Automation Adventures

About a week ago I got the exciting news that WebIS was releasing their Pocket Informant for the BlackBerry. I have used Pocket Informant on my PocketPC before, and was impressed with the features that it had - I never used all of them!
The BlackBerry version is not as extensive as the PocketPC one (a [...]

For about a week now I’ve had problems synchronizing my Blackberry Pearl 8130 from Verizon with our Blackberry Enterprise server. Nothing synchronizes: email, calendar, to-do lists, etc.
After trying several options suggested around the net (take out battery, turn wireless synchronization off and back on), with no results, I thought I’d have to secure wipe my [...]

This week my car was in the shop, and as a loaner vehicle I had a 2008 Ford Focus, with Ford and Microsoft’s new Sync system.
The car itself is OK. I normally drive a Ford Taurus, so the Focus is a little smaller, but I used to drive a Renault Clio back in the Netherlands, [...]

For the past two days, my Blackberry Desktop software has crashed when it was trying to read the Outlook calendar entries. Rebooting didn’t help, and I really didn’t want to reinstall software and go through the pain of resynchronizing.
Luckily, the solutions was relatively simple. After Googling around for a bit, I came across this post [...]

I got a new cellphone a couple of weeks ago, and in trying to follow where several men have gone before, I got a BlackBerry (Pearl 8130 to be precise).
One of the things that really appealed to me was the possibility to surf the net from pretty much anywhere that Verizon Wireless has coverage. But [...]