PDA

I love my phone, it does everything I want it to, meaning I can run the business, play games and even find where I am when I’m lost with TomTom. I do however have a few annoyances so have gone on the hunt for fixes or software that will help me with those.

The first annoyance is that the phone always vibrates when it sends an SMS. It probably makes a noise as well if you have the sound on (but I don’t normally have sound on), after a quick scan on The XDA-Developers Forum, where Tinity Hacks is suggested, a great little tool with allsorts of little extra’s that saves you going into the registry to play with them!

Backups, I’m on a bit of a backups binge at the minute both at work and at home - PPC PIM Backup
can backup your SMS as well (a failing of most phones now solved!).

MyMobiler, I’ve been looking for something that means I can control my PDA from my desktop for a long while, all the old software I had for my SPV M2000 / HTC BlueAngel wouldn’t work. This didn’t initially - my first thoughts were - here we go again… After a little (read that as a lot!) of digging I found the way to get it working was this:
Start -> Settings -> Connections -> USB to PC, if you have enabled advanced network functionality then untick the box!

I installed SPB Keyboard a while back on a trial - didn’t get on with it as well as I’d hoped and deleted it, but ever since I’ve not been able to set a new keyboard other than the built in ones! I quite liked the look of one of the skinnable ones in this thread - so installed HappyTappingKeyboard and still it didn’t work. So reading through this mile long thread I found out for WM5 I might need IM Selector (also to be found deep in the depths of this thread), this seemed to solve the problem and I can get a different keyboard now! Now I need to find a skin I like!

When I get more time I’ll explore some more apps!

Those of you who spend enough time with me by now will know that I’m a bit of a fan of Mozilla and in particular like most of the world at the moment - Firefox.

I’d love to switch to all Mozilla products, but until now have been unable to do so… Why I hear you ask?

The answer is simple, my PDA - admittedly I don’t use it as much as I should - maybe I would if it was a little more stable, it’s certainly more stable since I upgraded the ROM on it to WM5. Apparently there are even faster ROMs out there now I may download one later today (when I’ve charged the damned thing up due to lack of use!).

I need my documents and my contacts to be able to sync with the PDA, now I’m going to make the challenge just a little bit harder, it needs to sync with Outlook at work and Mozilla at home (alright, I’ll accept Mozilla at both ends if needs be!).

Looks like FinchSync may be the way forward (at least from a tasks/contacts/calendar point of view)?