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[Q] Gowalla Anyone

Is there anyone out there working on a Gowalla app for WinMO? They just recently released their API, but they don't plan on getting around to WinMo development for a while. (a loooong while) I even know one of the co-owners and he's like "well we released the API and are just waiting for some one to do something with it." If I knew anything about programming I'd be all over it, but alas I'm a lowly videographer. Thanx for your replies in advance.
SAB

Gowalla, Brightkite or something similiar, I think still doesn't exist for WinMo. I suggess you must move to Foursquare and use 4Square app for WinMo!

Foursquare on WinMo
BiZZuRKS said:
Is there anyone out there working on a Gowalla app for WinMO? They just recently released their API, but they don't plan on getting around to WinMo development for a while. (a loooong while) I even know one of the co-owners and he's like "well we released the API and are just waiting for some one to do something with it." If I knew anything about programming I'd be all over it, but alas I'm a lowly videographer. Thanx for your replies in advance.
SAB
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Hi.
Don´t use Foursquare for WinMo - It dosen´t work properly.
Use the Application MySquare developed by junalmeida
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730084 or get it from XDA Marketplace.
//Best regards

I was wondering has there been any development at all now on a Gowalla app for windows since Disney has partnered with them with the parks recvently, and their mobile site doesnt work on my phone at all.
(or has anyone found a workaround to get location based service to work in a web-browser on a windows phone)

Atrix laptop dock will support Citrix VM

Just learned yesterday that you will have full Citrix support for Windows, OSX and Linux for VM on the atrix laptop dock. Thought this might be useful to some, and shows that the capability will be much greater than previously thought.

Regular RDP Client would be better
The Citrix client is cool, if your company has XenDesktop or XenApp.
But for most of us, those enterprise tools are just too expensive and unnecessary. We use regular windows remote desktop (with a firewall) at my office. Plus most consumers at home will already have access to windows remote desktop with their home computers.
In sum, what I really want is a generic RDP client. Then, anything that required a native application, like microsoft word, could be invoked through the RDP client.

Just out of curiosity, are there any consumer-level applications that we may be able to run through the webtop?

krkeegan said:
The Citrix client is cool, if your company has XenDesktop or XenApp.
But for most of us, those enterprise tools are just too expensive and unnecessary. We use regular windows remote desktop (with a firewall) at my office. Plus most consumers at home will already have access to windows remote desktop with their home computers.
In sum, what I really want is a generic RDP client. Then, anything that required a native application, like microsoft word, could be invoked through the RDP client.
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Your android apps can run in full screen in webtop. Android has plenty of vnc and rdp clients.

glitterbug said:
Your android apps can run in full screen in webtop. Android has plenty of vnc and rdp clients.
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That is very true. Although apps running from Android and not through the webtop will be limited to the resolution of the phone. They will look like iPhone apps running on the iPad.
Not ideal, but you are correct it is still a solution. However, given the exhorbitant price for the lapdock I think I am going to look elsewhere. I don't need to suffer through any more ATT crap or deal with encrypted efuse devices if there is no reasonably priced lapdock.

krkeegan said:
That is very true. Although apps running from Android and not through the webtop will be limited to the resolution of the phone. They will look like iPhone apps running on the iPad.
Not ideal, but you are correct it is still a solution. However, given the exhorbitant price for the lapdock I think I am going to look elsewhere. I don't need to suffer through any more ATT crap or deal with encrypted efuse devices if there is no reasonably priced lapdock.
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Agree about the att BS. For the cost of the two year tether plan, you could buy a real laptop.

