Category Archives: How-to’s

Exchange ActiveSync Building Blocks – Intro

I mentioned when petitioning feature requests for EAS-MD that I was considering open-sourcing this utility in some form. I haven’t decided on all the details there yet, but I am sort of starting it off now with a series of posts describing, (along with code), the ActiveSync features I’m using in my utility in further details. While having code readily available is a good thing I believe explanations and samples are perfect complements if the object is to learn. Learning by doing is great, but learning by trial-and-error not necessarily equally so. (Sometimes we don’t care how things work, and just want a pre-built black-box component, but that isn’t my primary intent with this site. And besides – you can just use my “official” app for troubleshooting your ActiveSync deployment if you do not need to understand all this stuff. I do understand that most people aren’t that into ActiveSync )

This is the introductory post, which will serve to answer some general questions as well as being updated with links to new posts as they appear.

Mobile Video Consumption – Serving it Up

So now we’ve looked at how to produce some content – both experimenting with some output formats and some specific input formats. If you’re still following me here’s the last part in this introduction to consuming video at home and on the go. (I might make follow-up articles but at this point I’m sure you’d like to get started actually doing something.)

There’s nothing wrong with transferring the files to your device through a USB cable or similar, but this is about mobility – what will we do when we aren’t at home and need to watch a video or two? We load the content on a server, and test out the streaming options of course!
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Taking a look at how to make content available through a browser, and examining what works on which mobile device platforms.

Mobile Video Consumption – Prepping the Input

Following my last article where I started investigating encoding video files for use on mobile devices I’m following up with what could possibly be seen as an appendix to that introduction. I’m not going to write any Expression Encoder tutorials, but I’d like to share a few thoughts around what I do with the specific source material I’m interested in encoding.
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How to prepare DVD-ROM content, Windows Media Center recordings, and HDV tapes for Expression Encoder and mobile consumption.

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