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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Posted on 9:53am 1/07/2008 by Bruno Silva in
My Life
The first and only invitation into a social network I had ever accepted was Hi5. And I don’t use it very often. From time to time I add a friend, which is someone that I know from real live! Not someone that I’ve never seem or talked with. It may be not a friend in “real live” but at least is not a total stranger.
Today I have joined Facebook. A friend showed it to me some time ago. He uses it to share his Erasmus photos, so now I’ll be able to see them 
However, I try to be cautious about the information I share both in Hi5 and Facebook. Don’t give your life away in a website.
O concurso Imagine Cup do qual já tive oportunidade de falar neste blog encontra-se agora presente no Hi5 (http://imaginecup.hi5.com).
Uma boa iniciativa para chegar mais próximo dos estudantes na divulgação do concurso, visto que as camadas jovens portuguesas se encontram rendidas ao universo das redes sociais.
I simply hate Programs and Features feature in Windows Vista when compared with the Windows XP Add or Remove Programs feature. Why? Just an interface issue. When you go to Programs and Features the list of programs starts empty and is filled while Windows finds out that programs you have installed.
Every time I try to click in a program to change or remove it, before the search is complete, I loose track of that item because there are always new items being added to the list and hiding the existing ones (when they are added before that one). Because the fill isn’t ordered, but the items remain in alphabetic orders, you never know in which position of the list a new item will pop up.
I rather prefer the old loading message before all the items appear at once. At least I don’t have the frustration of seeing the program I want to change and not being able to access it, and when I walk through the list I know that there will be no items appearing in the beginning of the list where I had already seen.
Maybe in Windows 7 this will be improved. Who knows? Meanwhile, I can live with it
