earlier this year may have played a role in that shift. Four years ago, California's Prop 8 garnered 70 percent of the state's African-American electorate, and a North Carolina anti-gay ballot initiative that was up for a vote right before Obama's announcement literally divided the black community — having been opposed by the NAACP but supported by prominent voices among the African-American clergy.
Nonetheless, polls suggest that the majority of African Americans now support Martin Luther King Jr.'s prophetic perspective that the arc of the universe bends toward justice. Some of that majority spoke exclusively to The Root about the evolution of African Americans on the subject of gay rights.
Sharon Lettman-Hicks, CEO of the National Black Justice Coalition, an organization committed to eradicating homophobia within the African-American community, is straight and self-describes as "a sister in the movement." She said that her commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality was inspired by the likes of Shirley Chisholm and legendary congresswoman Barbara Jordan. "I'm a Delta. Jordan was, too," she said. "After she died, I discovered she had left her entire estate to her life partner. She had been silent about her orientation because of the era in which she lived. I immediately became determined that others not bear the burden of that silence."
Perhaps things would have been different for Jordan today. Kimberley McLeod, NBJC's communications director, explained evolving attitudes on this issue. "African Americans have never been monolithically homophobic," she said. "I think what we are seeing is that the national conversation and media depictions have changed. The diversity of opinion that already existed is finally being reflected and openly expressed in the black community."
ESPN sportswriter and CNN contributor LZ Granderson agrees. "Are blacks evolving on this subject? Yes. We all are, even gay people. The more we can do to eradicate homophobia, the better off we will be." Asked if he and his partner were married, he said, "Marriage is something we talk about, but we live in Michigan. We love Michigan, and we want our marriage to matter in Michigan. This is our home."
Robert Brown and his partner, Nathanael Gay, understand all too well the complicated nature of state-sanctioned restrictions on their love. "We got 'legally' married in New York, but we had our ceremony in Kentucky," Brown told The Root. "We knew it was a big step, especially in the South, but we didn't do it to make a political statement. We did it because we were in love. We just wanted to live our lives together."
The couple garnered unintended press attention earlier this year when African-American media outlets featured video from their wedding ceremony highlighting the traditional colors of Kappa Alpha Psi, the renowned African-American collegiate fraternity to which Gay belongs.
"We do have a sense that our love matters in a broader sense," said Brown. "There have been gay weddings before ours, and black, same-sex-loving couples married before us. But the fact that Nathanael was a Kappa challenged people's ideas of what is a traditional masculine guy. That's a good thing. It helps broaden the perspective of gay men and black gay men especially."
Aisha Moodie-Mills, an adviser for the Center for American Progress who lives with her wife, Danielle, in Washington, D.C., also weighed in. "Lesbians like my wife and I are symbols of love, marriage and stability which isn't foreign to African-American families but which is only now being celebrated. I think the bigger picture is that we are living, loving and laboring out loud — and we inspire others to do the same."
Darryl Moore, a Berkeley, Calif., city councilman and NBJC board member, was legally married to his partner before Proposition 8 and expressed a more holistic approach. Moore believes that no matter which way the Supreme Court rules, it is only the beginning.
"My husband and I are an example to loving couples, both black and white, gay and straight. But gay marriage isn't the only priority," he said. "Employment discrimination matters. Health disparities matter. The disproportionate number of black men and women contracting HIV/AIDS matters even more. These issues are as important as marriage equality, and I hope that African Americans everywhere will join us in the fight."
Editor's note: The original version of this article identified Aisha Moodie-Mills as an attorney for the Center for American Progress. She is an adviser for the center.
Edward Wyckoff Williams is contributing editor at The Root. He is a columnist and political analyst, appearing on Al-Jazeera, MSNBC, CBS Washington and national syndicated radio. Follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
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The padlocks came off the gates at 10 a.m. Friday as the 2013 State Fair of Texas opened in Dallas with food, festivities and football.
The State Fair of Texas held a dedication ceremony for Big Tex Friday afternoon.
Shortly after 2 p.m., fairgoers got to hear the state fair icon speak for the first time since his big reveal Thursday. High winds forced organizers to pull the curtain Thursday afternoon, one day ahead of schedule.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Big Tex became an instant conversation topic.
