Posts for October 2008  Thoughts on Google Chrome  I admit it, I
am a fan of the new Google Chrome browser.  This made me
chuckle, however: Google vs Microsoft ... ?  Is Google preparing
to dominate the world ?  Making The HTC Touch Diamond Vibrate
One of the minor problems I had when making the Stopwatch for my
HTC Touch Diamond, was to make the phone vibrate automatically.
It seems there are no managed way of doing this. However, after
a bit of googling around, I found out that the vibrator
typically can be addressed as a LED object using the Open NET CF
Framework. So I decided to throw together a tiny wrapper class
around this functionality, so I can use it generally in the
future. The most useful thing here, I think, is the ability to
have the phone vibrate using a given on-off pattern in a fire-
and-forget pattern that works well when programming Compact
Framework forms.  This is the simple Vibrator class:
1: using System;          2: using System.Threading;          3:
using OpenNETCF.WindowsC