TamsPPC - the PocketPC Blog

Dear Readers,
we are proud to announce that TamsPPC now has a forum(shared with its sister sites). Even though we haven’t yet decided about the final design yet, we feel that the time is ripe to let you all loose on it.

Please visit the forum at http://forum.tamoggemon.com/; and get yourself an account(can take up to 30secs)! Then, hit the forum hard - please send bug reports and suggestions to Tamog@gmx.at or leave them as a comment here!

Best regards
The TamsForum team!

Dear Readers,
please accept our apologies for the downtime yesterday evening!

Our web hosting company, brainsware, has performed various optimizations on the server that hosts the Tamoggemon content network. These optimizations have become necessary due to our explosive growth in the last months - a big thank you to all those of you who keep visiting us and talking back!

Anyways, the new server system should now serve pages significantly faster, leading to a greatly improved overall surfing experience - both we and brainsware are perfectly aware of our sub-par loading times in the last few weeks; and are actively working to improve the situation!

Best regards
Tam Hanna and the Tamoggemon/brainsware teams

Dear Readers,
yours truly will be in Hannover this Friday. I will attend the following tradeshows and would be happy see one or more of you:

The CeBit

First of all, I will definitely attend the CeBit - which is one of the biggest computer fairs worldwide. Expect loads of hands-on pictures and interviews to leak out in the coming months!

The German Palm User Meeting

This year, Tamoggemon Software will have a stand at the Germany-Wide Palm User Meeting in Hannover. Please stop by for a chat, to have a play with a load of devices, and maybe even for a fun game! Of course, non-palm-users are also whole-heartedly invited!

The box pictured below is very afraid of being thrown into the bin by this lovely critter - she has grown tired of it sitting on our TV set and now wants to throw it out:

Please have mercy with the box - it contains a perfectly-ok and completely unused Proporta Alu-Leather case for the hp ipaq 514 business messenger. It was intended to be reviewed along with the unit, but somehow the review wasn’t completed in time. It has never ever been used, but the screw for the belt clip has been lost:

I am now willing to give it away for free to anyone who is willing to cover the posting fees(about 7€, can be paid via PayPal).

Jokes and Doris aside…our friends at Proporta’s have allowed me to give away this sample as I personally don’t have such an iPaq. In case you feel like giving it a pop, just email me at Tamog@gmx.at and we’ll figure out how to get it to you the fastest/cheapest way.

Dear Readers,
a longer Tam-Hanna-Away usually means that I am either sick or working on something - this time, the latter has been true.

Let’s all give a warm welcome to TamsWMS - the Windows Mobile Smartphone blog. This web site brings all the content you know and love at TamsPalm, TamsPPC and TamsS60 to the Windows Mobile Smartphone platform.

TamsWMS launches with world-exclusive life pictures of a prototype of the Asus M930i in action - let’s hope that TamsWMS becomes the same runaway success that our other sites were!

Best regards and thank you!
Tam Hanna

Dear Readers,
I wanted to apologize once again for the technical problems - brainsware fixed the issues shortly after my initial post.

All systems should be up and running again as of now - if you encounter any more bugs, please send me an email via Tamog@gmx.at!

Best regards
Tam Hanna

Dear Readers,
I am very sorry to inform you that we are currently undergoing technical difficulties - clicking on a permalink takes you to the web site’s feed.

Out web host is currently working on a fix - please stay tuned!

Best regards and Sorry
Tam Hanna

Dear Readers,
this is a quick ping to inform you that we have performed a network-wide update of our content management software. TamsPalm, TamsPPC and TamsS60 are now powered by WordPress 2.3.2.

These updates are necessary in order to keep the content network secure, as each new release fixed security problems found in the last.

As always, please leave a comment or send an email to Tamog@gmx.at if you have any issues!

Sorry for any inconveniences
Tam Hanna

2007 was a eventful year for all of us following the mobile computing market - both users and developers faced many new opportunities and challenges. Apple will soon make mobile applications a “commodity” with its ixxx devices; Microsoft is in the process of overhauling the Windows Mobile UI in the upcoming WM revisions currently known as 6.1 and 7.0.

At Tamoggemon’s; 2007 was the year of expansion. Pocket PC and Series 60 news services were launched in order to bring our quality content to more people around the world; and new applications were launched.

Nothing is better suited to celebrate success than a nice software discount - the code MERRYNEWSOFTWARE gives you 20% off all Symbian, Pocket PC and Palm OS Software in the TamsShop! Feel free to get yourself or a friend a gift or two…

Last but not least, please stay with us in 2008! We are always busily at work in order to offer you new news services, analysts and applications - stay tuned for announcements soon! Have a nice New Year’s Eve; and stay with us!

