BetaPlayer is my favourite media player rather than Windows Media Player and it supports all these:
Video files (AVI,DIVX)
MPEG Movie files (MPEG,MPG,MPV,DAT)
MPEG Audio files (MP1,MP2,MP3,MPA)
Matroska files (MKV,MKA)
Ogg Vorbis files (OGG,OGM)
Windows waveform (WAV,RMP)
M3U,PLS playlist files (M3U,PLS)
video codecs: MPEG1,MPEG4 DivX/XviD,MS-MPEG4, M-JPEG
audio codecs: MPEG Audio (LibMad), Vorbis Audio (Tremor), AC-3 (LibA52), ADPCM, uLaw

FlexWallet enables you to securely store and carry any type of information on your Windows MobileTM powered Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. Bank accounts, credit card information, emergency contact numbers, travel documents, software registration codes, online passwords, calling cards, gift ideas, clothing sizes, ATM Pins, you name it!

Google Software Downloads is where you can all these:

Via Stefano.

Take a look at the FAQ on microsoft.com.

Hehe, all the links to the 404 page for Arabian Gulf made Google bringing the page to the first rank. Try it! Arabian Gulf and click and then press, I'm Feeling Lucky. Eh! 404 :)
Thanks to LegoFish.

Quit smoking today and stay quit with new My Last Cigarette from Mastersoft Mobile Solutions for your Smartphone. My Last Cigarette is a PROVEN aid to help you resist restarting this fatal habit. My Last Cigarette is a serious tool based upon years of medical research into the harmful effects of smoking. Simply enter your personal details and watch how your statistics are updated in real time, every second. Especially effective when used in conjunction with nicotine replacement therapy (eg patches). Via SmartPhoneThoughts.com.

Airscanner® Mobile Antivirus for Windows Mobile Smartphone is the Smartphone version of Airscanner’s award winning anti-virus for the Pocket PC. Airscanner® is the world’s market leader in Windows Mobile security software. Our user base steadily grows by over 1,000 new users every day – almost entirely by word of mouth!

To find out where it is and whether you can find it on the earth or not, why not trying it? Find out more about Arabian Gulf.
It is a shame! You got a 404 page? Then there exists no Arabian Gulf! You seeking for it? Then try Hamed's blog.

The DefaultButtonTextBox Control enables you to quickly (and hopefully easily) specify a button which should be clicked whenever the user clicks enter in the textbox.

MDA Best hardware product
Best product of the decade (hardware)
This award will be given to the most innovative product that has made the most significant difference to the Mobile Data industry over the last 10 years.
Winner: Winner Microsoft Pocket PC
Windows Mobile based Pocket PC platform: first launched in April 2000, Pocket PC has risen from a starting point of under 10% market share to over 50% in Western Europe, in the space of 4 years. The product is now synonymous with mobile computing and has revolutionised what we think of when it comes to a PDA.
Find out more . . .

Some photos and people are comparing them, take a look at it on SmartPhoneThoughts.com.

Step by step guide on how to setup a Gmail POP3 account on your SmartPhone.

Pretty guide from PocketPCMag on what to buy for what purpose.

Your hands are full. Your schedule is full. Your wallet is empty. With one little Windows Mobile-based device, you can manage your shopping lists, check your calendar, take a picture of Junior on Santa's lap, find your way to the nearest ATM, and even check your e-mail. Let Windows Mobile help you do more, not carry more!

In my opinion, this is the phone I was looking for a long term. In terms of size, usability mostly as a phone, task schedule and calendar it has been awesome. Take a look at Dave's PDA Place review.

TEHRAN - Anyone who thinks that stretch of water between Iran and the Arabian peninsula is called the "Arabian Gulf" or simply the "Gulf" should think again, with Iranian authorities stepping up their campaign to keep it well and truly "Persian". In the latest twist of the long simmering spat, the prestigious US publication National Geographic has been banned from sale and barred from sending reporters to Iran after it decided to print the words "Arabian Gulf" in an atlas. The Iranian culture ministry's head of foreign press affairs, Mohammad Hossein Khoshvaght, said the ban would stay in place until National Geographic "corrects its error". "We have asked the foreign ministry to make a complaint. We will not accept the use of the false term 'Arabian Gulf', which is contrary to United Nations documents. We will act against any media using this term," he warned. "We will defend the historic identity of the Persian Gulf. We will not accept any distortion and will take legal measures," said government spokesman Abdollah Ramazanzadeh at his weekly press conference. Top national security official Hassan Rowhani has also added his voice to the uproar, and the national press has carried a petition that emphasises the time honoured international standard is the "Persian Gulf" and nothing else. In addition to its sin, National Geographic's map also referred to three islands - Abu Mussa and Greater and Lesser Tomb - as "islands occupied by Iran and claimed by the United Arab Emirates". Iran has controlled the islands since 1971. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has backed the UAE's claim for the islands, but Iran insists they are an integral part of its territory. Tehran also insists on referring to the Arab grouping as the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC).

