by Jason Dunn, Microsoft MVP - Widows CE
(Most Valuable Professional)
Day 4
Today I used the Philips alarm to wake me up. It's a decent clock, but the alarm doesn't display message in big font or trigger the backlight (which would be a nice touch). The best way to "wake up" to this alarm is to open the Velo slightly and stand it up on it's front with the speaker facing your head. If you're a HEAVY sleeper, however, I doubt this will help.
Did some more email, used the clock mode in a library while I created a story-board for a new web site. I wish CE supported a "never turn off" mode - I wasn't concerned about battery power, but I wanted the clock to stay on! I can see this being useful for people using CE units to give PowerPoint presentations as well - what happens if you talk for more than 5 minutes? Poof! The unit turns off.
Day 5
Today was more email, and I also used Ruksun's NET FORCE to look up contact information for a domain. A nice touch!
Day 6
More email today, but the lack of a CE-based file converted hit me smack in the face today. A business associate sent me a 62K Word 97 file, which theoretically shouldn't have downloaded (CE is supposed to have a 31K file size limit on email attachments). However, as you can see, it did download, for all the good it did me. The only real solution is to email the person back and ask for the file in an RTF format...
The lovely error message you see when you try to open an Office 97 file format. This is FINALLY fixed in CE 2.11 on the HPC PRO's, but it *should* have been fixed with CE 2.0's release.
Day 7
More email today (no frustrating file attachments), used Word on an invoice, and discovered it has multiple levels of undo. A nice touch Microsoft!
Today was also the day I decided to test out the "webmaster-man-ship" of my Velo 500. Could I actually use this palm-sized computer to maintain a web site? You bet!
The bSquare HTML editor, while certainly not FrontPage 98, is a nice little package. The preview mode gives you a solid preview of what it looks like with Pocket Internet Explorer 2.0. The graphics didn't load above because they are located in a sub-folder on the server. I didn't want to change links, just update the text.
This is where the real changes occur - in the code. A bit awkward for me, because I haven't designed sites this way for a couple of years. A good refresher course! There are buttons for most major things like alignment, font attributes, etc.
Next up - getting this new HTML page onto my server. Very easy to do with Ruksun's Scotty FTP! Punch in the server address, user ID and password, and you're on.
Specify a local file(s) to be transferred, and a remote location, and go!
Next up, I needed to edit the way my domain was forwarding email, so I used yet another Ruksun product - Telnet Force. Worked like a charm - no bells or whistles, but when is there with Telnet? Logged into my server at pair...
...and used PICO to edit my .mailproto file. Simple, fast. Considering how many things on a UNIX server can be controlled via a Telnet prompt, this makes the HPC a powerful remote administration tool, no matter where you are.
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