The next version of the Virgin Mobile Balance Gadget is out! Improvements include:

• Support for accounts with multiple mobiles. You can now select which mobile number data is displayed for.
• Bug Fixes for fetching data in Google Gadgets.

	Download for Vista: VirginMobileBalance.gadget Download for Google: VirginMobileBalance.gg
	Make sure you right-click the link and choose 'Save As' or the file extension may revert to '.zip' and you will need to rename it as noted in the Installation section. Requirements: Windows Vista or Google Sidebar An Australian Virgin Mobile Account

 Click 'Read More' or scroll down to find out how to use it.

As an ASP.NET Developer I find myself working with html in Visual Studio a lot. One thing that is really annoying (for me at least) is the default setting to wrap lines at 80 characters. This means that visual studio chops your html tags in half with a new line character. I am not sure why they enable this feature by default considering you can get Visual Studio wrap lines to the window (no new lines added).

Luckily if you go to the Tools Menu and select Customize you can then turn the option off as in the screen shot below:

For the last week I have been working on my entry for the Devsta Challenge 2008. For the theme of 'Old School/New Cool' I made a DTMF phone tone generator for Windows Mobile that allows you to dial your outlook contacts by holding an analogue phone to your mobile device's speaker. You can check out my entry here. Assuming we are allowed to I will post the application when the competition ends.

Sorry all those waiting on updates to the Virgin Mobile Gadget, The Devsta Challenge ran for only 200 hours and 8 minutes (to promote Visual Studio 2008 - Which rocks, so if you haven't tried it you should) so I had to devote all my spare time to it.

Due to the great response from everyone on the whirlpool forums I have upgraded the Virgin Mobile Gadget. It now works with both Google and Vista Sidebars and with Pre and Post Paid Virgin Mobile accounts. This new version of the gadget is named 'Virgin Mobile Balance'.

Pre-Paid users will get the same great functionality in both Google and Vista Sidebars. Post-Paid users will now get their current months usage for calls and data!

Hopefully you can use it to optimise your mobile usage and save a few dollars.

	Download for Vista: VirginMobileBalance.gadget Download for Google: VirginMobileBalance.gg
	Make sure you right-click the link and choose 'Save As' or the file extension may revert to '.zip' and you will need to rename it as noted in the Installation section. Requirements: Windows Vista or Google Sidebar An Australian Virgin Mobile Account

 Click 'Read More' or scroll down to find out how to use it.