No comment on this, other than '?'!

To: National Geographic Society
Dear National Geographic Editors,
We the undersigned, through this letter, protest your irresponsible and unscientific actions.
This letter is in concern of publication of a map by your organization, which, according to all international organizations, is fraudulent and distorted, and its publication guarantees the violation of undeniable international legal rights.
It is a proven scholarly fact that the name of the Persian Gulf is a genuine name, with historical roots, and using any fraudulent names such as the “Arabian Gulf”, and islands “Occupied by Iran” is in fact inducing political animosity.
We did not expect National Geographic, as a prestigious international scientific institution, to ignore the proven obvious, and damage its own reputation on the basis of political intentions, and thus create an atmosphere of public mistrust in its content, and hurt the national pride of the millions of Persian speakers while doing so.
While announcing our disgust at such a heresy, we demand an immediate editorial review and correction of this publication by the National Geographic.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned

Hehe, funny article from MSMobiles: "For developers : Microsoft admits : you can earn only a little bit money with making software for Windows Mobile !"
It is derived from an December 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine.

This is what I received from Ramin Erfanian, CEO of Vaseteh company: "> As part of our expansion, we are looking for smart, hard working and capable people to joing us company to learn and grow and allow us to grow and achieve our objectives:
- Office manager
- Secretary with experience
- Marketing manager with experience in IT product
- .NET senior programmers
- Database designer and programmer
- Product manager with experience in Internet product
- Accountant
- QA engineers
Please check out http://www.vaseteh.com/Employment.aspx for more details.

This is what I received from Mahmooad Bashaash, yesterday:
"SGNetway is going to hire a male C# web developer to be able to handle it's medium and large scale web applications. Send your resume to jobs@sgnetway.com including a list of projects and current job status."

Go and get Community Server Beta One here.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

The author of article in SmartPhoneThoughts cliams that there is 7 brands from this smartphone out. Find out more...

According to TSS.NET, Telligent Systems has released Beta 1 of their Community Server, a combination of .Text, ASP.NET Forums and nGallery.

Mike Dimmick: "This article was spurred by discussions on the Channel 9 forums around the time of the daylight changes this year. Some users were complaining that the site was not indicating the posting time accurately. I suggested a route forward but failed to convince the administrators. This article is an attempt to provide code that is useful for converting a time stamp into the end-user's own time zone."

Stefano is saying that Fedora Core 3 has been released. Anyone got it here in Iran? Else I will have to ask friends downloading it.

PARIS, Nov. 15 - France, Britain and Germany announced Monday that they had reached a formal agreement with Iran committing the country to freeze a critical part of its nuclear program in exchange for an array of possible rewards. Under the complex but limited agreement, intended to prevent Iran from developing nuclear bombs, Tehran has agreed to suspend all of its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities while it negotiates the benefits it is to receive.

I got one iMate Smart Phone 3 lastly yesterday. Just playing with it see how it is!

Alireza Tavakkoli, don't ask me who he is since I don't know, in an interview with ILNA has announced that Iran's national OS is Linux.
This is their decision, but they could at least name the distribution they are working on it and call that distribution in their announcment.
In my humble opinion, saying: "Our National OS is Linux" is so funny.

The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian anti-spam filter, initially based on the work of Paul Graham. The major difference between this and other, similar projects is the emphasis on testing newer approaches to scoring messages. While most anti-spam projects are still working with the original graham algorithm, we found that a number of alternate methods yielded a more useful response. This is documented on the background page. Via Lockergnome.
For those who are interested in Mathematics, base of SmapBayes should be an algorithm called "Naive Bayes" which is used for classification of data for some pre-defined categories.

Database projects are special types of Visual Studio.NET projects which help you create and manage SQL database scripts. The Visual Database tools allow you to view, design, modify, and test database objects (for example, tables, views, queries, stored procedures, and so on) without having to jump from the Visual Studio environment to a different toolset. This chapter shows how to use some of the Visual Database tools in a VS.NET database project. Via David Christiansen.
I have been using this feature since beginning and it has helped me a lot specially in keeping SQL Scripts up to dated near my project files without any confusion.

