Ricardo from El Salvador just emailed me asking me how I managed to install the Palm Desktop on a Tablet PC. Palm say it’s not supported, but it’s worked fine for me, once I managed to get it installed, which seems to work fine provided you follow these instructions: uninstall...
I have just installed Vista RC1 – build 5600 – and want to use the trick I posted a while back that allows me to disconnect from a remote desktop connection to my Tablet, without my tablet locking (i.e. presenting the login screen). On XP to do this I would...
I don’t like having the room light on while working at my PC, so this idea on Lifehacker gave me the kick I needed to come up with a cheap way to backlight my monitors and it works really well. Behind my displays I have a 30W 1 Meter fluorescent light fitting which kicks...
National Semiconductor recently decided to give all of their employees an iPod, according to their press release: Our employees were vital contributors to our most successful year in National’s 47-year history, and we wanted to equip them with the tools to help us create more value for our customers This...
I work quite a lot on mobility but I still find it difficult to get good insights into the way different companies use PDAs and other mobility solutions, so I was surprised when I came across this post by Mary Beth Raven. In the post she asks her readers: As...
For the last few weeks I have been testing an iMate SP5, I had high hopes for it thinking it would be a great complement for my TC1100 Tablet. My main requirements (with scores) were as follows: small enough to take anywhere ***** worked great as a phone ***** seamlessly receive...
I like a good keyboard and really struggle even with the so so keyboard on my Treo 650. However one of my friends can tap out messages pretty quickly without even looking at his phone number pad and many people have told me that most kids can do this really...
I already new that Office SharePoint 2007 was going to support mobile browser access, but this article by Martin Kearn provides a good description and some images that show you what to expect (functional but ugly) Anyway the post has an extra treat, it introduced me to the fact that you...
My experiments with Smart Phones continue…. My daughter has an SPV C500 which I always liked but couldn’t use because it was locked to Orange and my business SIM is Vodafone and she loves it anyway so Dad’s not that mean! Anyway an upgrade opportunity presented itself and for £29.99...
Treo™ 600 is a small, simple to use smartphone with a built-in QWERTY keyboard. It seamlessly combines a full-featured quad-band GSM/GPRS mobile phone and a Palm OS® organiser with messaging applications such as email, SMS and MMS, a web browser, and even a digital camera–to simplify both your business and...