"I think he looks a little darker and his chest isn't as big," Kristi Coleman said.
Others said they couldn't decide if he looked older or younger.
But everyone agreed on his voice.
"I think it sounds just like Big Tex," Scott Coleman said.
The State Fair of Texas isn't revealing who is behind the big voice or how many people applied for the job.
After the announcement, Big Tex spoke again, reminding people about the ribbon-cutting later in the afternoon and the Starlight Parade, but his lips didn't move. Fair officials said it was a little hiccup with the new technology, assuring fairgoers Big Tex works just fine and will hopefully be free of hiccups for the remainder of the fair.
The new Big Tex replaces the previous model that burned toward the end of last year's fair. He is bigger and better than ever, weighing 19,000 pounds more, which brings him to 25,000 pounds. He's 3 feet taller and now stands 55 feet tall. Big Tex can also withstand 100 mph winds, making him ready for any Texas weather.
His new duds created by Dickies and a smart pair of boots from Lucchese instantly drew attention. The boots are decorated with artwork, including designs of the Texas and American flags, the State Capitol, bluebonnets, longhorns and other Lone Star State-inspired icons seen on the sides.
Click here to read more about the new Big Tex and see more photos of the newly rebuilt icon.
On the main stage, the Western swing band "Asleep At The Wheel" performs for free Friday night.
In the Fair Park stadium, Army plays Louisiana Tech in college football Saturday afternoon. Grambling State and Prairie View A&M have their annual encounter Oct. 5, while Oklahoma takes on Texas on Oct. 12 in the Red River Rivalry football matchup.
Fried food fans have a lot to look forward to as the State Fair opens as well. Two new "Big Tex Choice Award" winners will hit the stands for attendees to try.
A deep-fried Cuban roll filled with chopped ham, pork shoulder, cheese and pickles drew "Best Taste" honors at the State Fair of Texas' fried-food contest.
Meanwhile, the three-judge panel for the Big Tex Choice Awards chose to give its "Most Creative" honors to a Thanksgiving dinner of stuffing, turkey and cream corn rolled into a ball and deep fried.
Previous Big Tex winners include Deep-Fried Jambalaya, Deep-Fried Bubblegum, and Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack.
Find your favorite food in the State Fair of Texas guide on the State Fair's official site.
The 127th annual State Fair of Texas' theme this year is "The One and Only."
NBC 5's Amanda Guerra and Eric King contributed to this report.


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Saving lives with satellite data
Rescuing crew that have fallen overboard in bad weather is fraught with difficulty. Handling the boat and returning to a position close enough to the person is not always easy, especially when operating under stressful conditions. A new system proposes to use satellite navigation to locate the precise position of casualties, and ultimately save lives.
Peter Hall and Christine Edwards, both of British start-up company Sci-Tech Systems, have come up with a scheme to help save lives using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Named Person Overboard (POB), the system provides real time monitoring of the casualty's position, enabling an immediate and more efficient local rescue. The operation has been enhanced by an original design created by London Associates.
Best chance of survival is rescue by own crew
"The innovation of our system is that it sends the real-time position coordinates back to the ship of where the person is in the water, not where the person fell overboard. This will help in locating the casualty faster," says Peter Hall, Technical Director of Sci-Tech Systems.
"A fast rescue is important, especially if the casualty is in cold or freezing water when survival time is short."
"There are systems which can record the GPS position of where the person has fallen overboard. However if you have a cross tide of 3 knots, then after 15 minutes, which is the time it might take to turn the boat around, the person can already be half a mile down tide. So when you are back to the recorded GPS position, you are half a mile away from the casualty."
The system is composed of a crew unit and a ship unit. All crew members onboard wear a crew unit in their lifejacket, which deploys and starts transmitting its position when the person falls overboard.
The ship unit receives and feeds this position into the standard onboard navigation equipment, which then guides the crew back to the casualty's position.
"The moment the person falls over, the unit signals that a crew member is in the water. It receives GNSS signals and transmits the exact position back to the boat. Because it is transmitted to the boat and the distance is not great, the power required is considerably less than that required to send a signal to a satellite. We should therefore be able to package it well and get a small and easy to wear unit the size of a mobile phone," explains David Lewin, Business and Marketing at Sci-Tech Systems.
