Ok, so I may not be the best at celebrating the glories of old technology on this blog, as originally hoped, but I think you might like this one. I am writing this blog from my workplace, a secure cocoon of connectivity. There is no internet here. At least not that work lets me write blogs from... I am writing this post through a blutooth link to my cell phone (so it has to be quick, I have a 10MB limit).
What grinds my gears is that when I first started using this machine I had the Sony-Ericsson PC suite providing my internet connectivity. Today, it decided not to work. Now, I use the S-E PCS to connect the phone via bluetooth, then use the latest version of Vodafone mobile broadband to connect to the net. This is annoying. Why can the software that is made by the phone manufacturer not work and the software made by a giant multinational company works... well to be honest very well? Even through bluetooth (which if I am not mistaken, has been problematic for windows computers for a long, long time...)?
Ok, rant over. Now back to some good old tech success. I have recently resuscitated my iPaq rz series PDA. This has no connectivity other than USB (1.1!) and is essentially a music player with pocket office on it. So I now need to convert all my digital movies to windows media files and I will be able to watch them in 3.5" glory. Yeah right. Being made to hand back my blackberry at work though has prompted me to have a stab at it and to be honest, it's not too bad. I have to be careful about sync settings but the new Windows Mobile Center is actually good at managing the connection, making sure no duplicates are made and that the most recent version of each contact is synced to both devices etc. What it doesn't do, however, is sync media - indeed Windows Media Player cannot even recognise that there is a device connected. Oh dear.
So, next step is creating a master contacts list that can be reliably synced between PDA, PC, Gmail, and work. All using physical connections, not auto sync allowed! (I like to challenge myself...)
