First off DO NOT try to upgrade this phone to WM5 or WM6. It simply will not work.
The best you can do is to update the firmware. I bricked my PDA so many times I do not remember what I used to bring it back to life.
Check xda-developers.com for updates.
Bluetooth Headphones
I recently got a pair of Jabra BT620s Wireless Streo Headphones but to pair them up you need to patch the PDA with this: PDA2K_BroadcomCorp_BTUpdate.zip
You now have a the ability to use Bluetooth Wireless Headphones with your PPC6600.
This is a very easy hack that I created today.
Prerequisites
- You'll need a RememberTheMilk Account
- The Custom Buttons Firefox Extension
Once you've got a RTM account setup and the Custom Buttons extension installed you're ready to add the button.
In FF click View->Add new button....
A dialog box will appear with space to add a Name, an Image, some Code and Initialization Code.
The name and image are self explanatory. The Code box is where you'll paste the code below which will launch a new window that displays a form to add a new RTM task. The Initialization Code box is for code that will run when the browser starts up.
Past this JavaScript code into the Code box which will launch the RTM dialog when the custom button is clicked.
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javascript:(function(){h='www.rememberthemilk.com';p='/services/ext/addtask.rtm';if(window.getSelection){d=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){d=document.selection.createRange().text;};cp='http://'+h+p+'?d='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=475,height=260,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();
Click OK to save and close the dialog and then click View-Toolbars-Customize and add your new button to a toolbar.
Clicking the button will launch the RTM form and now you can add tasks right from Firefox.
In my quest of Shameless Self-Promotion I have been spamming, oops I mean submit..no no it's spamming, the internet with links back to my articles. I want to see how well I can promote my site using free tools and no advertising. I also want to push my content so that I will hopefully get request to write content for other sites.
One of my methods of Shameless Self-Promotion (SSP) is to submit my RSS Feeds to FeedBurner so that in a few weeks or months my site will "on the radar" of advertisers and other content sites.
I always find it ironic that people write blog posts on "how to blog" or "how to promote your blog" and here I am with a "how to promote your blog" post.
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From LinuxDevCenter.com
Although you don't need to go far to hear someone extolling the benefits of Linux and free software, many people still need to use other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. Aside from personal choice, other reasons to use non-Linux operating systems include running applications that are available only on a particular OS, an employer mandating that you use a particular platform, or even a need to test software and services across different platforms. For some, the solution is a huge desk set up to accommodate three computers with three monitors and three keyboards/mice; however, there is a better way.
I recently had an issue come up about a link on our intranet that I shrugged off as a user error. In the end it was a user error but it was not an end user error it was a developer user error instead.
The intranet was set up by someone else and they used the a href attribute target=_new:
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<a href="http://you.gotfoo.org" target="_new">you.gotfoo?</a>
For years I assumed that this was the proper way to open a new window. That was until the issues was brought up to me and a junior developer started telling me how to do stuff. At first I shrugged it off as some weird IE setting because I could not replicate the behavior. The issue came back again so I figured I should get off my ass and look into it a little more.
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