"The product design is also the key to the success of the system", adds Christine Edwards, Technical Director of Sci-Tech Systems.
"The innovative industrial design of the POB, which was created by Will Bentall of London Associates, ensures that it will float upright in rough seas, essential for good radio communications with the ship."
The accuracy of both the boat and the casualty's position is critical since rescue will usually be attempted in bad weather conditions, possibly at night, with little or no visual contact with the person in the water. Initially the system is planned to operate using GPS signals, with improved accuracy provided by EGNOS. In the future it will operate with Galileo in order to take advantage of its higher accuracy.
As experienced sailor David Lewin emphasises, "The idea to display the position of the crew member in the water on equipment that is being used all the time on a ship is a very important element. As leisure sailors, we spend our days and nights staring at a GPS receiver."
"When a person goes overboard and we have a casualty situation, we will know exactly what to do because we know the equipment. It will give us all the information we need to get to where the person is in the water."
"When panic strikes and one must do the right thing under the extreme stress of an emergency, it is important that the crew be using equipment that they are very familiar with," emphasises David Lewin.
As the POB unit will transmit the location of the person in the water back to the ship unit on an open radio frequency, the signal can be automatically picked up by any other boat in the area using the same equipment.
This is a great advantage in some situations, for example in a fishing fleet or a sailing race, where all boats can cooperate and look for the casualty together.
Person overboard idea wins two international prizes
The POB system won two first prizes in this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition: the overall Galileo Master prize out of 300 submitted ideas, and the European Global Navigation Satellite System Supervisory Authority (GSA) special prize for being the best application taking advantage of using the improved localisation provided by the EGNOS overlay signal on GPS.
"The status of the system is that all the circuitry is known and we have tested all the concepts. We need some help from an antenna manufacturer and a chip manufacturer to make it small, and to bring down battery consumption. We are also looking for a funding partner for the next stage," says Christine Edwards. "We should be able to get our POB system to the market within 12 to 18 months."
The system is targeted at commercial fishing boats, merchant shipping, offshore exploration (oil rigs), passenger vessels, and the leisure yachting market.
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Well, I did it again. Went into a race completely under-trained. Oh well...I had a blast!
I hadn't run a race on the Superior Hiking Trail for a few years! We camped it the last few years so I have run upon its gnarly beauty-ness but haven't entered anything.
After feeling terrible at Louisville I put Superior away, I wasn't going to do it. I just wasn't feeling it. Waaa waaa waaa cry about it, right. Well, then lo and behold, my friend Misty set her wedding day celebration right after the race, lakeside. I certainly wasn't going to miss her wedding and I couldn't go up to Lusten for the wedding without running the race...so I decided I'd run..two weeks out.
I quickly booked a room at Caribou..I couldn't believe that I was able to get a room on such short notice. Normally it sells out quickly. I love staying at Caribou for the 50K. We start and finish on their property.
The matter of training..guess I better run a quick 20..that's just what I did. Egads. With snow all over the trails I ran road-flat road. Whatev...
I was excited about the race. I hadn't run the race since John Storkamp took over as RD. It's been a while.
Checking in on Friday I visited with the gang, caught up on all the racing news. So much fun.
Early to bed and able to sleep in..with no driving to the start line I woke up without an alarm and mozied out to the start line.
I just totally enjoyed myself the whole way. I took it nice and easy, took photos, visited when i was around others, reflected on memories as I came upon landscape which jogged my memory of past time that I've spent upon the trail. It was fabulous!
I loved that the race course now takes us up up up Carlton Peak to the very top-before turning around back to the start. In the past we would turn around before we reached the peak. It was foggy, thick and wet. It was so awesome. Just awesome.
Such a blast..the water was high, the river crashing upon the banks, an incredible trail and adventure.
After I finished I soaked in the hot tub to get the chill out. Legs felt great, no problems. No tummy distress. I stuck to gels and water, perfect.
This race got the mojo flowing again. I don't know why I let a bad run in KY change my plans but hey, it happens. I feel like training again, I feel like making progress, I feel like pushing again.
I feel like running Superior Sawtooth 100 again. That's a good thing!


