Securing your MSN Messages Simp Lite

Guruji, recommended a cool new tool called Simp Lite to secure your MSN Converstations. The tool is free for personal use.

It's amazingly easy to setup and use and provides decent encryption.

It also shows up as a Red MSN icon and has options to reveal to you which conversations are encrypted or not. It's pretty flexible in how it indicates encrypted conversations etc.

 

Welcome to the Sandbox

I bumped into this site searching for the new MSN Desktop search beta. It's the place to keep track of all the new MSN Technologies.

Some very interesting stuff like the the new Toolbar and desktop search and other prototypes etc. like 3 degrees, Newsbot etc.

Interesting site I must say and interesting collection of tools.

Mobile Controls Device Update

Often I get mails from people saying that the Mobile Internet Toolkit from Microsoft which they are using to build mobile web applications is not targetting a specific phone. My first piece of advice is to get the latest ASP.Net Mobile Controls Device Updates. This is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/othertech/asp.netmc/mobileweb/aspmobiledrivers/default.aspx

Microsoft constantly updates the list of mobile device information in these updates. The  Tested Devices page lists the various devices which one can target with the ASP.Net Mobile controls. Besides this if one wants to target a specifc device one needs to look at the Extensibility Developer's Guide.

Device updates extend Web applications to work with additional devices and browsers. When you install a device update, the <browserCaps> section of the Machine.config file is revised to include additional entries for the new browsers.

ASP.Net 2.0 changes this, no longer is Machine.Config altered but there are .browser files which contain browser information.