New SCOTTeVEST Jackets and Free Shipping

Posted by: Judie on Aug 21 2007 - 1,017 views

It’s hard to believe in the midst of the heatwave that has been baking much the US, but fall is coming, and SCOTTeVEST is ready. Take a look at the latest news from Scott & company…

First, we are introducing 2 new jackets, the Explorer and the Evolution. Without a doubt these are the coolest jackets we have ever made, and they represent a true evolution in our design. They have fewer yet more purposeful pockets with improved over-all styling, all with the ability to control your iPod® directly through the fabric.

The Explorer jacket is available now, and is made of water repellent microsuede, with 20 pockets. It is a great looking traditional style with non-traditional, functional features that we have become known for. It is a perfect fall and winter jacket. To learn more, press here.

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Best Software Awards 2007 Nominees Final; the Judging Has Begun!

Posted by: Judie on Aug 07 2007 - 911 views

917 Products have been nominated in Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s Seventh Annual Best Software Awards for Windows Mobile software. Throughout August a team of 100 Windows Mobile experts from around the world will evaluate the software nominees in 151 Pocket PC categories and 40 Smartphone categories.

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The Power of Mobile Communication is Unleashed With the Release of Spb Communication Pack

Posted by: Judie on Aug 07 2007 - 1,004 views

Spb Software House has just released a bundled software set that may appeal to all of you Pocket PC Phone Edition Windows Mobile Professional users: Four of their best selling mobility software titles, bundled in a 45% off package!

August 7th, 2007 - Spb Software House, the leading Windows Mobile software maker, releases its first communication software bundle - the Spb Communication Pack - an integrated collection of the four recognized best-selling Windows Mobile communication programs: Spb Mobile Shell, Spb Phone Suite, Spb GPRS Monitor, and Spb Insight are skillfully bundled together at almost half the price.

In a nutshell, Spb Communication Pack offers three powerful enhancements to the Windows Mobile platform, reinforced by a clever news reader, all intimately integrated and working to improve the Pocket PC user experience at a substantial, 45% discount.

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Proporta Offers Great Protection for Your Sony Ericsson P1i

Posted by: Judie on Aug 01 2007 - 1,053 views

Hannah has just sent around the latest news from Proporta, and it would seem that they have now set their sights on protecting the Sony Ericsson P1i.

Have any of you got one of these? Mitchell at Gear Diary just received a review unit (watch for his unboxing soon), and it looks like a very cool phone. I keep saying I am going to try Symbian OS device, and yet I never do; that needs to change!

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Possibly the Prettiest Laptop Bags

Posted by: Judie on Jul 31 2007 - 1,670 views

The lovely Alison pinged me this morning to point out the drool-inducing wares at the freshly launched J’tote, a fashionable laptop bag company located in Austin Texas. These bags are very feminine and stylish, and they can all carry up to a 15" laptop. One bag can handle a 17" laptop, so you mega-MBP users are covered.

Take a look at a couple of my favorites…

This is the Saoirse, which according to the J’tote site, "is a limited-edition, deep purple leather tote with a stunning beaded stingray accent, truly a unique combination of sensuous materials available with either a pink or purple stingray insert."

sheer gorgeousity!

Yummy, huh?! Read on…

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The Web IS Pocket Informant Review

Posted by: Judie on Jul 29 2007 - 5,074 views

There was a time when I used a Palm device exclusively.   The PIM applications on it were so anemic, however, I was forced to find replacement programs for all of them. My favorite aftermarket software titles were DateBk, Contacts, Memo Plus, and ToDo Plus. Realizing that I felt the need to replace every single built-in PIM on my Palm device seems as funny now as it seemed necessary then, but I did it and was quite happy with the results.

When I started using a Pocket PC, I was more satisfied with the built-in PIMs than I had ever been with their Palm counterparts, but I had grown used to customizing every possible Datebook and Contact setting, and I wanted to be able to do the same on my Pocket PC.  In late 2000, I tried Pocket Informant for the first time, and I liked what it allowed me to do. Don’t get me wrong, the program wasn’t perfect, but I liked it better than the competition, and it allowed much more customization than the built-in Calendar did; it even had one of the features I had liked so much in DateBk…category icons. Yeah, I was stylin’.

In June 2001, I attended the MS Mobility Tour & PPC FanFest in Dallas. While there I met Alex Kac, the developer behind the then current Pocket Informant2 version. While working the "Beam & Share" booth at the FanFest together, he and I had an opportunity to talk about what I did and didn’t like about the current incarnation of his program. Amidst the praise, one of my criticisms was that, "I had just about given up on [Pocket Informant 2] because it seemed so slow!! It really bothered me that if I made an entry it seemed to take forever for the program to refresh so that it could display the updated screen." I also groused about what I felt was a "missing" Today plugin. At the time, Alex was readying his release of PI3, and he told me that a lot of the issues I was experiencing would be addressed in that version. With the exception of the Today plugin, Alex totally came through.

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