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This week I needed to set a fixed IP for a specific DNS name (I wished to bypass DNS resolution) in my WM5.0 PDA. While in Windows XP/2000 there is a /etc/hosts file, there isn’t any equivalent file in WM5.0 .

There is actually a way to achieve the same fixed DNS resolution, creating an entry into the registry:

For example, to set 192.168.0.5 for host “host01″, you can create:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Comm\\Tcpip\\Hosts\\host01]
"ipaddr"=hex:c0,a8,00,05

More at windowsmobilepro.blogspot.com.

UPDATE 09/09/2006: Pocket Hosts is a tool written by Marc Zimmerman that allows you to edit the static host name to IP address mappings on a Pocket PC.

Wordpress Mobile Edition

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on Monday August 28th, 2006

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Thanks to WordPress Mobile Edition, a plugin for WP by Alex King, I now have a Mobile Edition, i.e. a version compatible with low screen capability devices like PDAs or smartphone!

Attach files to emails (gmail) from your PDA

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on Friday June 30th, 2006

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Today I spent a few time resizing pictures from my holidays to send them to my family using gmail, my PDA and a 9600bps mobile phone conexion. Then I wrote the email on the gmail mobile-version page.
Unfortunately, after having written the email, I found that there were no options for attaching file to teh email!
Hopefully, I also found that the Html-only version of Gmail was also correctly rendered on my PDA (PIE WM5), and perfectly usable. It’s a bit more heavy, but offers a lot more options than the mobile version: you can save drafts, attach files… Almost everythings, but no AJAX.

Versión PDA-friendly de cualquier sitio web

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on Sunday June 25th, 2006

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Google propone una gateway para ver versiones PDA de cualquier sitio web.
Si añades http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u= delante de la URL de (casi)cualquier web, veras una version amigable para tu PDA de la misma!
He configurado esa cadena en las “macros” (Fx) del Resco Keyboard. De esta forma, cuando pongo una URL en PIE, solo me cuesta un par de teclas mas para lanzar la version PDA friendly. ¡Pruebalo!

Towards a more efficient browsing on mobile devices

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on Sunday May 14th, 2006

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On one hand, web browsing using a mobile device can lead to having hard time, due to the inherent constraints imposed by the device itself — mainly physical constraints like reduced size.

Amongst this constraints are the following points:
* reduced size screen,
* reduced memory,
* reduced bandwith (when paying downloaded volume),
* limited navigation/scrolling facilities,
* limited user input facilities.

(Thanks to this article at “A List Apart” by Elika Etemad and Jorunn Danielsen Newth).

For that reasons i feel usefull to have a carefully selected list of fatfree-and-mobile-friendy web sites at hand. For example, in my case I use the following sites:
* Google Mobile,
* Gmail mobile,
* Google gateway to mobile friendly (I don’t know its official name)…

On the other hand, this mobile friendly bookmarks list will ideally fullfil the following requirements:
* be available from anywhere,
* be available from any browser (mobile or not),
* be short.

The first idea that comes to my mind to maintain that — reduced — list is to save it in my del.icio.us account and tag each entry using a special tag. In my case I’ll use “@mb” — for mobile bookmark.

The problem about del.icio.us is that, as far as I know, it doesn’t provide a mobile friendly version of itself.

Fortunately, Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasion) give us some tricks in its Del.icio.us Mobile article, to get a fatfree version of your del.icio.us pages.

In my case I choose to use the option 2 trick, reducing entries tagged with my special “mobile bookmark” tag: http://del.icio.us/html/adumont/@mb/?tags=no&rssbutton=no.

How can this be finally usefull: use that link (customized to your needs) as your favorite browser homepage will hopefully help improving your web browsing experience using mobile device.