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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Tricking Out Your Today Screen, Part 5

The Right Answer? Mix and Match
Okay, first off all of the below is wrong. Or not. Maybe. You see, there is no right answer. The great thing about the Windows Mobile Today screen is that the possibilities are almost endless. All of the applications I’ve talked about in this series are good, and I [...]

No, I’m not dead…

I haven’t posted much recently here because I’ve been in nonfiction mode. Over at Writing On Your Palm, I’ve posted four installments of a daily series on tricking out your Windows Mobile Today screen. I think I’ve got one more to go.
I gotta tell ya, I don’t know how I’m pulling this off. The first [...]

Tricking Out Your Today Screen, Part 4

The Full Monty, Part 2: Spb Software House’s Spb Diary
One of the most popular Today plugins is Spb Software House’s Pocket Plus. Actually, this application isn’t just a Today plugin; it enhances and replaces system functionality across the device. One thing it doesn’t do, though, is display your calendar data on the Today screen. [...]

Tricking Out Your Today Screen, Part 3

The Full Monty, Part 1: SBSH’s PocketBreeze
In the previous two installments of this series, we covered ways to optimize and extend your Pocket PC Today screen while still retaining the same basic look and feel that Microsoft intended. Today, we’re going to look at PocketBreeze from SBSH Software, a way to completely replace the [...]

Tricking Out Your Today Screen, Part 2

The Basics, Improved
What if you like the Zen simplicity of the stock Windows Mobile Today screen, but just wish it did a little bit more? Like, say, actually show you your tasks along with the summary so they’re not as easy to ignore? Or show more than just the next 24 hours worth [...]

Tricking Out Your Today Screen, Part 1

The central hub of any Pocket PC is the Today screen. This is the one place to go to see pretty much all the information you need at a glance. Fortunately, it’s just about infinitely extensible and there are lots and lots of Today screen plugins available to get your Today screen to display just [...]

Sleepytime…

Frickin’ Mondays… I’m just about to fall asleep at my desk despite just about every server going TU this morning after swapping out the building backup generator. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking banana peels…
Unification Chronicles #4, Exiting Eden, is available for sale on Fictionwise this morning, so go get it [...]

Test mobile post

Move along, nothing to see here…
Just testing out a Wordpress editor for my PPC…

Back in the saddle, continued…

I have no idea what day it is, but I just got done with a minor polish of UC #5, Inquisition, and I can’t wait to hear what you folks think of it. Absolutely zero combat in this issue, unlike the near constant fight of the last two, but I still think it’s the most [...]

Vista ate my baby.

Okay, Vista isn’t a time-travelling ravenous dingo, but it sure feels that way. As many of you know by now, Vista RC1 (the first Release Candidate, a build Microsoft feels might be good enough to release) has been released to the general public. I have downloaded it, but I haven’t installed it yet, and I [...]