Favorite Gadgets: August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SketchFlow Training Videos

Guide to SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3 RC « Code Blitz

Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate DreamSpark | Ebookee Free eBooks Download!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Basic Robot Control using NKH Mindsqualls Libraries - CodeProject

Smart Taskbar app for Android | Widgets Lab

The Bricks Game - Tetris for Silverlight - CodeProject

Friday, August 27, 2010

VB.NET Sample code: Send Email with Gmail

Image via CrunchBaseI have found 2 versions of code to allow you to write .Net code to send e-mail particularly through G-Mail.

VB.NET Sample code: Send Email with Gmail
Can't send emails through SMTP using VB.net 2010?
How to send email from VB.NET

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Augmented Reality - Layar Reality Browser - Homepage

What is Layar?

The Layar Reality Browser shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of the real world as seen through the camera of your mobile phone. This technology is called Augmented Reality. We augment the real world as seen through your mobile phone, based on your location.
How does Layar’s Augmented Reality work?
The idea is simple: Layar works by using a combination of the mobile phone’s camera, compass and GPS data to identify the user’s location and field of view, retrieve data based on those geographical coordinates, and overlay that data over the camera view.

Augmented Reality - Layar Reality Browser - Homepage

7 Mind-Blowing Free Android Apps

Number 4 is my favorite:

4. Talk to Me
Talk To Me is an impressive app that can translate your input text or speech between over 40 different languages, and in most cases, speak the translations back to you. The interface is really dead-simple: An input for text, a drop-down list to choose your languages, and a big green button to activate the speech recognition.
You can even set it as a home screen widget. Simply tap the button, speak a phrase, and the app will speak it back to you in Spanish, German, French, and many other languages that use Roman characters. Support for many Asian languages is included, but currently only provides textual translations.
The speed and ease of translation has a pretty big cool factor, but this is one app on the list that may also be very useful for tourists or those studying a new language.

7 Mind-Blowing Free Android Apps

4 new interesting blogger Widgets | Bloganol.com

Of the 4 the first one is most interesting for me because I've seen it around but this is the most information I've seen on it.

1. Sexy Social Bookmarking widget for Blogger
It is the interesting blogger social bookmarking widget created by cssreflex.Like other social bookmarking widgets it consists of a different bookmarking icons of different sites.But it has got some features than older bookmarking widgets.It is sexy and in this widget the half part of images are hidden and when we hover the image the whole image is seen.this is the feature of this sexy bookmarking widget.Learn more

4 new interesting blogger Widgets | Bloganol.com

Image via CrunchBaseHere are steps for producing a "Most popular post" widget for Blogger that is not easy to install but it looks interesting. I think I will try it. It's based on statistics from Feedburner.
Blogger: Most Popular Posts Widget (Feedburner)

Expression Blend Starter Kits

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Gmail Calling

Google is allowing you to make free phone calls through gmail for the rest of the year!!!

Gmail Calling

YAPT is a PushToTalk alternative for Android | Widgets Lab

YAPT is a new Android app that gives you the ability to initiate a PTT (Push To Talk) conversation with other YAPT users. These messages are then sent as text messages or e-mails, so it will give you the freedom to reply whenever convenient.

YAPT is a PushToTalk alternative for Android | Widgets Lab

Anti Droid Theft - Find your stolen or lost android / google phone

This is an interesting APP. You can use it to find where your phone is located. It presents a Google Map and shows where your longitude and latitude are. When I used it at home, the address It gave was only about 95 feet off. It's even got a feature where you can make your phone take a picture and send it back to the website so you can see what environment your phone is in. Very interesting indeed!
Anti Droid Theft - Find your stolen or lost android / google phone

Paging is a processing of fetching a number of rows as a page (a subset of data) instead of all rows from a data source. Paging can be achieved in two ways in ADO.NET:

Using DataAdapter

Using SQL Statement

Implementing paging in ADO.NET