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Monday, October 03, 2011 4:26 PM

Activate Wi-Fi sharing on your Samsung Focus with Mango

Back in December 2010, I wrote about how you can Activate internet tethering on Samsung Focus with Rogers Canada . If you installed the latest WP7 update, Mango , this is still valid, but you have a new option: activate WiFi sharing !! As for tethering...
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Monday, August 01, 2011 9:00 PM

[off topic] Delete Windows 7 offline files

Off my habitual topics… but this has been bugging me so much, hope someone will find this post useful! You disabled offline files but never got your GB back ? No “delete offline files” button anywhere ?? Here is what to do: Open Control Panel / Sync Center...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:31 PM

MIX11 videos mass download tool

Check out this free Silverlight tool to filter and mass download your selection of MIX sessions : http://dayngo.com/tools/mix11/Home/Download You’ll get a .bat file, then you need to install wget before downloading content, read more here: http://dayngo...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:14 PM

Windows Home Server Console Incorrect Password

This one gave me headache so I hope this will help people. I’m using Windows Home Server (WHS) v1 in network with 2 laptops and after a storm that destroyed my server power supply I haven’t been using it for a long time. A few weeks later I replaced my...
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Friday, December 10, 2010 6:30 PM

The definite guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4

Note: This article was first published in Web Central Station , but code format has problem there, so I republish here. When this article was written the latest version of Silverlight was Silverlight 4. Notification Window is a Silverlight Out-of-Browser...
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:09 AM

Activate internet tethering on Samsung Focus with Rogers Canada

Disclaimer: All this works today (tested on several phones), but might not work tomorrow… Warning: After this setup you won’t be able to sync your phone with the Zune software via a cable, only via WiFi. Unless you manually switch back to cable mode ...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:02 AM

Programmatic access to Windows Phone FM tuner

Windows Phone 7 has the FMRadio class (Microsoft.Devices.Radio namespace) that is ready to use: FMRadio.Instance.PowerMode = RadioPowerMode.On; .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:29 PM

My Windows Phone app in the Marketplace

My Windows Phone little application My first WP7 app is available on the Marketplace: Morse Code Flash Light . Try it, it’s free. It converts any text to Morse code and use your phone as a flashlight to 'read' it. Features supported (v1.0): Translate...
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Sunday, September 05, 2010 9:04 PM

Silverlight how-to: Inherit from an Implicit Style

Since Silverlight 4 you can use Implicit Styles: http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2009/11/18/silverlight-4-implicit-styling.aspx Basically it is just a style defined in resource without a key. As you don’t have a key you may wonder how you could...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:57 PM

[Cool Tool] Assembly minifier tool

If you are using Silverlight controls from the Telerik suite, you’re going to love this. Telerik provide a new free tool to help reduce the size of your Silverlight xap. The Telerik Assembly Minifier can be found here: http://minifier.telerik.com/ From...
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