If you’ve ever managed a server or helped a friend with some computer problems remotely, you might be familiar with “Remote Desktop”. This software is based on Terminal Services and allows you to log into any supported system (with proper credentials and firewall ports open) with a small bit of Remote Desktop client software. Versions of this have often been available for Windows Mobile and Windows CE. The problem has always been trying to use …
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Some Sweet Secret Touch Diamond Features
Now, there are a lot of things to absolutely fall in love with about the HTC Touch Diamond. Some of which are small, but make a big difference. You know how when you call someone, you have to hold the phone up to your ear and listen to it ring and ring and ring and wait until they pick up? The Touch Diamond has an awesome little feature where instead of doing that, you dial …
Continue readingThe TouchFLO 3D Interface’s Speed
This post is not about tweaks that anyone can do to the TouchFLO 3D interface to speed it up. This is some advice to the software developers at HTC and Microsoft who intend to make animated user interface designs in the future. First off, a lot of people are noticing slowness in the TouchFLO 3D user interface. While multitasking, cache levels, and processor usage may have some effect on this, the biggest and most obvious …
Continue readingApple Compares its 3G Speed to Really Old Windows Mobile and Symbian Devices
In the WWDC 2008 conference keynote today, Steve Jobs compared the iPhone 3G’s 3G internet speed to the Nokia N95 and Palm Treo 750; two devices that are about 6 months older than the original 1 year old iPhone. Apple is notorious for distorting statistics and such in order to make their products seem better than they really are and this might be another good example. I wonder if newer HSDPA devices can get the …
Continue readingThe Touch Diamond’s Boot Up Video
HTC’s marketing verbiage for the Touch Diamond says “the HTC Touch Diamond™ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design.” We’ll see how true that is as I continue my review of the Touch Diamond, but to give you a hint about its intuitiveness, one thing you may not know is that the Touch Diamond actually plays a full-screen video for you the first time you boot it …
Continue readingDoes Your Library Loan You eBooks?
Over at Windows Mobile Connection, while reminiscing about how Pocket PC 2002 first brought eBook reading capabilities to the platform, Laura Rooke mentioned that she had recently discovered that many public libraries will loan you digitally rights managed eBooks and audiobooks through the Internet if you’re a member of that library. Digital audiobooks are in the OverDrive Media Console format, and eBooks in the Adobe Reader and Mobipocket reader formats. These downloadable eBooks and audiobooks …
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