SG Pillar said:
Just out of curiosity, are there any consumer-level applications that we may be able to run through the webtop?
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I found an app you can easily install on your PC that will work with the WebTop mode for remote access to a home PC for free called ThinVNC. This is awesome since it supports the higher resolutions of the WebTop and the mouse and keyboard support is better than the native Android apps. It runs inside Firefox exactly like how the Citrix client runs. Citrix is good if your company supports it or you want to pay the subscription costs and use the VM desktop product they offer, but that by no means is a viable RDP solution.
I use PocketCloud for on the phone itself for RDP/VNC and I would highly recommend that app as well.
My Phones:
Motorola MicroTAC Elite
Nokia 7160
Nokia 6340i
Nokia 6230
Nokia 6682
HTC Tilt
HTC Fuse
HTC Tilt2 (custom ROM)
Samsung Captivate (custom ROM,rooted)
Motorola Atrix (rooted)

You can use either rdesktop for command-line goodness, or tsclient/gnome-rdp for some graphical remote desktop sessions in the webtop. All can be found already compiled for armel Jaunty. Dependancies might be a bear to work through for the latter, but rdesktop is a very simple install. tsclient depends on rdesktop, so I'd recommend that route.
tsclient
[URL="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/armel/rdesktop/1.6.0-2ubuntu1]rdesktop[/URL]

krkeegan said:
The Citrix client is cool, if your company has XenDesktop or XenApp.
But for most of us, those enterprise tools are just too expensive and unnecessary. We use regular windows remote desktop (with a firewall) at my office. Plus most consumers at home will already have access to windows remote desktop with their home computers.
In sum, what I really want is a generic RDP client. Then, anything that required a native application, like microsoft word, could be invoked through the RDP client.
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You can use Citrix XenDeskop Express for free (up to 10 pcs).

How do you install the TSClient or rDesktop apps mentioed above?

You can download it on your phone, and then start it full screen on the webtop. No RDP client for the webtop itself.

HOw do you install those files
just call me an idiot -

I recommend MusicShark a GrooveShark Client

I am not the dev but there is a free GrooveShark client out in the MarketPlace so I thought it should get more exposure.
It's very functional and just needs a tiny bit more polish. The sound quality is great even through 3G.
MOD EDIT: Please post app recommendations in WP7 General, as the Apps and Games section is for app release's only as stated in the sticky I made.

THanks man. Been waiting for a GrooveShark client.

Awesome. Seems to work great over 3G though it needs a better way of adding multiple search results to playlists/queue.

Nice. And free !
The interface just needs to be more polished indeed.

Interesting. Too bad Grooveshark isn't going to support WP7. They are open to the idea so with enough support you never know. Keep bugging them via forums and twitter.

Where I can I download MusicShark.xap? I am aware that is not longer in the marketplace available

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Where I can I download MusicShark.xap? I am aware that is not longer in the marketplace available
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I think I might have it at home. Pity I restored my phone to NoDo not realising I couldn't unlock it again.

bah, I hope GS isnt deliberately flagging these clients if they dont plan to produce their own. Methinks they made a deal with a competitor :/

Here's the xap

I installed the xap file on my windows phone (E900 7.10.7720.68), but it didn't work. Loading failed with a message, "An error was presented, you have internet conectivity?"
So, I decompile the xap and found out, the server to get the grooveshark data from grooveshark's server is no longer working.
Can anyone use this app?

For people who really love music,
I would recommend the "The Hype" app for WP7.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1145616
It gives access to all the Hype Machine catalog. Hypem.com is a great & free music blog aggregator.
You can make a search, select the songs you like, make a playlist (which will also be available on your PC).
for instance... Here's my playlist (indie, The Smiths, Mountain Goats, Josh Rouse, New Order, Wedding Presents, Balmhorea, etc...): http://hypem.com/#!/eric_sc2

[Q] Hybrid Application WP7

Hello all,
I'm trying to develop a Hybrid Application for WP7 (using a COM Bridge), but I'm facing some problems.
MS just approve a few RIL API for hybrid applications and my app needs communication with Sim card. So, if I use those API which aren't approved by MS, my app will not pass by MS Verification...
Does anybody had some problem like mine? Is there any way to access simcard without use the RIL API?
Thanks in advance!

No, Microsoft allows native development only to OEMs

Actually, if you just use the APIs approved by Microsoft and preload your app on a Phone, MS will approve it.
My problem is: Simcard API (at least the one that I need) is not allowed by Microsoft...