Dear Readers,
I am proud to present you yet another new author. Mikey has managed to impress me and my second brain half(Dr. Doris Maria Kohrs of abc texte fame) by applying with a “self-interview”(a great idea, btw). Here goes - we’ll hear more from Mikey soon!

Hello, I am Mikey Pizano, a new writer for Tam Hannah’s Pocket PC blog. I would like to thank the crazy Austrian for giving me this chance to make a name for myself. To begin my rein of terror career here, I would Like to introduce myself in the form of a interview…

We are here today with the web designer Michael John Pizano. Mr. Pizano, we would like to thank you for taking time off of your busy life to do this interview. Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Sure. Its good to take some time off of my blog, but there will still be a daily entry for today. Please call me Mikey. I host a blog on my own server at http://mikeypizano.homelinux.com:81 The site isn’t very big but I really enjoy doing it.

So, how old are you Mikey?
I am 18 and will be 19 in February.

When did you start your site?
Well, prior to the current site, I had a few others including BlogSpot accounts, a GooglePages account, and a Tripod account. I started in early 2007 or so. My current site was started around February but the blog portion of the site was an external page. The current blog started April 11, 2007.

Your site is very plain, do you use an editor?
I have tried using them but I always end up preferring notepad. I use NotePad++ actually. I actually do the bulk of my coding with Word files. This makes it easy to spell check my work.

You said you host your own site? What are you using?
I use a Linux based server running LAMPP on Ubuntu Server 7.06. I upload my stuff via SFTP.

Well, what PDA’s do you own, past ones included? Any thing special?
Well, I have owned a lot since August 2003. It all started with my SJ22 that I had for two weeks before getting an SJ33. I then got a Dell Axim X30 624MHZ. When this died, I was given a Clie TJ25 to use until I got my Palm TX. 9 weeks after this I got a free LifeDrive. I got a NEC MobilePro 780 from a friend. This is a special one because it runs CE2.11 and is a clamshell device. Then I got a Casio E200 off a friend. I traded the LifeDrive for the iPAQ HX2495b I use now. I got a Palm Tungsten T3 that I had traded for a Treo650 which I traded for a IBM ThinkPad t20. Just recently I was given a Clie T615.

What will you be doing here?
Simple: News and Reviews!

Thanks Mikey, I wish you the best of luck at this fine website.

Dear Readers,
in Austria, Santa Claus-o-mania has hit the masses(Austrians celebrate Santa Claus on the 6th). While most Austrians are running around stuffing one another full of chocolate, the TamsShop team is hard at work to bring you the following opportunity to get your favorite app or game for cheap:

Use the discount code HOHOHO! in the TamsShop to get 20% off the list price of any and all applications that are available

Which app will you use to keep yourself busy as the masses go running by?

Dear Readers,
we have just updated the software powering TamsPalm, TamsPPC and TamsS60. These updates are required to keep our news sites working safe and fast…we apologize for the necessary downtime!

As always, software updates can cause small malfunctions. Should you encounter any, please accept our apologies and leave a comment here so that we can fix them!

Best regards
Tam Hanna & the Tamoggemon analyst team

Dear TamsPPC readers,
I am proud to inform you that I will be at the Symbian Smartphone Roadshow in London. TamsS60 will provide you all with near-realtime reporting of what I see, and will additionally try to tape keynotes and other presentations for uploading to Google Videos as time permits.

If you feel like meeting me there, please leave a comment here with your email address - I would be more than glad to work something out!

As Tam already wrote on 1src, we are looking for new authors. If you have a mobile phone / PDA running Palm OS, Windows Mobile or Symbian (Series 60) and you are interested in writing news, reviews or tutorials, then send me a mail:

alexander.gratz@gmail.com

The benefits of a membership (see also 1src thread):

• Fun and innovative environment
• the opportunity to make yourself heard
• the opportunity to improve your writing/analysis skills
• Free access to software and hardware
• Last but not least, many press clubs allow people with frequent activities in our network to receive a press card.

We will be happy to hear from you! The membership won’t mean that you have to write regularly. The most of our authors only write every 3 months or even less.

This is interesting for all German TamsPPC readers: The German site TamsPalm.de.vu (German edition of TamsPalm) now also covers Pocket PC / Windows Mobile topics. It won’t be a complete translation of this site (although we will translate some articles), but there will also be news and reviews about Pocket PCs.

At the moment the address tamspalm.de.vu doesn’t work (we are working on this). Instead, this URL is valid:

http://tamspalm-de.tamoggemon.com

If you are only interested in Pocket PC topics (not in Palm OS, etc.), choose in the left sidebar “Zeige Artikel für … Windows Mobile”. Then only articles of Pocket PC categories are shown.