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From the team that brings you Contacts, Email, Text Messaging, Calendar, and Tasks in Windows Mobile. All postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights.

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Texting a Non-Mobile Number
Commenter Jakub Anderwald notes how hard it is to send a text message to a home or work phone. I totally agree. These days many people have more than one mobile number and yet we only have space for one mobile number on our phone. As a result people have Read More...
Quick Note: Email Server Search
The other day I was on the way to a potluck with some new friends and I was running late (somehow I always underestimate how long cooking really takes). On my way over I remembered that the location had changed earlier that week and I didn’t actually Read More...
How to Remove Company Directory Search History List
You may have wondered “How do I remove my company directory search history entries?” Well , here’s a nifty trick you can do: From the file explorer, navigate to Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ Delete “GalSeachHistory.dat” This will clear your search Read More...
How to Access the Company Directory
Did you know that you can search your company directory on your phone?  All you need is a Windows Mobile phone and an Exchange account. How do I get to the company directory? Open Contacts -> Menu -> Company Directory What can I do in the Company Read More...
Finding Contacts FAST for Communication
Recently I’ve posted a few tips about working with contacts and it has been mostly focused on access from the contacts application or Smartdial.  I thought I should touch briefly on integration of contacts into other areas like messaging and calendar Read More...
ActiveSync Tweaks to improve Battery Life
If you’re a Windows Mobile user who synchronizes with a corporate or hosted Exchange server using Activesync, you can squeeze out more battery life out of your device by tweaking a few settings.  Below I’ll describe some of the settings you can change, Read More...
Saving Information to a Contact
Creating a new contact from scratch is straight-forward enough both on the desktop and on your phone through the contacts application. But sometimes you have information you want to store before you have the contact itself. You may not have cut-paste Read More...
Patch Tuesday: WM 6.1 SMTP fix released!
12/1/2008 Update: We've narrowed the patch incompatibility to a certificate mismatch. This means that while the patch is functionally sound, the device won't allow the code contained in the patch to run. We'll be working with the device manufacturer to Read More...
Using Hotmail with Windows Mobile
Today we’re going to talk about using your Hotmail or Windows Live account with Outlook Mobile. What does sync’ing with Windows Live support? Email (Your choice of push email or scheduled sync) Contact sync Uploading photos to your Live Spaces Live Messenger Read More...
Outlook Mobile FAQ
Comming to the page soon will be our most frequently asked questions and either answers or links to documentation, forums, and tools that can help you out! Read More...
Using Gmail with Outlook Mobile
In this post I discuss some of the most common issues that arise when trying to use Gmail on your Windows Mobile phone. IMAP vs. POP There are two 'languages' (or protocols) that the phone can use to communicate with the Gmail servers.  These protocols Read More...
Warning: the following contains explicit SSL
(or, Messaging: Port Probing Demystified) The "Require SSL" checkbox in the account configuration wizard for POP3/IMAP accounts is an often misunderstood feature.  It's somewhat ironic, then, that the intent of the checkbox is actually Read More...
Smartdial: Combining Calls and Contacts
In a recent post I talked about the introduction of Smartdial to WM Professional and described a bit of what it does. In a nutshell, it provides you with a filterable list of calls and contacts. But I thought I should say a little bit more about the “calls Read More...
Windows Mobile Professional: Smartdial
Here's another new thing in WM6 that I am particularly fond of - smart dial for WM Professional (Pocket PC). Sure, this is old hat to WM Standard (Smartphone) users, but I like the touch experience and am thrilled to have access to this feature now on Read More...
Call History Per Contact
In WM6 we did a bit of work to make it easier to track your call history with a particular person. So, in addition to being able to see your entire call history you can now get individual call history from your contact card. This is a feature I'm particularly Read More...
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