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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!

PocketIE loads “screen” CSS stylesheets

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on Monday August 28th, 2006

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When designing a web page you can apply different stylesheet depending on the browser calling the page. One way of doing this is by using:

(more about CSS filtering)

As shown, there are supposely several type that could be specified: screen (Desktop browser with normal screen capabilities), print (for use when printing the page), handheld (for mobile devices with reduced screen capabilities)…

I was trying to apply this yesterday to a blog, so that when loading it from my PDA it wouldn’t load the full CSS, with backgrounds and so… with no success!

And I found that PocketIE loads both screen and handheld CSS, instead of just loading the handheld one! (yes, it sucks!)

I found a is a trick to fool PocketIE on Windows Mobile Team Blog:

Use media=”Screen”, not media=”screen” for your screen stylesheets, and pocket IE will ignore them.

It works! PocketIE won’t load the Screen’s CSS! This trick seems to be called “CodeBitch Omniweb case hack“.

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!