Archive for ‘May, 2007’

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May07

BusinessWeek’s Mobile Experiments

by todd on May 7th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones, Mobile Devices, PDA

BusinessWeek appears to be trying out two different approaches to providing content to mobile devices. Their original Handheld Edition (right side of image) found at http://pda.businessweek.com/ has a simple clean interface that provides a lot of textual content per click (think Google). Their newer dot-mobi site found at http://www.businessweek.mobi/ looks somewhat graphically richer (think Yahoo […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May06

The Camera Phone Book: Comments on the Advice from This Book

by todd on May 6th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

The USA Weekend insert in my local paper has an interesting full page article title How to make the most of your camera phone that gets its information from the new book The Camera Phone Book: How to Shoot Like a Pro, Print, Store, Display, Send Images, Make a Short Film by CNet’s Aimee Baldridge […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May05

Configure Pocket PC Word Completion Your Way

by todd on May 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC/Phone Edition, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

A Windows Mobile Pocket PC feature that has always impressed me is Word Completion. It can help you get around the relatively slowness of pecking or writing in the SIP (Soft Input Panel) with a stylus or typing on a physical QWERTY keyboard by suggesting and auto-completing complete words. However, you may not have found […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May03

Google Calendar SMS Reminders

by todd on May 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Mobile Phones

Google announced a new feature for their Calendar today… Calendar on the go You can now have Google Calendar send event reminders to your phone via an SMS message. You can find Google’s documentation here… Google Calendar Notifications Here’s a bit of advice before you try this service out. Check what your SMS text message […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May02

MobiBlogr: Mobile Blog Cient for Windows Mobile

by todd on May 2nd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC/Phone Edition, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

Here’s an interesting free mobile blogging client for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and Smartphones. MobiBlogr And, yes, it looks like the letter “e” has suffered another casualty here. The actual download is a bit difficult to find. So, here’s a direct link to it.

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May01

Just Click the Power Button to Turn on a Windows Mobile Smartphone

by todd on May 1st, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Mobile Devices, Windows Mobile

Every now and then I read or hear a comment somewhere that you have to “press and hold” a Windows Mobile Smartphone power button to turn it on. While this may be true for some models, it is not true for the Smartphone models I’ve tried over the years. For example, I’ve heard this specifically […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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