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Tech: Pocket PC email and ssh (or lack there of) and general woes
Thu, 10 Nov 2005

Alright, so its been one of those weekends. This will be one of those rant postings, so feel free to just ignore it entirely - but let me summarize and say that Pocket PC should be good as a temporary replacement for a laptop, but it isn't so far..

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Pocket PC: When a little is too much...
Thu, 10 Nov 2005

(And not just with brustle sprouts.) Without a doubt, Microsoft's Pocket PC platform is a solid workhorse sporting many components that developers can build upon to create powerful applications. A robust kernel with true multitasking... check. Gorgeous font rendering and high resolution displays... check. Wifi 802.11 and bluetooth both... check. Yadda yadda. The operating system rests upon inspired hardware such as the Dell Axim X50v... and yet I must wonder why there just seems to be so many fewer applications in each genre than in the Palm OS camp. (I am not saying the applications are any less functional -- merely less in population.)

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Pocket PC: Compilers of Rage
Thu, 10 Nov 2005

A busy week means a slow news week so I better get to it! The main topic of the post will be some brief commentary about the state of development tools for PDAs, specifically Pocket PC, in porting Beats of Rage to the platform. But first some quickies (queue in the deedee-deet-deedee-deet news anchor background music): Ditching the 'Geekery' categories and merging those posts into the 'Technology' categories, Coca-cola with lime is delicious, Zot Bandits is still on my mind, and I trimmed the office grass down to half its height and pruned away many of the broken guys in hopes of restoring it to its short lived glory... so far, Prognosis: Negative!)

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