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STEP in Stuttgart-Vaihingen
STEP Stuttgarter Engineering Park
Gropiusplatz 2
70563 Stuttgart
Room Dalí (ground floor, left-hand behind the stairs)
Date and Time
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 17:30
This Demo Camp will be sponsored by itemis AG, Eclipse strategic member and the leading company for model-driven software development.
If your company is willing to co-sponsor this event, please contact Niko Stotz.
- Mark Brörkens, itemis AG: Requirements Management with Eclipse
- Jochen Krause, EclipseSource: RAP mobile
- Ed Merks, itemis AG: Xcore: Ecore Meets Xtext
- Axel Terfloth, itemis AG: Yakindu-Tools
- Gunnar Wagenknecht, AGETO: Eclipse Gyrex Demo
|17:30 – 17:45
|17:45 – 18:00
|Niko Stotz
|18:00 – 18:20
|RAP mobile
|Jochen Krause
|18:25 – 18:45
|Frank Gerhardt
GEF is one of the oldest Eclipse projects. When migrating of a good old RCP application to the Web or Mobile, the graphical editors are usually very hard to port or to rewrite. We ported GEF to JavaScript using GWT. That way you can reuse most of the Java code and compile your GEF editors to JavaScript. We also made a few extensions to support touch events on mobile devices. I will give you a demo of GEFGWT and explain how to use it.
|18:50 – 19:10
|Eclipse Gyrex Demo
|Gunnar Wagenknecht
|19:10 – 19:30
|19:30 – 19:50
|Requirements Management with Eclipse
|Mark Brörkens
|19:55 – 20:15
|Axel Terfloth
|20:20 – 20:40
|Xcore: Ecore Meets Xtext
|Ed Merks
Ecore's success stems from its power to describe deep semantic structure more concisely than Java. The downside are the tools. Certainly Ecore's structured editor is simple and effective and its graphical editor is rich and elegant but both are cumbersome compared to traditional text-based tools. The Xtext framework beckons with a solution: a textual syntax for Ecore. Going one step further, we leverage Xbase to define a concise textual notation for describing behavior and exploit it to implement constraints, derived features, operations, and data type conversion. We call this new language Xcore.
This presentation will explore Xcore's capabilities and demonstrate its powerful tools in action. They provide an experience reminiscent of JDT, as you'd expect, given their roots in Xtext. We'll also show how Xcore can be interpreted dynamically and compiled to Java statically, how it can leverage existing models currently represented as Ecore and GenModel, and how it's possible to convert between the combination of the two traditional forms and the new uniform textual representation. You'll leave this talk with an excellent understanding of some amazing new technology that will be available in the Juno release.
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If you plan on attending please add your name and company to the list below. If you have any trouble with the wiki, just send an email to Niko Stotz.
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- Syed Aoun Raza, itemis AG
- Andreas Rytina, itemis AG
- Steffen Pingel, Tasktops
- Nirmal Sasidharan, Robert Bosch GmbH
- Wladimir Safonov, itemis AG
- Mohamed Mukhtar, itemis AG
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Navy Yard suspect showed signs of trouble in Texas
Rampage leaves alleged shooter and 12 others dead
FORT WORTH — As lone gunmen involved in mass shootings go, Aaron Alexis defied the standard profile: He was black, Buddhist and reasonably sociable. Friends and acquaintances were stunned that the quiet computer network technician would show up at a federal military office Monday and open fire with not a word of warning or explanation.
But that's not to say the 34-year-old Alexis, who until recently lived for several years in suburban Fort Worth, did not have moments that hinted at a troubled personality. For starters, the New York native reportedly was discharged in 2011 from the Navy because of unspecified infractions, one of which involved a weapon discharge that sent a bullet into a neighbor's apartment.
Alexis was arrested but never charged. Police ultimately accepted his explanation that the gun went off accidentally while he was cleaning it, even though the woman who lived in the apartment above him told them she was terrified of her neighbor. She said he had repeatedly called police about her for noise-related issues and had confronted her in the parking lot.
Alexis had at least one other gun-related incident in his past. He was living in Seattle in 2004 when he was suspected of shooting out another man's tires in what police described as an anger-fueled "blackout."
Police contend he shot out the tires of a car parked near his grandmother's home in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood. According to a police statement, Alexis was suspected of firing two rounds into the rear tires of a Honda Accord, then shooting once into the air before returning to the home, which was next door to the construction site where the car had been parked.