@bebe_evil:
Do you have any record of any non-OEM and non-carrier third-party app using COM or any other native functionality? It's not supposed to be permitted to third parties. The only apps I know that do this are all made by Microsoft or one of its big partners, or are homebrew.

TAP/TUN drivers and OpenVPN

So... this is less the announcement of a hack than the announcement of a plan to attempt a hack, but this one is big enough I thought I should get it started now.
Short version: I want to get an OpenVPN client working on my phone (ideally on a stock ROM, with Root Tools).
Somewhat longer explanation: OpenVPN itself is actually a very simple program; it takes a network traffic stream from the "TAP" virtual network device, and sends it over an SSL connection to an OpenVPN server. This is also reversible (listen on the SSL connection, then route the traffic from it to the TAP "device"). It's an incredibly simple way to implement VPN, but is high-performance and secure nonetheless. The entirely to OpenVPN itself is actually implemented in user-space; I don't expect porting it to WP7 to be too difficult (in fact, there's already a WinMo port in progress that would probably be pretty easy to adapt).
The catch is the TAP driver. In short, this is a virtual network adapter that, instead of connecting the computer to a LAN or WAN, connects the computer to a program running on the computer. This program can be any number of things, but in the specific case I'm interested in, it's the OpenVPN client. The idea is that you make TAP the default network device, so every other program sends and receives its traffic over TAP... which in reality means sending and receiving over whatever the program connected to TAP is using where normally a LAN or WAN would be.
The TAP driver, so far as I know, needs to be kernel-mode; it might be possible to implement it as user-mode driver but I'm not sure if this is practical. The trick is to install a third-party driver on WP7 at all. On WinMo / PocketPC devices it was possible (see http://ovpnppc.ziggurat29.com/ovpnppc-main.htm) but those operating systems both lacked the WP7 policy system and had rather better-documented security features and APIs.
Anyhow, I wanted to announce this project, to see who else might have anything - information, code, experience, or simple suggestions - that they could contribute. The repurcussions of this project go far beyond OpenVPN, but since I find myself currently in need of that particular software, that is the goal I'm pursuing. I welcome you to join me.
I'll post updates and such about the project here, along with any code for testing.

Now this is something DEFINITELY that I will follow. I could use this... A guy that I work with has recently parted from his WinMo 6.1 (he hated 6.5) device and one of the things he said he would like to do on his WP is to VPN. I'll be glad to test or help any way I can for this

me too volunteering as beta tester for VPN!!!

I support the
Thank you my friend

Volunteering as beta tester. I have custom full rom
Sent from my 7 Trophy T8686 using Board Express

IPSec or PPTP?
i have worked on a ipsec client for linux before, but it only handle the IKE packets, ah or esp is handled by kernel protocol stack, if there are correct sp & sa, so i think you should make a driver, wp7 cut the builtin ipsec driver.really a very big project, maybe ipsec driver in ce7 can work on wp7.

IPSec and PPTP are both tunneling approaches which are implemented at the driver level. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not my corrent and immediate goal. OpenVPN's tunneling is achieved over a simple SSL connection, entirely in user-space. This makes it trivial to implement the encryption, but offers the full power of the OpenSSL library for authentication.
While I appreciate the offers of testing, that's going to be some time off. The most useful thing would be developers. For example, has anybody worked with NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) before, on CE or even NT? I have not, and while I'm certainly interested in learning it, I was hoping to get this off the ground faster than will be possible if I have to learn it all myself.
I'll be working with the OpenVPN for PocketPC codebase as a starting point. It's still going to take a lot of work, though. I'll probably set up a public version control system to aid in sharing the code and (hopefully) contributing changes.
I'm also going to take a look at CE7 user-mode drivers. If it's possible to write a network driver that way, it may be easier to test and install than a kernel-mode one would be.

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Thanks, spavlin! Unfortunately, it looks like the app queries a bunch of provisioning providers that WP7 doesn't have. There might be newer variants of those characteristics that I can try to query, though.
It's good that we're able to dump the routing info; that means there's a decent chance we'll also be able to change it. Thanks for checking that for me! Running those on my phone would take some work (not full-unlocked).