Mobile

Unlocking HTC Touch

October 15, 2007

When I bought the HTC Touch Smartphone I was never told by the reseller that it was locked onto Airtel Network in India. Only after seeing some of the comments left on my earlier post, I realized that it was a SIM locked phone. Recently when I traveled to Beijing, I felt the pain of [...]

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SPB Mobile Shell

September 24, 2007

SPB Mobile shell is an extension for the boring default user interface of a Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC phone. Key feature include: Phone style menu Weather forecasts  Photo speed dial World time Launcher Big dynamic tabs on Today Color based themes Smart contact search The SPM Menu based navigation loads faster and you can [...]

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gCalc – Calculator for Windows Mobile

September 2, 2007

The default calculator that comes bundled with Windows Mobile 6 isn’t made for touch phones. Also the application hasn’t received an upgrade from a long time. Even my 5 year old Casio Pocket PC is running the same calculator application ! gCalc gCalc is a simple calculator application which works great on a touch based phone and  is [...]

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Shozu – Upload photos from your mobile

August 11, 2007

The camera on my old Sony Ericsson T630 was totally hopeless. Also the amount of memory was so low that after every few photos, I had to move it out to make some space for new ones. However the same is not true with my new HTC Touch. The 2MP camera doesn’t take the best [...]

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Setup ActiveSync via Bluetooth

August 7, 2007

ActiveSync, a synchronization program developed by Microsoft allows a mobile device to be synchronized with a Desktop PC. Other than syncing your contacts, calendar, tasks and notes you can also sync the Emails on the Exchange server. ActiveSync also allows you to Copy files between PC and the Mobile Device Install/Uninstall Mobile Applications ActiveSync can [...]

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Video: Windows Mobile Keyboard Applications

August 3, 2007

This video is a follow up on my previous post covering the popular keyboard applications for Windows mobile powered devices. If you found the earlier post too lengthy, you would definitely appreciate this video Youtube seems to have again crushed the video and it does look odd compared to the original video. If you do [...]

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Keyboard applications for Windows Mobile

August 1, 2007

One important feature expected from a Touch screen based Windows mobile Smartphone is the ability to quickly input text. Be it composing a SMS/MMS or taking a note or composing a word document, a powerful keyboard application is a must on a Smartphone/Pocket PC. I quickly got adjusted to the Touch based navigation on my [...]

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How To: Make your blog mobile browser compatible

July 26, 2007

After launching the Internet browser on my HTC Touch, the first site I opened was of my own blog. The browser almost came to halt while loading the home page. When I loaded other sites such as GMail, Flickr, Google Search one thing I noticed was that all these sites had a page compatible with [...]

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Plaxo 3.0

June 29, 2007

Plaxo is an online address book service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen, and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ringand. I have been a loyal user of this service from some time now. I happened to meet a person named Ghanshyam Dass in Shanghai airport (during transit), who later turned out [...]

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Consilient Push Email

May 2, 2007

Consilient has brought its free mobile E-Mail application called Push to  India. Using this application you can retrieve E-Mail’s from your Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail AOL or any POP3/IMAP E-Mail account.You can also send and receive photos and read your work email using Consilient Push. The Push service also has attachment support (ZIP, MS Word, PDF & Excel) and [...]

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