From Palm to Windows Mobile - Part 1

Well, after 3 years, my Palm Lifedrive suffered it's fourth and final failure of the "Orange Light of Death". No Power, No Video, just a nice orange light when it is attempting to charge. After doing some research, I now find out why Palm offered to repair it the last time for 1/2 price.

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From Palm to Windows Mobile - Part 2 The First 24 hours

I can see this conversion is going to take a lot of retraining and patience. Here are the status of my goals and the pitfalls I have come across. Sync with Address book and Now Up to Date - After 8 hours of installing, uninstalling, and attempting to sync with Pocket Mac for WM5/6, I gave up and decided to wait for the next release. 8 hours accomplished syncing of my address book once before a crash.

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My Paperless Office - Part 1

With the recent hype of paperless offices, I was left wondering if it's time had finally come. My last look at OCR was a number of years ago and I found I could type out the document faster than proofing a scan. I was massively turned off in my last look at paperless filing systems because they were propietary. But, for both, time has passed and I wanted to see what I could do. I wanted something, free/cheap, based on standard file types, cross platform and easy to use.

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From Palm to Windows Mobile - The First Month


This has been one heck of a learning experience. I am no longer trying to get the WM device to work the way I want it, but am now working the way the WM device allows me to. One thing that caught me off guard was the battery life. Having the bluetooth and phone antennas active results in an abysmal 9 hours of battery life using the extended battery, before the "Low Battery" warnings start happening. I have to soft reset it about once a week to keep it running well. I have also had to do a hard reset, which other than losing my mileage notes, ended up being nice to start over. Here's a quick review of where I am on my work flows:

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From Palm to WM6 to iPod Touch

OK, so the economy took it's toll and I ditched the SCH-i760.  For what I was paying in a data plan, the web was unusable and instant e-mail notification was not that necessary for the price.  I ended up getting an iPod touch, since it syncs with Google calendar, gets my e-mail, I can keep Verizon and over 90% of the time, I am within wireless networks.

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