Help: Understanding Views in your Calendar

With Windows Mobile you have choice, which is good, but too many choices become confusing. Hopefully we’ve given you just what you need; let’s take a look.

There are five views for your calendar, they can be changed in two ways.

1. Using the left soft key you can scroll through the views in order: Agenda, Day, Week, Month, Year
2. Tap Menu > View and make your selection.

Tapping Menu > View looks like this
The five views are shown below.
Agenda View
Day View
Week View
Month View
Year View

Have more calendar questions? See these other topics (coming soon)…

• How-to: Schedule a Meeting from Windows Mobile

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How-to: Schedule a Meeting from Windows Mobile

Did you know you can send a meeting request to your friends right from your windows mobile?

Let’s see how easy it is…

1. Open your Calendar
2. Tap Menu > New Appointment
3. Next you need to add the details of your appointment… we’ll cover them one at a time.
4. Enter the key fields for your appointment… Subject Location Starts (Date & Time) End (Date & Time)
5. Tap Attendees to add people to your appointment You need to select Required vs. Optional Attendees…
6. Select the Attendees from your Contacts
7. You can add or adjust a number of other fields (see below). If you want to accept the defaults, Tap Done.
Other Options:
If you want this appointment to repeat, Tap Occurs You can set the the appointment to repeat only: Once On the same day of the week On the same day of each month On the same day each year A custom pattern
You can write detailed notes to your attendees or yourself by Tapping Notes

Have more calendar questions? See these other topics (coming soon)…

• Help: Understanding Views in your Calendar

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Installing and setting up Google Maps on your Windows Mobile Phone

In brief, we need to… get Google Maps, install it on our phone and then learn some cool things we can use it to do! 

Let’s start by getting Google Maps setup on our phone… 

1. Open Internet Explorer from either the Start Menu or your Programs folder
2. Tap Menu > Address Bar
2. Type m.google.com in the address bar and click the arrow or Hit Enter This page (or one like it) will be displayed…
3. Tap Maps on the page NOTE: The page may look a bit different than the one at the right…
4. Tap Yes You want to download the file “GoogleMaps_compress.CAB” You’ll also see the app installing. If presented with an option as to where to install the application, choose Storage Card from the list.
5. Accept the Mobile Terms on Services
6. Click OK Don’t forget later you can use your gmail account to share your location with friends any family….
You’re Installed!

Have more Google Maps questions? See these other topics (coming soon)…

• Use Latitude to share your location with friends and family
• Search, read reviews and get directions to your favorite destinations
• Get Walking or Transit Directions (instead of using your car)

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iPhone App #2 from Microsoft Research: Tag

The Microsoft Tag application comes to iPhone today.

from: http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsofts_second_iPhone_app37275064.html

Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone application in the past month, a free service called Tag Reader that allows users to snap photos of interactive 2D bar codes and immediately be transported to more information. (Maps, videos, music, promotions, etc.) That means mobile phone users don't have to type in long URLs from a mobile browser.

One can imagine a number of real world uses of the technology. For example, a museum could place one of the interactive tags next to a painting. An iPhone user with Tag Reader installed could then take a photo of the bar code and be transported to a video of how the artist created the work.

The introduction of Tag Reader follows the debut of Seadragon Mobile, a photo zoom and browsing technology that was Microsoft's first iPhone application. At the time of the release of that app, TechFlash reported that the iPhone presented some interesting business issues for Microsoft since the popular device competes directly with its Windows Mobile operating system.

More information on Tag Reader on  this informational site, which describes how publishers and other businesses can incorporate the mobile tags into billboards, print ads and other media.

Seadragon (App #1)               Tag (App #2)

New Palm Smartphone WebOS looks interesting…

You can see some nice screen and video review shots in this article…

Memo To RIM, Windows Mobile: Palm Just Kicked Your Butt

Dan Frommer | January 8, 2009 7:40 PM

Perhaps the most impressive part of Palm's (PALM) new WebOS smartphone platform: It has a gorgeous user interface. (At least from what we can tell from the photos and videos we've seen.)

The Palm Pre's UI design gives even Apple's (AAPL) iPhone a run for its money, and destroys Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile and RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry OS -- especially the ugly graphics RIM and Verizon threw together for the hairball BlackBerry Storm. (We again point you to the fact that "VZ Naviga..." doesn't even fit on one line.)

Here's a side-by-side comparison using the stock UI design Palm included on the new Pre Web site. It's not even as pretty as some of the stuff we've seen in Gizmodo's photos and videos, some of which we've embedded below.

Consumers Choose Products With More Tech Specs

Interesting Article: http://gizmodo.com/5110687/consumers-choose-products-with-more-tech-specs

A recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research reveals that we are heavily influenced into choosing products with heavy technical specs—even when those specs mean nothing.

Five related studies were performed in which participants had to choose between two items in various categories, including digital cameras, towels, sesame oil, cell phones, and potato chips. And in every study, the participants preferred the items with the most specifications.

The study's author concludes that there is indeed a practical lesson for marketers here, though I'm pretty sure that digital cameras alone have pretty much proven that point already. [Lab Spaces Thanks Elizabeth!]

 

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