Rejuvenated the Windows Mobile Phone

My aging phone, a Mogul running Windows Mobile 6.1, has been giving me a lot of grief lately. I can handle the occasional lock-up (yeah, Windows has trained me well! #conditionedResponse) but it got to the point that I was missing text messages and locking up just as calls were coming in. Very annoying and

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Found my Windows Mobile Utility

Late last year I was looking for a Windows Mobile utility… without much luck. I wrote:

Perhaps a more interesting utility would be one that changes notification sounds/styles depending up on the time of the day. Sure, keep on getting that email every 10 minutes, but after 7pm just flash the alert light and don’t vibrate

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Google Sync now Pushing Email

Back in February of this year Google announced Google Sync — push syncing for Calendar and Contacts. I’ve been using it ever since with my Windows Mobile phone and love it but, like most folks, I’ve been hoping for the Email component…

Yesterday, Google announced the addition of push Email support. I visited the little ActiveSync

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Windows Mobile: Slide 2 Unlock 2 (S2U2)

A couple weeks ago I finally got a bit frustrated with my Windows Mobile phone. Carrying it around in my pockets and laptop bags was causing it to take “liberties” way too often. You see, I’d get a text message or some other alert which would “wake up” the phone. While awake, it would get

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Windows Mobile GPS Apps?

Help me lazyweb! I’m looking for suggestions… A while back I discovered TrackMe, an application that would use my Windows Mobile device and GPS to track my bike rides.

Now, TrackMe seemed to work well enough, but I have to admit the footprint seemed rather large. So, before I install it again, I’m curious as to

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