Windows Mobile/PocketPC

[wibbble]

I'm going to go and pick-up (or at least order) a Windows Mobile phone this week. I've not used Windows Mobile/PocketPC before, so I've been searching around for what software's available and suchlike. I've been using a Sony-Ericsson P910i until now, and I've previously used PalmOS PDAs years ago - oh, and my day job is tech support for a major

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[ff7aeris]

I actually found this on the microsoft website that is free...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Just pick your language like VB, C++, etc... I'm still figuring out what I should do with it, but I'm loving just playing with it.

I've been actually pondering about revising this one idea for a 'Digital Grimore' tool (pretty much my own version of a BoS that I would use on a regular basis) that I've been wanting to make but I need to figure out what exactly I want in it. Then later convert it for U3 drives since I do tech support for flash storage devices and U3 drives. ^^;

[wibbble]

Since I don't use Windows, any version of Visual Studio isn't going to work.

I wonder: if there's a ruby port for Windows Mobile, I could use instiki. Or there's always that javascript-based wiki.

[dreamingkat]

I don't know if they'll run on handhelds, but you may find MinGW and Cygwin useful if your comfy compiling.

I avoid windows and the like.

but you should be able to regularly glamor bomb yourself with one.

[wibbble]

I looked for CYGWin and found nothing, so I guess it's not been ported to Windows Mobile. I'll search on MinGW, which I'd not heard of before.

I enjoy glamourbombing through the medium of bluejacking, which I know there's software support for on Windows Mobile.

Thanks.

[dreamingkat]

*blinks* oh hi wibble! different icon, didn't recognize you as the original poster!

MinGW is smaller than CygWin, but I've never used it before, so I can't really vouch for it.

Also, I've no idea what Familiar (linux for handhelds) is up to and if it'll run on your new machine, but I keep getting references to it every time I try to search on (failed) ideas for software for ya.

[wibbble]

Ha! I have rather a lot of icons. It's a thing about being a permanent account holder. :o)

There does seem to be a group working to port Linux to the TyTN, but HTC gives them basically no documentation to go on, and the device itself is less than a year old.

And since I need it to also function as my mobile phone, I don't really want to deal with trying to make Linux talk to the cellular radio.

[tyrsalvia]

What functions would you *want* to have around? I mean, a general blessing over the thing to make clear communication and fewer dropped calls is good, but what else? Meditation aid, sure. Keeping handy info around, sure. Anything else?

[wibbble]

Well, this is the thing: beyond the most obvious stuff (eBooks, imagery in the form of, well, images), I've not done this before so I'm not sure what I'd want to do - I'm not sure what the device is /capable/ of doing.

I'm not so much looking for ways to keep the device functioning well, as ways to integrate the device into my technopagan life. Make it do stuff for me.

[tlttlotd]

Devel kits for PocketPC

Got Perl?

Write a small terminal app that will chant for you. Give it a few text strings and have it print them out, sleep for a few seconds, and print again. You're sacrificing compute cycles to power it.

Divination using a collection of backgrounds. I find it works quite well, much better than tarot cards, sometimes. Divination with .mp3's, too.

[wibbble]

I hadn't even thought to check for perl - although it looks like that one might not run on a current device. :o/ thanks, though, I'll definitely try it out once I've got the device in hand.

And that's actually what I do with my 'prayer wheel' script. :o)

[tlttlotd]

Give it a shot. It's good for quick one-off hacks of many kinds...

Very cool. I'm working on something similiar that runs as a trayapp with Perl and gtk2-trayicon.

[azurelunatic]

This lot seem to have covered what I'd suggest and more. Divination, random useful texts, blog of shadows...

The one thing I'd wonder is if you can make the thing a portable altar. At one point I wound up using my laptop of the moment as an impromptu altar, with all the random proper symbolic stuff on the proper sides of the keyboard, a tuned playlist, and I forget what-all.

I wonder how effective it would be to deck out the sides of the device in the appropriate fashion, orient the thing, then snap a picture of the thing that you're focusing on (assuming the thing has an on-board camera) and set it as wallpaper, in effect putting that thing in the middle of your portable altar.

[wibbble]

It does indeed have a camera (and if it didn't the handset I'll borrow from work always will, and the power of bluetooth makes it easy to move files around).

I've never actually used an altar, myself. The most I've used for physical focus has been my old bracelet - I've not really tried anything with my new one yet.