Guy Adams on Technology
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One of my complaints about the Android operating system is that none of the tethering options are simple. For the standard USB connect method your laptop or computer has to have the HTC Sync installed which until recently didn’t support Windows 7 and then you have to drill down into the phones settings and enable [...]

As a user of Windows Mobile for almost nine years the thought of moving to a completely different environment is quite daunting. Windows Mobile is by no means perfect but the wide variety of applications and perfect Exchange integration have kept me as a user. With the second and third generation Android devices, Active Sync [...]

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I gave my quick impressions of my new Palm Treo Pro a while ago now but wanted to follow up with a few notes of the browsing experience. When I switched to the Treo Pro I also switched browser from Opera Mobile to Iris Browser, a lightweight webkit based browser. Since the switch I haven’t [...]

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I’ve just installed TBlogger on my new Palm Treo Pro to fire off a quick post whilst Im waiting to go home. So far I’m really enjoying the thumb keyboard on the device and although the keys aren’t divided enough to get any real speed the difference compared to a soul touch screen device is [...]

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Those who follow me on Twitter will already know that I plan to follow in the footsteps of Kevin C. Tofel from jkontherun and replace my Windows Server 2003 file server at home with Windows Home Server. I will go a little more in depth into the installation and my impressions in the coming week [...]

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At the weekend I was shopping in Nottingham’s Victoria Centre when I noticed a huge banner for the HTC Touch Diamond 2. The advert was for the Carphone Warehouse which as it happened was less than 30 meters away, so I thought I would go and check it out. The lady behind the counter was [...]

I’m out and about today and had 30 minutes to kill before I was due to meet a friend so I fired up the laptop and connected with HTC Touch Diamond. With Windows Mobile the process is so easy, when I connect the phone to my laptop, I get a popup on the device asking [...]

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I’m no way near the end of my contract but I have a feeling I could be buying my way out of it or dropping it to a SIM only package in favor of the HTC Touch Diamond 2 (TD2). This second rendition of the very popular Touch Diamond addresses many of the issues I [...]

I recently signed up to Twitter as a medium to follow several of the DJ’s that I listen to on a regular basis, no other reason really although I am starting to get a little addicted. I am however finding its ability at finding out information fast quite useful, like for example finding out why [...]