Since I’ve created this blog I’ve been using a nice Wordpress plugin to allow a nice user experience while visiting this website with a mobile device. It is called Wordpress PDA Plugin and it’s installation is plug-and-play. Since this is a blog, and probably most of the readers just subscribe my RSS feed into some reader or aggregator, this plugin isn’t essential, but is still pretty nice.
These are some screenshots from my website mobile version.
As you can see, in the homepage it removes all the images and shows only part of the text, to optimize performance. By entering into a entry details you can read the whole content, including images.
Since I bought my Qtek S200 with Windows Mobile 5 I’ve been having a problem in text messages (SMS) sending.
If I write a text message with accents the number of characters per message is reduced from 160 to 70 characters. This is a problem because without noticing you may spend a lot of money in accentuated messages (you send about the double of the messages).
I had never googled about this issue, but today I’ve found a solution while playing around with my pocket PC. It is just a default configuration problem. Sorry about the screenshots in Portuguese, but is the language of my Windows Mobile.
Step 1: Open Text Messages. Menu > Tools > Options
Step 2: Touch Text Messages account.
Step 3: Uncheck Use Unicode when needed (or similar text 
).
This option checked reduces the maximum characters per text message when using accentuated characters, because Windows Mobile automatically uses Unicode encoding which require more space than regular characters.
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I’ve been looking at this application evolution since more that six months. It runs on Windows Mobile, it is freeware and brings to the tips of your fingers a little bit of the iPhone user-experience.It is a contact manager that replaces the default one and allows you to scroll your contacts with your finger.It allows sending SMS, creating a favorites list and adding pictures to your contacts.You can set different themes. My favorite is the black one in the side picture. Download it here.
Still based on the ideal of using your PDA only with your fingers you also can find a keyboard in this website. Download it here. |
Nowadays I don’t use this software. I’m in a minimalistic phase as a windows mobile user. Only the essentials to have it working. (Qtek S200 performance made me took this decision).
Acabou de dar uma reportagem sobre o Portal PPC, mas precisamente sobre a base de dados de Radares.
Já conheço a iniciativa desde que comprei o meu GPS, e sem dúvida é um excelente contributo.
Ter no software de navegação registados os “Points of Interest” referentes aos radares impede multas desnecessárias, e também serve como inibidor do excesso de velocidade em alguns locais.
No entanto a reportagem da SIC deixou muito a desejar… Dizer que o responsável pelo projecto criou uma “aplicação para GPS para detecção de radares” é uma mentira. O que o Júlo Rocha fez e muito bem foi utilizar a funcionalidade da maior parte dos sistemas de navegação de registo de locais de interesse, e mobilizar os automobilistas a nível nacional a contribuirem para a base de dados por si gerida, de forma a disponibilizar a lista de radares e respectivas localizações o mais completa possível.
Os meus parabéns à equipa Portal PPC, e a minha desaprovação pela imprecisão da SIC.
Deixo a referência ao site Pocket PC freeware (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net).
Este site uma enorme colecção de software para Pocket PC.
No topo do site podem também encontrar links para os sites análogos para outros sistemas móveis.
Tem algum lixo, mas tem sobertudo muito software bom. E gratuíto!!
