musings from a snowstorm....

Now that's the way a Pocket PC Phone should work!

I upgraded my sorry Pocket PC phone's operating system to Pocket PC 2003 and a new radio stack. Bingo! Home run! Connectivity issues are a thing of the past. I can finally use IM on the thing. And it synch’s with Exchange automatically every 10 Read More...

E-mail and Pocket PC phone. OK for reading, poor for replying...

After using the PPC phone for a while, I've decided not to use it to reply to e-mail. Connectivity is the main issue. Sometimes the thing syncs up without a problem. Sometimes I can't connect at all. What's most frustrating is when it quickly and effortlessly Read More...

Pocket PC Phone and MSN Instant Messenger...

This one has me stumped. I never have been able to connect to my IM account from my PPC phone. I “tap here to sign in” and the phone connects to something, but I never can get logged in. Big bummer. Anyone able to get it working? Any secrets? Read More...

Whidbey Alpha and the Pocket PC...

Phil Scott mentioned that I just announced to everyone that I have some say in who gets to beta test Whidbey... No, not really. But I can ask. ;-) And I'm sure (at least I hope!) there will be a public beta period, similar to the one for “Everett” (VS.NET Read More...

101 things to do while at a red light... (well, at least one thing)

As I was sitting at a long red light this morning, trying to get out of the neighborhood, facing a 30 minute drive into work, I decided to sync my e-mail. There was a request from one of the account managers asking if a particular customer could get into Read More...