Tips & Tricks

Topics

• Accessories
• ActiveSync
• Bluetooth
• Clean and Repair
• GPS
• Input Methods
• Multimedia
• Personalization
• Phone Edition
• PIM
• Pocket Office
• Security
• WiFi

Accessories

1. Protect the screen
2. PDA Cases - protecting your investment
3. Stylus at its best
4. Power up your PDA while on the road
5. Increase the storage size
6. Dashboard riding
7. GPS - out of nowhere
8. Internet on the road - GPRS Cards
9. Wireless capabilities - Bluetooth and WLAN
10. Snapshots right from your Pocket PC
11. External keyboards
12. Jackets for all purposes
13. Pump up the volume
14. Your Pocket PC controls the TV - and more
15. Accessories for special needs

ActiveSync

1. Solving ActiveSync being inactive
2. WM 5.0 and ActiveSync battery drain
3. Sync time to the millisecond
4. Get a file from backup
5. Surf the Internet while syncing
6. Appointments disappearing
7. Install programs to storage cards
8. Change the theme when you sync
9. Sync your music
10. Let your storage cards sync
11. Print when you sync
12. Remove the duplicates
13. Make your favorites mobile
14. No response when syncing?
15. Multiple ActiveSync partnerships
16. Troubleshooting ActiveSync

Bluetooth

1. My other device uses a non-numeric PIN and I can't pair!
2. Easy Bluetooth pairing
3. Bluetooth ActiveSync configuration: the PC side of the things
4. Performing Bluetooth ActiveSync (Pocket PC OS 2002)
5. Performing Bluetooth ActiveSync (HP and Dell)
6. Performing Bluetooth ActiveSync (Pocket PC Phone Edition)
7. Receiving files on your Pocket PC
8. Browsing other device's files from your Pocket PC
9. Sending and receiving files
10. Internet Sharing with ICS (Internet Connection Sharing)
11. Internet Sharing via ActiveSync
12. My Internet Sharing is not working!
13. Connect to GPRS using Bluetooth
14. GPRS configuration for Bluetooth
15. Using the laptop as a speakerphone
16. Transferring Contacts or Calendar entries
17. Transferring Contacts and Calendar entries

Clean and Repair

1. Clean up your temporary files
2. Free up available memory
3. Finding and removing programs that take up space
4. Where can I find a list of Pocket PC registry tweaks?
5. How to keep your registry clean
6. Hardware screen maintenance
7. Charge your battery in the right way
8. How to delete icons from removed programs
9. How do I edit the registry?
10. Removing programs
11. Soft-reset once in a while
12. Adding items to the Start Menu
13. Why can't my programs find the files that I have stored on my storage card?
14. How do I access the files in My Documents on my Storage card?
15. How do I make a program startup when I soft reset my PPC?
16. Overclocking your Pocket PC

GPS

1. What is the best GPS for my Pocket PC?
2. How does GPS work?
3. Do I need to pay for use the GPS system?
4. What do I need to have for a Pocket PC with GPS?
5. Differences between chipsets, SirfStar III chipset
6. Where can I use a GPS?
7. Why use a Pocket PC?
8. GPS software for navigating
9. Other software
10. Configuring a GPS
11. WAAS, EGNOS, what are these?
12. Can I use the GPS to go off-road?
13. Getting loud voice instructions
14. Charging the battery
15. The future of GPS

Input Methods

1. Keyboard shortcuts
2. What are the default input methods?
3. Letter Recognizer seems inconsistent - why?
4. Speed up your entry with the keyboard
5. Tips for word completion
6. Getting better accuracy with transcriber
7. What is the fastest I can enter data?
8. Can I use my thumbs to enter information?
9. Input methods optimized for speed
10. Shortcuts in Fitaly!
11. Is there anything better than transcriber?
12. The art of natural handwriting
13. Using your computer to enter text
14. What about real keyboards?
15. Copy and paste in any program using your keyboard

Multimedia

1. Converting and using OGG files
2. Streaming music from your PC
3. Streaming music from the Internet
4. Recording and playing back audio
5. Converting movies to WMV
6. Converting movies to DivX
7. Watching streaming video and TV
8. Playing PC and Console Games
9. Making video calls
10. Viewing and editing photos
11. Capture screen shots
12. Buying and reading eBooks
13. Creating your own eBooks
14. Viewing and editing desktop files
15. Acquiring and reading news
16. Aggregating and reading RSS feeds

