Windows Mobile Smartphones
Posted by admin in Windows Mobile Software on December 25, 2011
Over the past few years, I’ve had a few phones. I’m not obsessed with having the latest model, feature or brand; but I will decide to get a phone because I like one specific thing it has. But, more than anything, I like the phone to be usable, for example, I kept my last phone for 2 years as it had a light… It was very useful.
Every day my phone wakes me up, reminds me what I’m to do in the day, keeps me connected and occupies me. I never like the thought of carrying a mobile phone worth £100s of pounds around with me as firstly, if I ever lost it I’d be annoyed at myself for months. Also, I wouldn’t want to give any pickpocket such satisfaction by stealing such a phone.
I sometimes buy old PDAs and phones on eBay, so I’ve had a chance to play with windows mobile and to play with a variety of phones. I’ve used phones like the HTC TyTn II (AT&T Tilt), Apple’s Iphone and Palm Tungsten phones, but I’ve still I’ve seen no reason to change from my Sony Ericsson K750i. I know the Iphone is widely loved, and I will admit, it is no less than stylistically perfect. But for me, as long as I don’t despise the aesthetics, I’ll use almost anything if it has the features and functions I use. I might add, the exception to this is the Nokia Communicator series, which is very feature rich, but I could never see myself using one as my personal phone. They’re just huge.
Unfortunately, I realize by now this is going to be quite uninteresting for anyone unfamiliar with model names of phones, for that I can only apologise and try to balance out with a picture of the following. As now I have found a suitable replacement, the HTC S710 (Pictures: http://tinyurl.com/crw46w), my first windows mobile Smartphone.
I don’t know anyone that has this phone (actually I know nobody who has a phone running windows mobile) though that’s probably as I go to college and a windows Smartphone, is not the ‘coolest’ thing out there. But I don’t see why. It’s a phone, it’s small but with a reasonably big screen and is able to utilise all the methods of wireless communication you could possibly think of. Isn’t that what everyone wants? I wonder, if it were a Nokia phone, running Symbian OS, if it would be popular. The communication the phone supports, it’s processing power and memory is down to the phone hardware and therefore, the phone manufacturer, so if the phone is physically like any other. Many other people have phones that do less, the only main difference is that it runs Windows Mobile.
There are problems with the Windows Mobile software, but there are also many problems with normal mobile phones. With my old phone, there was nowhere to write documents (then again, there was no keyboard) or even a document viewer, pictures couldn’t be edited and there was very little support for emailing; something Pocket PCs have been able to do since Pocket PC 2000 was released. I think the amount of features that have been packed into Smartphones is incredible, such that a phone no longer exists only to make calls. It’s an entire computer, but even smaller than a laptop. Smartphones will comfortably fit in your pocket and be ready to use instantly, whenever you need them. It is this that made me change from my old phone to a Smartphone. And me being me, I have to have Windows Mobile.
- Chris Pomfret – chris@terfmop.co.uk – 5/4/09 -
The Importance Of File Search Software
Posted by admin in Search Software on December 24, 2011
If you spend so many hours in a day facing the computer, then you undoubtedly have so many files stored in your system right now. What’s more, these files may be in different formats, since you surely must have stored documents, images, music files, and video files, just to name a few. But there will surely come a time when you would have to search for a particular file in your system. When this happens, you just might remember the name of that file, so searching for it would not be difficult at all. But what if you don’t remember the filename? Especially if the file concerned is rather an old one already? Here lies the importance of file search software.
Being a regular user of your computer, you surely must know that your PC is equipped with Find/Search options. These are actually supported by the different makes of the Windows operating systems as well. This is quite efficient already, if you are just looking for a particular file stored in your computer. Yes, you may forget parts of the filename, or even the whole filename itself, but this is still quite easy. Windows operating systems let you search for a file via just the keywords that you are sure the filename would contain. Thus, your search would be narrowed down significantly as well.
But the difficulty does not lie in searching for files saved in the computer, but in searching for files on the web. If you stored a certain file on one of your many websites and pages, and you need to search for it, then it could be very difficult without the support of file search software.
The Internet itself is a major source of these file search applications. You can browse through the many features of such applications very easily, and choose for yourself which particular one you are going to purchase. There are even some applications that let you make and develop your own search templates! This way, you can modify your search accordingly. These search templates have been specially designed so that users, especially corporate users, will no longer have to input the parameters they are searching for repeatedly. In the corporate setting, this is indeed something that happens very often, so developers of file search software ensure to make this more convenient for everyone.
What’s more, there are so many benefits entailed in using file search software. You can actually search for a file by inputting the date it was created, the size of the file, keyword or keywords, and so many more. You also have advanced search options that enable you to perform quicker and more accurate searches. Major file formats are supported as well, so you no longer have to worry about this when performing a search. You can also recover damaged and deleted files, as well as duplicate them. Tracking files that have been deleted is made easier as well. Plus, you get to do all of these in one very easy interface!
Most file management systems sold on the web have just about the same features that support similar functions. But before you do make your purchase, though, be sure to avail of their trial versions. This way, you can then weigh out your options more carefully, since you are able to take these file search software for a test drive.
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