Small Town GeeksTech News, How to’s, and Reviews

The windows mobile Operating system is a very easy to use operating system to use if you were raised on windows. These are a few links that make your daily life a little bit easier.

• Almost everywhere you go now there is a Hotspot, Why not use your PDA/Smart phone as a portable Skype phone. Check out Skypes website to download the latest copy for your particular PDA.
• Google Maps. If you have a PDA that has Wi-Fi then you need to get Google maps. It installs very easy and it is very handy. Satellite images at your finger tips. Definitely cool.
• Wi-Fi-Fo-Fum, Wi-fi-fo-fum is a wireless access point scanner. This app shows all active access points in the area. This app can display in a few different ways, you can show results as a list or as a old skool radar. Great for War Drivers!
• Raise your hand if your a Firefox fan boy… that’s what I thought. Minimo is a great way to surf the Web on that access pont you just stumbled upon. The minimo browser makes full size windows fit great to the small PDA screen. It comes with many useful links built in like Del.ico.us, Gmail, Google, and so on.

These are just a few of the many available tools for the window mobile platform.
There will be a better review of these tools after i get a chance to use them more.

P.S. Sorry for the short post, I am writing this on my lunch break in the parking lot of a Gas Station that has Wi-Fi.

The Quote of the Day: Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

- Unknown

T.J. Houston
(Carpe Noctum)

So for those of you who like to jump on google calenders to make quick changes to your agenda. But you work on a mac and carry a palm. I have the solution. So there is this program for us mac users called spanning sync. What spanning sync does is simply sync your google calender with your iCal. It is a great tool and its only fallback is that it costs. It provides a nice little trial that allows you to use it a couple of weeks and then you are offered a one year subscription or a lifetime subscription. But meh…who wants to pay. If you go into your manage calenders section in google you can then pick which calender you would like to sync. Then just scroll to where it says iCal. Click here and a url will pop up. This will allow you to subscribe to the url in iCal. Simply hit calender, subscribe, and then copy paste your url into the box. And bam your all synced. Then to go to palm the guys over at PALM have a great guide http://www.palm.com/us/macintosh/isync.html
Happy Syncing. I’m signing off.
Cheers

Well as you all know I was moving into college this past week. What you might not know is I’m a little spoiled. I’m sporting the macbook and my desktop. The desktop featuring a 19″ Hyundai Imagequest(Excellent Monitor). Unfortunately my desk in Gallagher(My Hall) was to small for the monitor to fit and a keyboard to go in front of it. So we stopped by the local Lowes and bought some lumber. Made a quick bookshelf. Which I then slid behind my desk. Pushing the nook that was on top of the desk back 10″ nearly gave me a third more of space. Problem solved! Apart from spending the past two days hooking up the video game systems, cable and sorting clothes. College is going well so far. Cross Country practice this morning consisted of a 6 mile run at a ski resort. Well I want to keep this blog entry as tech related as possible so if you want more of my personal life than you will have to check out http://codenamescott.blogspot.com/ . I have quite the set-up going though the pc on the left of the desk and the macbook on the right. I will follow this post up with another on a neat little trick I learned today. I’m signing off.
Cheers

So for those of you who like to jump on google calenders to make quick changes to your agenda. But you work on a mac and carry a palm. I have the solution. So there is this program for us mac users called spanning sync. What spanning sync does is simply sync your google calender with your iCal. It is a great tool and its only fallback is that it costs. It provides a nice little trial that allows you to use it a couple of weeks and then you are offered a one year subscription or a lifetime subscription. But meh…who wants to pay. If you go into your manage calenders section in google you can then pick which calender you would like to sync. Then just scroll to where it says iCal. Click here and a url will pop up. This will allow you to subscribe to the url in iCal. Simply hit calender, subscribe, and then copy paste your url into the box. And bam your all synced. Then to go to palm the guys over at PALM have a great guide http://www.palm.com/us/macintosh/isync.html
Happy Syncing. I’m signing off.
Cheers

Well as you all know I was moving into college this past week. What you might not know is I’m a little spoiled. I’m sporting the macbook and my desktop. The desktop featuring a 19″ Hyundai Imagequest(Excellent Monitor). Unfortunately my desk in Gallagher(My Hall) was to small for the monitor to fit and a keyboard to go in front of it. So we stopped by the local Lowes and bought some lumber. Made a quick bookshelf. Which I then slid behind my desk. Pushing the nook that was on top of the desk back 10″ nearly gave me a third more of space. Problem solved! Apart from spending the past two days hooking up the video game systems, cable and sorting clothes. College is going well so far. Cross Country practice this morning consisted of a 6 mile run at a ski resort. Well I want to keep this blog entry as tech related as possible so if you want more of my personal life than you will have to check out http://codenamescott.blogspot.com/ . I have quite the set-up going though the pc on the left of the desk and the macbook on the right. I will follow this post up with another on a neat little trick I learned today. I’m signing off.
Cheers