Personalization

1. How to add fonts to your Pocket PC
2. Modify the Start and New Menu
3. Skin the Task and Menu Bars
4. Add shortcuts to the Today Screen
5. Changing themes
6. View multiple Today Screens
7. Five day forecast: weather on your Pocket PC
8. Map multiple applications to a button
9. Play music from the Today Screen
10. Using screensavers
11. View tasks and appointments
12. Lock your Pocket PC
13. Customize your alarms and notifications
14. Overclock your Pocket PC
15. How to switch profiles on your Pocket PC Phone Edition 2003

Phone Edition

1. How do I put a call on hold?
2. How can I activate my speakerphone?
3. Recording phone calls
4. Why dont my outlook country codes work on my phone?
5. How do I create and change ring tones?
6. How do I turn the phone off and still use the Pocket PC?
7. Storing and sending TXT messages
8. How does the Pocket PC handle TXT message length?
9. How can I save a TXT for later?
10. How can I save messages for repeated use?
11. Look Ma - one hand!
12. Some other cool SMS features
13. Speed Dial
14. How do I change the criteria for the vibration?
15. How do I manage my data costs?

PIM

1. View all upcoming appointments from the Today screen
2. Store birthdays and anniversaries as calendar events
3. Scroll through your contact list like a rolodex
4. Look up a contact by phone number
5. Change that 425 default area code in Contacts
6. Change the default number listed for a contact
7. Use Calendar to invite attendees to a meeting
8. Switch views in Calendar more easily
9. Delete all contacts on the contact list
10. Use contacts to automatically dial a number on a mobile phone
11. Have your calendar dictated to you
12. See more details about your tasks from the Today screen
13. Print items from Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks
14. Synchronize Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks with a Mac
15. See more information about a calendar item using icons

Pocket Office

1. Windows Mobile 5.0 - what's new?
2. Go thin with your scrollbars
3. Use ClearType for improved viewing of documents
4. Switch to Landscape mode on the fly
5. Keep large files quarantined where you want them
6. Save Office files in Office 97/2000 format (Windows Mobile 2003 and 2003 SE only)
7. Shortcuts give fast access to important docs
8. Make Excel easier on the eyes
9. Rename sheets for greater flexibility
10. Be smart with your formulas
11. Improve your efficiency with handwritten notes
12. Extend Pocket Word with keyboard shortcuts
13. Use all of Pocket Word's input modes (Windows Mobile 2003 SE and older only)
14. Be careful how you view Word docs (Windows Mobile 2003 and 2003 SE only)
15. Keep large audio files in check
16. Powerpoint on your Pocket PC
17. Get a keyboard for a truly mobile solution

Security

1. Using built-in password protection
2. Password protection: hints on choosing a password
3. File encryption
4. Private data storage programs
5. Connecting your Pocket PC to a Virtual Private Network
6. Connecting your Pocket PC to secure web sites
7. Secure password authentication in e-mail
8. Protecting against e-mail carried viruses and worms
9. Windows Mobile 5.0 and backup
10. Third-party solutions for backup
11. ActiveSync backup (Windows Mobile 2003 SE and older)
12. ActiveSync restore (Windows Mobile 2003 SE and older)
13. Using Restore to recreate a lost, stolen, or broken Pocket PC
14. Restore note: never restore to a different model or after a ROM update
15. Backing up storage cards and file stores
16. Pocket PC-based backup and restore
17. Miscellaneous security-related tips
18. Some useful Pocket PC security utilities

WiFi

1. Optimizing your wireless network
2. Useful terms for non-geeks
3. Ad-hoc network: desktop + Pocket PC
4. Static address network: router + desktop + Pocket PC
5. Dynamic address network: router + desktop + Pocket PC
6. Wireless security settings
7. Troubleshooting your wireless network
8. ActiveSync over WiFi
9. Using ActiveSync with Windows XP and Service Pack 2's Security Center
10. Transferring files over the network
11. Streaming media to your Pocket PC
12. Wireless printing from your Pocket PC
13. Miscellaneous WiFi-related tricks
14. Some useful WiFi-related utilities for Pocket PCs