Happy Thanksgiving!

Err. Yea. Give thanks and eat turkey.

Now, onto a more serious note. Try to think about how fortunate you are (for one, having internet) and maybe give something back to the world.

Enjoy today, and remember what Thanksgiving is all about.

If you aren’t interested in Tech-related stuff

I’m just going to say it here. I’m no longer updating this blog regularly. I’ll still do it sporadically though. Once every 2 week or so?

For a more regular blog about more regular stuff, go to my new http://mixt.wordpress.com blog. Right there, there’s no archives. Everything’s kept new, and what’s over is officially in the past.

Cya there.

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Windows Mobile – Media Center Remote Control

Got Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate? Also got a Windows Mobile? Then this is for you.

Again, I will post this as a tutorial-like… tutorial, with steps and what you’ll need, as well as what the final result should be. But before I go into that, I will first detail what makes this possible.

On the 2nd of June, 2008, the Windows Sideshow team over at Microsoft released a program, a “developer preview”, which lets users use the Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device, whether touchscreen or not, as a Sideshow device. That means that all Sideshow gadgets compatible with all other Sideshow devices. This includes Windows Mail, Outlook and Windows Media Player controls.

But much more recently, on July 7th the Windows Sideshow team launched a Microsoft Connection at Microsoft Connect, which when joined allowed users to download their WIndows Media Center remote control gadgets, especially for the Windows Sideshow system. It allows you to view your TV, your music, your videos and pictures as well as control the Media Center. It even displays the album art of the music file you are viewing. That is the technology that makes it possible to do what we are doing today.

Apple Store and Reminder

Update: Apparently there are 90 Macs in the store, and Download Day finished with over 8 million downloads!

Before I rant on about how cool Australia’s Apple Store is going to be, I shall issue a friendly reminder: To those who haven’t downloaded Firefox 3 yet, you have about 5 hours. They have had 6,121,334 downloads already. Remember, don’t forget. Anyways, the Apple Store in Australia is opening tomorrow, 19th of June. 5pm. The 20m long genius bar. 2nd largest store. The … how many Macs are there in the store? The free internet! “77 King Street”, Sydney. Go there and see the huge three-storey-or-so glass frame. OMG it looks great. “He won’t say exactly how big the floor space is because there’s a secret architectural feature that eats into the total size of the store.” Was that supposed to be the huge staircase that takes ages to climb up? Or did they mean the huge pieces of glass?

Photos from Gizmodo and iPhoneAE! Here, visit Apple’s website: http://www.apple.com/au/retail/