Said he was mocked
The owner of the construction business told police he believed Alexis was angry over the parking situation around the work site. Seattle detectives arrested him a month later. Alexis told detectives he had been "mocked" by construction workers and said they had "disrespected him." Alexis also claimed he had blacked out and could not remember firing his gun at the victims' vehicle until an hour after the incident.
Angry is a word that pops up periodically in conversations about Alexis. A roommate called Fort Worth police to report his suspicion that Alexis had put something into his gas tank with the purpose of damaging his vehicle. There also was a 2008 arrest in Atlanta for disorderly conduct, though details were not immediately available.
Alexis' father, Algernon Alexis, told Seattle police that his son had anger management problems. He blamed them partly on his son's active participation in rescue efforts after the 9/11 World Trade Center bombings. When reached Monday, Algernon Alexis said he was in "complete shock" and had no explanation for his son's actions.
Alexis was in the Navy from 2007 to January of 2011, which brought him to the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth. He worked as an aviation electrician's mate, petty officer 3rd class, in the Navy Reserve's Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46, according to Navy records.
The precise nature of his discharge was not immediately available. The Washington Post reported he received a general discharge. Friends said Alexis wanted out because he did not like his work hours or his pay, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Since then, he had worked for defense contractors, sometimes upgrading computer system for Navy and Marine Corps installations. He occasionally worked as a waiter and delivery person for a Thai restaurant owned by friends. He had moved to Washington recently.
Meditated twice a week
While in Fort Worth, Alexis became friends with many in the local Thai community in the suburb of White Settlement and could be seen regularly at the Wat Busayadhammavanaram Meditation Center, where he went to meditate twice a week. But he still seemed so tightly wound that at least one worker there sought to avoid him, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"He would help people if they came in carrying heavy things," J. Sirun, an assistant to the monks at the Buddhist center, told the newspaper. "From the outside, he was a quiet person. But on the inside, I think he was very aggressive. He did not like to be close with anybody, like a soldier who has been at war."
But Sirun emphasized that he had no reason to believe that his troubles would lead to any sort of explosion.
"I didn't think he could be this violent," Sirun said. "I would not have been surprised to hear he had committed suicide. But I didn't think he could commit murder."
Another temple-goer, Somsak Srisan, told the Times that he rented Alexis a two-bedroom white bungalow behind the temple, and that he never missed a rent payment or caused a problem. Srisan said Alexis had moved out of the house at least several months ago, although he wasn't sure if he had left the Fort Worth area. Srisan said he doesn't know why Alexis left his contractor job at the base. They spoke about it only briefly once, he said.
Friend Kristi Suthamtewakul, whose restaurant Happy Thai Bowl was a gathering spot, told the Houston Chronicle that Alexis had not been happy recently and complained of problems getting government benefits. When she last saw him about two months ago, he seemed defeated.
"He wanted to move out of the country," Suthamtewakul said. "He acted like he was tired of America."
Tired, perhaps, but not violently angry. Nothing that would even hint at the carnage he inflicted Monday, when he carried several weapons into Washington's Navy Yard and opened fire in a cafeteria.
"He was not like that," she said. "There is no way I could have seen this coming. None of us could."
Likewise, other friends were stunned. He seemed like a normal, friendly guy, albeit somewhat reserved, they said. He drank Heineken and socialized with the rest of the group, Mike Ritrovato told the Chronicle. One thing did give Ritrovato pause on Monday.
Shooter video games
"If he had anything (odd) about him, it is that he was a 35-year-old man playing video games," Ritrovato said. "That is the first thing that came to my mind."
When others would gather to watch a football game, Alexis would drift back to his bedroom and play single-shooter video games with online friends. Ritrovato said he treated Alexis like a brother, just like the other regulars at Happy Bowl Thai, whose owners became a surrogate family of sorts. But his online friends were a mystery.
"He took it so seriously in there," Ritrovato said.
Ritrovato admitted he doesn't know what connection the games could make, or if they are relevant.
"I don't know why I am making that connection, but I am trying to make sense of this," Ritrovato said. "My friend just shot 12 people and I just found out he was the only one who did the shooting. Something set him off, and I really don't know what could have done it."
