Well, I ran across a nice new, if only to me, IM client for Windows Mobile, among other devices.  I found out about it on this article on Gizmodo.  I’m expecting a ‘pay us’ message to pop up at some point.. Just like Agile did to me, jerks. In many respects, Palringo is a lot like Agile Mobile.  It’s got a ‘push to talk’ feature that sends a link to whatever sound byte you record on the fly.  It will also send pictures, just click the button, capture the picture, and return to the app, it’ll already be sending a link to the photo to your contact.  Very slick overall.  It has support for all the big chat services, I’ve currently got it configured for AIM, GTalk, ICQ, and MSN.  It’s running well at the moment.  My Sprint Mogul’s Unlimited EVDO connection is the only reason I’d want to be online everywhere, all the time…. because I can.

Specific to the Sprint Mogul, I had to make a registry change for the connection to function properly.  Prior to which, Reconnect Pending was displayed on the screen.  This article provided the info, but here’s the change:

[[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{7C4B7A3 8-5FF7-4bc1-80F6-5DA7870BB1AA}\Connections\Sprint PCS Vision]
“AlwaysOn”=dword:00000001

Also worthy of noting, you can download the cab directly from their mobile version of the site.

I’d like to thank Sal for getting me into the netbook revolution.  I’m almost ashamed to say that I paid very little attention to them prior to my very own eye-witness account of his eee.  After that I was hooked, and I settled on a Dell Mini 9.  Today the 10 was announced with a newer processor and 720p.. *sigh*

In any event, this mini is great, paired with my EVDO-enabled WM6 phone over bluetooth, even while sitting here in the exam room at the eye doctor’s, I’ve got very little to complain about.  Except maybe a misplaced dash or apostrophe key.

I’ll post a few pics in the near future, and also go through the process I used to Install and configure Ubuntu 8.10..

Oh Hi Doc.  Yes, it  is a small computer.  Good for when I’m stuck somewhere sitting around waiting for someone for 15 minutes.