GDSPlus is a free add-on that allows you to specify what extensions the new Desktop Search tool from Google will index. This includes the ability to add new extensions not yet supported by Google. You will be able to search the contents of any file that can be indexed as text.
GREAT!. Via Scott.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell may use a conference on Iraq later this month as an opportunity to engage directly with Iran, officials said on Friday, despite a looming nuclear crisis. While insisting "nothing at this moment is planned," one senior official told Reuters "there may be opportunities" for Powell to speak about U.S. concerns "more directly" than just in the conference's general meeting, set for Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt's Red sea resort, on Nov. 22 and 23.

I would like to second what Jay Kimble says about "Connection Strings, Encryption and Security" in a general way: "Nothing is Perfect."
Never look for the best, look for better than what you have.

Harshal Mistry: "An Israeli hacker reveals: A security hole in Gmail allows the compromise of users' email boxes – without the need of a password."

This week with Mohsen Hosein Mardi on Khyal Gallery.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States would deal with Iran as part of a group of Iraq's neighbors that will meet in Egypt this month, although Washington has no diplomatic relations with Tehran, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday. Iraq's neighbors, the United Nations, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Group of Eight leading industrialized countries are expected to attend a Nov. 22-23 conference on Iraq at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh Red Sea resort.

Today, we are making available the first installment of our Domain-Specific Language tools as a technical preview. Please note that this is work in progress and not a beta or even a final release. To put this all in context, let’s examine how we got here ... Read More . . .

NYTimes: "TEHRAN, Nov. 7 - Iran has continued its crackdown on journalists, with two arrests in the past week, and has moved against pro-democracy Web sites, blocking hundreds of sites in recent months and making several arrests."

Jeffrey Plaermo describes how to use App-Relative paths in ASP.NET 1.1.

Recommended article about security of IIS 6 by Larry Seltzer in eWeek. Via Dene Schonknecht.

A new article released on TechNet shows how a hacker infiltrates an unsuspecting network from target selection to owning the domain. It also contains a bulleted list of how to get a hacker out of your network. Read More . . .

Using Jeff's post, you can search a table , an specific column using 3 mods: match any, match all and exact match.

Generic Query Analyzer is a Query Analyzer for databases which you can connect using OleDb using .NET 2.0.

Electoral-vote.com, a leading source of data on the American presidential race, reports having been hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks yesterday and today, which is election day in the U.S. Read More . . .

BBC: Iranian Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi is suing the US government for blocking publication of her memoirs. She argues in her suit that restrictions on the publication of books by authors in countries subject to US sanctions are unconstitutional. American companies are banned from publishing books by authors in Iran, Cuba and Sudan. Ms Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year - the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to win the award.

Thanks for Miguel Jimenez who informed me of his HIP-CAPTCHA Anti-Blogspam control which can be installed in your current ASP.NET application, including .Text, without recompilation. I will try it till end of this week.

Again another cross site scripting in Google.

Several people have asked for additional testing details after my recent Whidbey Update post where I talked a little about how we are building ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer. Some specific questions I’ve been asked include: How do you build and track 105,000 test cases and 505,000 test scenarios? How big is the test team in relation to the dev team? What tools do we use to write and run them? What is the process used to manage all of this? Etc, Etc. Hopefully the below post provide some answers. Read More . . .

E-Commerce applications require mechanisms for payment. Although more commonly than not e-Commerce sites will use full credit card processing gateways, giving PayPal as an additional option of payment provides additional payment options for your customers, especially those that don’t want to pay by credit card over the Internet. If you run a Web shop that uses direct credit card processing and want to integrate PayPal seamlessly, you’ll find that using PayPal as a processing service is not as straight forward as using a payment gateway. In this article I describe how you can minimize the external PayPal interaction and work the PayPal payment into the order processing workflow to provide a seamless interface using ASP.NET and C#. However, the principles used here should be applicable to any Web programming environment. Via Jason N. Gaylord.

BBC: Michael Moore's controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 is to be made available to watch online on the eve of the presidential election. The pay-per-view showing of Moore's anti-Bush documentary will cost viewers $9.95 (5.40) to watch. Internet movie provider CinemaNow said the film will be available on their website on Monday evening. A satellite TV channel also plans to show Fahrenheit 9/11 on Monday, along with a film criticising John Kerry.