Whatever grievance ate away at him, friends are at a loss to understand. He didn't carry on openly about his problems. And he was a serious Buddhist, if not an obvious one. They grieved his loss Monday, at the same time offering no sympathy for his actions.
"I am sad Aaron is dead," Kristi Suthamtewakul said. "I am sadder he took 12 people with him."
Sarah Hinman at the Times-Union in Albany, Levi Pulkkinen at seattlepi.com and Will J. Tucker in the Hearst Washington bureau contributed. Compiled by Mike Tolson.


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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
Third Sunday After Pentecost
June 13, 2010
Students of Holy Scripture have long recognized that Matthew and Luke Jesus' temptations describe in a way that contrasts His obedience in the desert with the disobedience of ancient Israel.
Both evangelists, in spite of differently arranging their narrative sequences, apparently relied on a common source, according to which our Lord quoted the Book of Deuteronomy in response to each of the three temptations. This sustained appeal to the final book of the Torah — invoked as a weapon to resist temptation — summons the memory of Israel's moral failings during its forty years of desert wandering.
The immediate context of the accounts furthers this purpose: The parallel between Jesus' Baptism and the passage through the Red Sea is followed immediately by the correspondence between the temptations of Jesus and Israel in the desert. (Mark also adheres to this sequence.)
For convenience, let us arbitrarily limit our attention to the Lord's temptations in the Lukan format:
Jesus meets the first temptation — "If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread" — by declaring, "Man shall not live by bread alone." This verse is lifted from the middle of Deuteronomy 8:1-6, which refers to ancient Israel's murmuring at the loss of their (alleged) better diet in Egypt (Exodus 16; Numbers 11).
Jesus answers the second temptation — the promise of world domination in exchange for fealty to Satan — by affirming, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve." This verse appears within Deuteronomy 6:10-15, in reference to Israel's repeated disposition to seek advantage by worshipping alien gods (12:30-31; Exodus 23:23-33).
Jesus responds to the third temptation — "Throw yourself down from here" — by proclaiming, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God." This text, Deuteronomy 6:16, refers to Israel's constant disposition to tempt the Lord in the desert (cf. Exodus 17:1-7).
In all His temptations in the wilderness, then, the faithful response of Jesus is placed in direct contrast to Israel's infidelity during those forty sinful years of wandering.
This opposition between the faith and obedience of Jesus and the infidelity and disobedience of Israel is reminiscent of an earlier correspondence between the desert experiences of Israel and David. This narrative parallel is not as schematic, explicit, and sustained as the Gospel accounts, but I think it not less interesting:
First, David's wanderings are forced on him by King Saul, the story's Pharaoh, as it were, who harasses the young man he regards as a rival. David flees to the desert, trusting his destiny to the mercy of God. During this period his soul is tried and purged, to render him worthy of the anointing he has received (1 Samuel 16:13).
Second, in his desert journey David suffers hunger but without complaint or murmuring. The Lord's priest feeds him with the sacred "Bread of the Presence" (21:3-6), corresponding to the heavenly Manna which nourished Israel of old.
Third, matching the ancient Amalekites (Exodus 17), Edomites (Numbers 17), and others who made themselves Israel's enemies in the wilderness, the Philistines and the Ziphites assail and threaten the safety of David and his troupe (1 Samuel 23).
David's more serious trial is spiritual, and this in two ways:
First, he is tempted to imitate the arrogance and cruelty of Saul. We perceive this moral danger in the remarkably similar exhortations of Jonathan to Saul and Abigail to David. In each case the angry man — disposed to act with violence unworthy of a king — is lovingly warned not to kill "without cause" (1 Samuel 19:5; 25:31).
Second, David is tempted to hasten the time of his ascent to the throne, instead of patiently waiting for the Lord's deliverance. Abishai is the spokesman for this temptation, when he says of Saul, "Now therefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!"
David's response expresses his faith that God will act at the proper time: "As the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish. The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed" (26:8-11). David, thus, refuses to seize what he knows can only be received as a gift. In his fidelity in the desert, he reverses the course followed by Israel of old.
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My laptop commit harakiri
It was the most amazingly prosaic swan dive from the second floor. One moment the device was in my hands, then I heard the impact as it landed, squarely, one floor below.
