The AnderNaut

I have been using Spb Diary for about a year now and have found it quite useful. Spb has done a very superb job of maximizing Today screen’s real estate, for your PIM experience. Diary uses a horizontal tabs arrangement for Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, and Messaging allowing for more information to be displayed in a single glance.  

• NEW! Photo contacts and handy dialing
• NEW! Stylus-free navigation (one hand using)
• NEW! Special Events tab (birthdays and more)
• NEW! Easy document management with Notes tab
• NEW! Skin support
• NEW! Integration with Spb Weather, Spb Finance and PhatNotes
• Tabs for Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, Messages and Special Events
• Integration with all popular PIMs
• Windows Mobile 5 support

 I have been trying the Beta for about week now and am liking the tweaks and new additions. My favorite is the Stylus free navigation, a boost to the one handed nature of my i-mate JAMin. This extends the function of the JAMin as a phone and making it easier to call from contracts, from the Today screen. I highly recommend giving Spb Diary a try, also try out the other Spb products

Source: Press Releases - Press Information - Spb Software House

Well it seems that we can be expecting that HTC Hermes device showing up at Cingular, the 8525, soon. Like, I’m there too, for sure. As I’ve talked about before this will be a great step up from my i-mate JAMin, and dependently the way to go for those out there with a Cingular 8125 and a look toward 3G. Couldn’t say it any short or clip it much more, so I quoted the whole thing. 

I’m just going on what he told me about the reports. But I did get to play with it for 30 minutes and was really impressed with the phone as an upgrade from the 8125 / Qtek. The phone was noticeably faster both in the software response and the internet speed. I did have time to install and try out slingplayer on the 3g network and was very impressed with the quality. It was pulling 250 kbs which gave a very good quality picture. The keyboard was nice. I haven’t used a 8125 so I don’t know what the difference is between the two keyboards, but I loved the keyboard more than on my Qtek. The additional buttons for “ok” and the start menu are very nice and makes it clear to me that HTC listens to their customers and makes improvements.

Source: HowardForums: Cingular 8525 / HSDPA (testing)
Reference: PocketPC Thoughts - Cingular 8525 Spotted in the Wild
Reference: the::unwired - Cingular 8525… caught in the wild

My good friend The Library Despot has plugged The AnderNaut for providing the resources for his new Podcast Site. Now I’m going to have to have more content for all you new visitors.

I highly suggest his site(s), especially if you are interested in Library Serials. He has been doing the blogging thing for a while now and is a great extension of his Library Serials career.

Well… I would have only been 10 years old, when all this was going on. Yet, I still remember bits and pieces. All I can say is what a long way things have progressed. It is cool to think about those things and then realize just what was high-tech. I, myself, remember having a top loading VCR and our family Commodore 64 as a part of my 80’s. I would like to give Engadget a huge kudo for this little trip down memory lane.

Source: Engadget 1985 - Engadget.com

All I have to say is hooshaa, our friends over at Engadget Mobile have dug up some info on the Cingular 8525. It is a bit disappointing that they had the front facing camera has been removed. but hey I can deal with that. I have been very impressed with the devices Cingular has been coming out with. They may not have always been what I would have wanted, or the best device out there. But hey, they’ve been trying.

Source: Cingular 8525 (HTC Hermes) renderings leaked? - Engadget Mobile
Source: Brighthand Forum Thread

Here is what our friends over at Engadget Mobile have dug up at the FCC web site or around the web this week.

Phones

• RIM BlackBerry 8705
• Nokia 6088
• Ezze EZ700D
• Motorola W220
• Samsung SGH-Z620 (a.k.a. Ultra Edition 11.8)
• Kyocera K325

Peripherals

• Cal-Comp BC3200
• LG HBS-200
• LG HBM-710
• Jabra BT125

Source: FCC Fridays - Engadget Mobile

Here is the new version of Skype for all you PocketPC users out there, version 2.1.0.53 beta. They’ve made some changes and bugfixes. I like what they have done with the interface, before I could not find a place to make changes to my Profile, now there is a button on the main screen to do just that.

• Multi-chat support
• SkypeIn
• Voicemail
• Call forwarding
• Profile editing
• Detailed search  
• Animated emoticons
• GSM and Sky call management
• Larger Dial Pad and delete button in Dial Pad
• One click launch from Today Plug-in

I have not had a chance to try it, but they are requiring WiFi or 3G data service. I bought a bluetooth headset for my phone a couple week ago and hope that I can use it with Skype also. They were kind enough to offer a .cab file direct download to allow for a direct install from your PocketPC device.

Well know software package Spybot Search & Destroy has been migrated to Windows Mobile platform. Having a version available for both PocketPCs and Smartphones, It is using and a version for the Symbian platform also. The mobile Spybot-S&D uses a light weight version of the detection engine used in the Windows Spybot-S&D detection engine. The application version is at 0.3, the scanning engine is currently 1.5.

While viruses for Symbian and Windows Mobile currently seem more like proof-of-concept studies, the Windows Mobile platform offers malware writers who already know Windows a very similar environment. Some may call it a hype, but that’s what people said about spyware 5 years ago as well, and our opinion is that it’s better to protect yourself before something happens than to do it afterwards.

I have installed it both on my i-mate JAMin and my iPAQ hx4705. It is a manual scan process, the scans took 5 minutes and 3.5 minutes respectively. It has an update option, but says there are no updates available, so we’ll have to see if it is automated update process or not. I will be interesting to keep an eye on it’s progress and see what the product develops into. (Source: PocketPC Thoughts - Spybot-S&D for Windows Mobile)

I have a new blog to add to the AnderTek fold, Dev-N-Progress, . In reality it is not new, it is my development site that I have consolidated from having one for each blog instance to one. So it has been around in some fashion for a while now. It will be postings pertaining to my blogging experiences from an admin perspective.

Well… it looks like this site for testing and development just might also end up being a blog on such. The basic format, or actually theme would probably be a better way to describe it, or even more vague would be direction, is my time and journeys I take in my blogging admin duties.

I would be glad to receive any comments or suggestions for content. As I stated above this will be my development site for now so there will be the possibility of it being down at times.

Happy Blogging

The site has been rolled out to version 2.0.4 of Wordpress. I have been using it for a few days now and not seeing any issues show up.