I’ve just flashed my TouchHD upto Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM, and very nice it is too. But that’s not what this post is about.

Nope it’s about Twitter clients on WinMo. I’ used to use PocketTwit, it was perhaps a little ‘heavy’, but hey whats a couple of K between friends. It’s got a great interface, and is certainly high on the wow factor, and looks sublime on the HD’s screen.

I tried installing it on 6.5RTM and it’s a no go, not quite sure why, but crashes out every time.

So I went hunting for another client to get me through till PocketTwit  starts working again (and yes tried the dev build).

I bumped into Twikini, I remember trying it before, and then not using it because I bumped into PocketTwit. So downloaded it, Installed and must say it’s actualy quite nice, from another point of view though. Yes it’s not got all the flash and bells of PocketTwit, but what it does do it does well. It’s quick, lightweight, and in it’s way it looks pretty (well it’s clean anyhow).

So if you have a device that’s not upto PocketTwit for any reason (screen size, processor, memory or whatever) then I sudgest giving Twikini a go, you wont be sorry.

You would expect me to post about a new McLaren over on www.f1-blog.co.uk, however this is a newly announced road McLaren.

And it’s quite pretty, reminiscent some would say of the Audi R8, but more organic than the Audi 2 seater.

Price is expected to be about the R8’s £80.000 so not a million miles away from the Porsche and Audi competition.

Frank Stephenson is looking after styling, he comes with a good pedigree (Fiat and Ferrari), and you can certainly see P11 influences in the car.

Slightly shorter than the R8, and similar power levels (450bhp) should make for some fun.

A few people have asked for the drivers that I’m using on Windows 7 for the Samsung NC10.

So here they are, they include the Audio (RealTek) and Lan (Marvel).

So download away.

Was having a play with the Windows 7 Open Search Provider. I’ve knocked one together for twitter, it’s only a ‘general term’ search, might have a look at hooking other search types into it, but that’s for later.

If you want it, just download it and either open from the download or double click it and Windows 7 will ask permission to add the search provider.

Any issues let me know. (oh you might have to right click and save as the file and make sure the file extension is osdx)

Thought moving from a 20gb to the 60gb drive I got for chrimbo would be easy, unfortunatly not. Microsoft in their wisdom dont ship the MS transfer cable with the drive, so I picked up one of the 3rd party SATA ones up.

Cable works fine, unfortunatly the software leaves a bit to be desired, yes I know it’s freeware and I could not do better, and MS don’t make it easy by using FAT-X instead of a real disk format.

In the end what I did was this, pull the latest Datel XPort 1.12 down and do a backup of the 20gb (just in case), now copy the partition3\Contents folder to somewhere.

Add the new hdd to the machine via USB or SATA and copy the Contents folder back over to partition3. If it all copies over just fine then lucky you, a coplete backup, if like me you have strange dropouts and crashes of the XPort software then your best bet is to just copy over the Profiles (save games etc), to do that copy all the contents from the Contents folder over except the 0000000000 folder (that’s the downloaded content), then re-download all the stuff you want, re-downloading has one benefit, you only download the stuff you want and unclutter the disk.

Point of note though, if the software does crash on you mid copy, make sure you DELETE the folder one above before re-copying data, else the space that was allocated just vanishes.

Just a quick post to say Merry Christmas.

The wife loves her NetBook (A Samsung NC10) and it runs Windows 7 great, only one driver that’s an issue and that’s the wired Lan, but she never uses it anyway so no problems.

I got all the games and BluRays I wanted, so all good, oh and a 60Gb XBox drive, so makes life easier. Just need a copier cable now.

Puppies had the left-over turkey and beef from dinner round the in-laws (was good!), and the kittens had some pheasant.

I wish you all a good rest of the Yule time.

Just finished watching the last episode (number 9). I have to say WTF were NBC thinking killing the show?

It’s not only one of the best things to come out of American TV in a good long while (let’s be honest Hero’s has run it’s time, and Lost just, well IS) it also had some of the best production, editing and acting from a show that’s come out of the USA.

Now I know that NBC have stated that it’s the ratings that have caused it to be canned, but I’m sure those production values were not cheap, and I bet Slater was far from free.

If that’s the case, then NBC just tell us your short of money, and that you might bring it back at a later point. Let’s just hope that Slater is up for it when NBC come crawling back.

Bumped into TV Scout the other day, and oh yes, if you have Media Center and download Telly, then get it.

It get’s all the meta info and artwork and re-names/organises the shows into seasons and stuff, most excellent!.

Go and get it now for CodePlex

Got a T-Mobile DataStick? Got Windows 7? can’t get em to play nice? OK here we go with a fix, it’s a bit of a hack, but hey it works. This should also work for the Vodafone, 3, Orange variants as they all use the same 3G Data Stick at heart, it’s just the branding of the software that changes.

Things you need :

• T-Mobile DataStick (re-branded Huawei E170, will work with an E172 as well I would think)
• A Windows Vista/XP machine (temporarily I used a VM)
• Switch Port from below

Got all that? good, pop the device into the usb, and when the Virtual CD comes up install the software. Now fire up the VM, insert the USB Stick and make sure the VM captures it (if not VM / Removable Devices / Hauwaei / Connect)

Install the application/drivers and make sure Vista/XP can connect etc, then close all the modem apps down.

Fire up the Switch Port application, and click Find Device, when it’s found click the CDRom to Diag button, it should say all done, disconnect.

Unplug the device and minimise the VM, click the desktop (make sure that the VM is not the active window) and pop the device back into the Windows 7 Machine and watch it detect the device and all it’s hardware.

Right, now what’s not going to work now we have done that? Well the CD-Rom part of the application will not work until you switch it back to CDRom mode (this can be done in Windows 7, Vista/XP  is only needed to switch it back to Windows 7 mode). That means you will be constantly switching between modes, or make sure the machines you want to use it on has the software installed, or have the software on another USB Stick.

Anyhow, I had to get mine going, and the software is on all the PC’s I need it on so matters not to me.

Any problems let me know.

UPDATE : New firmware and Web ‘n Walk Software are available for the E17x Devices.