A gap.
And then:
'I guess it's time to purge'
When the boy genius Apple employee looked grim, it only confirmed what I felt in my heart.
It's time to break with the past.
My hard drive was damaged and apparently I had been backing up my data with a programme which is incompatible with the new operating system. So, all the photos, the yellow stickie musings, the poems I wrote and the quotations I collected…all gone.
Or as inaccessible as a banker's heart.
Before, I would have hissed and spat.
Now, I just laughed. With relief.
The boy genius handed me a card for a data retrieval expert.
And it made me anxious.
What to retrieve and what to leave behind?
Some of the choices, now, post-cancer treatment, are being made for me. After returning from India, bobcat and I are more separated by our priorities than by distance. I cannot just resume my place at the table, pick up the cards and continue as before. My poker face has melted away. As well as my zest for the game. So I'm back in Toronto and assessing the collateral damage.
I am also struggling with chemo-induced menopause. That's a significant part of the collateral damage which doesn't hit you until it hits you.
Apparently, natural menopause is a fender bender, whereas chemo induced menopause is like hitting a brick wall at sixty miles an hour.
heart pop.
It's unclear whether this is permanent or a temporary side effect. I'm taking note of all the symptoms. Like the hot flashes. Like the unfortunate changes in my personality. Which is kind of hard sometimes, as menopause affects concentration as well as my memory. Obviously, my data retrieval woes go on and on.
Small resentments find their way inside my skull. Its an orchestra, each thought loud and distinct and also harmonising together into a soundtrack. A melodramatic one.
As in:
'How do I catch up? I've lost eight months of my life.'
'Who will take care of me if I relapse?'
'What do I do now?'
'Why didn't I freeze my eggs?'
Because now I long to have a baby. The desire I never experienced before. To evoke the ancestors and wash my fruit in the stream.
Like the 'hundredth monkey', I am a victim of collective consciousness. I am not as unique as I imagined.
Because now I want to have a baby.
Before when I was going from treatment to treatment I had little time to reflect on what I was going through.
Now I am becoming interested and curious and tender. Again.
And sometimes sad.
But at least I have an excuse to act up. Again.
The menopausal rage takes me by surprise sometimes. Maybe its a good thing bobcat's not coming round often. Or at least he no longer parks recklessly when he comes to visit.
Unlike before.
But that was before.
Bobcat once said: 'perhaps the reason I came into your life was to walk with you through this.' I was diagnosed almost a year ago because he prompted me to get extensive tests. Not just that, he paid for them. Perhaps every relationship has a purpose we cannot discern from the beginning.
I prefer to believe sometimes two people come together simply because they open each other's hearts.
Can cancer teach me something about the nature of love?
So my girlfriends are gathering close. Only they can discern the crazy wisdom changes.
And before I spill all my colours, I remember the words I have not spoken.
'I was dying. I am still here. The journey is the now.'
I need to take care of my body. I have been seeing an acupuncturist, Zhao Cheng, who is the director of the TCM (traditional chinese medicine) Anti-Cancer Centre. He smiles a lot to make up for his english. He is gentle and considerate. He takes my pulse every week and places the needles precisely into my flesh. The ones stuck over my hip bones hurt. They are stimulating my chi where I need it. In my ovaries. In my bone.
He hands me a package of chinese herbs after every visit. I snip open the plastic squares and mix the contents with hot water. It makes an extremely bitter tonic, which makes me feel like it must be working.
Then I went to see Lisa Doran, a naturopath recommended by my friend Tara. She took notes as I spoke and recommended some herbs as well as the 21 day Feel Good Spring Fast by the Feel Good Guru (http://feelgoodguru.com/) It's a vegan cleanse which means no dairy, no meat, no wheat and no sugar.
I know what you're thinking.
Why put yourself through that? After everything you've been through.
What I'm doing is tasting full service food. It's delicious but even more than this is the way my body feels and functions. Undiluted energy runs through me.
I'm purging all those pepperettes. From my initiation into the Cancer Club.
Yes, we're vegan now, sighs my father.
It's worth a shot. This fresh possibility of good health.
Cancer is not the end of the road.
It's a cryptic restart.
