Have you ever been ever so slightly lazy when it comes to making phone calls? No, I don’t mean procrastinating when it comes to making calls you for some reason don’t feel like you’re in a hurry to do. But the kind of laziness where you feel it’s a hassle to pick up the phone to send an sms, and end up doing it on your desktop instead. I have a plug-in in Outlook that will let me send sms, or I could do it via something built upon Kannel, etc, so that’s sorted though. I decided to have a look at something similar for making calls from the desktop.
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The lines of code necessary to make calls programmatically.
Category Archives: How-to's
Lazy Dialing Made Accessible
Building Your Own Appliance Box
I’m a sucker for Beta programs. The feeling of getting some shiny new software in your hands is a good one. So a couple of weeks back I joined the Quebec beta on Microsoft Connect. (Formal name Windows Embedded Standard 2011.) I decided to test drive it as an OS for building an appliance, and Kannel seemed a good choice for a very basic setup. More on that later – first a few introductory lines on Windows Embedded (and explaining how it’s related to mobility).
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Installing Windows Embedded 2011 codename Quebec for using as a Kannel appliance.
Restricting Exchange ActiveSync Access – Redux
A few weeks ago I had a look at some of the new features in Exchange 2010 regarding how Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) can be “locked down” or restricted to only allow certain devices to sync (as opposed to the default open-for-all configuration). While those techniques specifically targeted Exchange 2010 there are some other methods you can employ as well, and I thought I’d take a look at some of them here. Not all of them are bullet proof, but it’s interesting to have them listed nonetheless.
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Going through a number of options for restricting which devices can sync to Exchange ActiveSync.