Category Archives: Tip

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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Organizing Programs on a Pocket PC: Part 2 of 2

In the Part 1 of this two-part series, we talked about using a Program Launcher as a time-saving tool for you. Here in Part 2, we talk about how you can accomplish much the same thing without incurring the “memory … Continue reading

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Organizing Programs on a Pocket PC: Part 1 of 2

In my post the other day on Magic Button, I committed to telling you how to get along without a program launcher. I will do that in the Part 2 of this post. In this post, we will talk about … Continue reading

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Great PPC time-saving tool: Calligrapher

Calligrapher is an extraordinary replacement for the Transcriber handwriting recognition tool that is built into the Windows Mobile/Pocket PC operating system. One area in which Calligrapher far surpasses Transcriber is in its macro capability: It can generate text phrases, such … Continue reading

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Pack your books into your PDA

In looking over the 100 or so books I have on my Dell x51v Pocket PC, it occurred to me it might be good to strike up a conversation on this blog about what e-readers you use, how you use … Continue reading

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VoiceMinder: send reminders to yourself

A while back Lance wrote a great post on using Jott to send reminders to yourself via email. For owners of Windows Mobile devices, there is another tool that will also let you do that: VoiceMinder. This inexpensive software lets … Continue reading

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Gotta love Moleskine

I went to Barnes and Noble a little while ago to pick up a new Moleskine notebook. I have three, but they are practically full. I wanted a new, fresh one to use in rigorously working my way through Ferriss’ … Continue reading

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