I spend a lot of time enjoying the company of friends now. And I've got the shrinks! The curves of my collarbones are back. My body looks pleasing to me again. I can't take it with me to the next life, this bag of bones, but I can take care of it in this life.
And my bones. I listen to the deepest part of me.
That's why I can't just go back to my old life.
I found a new predisposition. It flares up so strong these days, I have to obey. I will write. A book. Soon.
And my dear friend Sindi Hawkins is battling leukemia for the third time. I'd like to glue myself to her bedside and expect the miraculous.
Here's the cover of the Indian version of People Magazine. Thanks to Sandipan for a sensitive interview and for spreading hope for members of the cancer club in India.
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Who's Better 71-72 Lakers or 12-13 Heat?
Who's better the 71-72 Lakers or the 12-13 Heat?
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: The season's not over, but comparisons have already begun. This one's a lot closer than Heat haters want to admit.
The question has been boiling to the service as the Miami Heat's winning streak kept growing. Now that it's over some comparisons are unavoidable. Both teams are clearly dominating the league, but lets go inside the numbers.
Win Streak: Lakers 33 games, Miami 27.
Overall Record: Lakers 69-13, Miami 56-15 (11 games left)
Big 3: Lakers (Chamberlain, West, Goodrich), Miami (James, Wade, Bosh).
Lead over closest team: Lakers 18 games ahead of the Warriors, Miami 11.5 ahead of the Knicks.
Points Per Game: Lakers 121, Miami 103.4.
Points Allowed Per Game: Lakers, 108.7, Miami 95.6.
Field Goal %: Lakers 49%, Miami 49.6%.
Computer Simulation: Gives the edge to the Lakers 54% of the time. (Got to love the age of computers)
Looks like the Lakers are the better team on paper. If these two squads went head-to-head it would be a match-up nightmare for both squads. Who does Miami put on Chamberlain? Who do the Lakers put on LeBron? Although both teams would put up big numbers the Lakers would eventually win. They'd dominate the boards and although Wade's quickness would offset some Laker offense, the big three of Los Angeles are more balanced in terms of skill sets. West, Goodrich, and Chamberlain are position players. LeBron, Wade, and Bosh are hybrid players that still today don't always know their roles.
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Lower GST-free threshold to $20: McInnes
Premier Investments chief executive Mark McInnes has lashed out against the federal government's refusal to lower the GST-free threshold on imported goods.
Speaking at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch today, Mr McInnes said retailers in Australia could not compete with overseas players who could ship products into the country valued under $1000 and avoid paying duties and GST.
"It's almost impossible to compete internationally when the government doesn't allow for a level playing field," Mr McInnes said.
Mr McInnes called on the federal government to lower the GST-free threshold to $20 from the current $1000 level.
He said recent estimates showed the government was missing out on $1 billion in GST revenue because of the loophole on imports. He again raised the issue of security as packages came into Australia and weren't being checked.
Mr McInnes said he was in Britain last week to talk to people about Premier Investments growth prospects and they "almost laughed" at the fact individuals could bring up to $1000 in goods into Australia without paying GST.
Mr McInnes said ALP policy was stifling investment and competition in the retail sector.
Landlords with 'old world view'
Mr McInnes also said the relationship between landlords and retailers was changing and coming under increasing pressure as the trading environment was affected by online retail.
He said landlords just couldn't see from their position the value, power and vibrancy of online retail and how that was changing the valuation of real estate property trusts.
He said many landlords had an "old world" view of the retail landscape. Rents that were just increased at a "CPI plus" level could not continue.
Last year Premier Investments warned commercial property owners it would exit stores unless rents began to better relate to the downturn in traditional retail, with Lower traffic to shopping centres, and the rise of online.
Supply process investment flagged
At the lunch, Mr McInnes also said the company - owned by Solomon Lew with brands such as Just Jeans, Dotti, Portmans and Smiggle - would review its supply management processes to better match the demand of shoppers with its merchandise in its national store network.
He said the investment was necessary for the retailer to remain internationally competitive.
Mr McInnes said the decision to invest more in its supply management process was made after a recent sale saw one if its retail chains sell 250 more clothing items than in its computer tracking system said was in the stores.
He said this fresh investment would position Premier Investments to grow and remain competitive in the face of relentless offshore competition.


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