I just installed the beta of TextMaker for the Pocket PC. I’m still fiddling with the configuration settings, but OH. MY. GOD. I’ve yet to find something it can’t do that Word 2000 for Windows can. Styles, page breaks, mail merge, real-time spell-check, the whole enchilada. Full review this weekend!
I’d like to break from our ongoing mobility coverage to talk about one of the softer skills necessary to a mobile writer. After all, it doesn’t matter if you have all the best tools and always-on communications if you aren’t motivated to write in the first place.
It took me a while to realize this. I’ve [...]
The Register reports that RIM has been granted a patent on a “handheld wireless email device” with a thumb keyboard. 24 hours after getting the patent, RIM filed against Handspring, claiming that the Treo is infringing technology. The language of the patent is fairly broad, and might be ultimately unenforceable, but geez. Does this mean [...]
c|net reports that Palm will release three new models in October. One will be a low-end, $100 starter PDA that Palm plans to market to retail outlets that haven’t traditionally carried PDAs. One will be a Dragonball-based, OS 4.1 communicator with GSM voice and GPRS data (Palm’s version of the T-Mobile?) and the last will [...]
Making eBooks Work, Part 4: Audible
Okay, I have a confession to make. Not only am I a supporter of an electronic book format that requires the activation of a book to a specific device, but I’m absolutely hooked on it. I buy at least five of these books each and every month, I’ve been doing [...]
I dropped by my local CompUSA today to get a hands-on with the new T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition. I lucked out, as there happened to be not only a rep from VoiceStream/T-Mobile, but a product manager as well. I seized the opportunity to glean as much info as I could.
First off, the T-Mobile is [...]
Be it shyness or shame I have unwittingly fallen into the roll of the “silent partner” of this rag-tag team of misfits. But given my creative frustrations over the past few weeks I felt it was finally time to share some of my secrets for skillfully avoiding the muse when there is a bounty on [...]
I’m seriously thinking about taking up Voicestream/T-Mobile on their GPRS data service. $40/month for 20MB doesn’t seem so bad, especially with Pocket PC Phone Edition set to be as data frugal as possible. Pity those Handspring Treo 300 customers stuck with Sprint’s PCS Vision, their version of the CDMA 1xRTT standard. Sprint wants $45/month for [...]
While I’m keeping the WOYP forum on pocketnow.com going since some people prefer web-based forums, I’m hoping the duplication of postings on the Yahoo Group will also encourage discussion on that group. I, like many others, prefer to maintain discussions via email (easier to participate via the Pocket PC) and now email participants will have [...]
Okay, I get the picture. Since I started offering an email subscription to WOYP for a whopping 83 cents a month, absolutely no one has taken me up on it. At the same time, I’ve come under fire from some readers for letting the WOYP Yahoo Group languish. So here’s what I’m going to do.
Every [...]