I recently got a T-Mobile, MDA Compact II with windows mobile 5 and a generous GPRS option as part of my plan.

One of the first things that I wanted to do was hook up my Gmail account.. but found to my dismay, that it didn’t seem to work quite right. Messages would be downloaded and not displayed, or deleted on the next send/receive, or worse - just seem to do nothing at all.

Most of the various solutions I found online involved setting an option in my device to “download headers only” and download a large amount of the body (eg 999 kb). This solution had limited success in that I semed to read through a large number of headers, but still didn’t end up wiht any messages.

I decided to connect to my gmail pop using outlook to try and see what was going on. It turns out that I had a huge amount of email on my pop server (I have set gmail to provide all emails via pop). Something in the order of 300 mb - and all unread. I deleted all of my old emails from the gmail pop server… then removed gmail pop from outlook. Wow now Gmail seens to be working on my device!!! Hooray!

Hope this helps someone.  

Yes fellow mowabians, I have converted to Mac! Please before you scream in rage and uproar, please allow me to share my thoughts with you on why I converted.

Firstly, apple finally tolerates intel. Not saying this is a good or bad thing, but it does reduce one less barrier for me in terms of not crossing over.

Secondly, the MacBook Pro 15.4 inch notebook spec I purchased is very well put together. I struggled and agonised and finally features and asthetics made me purchase it.

Still getting used to its features I must say but thanks to Sir Flakey, I am well on my way to better using the machine. I currently have parallels running on it which has also eased the pain in some respects.

Stay tuned folks for any further developments….

I just saying to a friend the other day “I wish there was a music player for my pc that would let me browse by album cover”. I had grown accustomed to this in my windows media centre edition… but i want it on my lap top too.Anyway, it turns out that the new version of Windows Media Player, version 11, does just that :)

I have only just downloaded the beta version, but so far it looks pretty nifty. I note however, that it still doesn’t sync with my ipod… which is a shame. Maybe that will make it in by the time the full realease comes out :)

In my illness, I wake from a fevered slumber
Outside, I hear the rain pound again and again against the window
I struggle for breathe, too weak to block my ears from the incessant beat of the rain.
I can not speak, my mouth is dry, my nose is locked from the sensory world.
I look up to see a distant light but no one is home.

I fall out of bed and like a wounded soldier crawl my way to get some water.
I sip and am replenished, this time taking supplies with me back to the bedroom.
I turn on the television. The boredom lulls me into another slumber.

I hear a sound and then a vibration, my mobile phone is ringing.
The phone rings out. I reach for the phone and retrieve the missed call.
It is not of importance, nothing ever is when you feel like death.