Category Archives: Tip

Online How-To Tools

Although my consulting workload does not leave much time for blogging this week, I wanted to at least start the week off with an article. Maybe I’ll get a chance to do an additional one later this week. Last month … Continue reading

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Protecting Your Hardware

Have you ever accidentally dropped your PDA and had its lovely screen damaged as a result? How about your laptop? While this has happened to a couple of my friends, I have been fortunate, even though I have not always … Continue reading

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Reader Tip on Sorting Palm Task List Alphabetically

During my sabbatical, Paul Garth emailed me with a question about how to alphabetize Palm’s task list. I knew a way and described it to him, but it was an ugly brute force method. And, as soon as you modified … Continue reading

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Using a How-To Directory

I came across a great tip a while back, which I think was on Matt Cutts’ site: set up a directory called “How To” and dump in text files on individual how-to-do-this items. I wish I had started this years … Continue reading

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Saving Keystrokes and Mouse Clicks

I am a huge fan of using software that saves time. For example, I have talked in the past about: Calligrapher for Windows Mobile Devices Other Macro Tools QuickSilver and TextExpander for Macs When I glanced at my TextExpander stats … Continue reading

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Adding Fonts to Your PPC/Smartphone

If you would like to have fonts other than the vanilla Tahoma font that is built into Pocket PC and Smartphones, you can add fonts from your Windows Font Directory. I have done this on all Pocket PC’s I have … Continue reading

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A Reminder about Your Smartphone/Pocket PC Memory

I recently picked up my Dell x51v for the first time in a couple of weeks. In doing so, I remembered I had not run my system maintenance utilities in a while, so I ran MemMaid to clean out the … Continue reading

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Compact Your Outlook Data Files

Even if you do your best to keep your Microsoft Outlook inbox empty, your Outlook data file will continue to grow and and can eventually impact Outlook’s performance … unless you remember to periodically compact the data file. Fortunately, compacting … Continue reading

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Running PPC programs on a Smartphone

After yesterday’s article on how to run Palm programs on a Pocket PC, it seems appropriate to share with you how you can run Pocket PC programs on a Windows Mobile Smartphone. Diary of a Mobile Addict provides the details … Continue reading

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Running Palm programs on your PPC

Based on feedback received from my post on a neat GTD application for Palms (NoteStudio), I decided to try StyleTap to see if it would run NoteStudio on my Dell x51v Pocket PC. I also decided to test how it … Continue reading

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