Comments on: Windows Mobile ruins another day http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/03/28/windows-mobile-ruins-another-day/ Ideas for gettings things done. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Administrator http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/03/28/windows-mobile-ruins-another-day/#comment-134 Administrator Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:27:23 +0000 http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/03/28/windows-mobile-ruins-another-day/#comment-134 No David, I'm actually a big fan of Microsoft. I gave them too many years of my life! I just hate it when technology doesn't work. I hate it when the promise of technology is not fulfilled. Be it by Microsoft (in this case) or by Apple when the hard drive of my iPod fails again and again and again. No David, I’m actually a big fan of Microsoft. I gave them too many years of my life! I just hate it when technology doesn’t work. I hate it when the promise of technology is not fulfilled. Be it by Microsoft (in this case) or by Apple when the hard drive of my iPod fails again and again and again.

]]> By: David Sly http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/03/28/windows-mobile-ruins-another-day/#comment-133 David Sly Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:45:03 +0000 http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/03/28/windows-mobile-ruins-another-day/#comment-133 Hi Cam, Yes I've been there too. about six months ago I spent half a day getting Bluetooth activesync working. I used it for a fews weeks, then sporadically for a month, then I stopped using it altogether. I set it up on my mistaken premise that I would just walk into the room, the pc and pocket pc would find each other and auto update my appointments. Rather the reality is, it's slower to establish the connection and sync that using a cable, so I just abandoned it. Re: daylight saving in Vic, yes that stuffed me up too. I missed one appointment because of it. Anyhow MS official fix was to change your ppc clock to GMT+11 (rather than the usual GMT+10). See the doc here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907494/ . Note that for more fun and games, the MS site only reads properly in IE! I think you might have a similar disain toi me for MS/PC stuff. I'm seriously contemplating switching to MACs. I like the form factor of the Tablets and UMPCs on the PC side, but geez the Apple hardware/software combination, simplicity and "just works" factor" just might outweigh these. MACs are looking even more attractive now that several users have got MS windows working as a dual boot on their new Intel MACs. This is a nice reassurance for the transition period, where I would need a few windows-only apps, until I weaned myself off them. Cheers, David. Hi Cam,

Yes I’ve been there too. about six months ago I spent half a day getting Bluetooth activesync working. I used it for a fews weeks, then sporadically for a month, then I stopped using it altogether. I set it up on my mistaken premise that I would just walk into the room, the pc and pocket pc would find each other and auto update my appointments. Rather the reality is, it’s slower to establish the connection and sync that using a cable, so I just abandoned it.
Re: daylight saving in Vic, yes that stuffed me up too. I missed one appointment because of it. Anyhow MS official fix was to change your ppc clock to GMT+11 (rather than the usual GMT+10). See the doc here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907494/ . Note that for more fun and games, the MS site only reads properly in IE!

I think you might have a similar disain toi me for MS/PC stuff. I’m seriously contemplating switching to MACs. I like the form factor of the Tablets and UMPCs on the PC side, but geez the Apple hardware/software combination, simplicity and “just works” factor” just might outweigh these. MACs are looking even more attractive now that several users have got MS windows working as a dual boot on their new Intel MACs. This is a nice reassurance for the transition period, where I would need a few windows-only apps, until I weaned myself off them.

Cheers,

David.

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