The main camera in my HTC Advantage 7500 (1st generation) went bad about six weeks ago. The rest of the system is fine including the secondary camera next to the LCD. I’ve tried the obvious remedies like wiping the camera lens area and performing a hard reset. Never seen anything like it before. Switching to a 1st generation TyTn until I get an idea of how deal with this problem. Too bad, the HTC Advantage has the best digital photo quality I’ve seen in a Windows Mobile device so far.
I thought this Daylight Savings issue was fixed in last year’s patch. Guess not. Here are the links for the CAB file download as well as the desktop (setup.msi) installer version.
Update for Windows Mobile for PC (KB949168) (SETUP.MSI)
Update for Windows Mobile for PC (KB949168) (WMDST2008-1.CAB)
FYI: I just installed the CAB file installer version on my Dash. It restarted my smartphone without even giving a warning that it was about to do so.
MSNBC: Which firms have the most ID theft victims?
MSNBC reports that Bank of America is #1 in U.S. ID Theft victims. But, what interested me was that A&T Wireless was #2 and Sprint PCS was #3. Verizon Wireless checks in at #7 while T-Mobile USA is at #11.
Someone I know won one of those WiFi detecctor t-shirts as a door prize the other day. The plate on the front of the shirt (the detector itself is a little box connected via cables to the front plate) actually works. It went all blue (no WiFi) in a known dead-spot and lit up (four bars out of five in the photo above) where there was a WiFi signal. I wouldn’t buy one myself. But, it is a great gag gift.
Hmm… US-CERT has an advisory about a Windows CE Trojan. Here’s the list of things it is said to do on a Windows CE device:
The US-CERT alert does not name it. However, BetaNews says it is called WinCE/InfoJack Trojan and provides its history.
Ubuntu announced their mobile version of Ubuntu Linux
…targetted at the UMPC sized devices with flash storage (instead of spinning hard drives) that started to gain popularity with the release of Asus Eee PC and OLPC XO last year. Microsoft needs much lighter weight version of Windows Vista if they intend to stay in the ultraportable game. They basically need a Windows Vista Core with a non-Aero lightweight GUI and a much much faster file system.