Re: Pocket pcs

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Lack of a good web browser is one of my BIG pet peeves. PPC IE is too
limited and so is Opera Mobile. Minimo (based on firefox) is looking good
but still lacks some features I want and is unstable on my X51v with WM5.
They'll get the bugs ironed out eventually, but that could well take
another year.

Let me disagree with Opera Mobile, especially the latest, 8.65 version.

I heartily recommend my Web Browser Bible at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1828&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
; in there, I've thoroughly compared it to all the other browsers, explained
how you can extend its functionality etc.

In general, in the above article, you'll find EVERYTHING you'll ever need to
know about Pocket PC Web browsers.


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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.


"yakety yak" <who.me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.08.21.20.47.12.907615@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:08:22 -0400, Diana Skouris wrote:

On all my ppcs you go to xxxxxx web site. It probably can't display it.

On all my ppcs you go to 30 sites, you know what? 29 of them won't
display right on the ppc.

I'd have thought Microsoft would have fixed that by now.

Lack of a good web browser is one of my BIG pet peeves. PPC IE is too
limited and so is Opera Mobile. Minimo (based on firefox) is looking good
but still lacks some features I want and is unstable on my X51v with WM5.
They'll get the bugs ironed out eventually, but that could well take
another year.

I just installed the trial version of PIEplus, an add-on package for
PPC IE. It still doesn't do all I want but it does improve IE quite a bit.
I may end up buying it, after I check to ensure that it isn't
device-locked.

My Axim is a recent addition to the toybox, my first Internet-connected
PDA, and I'm still trying to figure out how to reconcile an
Internet-connected machine with storage of sensitive info. On my desktop
system, I plug in different HD's - one for working with personal info and
the other for doing everything else. The former has no network drivers
installed, will never connect to the Internet, uses on-the-fly encryption
for my home directory just in case I'm burglarized, and thus I can be 100%
sure that my sensitive data will never be hacked. A PDA is a highly
lose-able and steal-able device and by its nature tends to hold a lot of
deeply personal info. It needs even better security than home machines,
yet security options are primitive and/or so klutzy to use that people
soon give up on securing their data.

Swapping hard drives (flash cards) doesn't work on my PDA because WM5 and
the registry and config files for many applications all reside on memory
inside the device. Trying to run two different flash cards with some
applications in common but their data different causes all sorts of OS and
application confusion. It seems to me that, like a desktop machine, the
PDA should contain only enough software to boot the hard drive (flash
card) and the OS should reside entirely on that.

The flashcard also needs to be encrypted. FreeOTFE works pretty good for
on-the-fly encryption, but it's not very convenient and, if the OS
resided on the flash card, it couldn't be used to encrypt the Windows
directory and registry. Using FreeOTFE requires that I mount the partition
(selecting volume and mountpoint and entering password - a bit cumbersome
on a touchscreen), wait an eternity for it to mount the volume, do my
work, and then I'd better remember to dismount it when done or it's not
going to do me any good. Also, it still leaves a security hole in that the
internal Windows directories and registry are still unencrypted. IMO,
PDA's should all have hardware-based encryption which operates on internal
memory and any external flash cards. When enabled, it should require a
password every time you activate the PDA. An additional option should
allow some selected period after that before the password is required
again, and yet another option should brick the machine - making it totally
useless to a thief - until the correct password is entered.





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