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May 29th, 2008

Microsoft Live Labs: Deepfish

I was hanging out with a friend last night and he had a new mobile browser on his phone called Skyfire. It looked very similar to the functionality of the iPhone browser in allowing you to select an area on the page and then zoom into it as needed. That was in beta and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 4th, 2006

New ActiveSync Troubleshooter

One of the new features of the recently upgraded version of ActiveSync for PocketPC is a troubleshooter feature. Screen shot of some of the steps it goes through is below.

The only problem with it for me is that it said I wasn’t running Outlook 2000 or later. I’m running the Outlook 2007 beta which is […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 6th, 2006

ActiveSync 4.2

Microsoft has released a new version of ActiveSync. This one is 4.2 and should take care of many of the problems with the 85010014 errors many of us have been dealing with.
I’m currently looking at my ActiveSync 4.2.0 (Build 4855) BETA install for my PPC-6700. Looks like this is the final, non-beta version.
Thanks to Pocket […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 11th, 2006

Windows Mobile RSS Reader - FREE

Sure wish my PPC-6700 wasn’t a chunk of useless plastic and silicon right now. Aside from the asset of this story being a free RSS reader with AvantGo. The writer has some great thoughts on Microsoft and quality programs and pricing. Interesting reading.
Take a top of the line phone that runs on any of those […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 30th, 2006

ActiveSync 4.2 Beta

Not sure if it’s related or not, but after installing the Office 2007 beta preview, I began getting the Error Support Code: 85010014 again. However, I just visited the Microsoft Mobile website again and noticed they’ve got ActiveSync 4.2 beta available.
I installed it and everything synch’d right up again with no errors, so that’s definitely […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

May 10th, 2006

ActiveSync 4.x Troubleshooting Guide

Just found this resource, the Pocket PC Addict, and noticed when I added them to Bloglines, the first post listed was about a tutorial for troubleshooting problems getting ActiveSync setup and working properly. Since I experienced this a little bit myself and noticed that it was a pretty common challenge, figured I’d throw this resource […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

April 25th, 2006

This was posted from my new Pocket PC Phone

This was really a challenge due to the browser in the phone not rendering CSS correctly .
Does anyone out there view the site with their mobile phone?
How does it look for you?
Tags: cell, CSS, Mobile, phone, Pocket-PC

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April 14th, 2006

SQL Server Mobile

Microsoft will be making the mobile version of their SQL Server software capable of running on any version of Windows. Currently the product only works on Windows CD and Windows Tablet editions. But with this announcement, they’ll be expanding their user base.
I’ll definitely be looking into this more because I know we have some clients […]

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April 12th, 2006

Vista Sideshow

Ever wish you had a little bit more functionality from your laptop, even when the lid is closed? That’s the idea behind the SideShow feature in Windows Vista. The feature will use a sub-set of the functionality of Microsoft Gadgets to deliver information in small chunks to the user. The information will be delivered through […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments