November 2007 - Posts

• Free Apps for Windows Mobile 5

  I have been a Motorola Q user  for quite some time and have managed to gather some great freeware you should not be without on the Windows Mobile 5 OS. The following mobile applications will run on both touch and non-touch screens. MSNBC.com “Multimedia on Mobile”- Enjoy Video News on your phone with this browserless type application right from MSNBC.com Yahoo! Go 2.0-  Yahoo Go delivers many "widget" type applications right to your phone with this unique interface approach. Google Maps-  This application speaks for itself. It becomes much more useful if your phone has GPS support. LIVE Search with Advanced Mapping- This application is similar to Google Maps but offers location search by browsing a category type directory. Viigo RSS Reader-  This is by far the best FREE RSS reader for Windows Mobile device.  Viigo allows you to manage your RSS subscriptions from their web page so they can later be viewed on your mobile device. Posted Nov 22 2007, 11:47 PM by admin with no comments Filed under: Windows Mobile

• Managing RSS feeds on your Windows Mobile Device

  Exchange allows you to wirelessly synchronize contacts, emails, and tasks within your PAN.  This functionality eliminates the precious value of the handheld device since all of your personal content is now on the network vs. just on your PDA or Smartphone's local storage. If you are a Window Mobile 5  user you will notice there are a few functions it fails at performing. The one I am going to talk about is the RSS subscription reader. If your default RSS reader is Outlook then you know your existing RSS subscriptions are not pushed on to your mobile device. There are tons of RSS readers for the Windows Mobile 5 platform but one I happen to like is Viigo.  It's FREEWARE. It doesn't require a  browser. It can be managed via any desktop browser. I have played with many RSS readers in the past but let's just face it, it takes too long to manage RSS feeds in a PDA. Viigo gets around this painful method by providing a web based interface where you can add RSS feeds by importing your OPML file from your existing RSS reader. In this instance I am going to demonstrate how you can achieve this result with Outlook 2007. I. Download VIIGO Personal on your Mobile Device  and create an account. You can download the application here: http://www.viigo.com/download_wm.html Once installed fire up Viigo and create an account by going to Menu -> Options -> Menu -> New User NOTE: You will only be asked to specify a new username along with a password and  confirmation. II. Export your RSS subscriptions from Oulook 2007. On the File menu, click Import and Export. Click Export RSS Feeds to an OPML file (this is a back up file for your RSS subscriptions), click Next. Select the check boxes for each RSS Feed to include in the export, click Next. Click Browse to navigate to the location where you want to save the .opml file. In the File name text box, type a name for the export file and click Save, and then click Next. The .opml file is saved to the location that you specified. III.  Import OPML file into Viigo. Head over to My Viigo Login with the user you created on your mobile device (step I. 2.) Choose the IMPORT OPML file option and select the location of your exported OPML file on step II. 4. Once the RSS feeds are imported they should update on your phone. NOTE: The same result can be achieved with Google's Reader but this means resorting to web browser on your Mobile Device. Posted Nov 22 2007, 07:08 PM by admin with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile