Two tools for capturing screens on a Windows Mobile 5 device: Capture Screen Utility [1] and MagicSS [2]. Both tools are freeware and work quite well.

• Capture Screen Utility just allows to set a time when the screen should be captured. You can choose the time and the place (main memory or memory card) where to save the image. During installation just choose 'Mobile 5'.

• MagisSS was written for Pocket PC 2003. I dl'ed [3], copied the file to my device and installed it by clicking the .cab file. After installing the tool it can be assigned to any hardware button. Makes the tool quite accessible. After pressing the capture button the saved image can be saved on main memory or memory card. In addition the folder can be specified. The file can be only saved as .bmp file but each file can be immediately named. Runs without any problem on the xda Trion with Windows Mobile 5.

[1] http://www.fannsoftware.com/
[2] http://www.louterrailloune.com/magicss.html
[3] http://www.louterrailloune.com/files/magicss.arm.c...

Windows Vista beta2 does not want to upgrade to RC1 on my Toshiba m400 since there is no IDE controller driver available yet. Looks like I have to wait for another build or maybe the drivers will be available before.

<a hint of sarcasm>Thank you for the German language reforms...</a hint of sarcasm> Again there is another hotfix for the German post-reform rules [1].

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923348/de

A parser for LL(k) grammars, supporting also C# output is Grammatica [1]. I just tried it and I am highly pleased. Unfortunately the tool is under LGPL [2]. Unfortunately the created classes require the Grammatica runtime.

[1] http://grammatica.percederberg.net/index.html
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

At [1] there is a bunch of information, tools and links about .dds files.

[1] http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tool...

Finally I got my hands on a xda Trion aka HTC Hermes after the German mail lost my first one. It took almost four weeks to recover the delivery.

Finally I found some minutes to update the design of my welbog. The design is now the same as the webpage and the weblog is integrated into the site. However there is some finetuning left, I have to do during the next few days. Basically I did manage to replace the dasBlog theme CSS by the one I use for the homepage. since the layout is similar, I just had to modify some of the CSS classes in the dasBlog templates.

After getting a licence and re-installing the MAPILap NNTP [1] Outlook plug-in I was kind of frustrated that the plug-in did not work anymore. Basically I found the reason in the registry settings of the tool. There the account was still disabled since I have chosen this option during a test installation before [2].

Just delete the folder with the deactivated profile name. After the next start of Outlook the plug-in wizard appears again.

[1] http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/nntp/
[2] http://blog.aheil.de/MAPILabNNTPForOutlook.aspx

The Microsoft Studio August 2006 CTP is available for download [1] now. The most important change is the renaming of the WSAP protocol to DSSP [2]. The specification of DSSP can be found at [3]. API changes are listed at [4].

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa...
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/msroboticsstudio/archive/200...
[3] http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/8/2/...
[4] http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel...

Live Writer [1] seems to be a quite nifty tool for offline blogging. The installations process is quite easy.

Also the handling of the tool is quite intuitive. And the support for adding images is awesome. Since I use shoadows for all my images I am quite pleased that Live Writer does support this feature which saves me some time while blogging.

[1] http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/