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Good news! I’ll never subject you to screenshots like the kind that were in yesterday’s post again. That just didn’t work out so well, did it? Sorry about that.

Today I happened upon an older Pocket PC Power Toy that I used to use frequently but had completely forgotten about: Remote Display Control. I can’t believe I’d forgotten about this little gem.

This is a simple little client server application: start the server portion up on your Windows Mobile/Pocket PC device, then fire up the client portion (the viewer) on your desktop and you can see and control your device from the desktop.

Of course, that means easy screenshots too.

To da!

Cool huh? Check that copyright date… Normally I’d probably edit a shot like that to crop out the upper control bar (the grey menu), but that picture shows you exactly how this looks on my computer.

Click with the mouse to tap. Type with the keyboard as normal and F1 and F2 simulate the first two hardware buttons.

Speaking of keyboard, this is also really handy if there’s a lot of typing to be done. Sure, I find my Mogul’s slide out keyboard very easy to use, but if I have a lot to type, a regular keyboard is much preferred.

Downsides? Well, I won’t be showing any screen shots in landscape mode.  Ye olde cerdisp predates such things. That’s about it though…

4 Responses to “Easy Screenshots For Windows Mobile”

1. Cell Phone Boosters on November 8th, 2007 8:36 am
   

   Not only the remote desktop but the powertoys has some AWESOME tools like the expense app and the password app supporting more letters and case of the letters. I also forgot about the screnshot app so now this makes my job so easy now when the boss asks for some mobile screenshots for his presentations Thanks Robert

2. Dan Anton on November 8th, 2007 3:45 pm
   

   Seems like an awesome feature; only thing I can see a bit weird is typing on your desktop to get it on your portable device…kinda negates the ability of it being portable if you want to use your desktop to type or take a screenshot; handy feature non-the-less

3. Chris on November 8th, 2007 4:26 pm
   

   @Cell Phone Boosters - (man, your parents must have been weird to drop a name like that!) The powertoys were really cool a few years back. Fortunately some are indeed still useful, but I sure wish they’d update those some day.

   @Dan - yeah, it seems a bit odd at first blush… but there are times when I need to get a lot of data into my phone. Using a proper keyboard sure makes it easier

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