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Loke Uei has actively executed a worldwide Mobile Embedded & Developer Conference series across nine countries. Prior to his career with Microsoft, he was in software development for several leading software development companies in Malaysia. Loke Uei has been in the software business for 20 years.

Loke Uei blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/lokeuei and participates actively in the social media scene at @lokeuei.

Stuff Loke recommends you check out this summer:

• Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit
• HTC Touch Diamond
• HTC Touch Pro
• Toshiba TGO1
• Windows Mobile Developers
• Windows Mobile Team Blog
• Windows Mobile Marketplace News
• Windows Mobile Widgets
• Pocketwit
• Twikini

Windows Live Mail or Hotmail is beginning to roll out free POP3 access for users in the U.S. now. Hotmail POP3 access was previously only available on premium accounts. Other countries including Canada, the UK, and most western European countries also now have free POP3 support. Microsoft is very late in opening free POP3 access to everyone, various email services including Google’s gmail was offering the feature since its launch. Yahoo remains the biggest player who does not offer free POP3 access right now. Hopefully Yahoo will also follow Microsoft here. One important feature Hotmail now needs to offer is the ability for users to forward their email to any domain they wish, including gmail. Still, users can only forward email to hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com domains.

This is a guest post written by Josh Highland, Founder of Not Popular

Josh Highland catches up with James Johnson at the Inland Empire .NET User's Group MVM Awards. The MVM (Most
Valuable Member) Awards spotlight outstanding members of the .NET community in the Inland Empire. James
Johnson, who founded the Inland Empire .NET User's Group 5 years ago, talks to TechZulu about the growing pains
the user group has experienced, and how the MVM program has helped boost the .NET community in the Inland
Empire. James Johnson blogs at www.duringlunch.com. The Inland Empire .NET User's Group's home is
www.iedotnetug.org

Stuff Don recommends you check out this summer:

• Oslo
• F#
• Scala
• ML Programming
• Elements of ML Programming by Jeffrey Ullman
• Martin Fowler
• Pride, Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Check out Don's take on being "Microsoft's first blogger," his favorite technologies, and his thoughts on Twitter.

Don't forget to take Don with you:

While at Mix09 Geoffrey Emery talked to Angus Logan and James Senior about New Improvements to Live Messenger, In the second part of the interview we dive into what is new in the live framework. Its amazing at how much stuff these guys have going on. Sometimes it makes my head spin. In this interview we also get into what the difference between live sync and Live mesh. All this and much more in this great interview

What’s New in this Release

This update includes:

• Support for side-by-side installation of the www.mesh.com local client and the developer.mesh-ctp.com local client. This means that you can use the production Mesh.com to sync data across all your devices, and develop applications for the Mesh Developer Sandbox that uses the local client—all on the same machine. For instructions on setting up side-by-side, please see this forum post.
• Support for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8
• Single installer for the Live Framework SDK and the Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Resource Scripts are now supported in Silverlight applications and with the local Live Operating Environment
• Public availability of the SDK and Tools on the Microsoft.com Download Center.
• Improved stability in the client and the cloud Live Operating Environment.
• Design and performance improvements to the API toolkits
• Simplified workflow for setting up an account and a Live Framework project on the Azure Developer Portal.

The Live Framework SDK and Tools April CTP has just been launched!  Not really sure why they launched mid-March and called it an April CTP – but hey, I’m not complaining when you get:

• All-in-one installer (like a multivitamin – lots of goodness in one capsule)
• Support for Win7 and IE8 (satisfies even the most demanding dogfooder)
• Side-by-side installation of Live Framework CTP and Live Mesh Beta (now be a consumer and dev – all at the same time!)
• Performance Improvements (we’re super slick, just like Win7)
• and more

For the full announcement

Live Framework Explorer (LFE) is an addin for Visual Studio 2008 that makes it much easier to browse the contents and data inside a user's Live Framework Resource Model.

http://www.codeplex.com/lfe