Archive for the 'Xda Orbit' Category
Friday, July 11th, 2008
So … it would appear that the new Apple iPhone 3G was launched today. (That’s obviously not a photo of the new Apple iPhone 3G above, or even the old one. That’s my O2 Xda Orbit running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.)
I didn’t know that until today. Until I started reading folks’ posts (called […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Fife on wheels
I can’t remember … much actually! No, I can’t remember any other new year where I’ve been clobbered with quite so many bugs as this one.
I seem to have had at least one new stomach bug or virus each month. Some months I was greedy and had at least two.
So I […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The problem
Here’s something that I found annoying a few weeks ago, until I found a hack: when I have particularly long text notes stored in my Outlook tasks and then synchronize them with my Windows Mobile 6-powered O2 Xda Orbit phone/PDA I discover that the notes are truncated. I get this message at the […]
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
When I first got my O2 Xda Orbit I decided to get a desktop cradle so that my shiny new phone could sit upright, alert and ready for me to answer a call rather than slumped lazily on its back.
However, I struggled to find one that was guaranteed to work with an Xda Orbit, and […]
Posted in General, Computer, Telephone, Xda Orbit, PDA, Hardware | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Before and after: Windows Mobile 5 (left) vs. Windows Mobile 6 (right)
I’d read a few days ago that O2 would be offering a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 so yesterday I went in search of such delights, and lo! as it says in the good book: seek and ye will find: software update for […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Here’s a quick, easy and free application for taking screenshots on your Windows Mobile 5 device: Ilium Software Screen Capture.
As the website says:
Using Ilium Software Screen Capture takes just six simple steps:
Start the program on your device
Use the Options menu to define the key you want to press to take your screenshots
Leave the program […]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
York skyline, showing York Minster. (Photo from York Musical Society.)
At lunchtime today I’m heading down to York with one of my colleagues from The University of St Andrews to the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2007 at The University of York.
Assuming that I can get my wireless setup properly there (unlike at the IWMW last […]
Posted in General, Computer, Web, St Andrews, Places, Flickr, IWMW2007, Xda Orbit | 2 Comments »