Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup

Several years ago I bought PocketBreeze from sbsh.  It sold for about $20.  I used it for so long that I began to think it was part of the operating system on my iPAQ HX-4700.  Moving to a PDA phone (Samsung SCH-i760) I was reintroduced to the Microsoft Today Screen.  Ugh.  I had mistakenly thought that MS would do something to make that screen more useful, but — hey — they are MS.

Tonight, to my delight, I learned that sbsh has a policy that if you own any of their products (with registration code) you can download the latest version, provided it’s not a whole new edition.  My version was 5.0.n and the newest version (three years later) was 5.4.n.  So I downloaded, installed, input my email address and registration code, and it works great.

And guess what!  Unlike MS, in the past three years sbsh has actually enhanced their product, increasing usability.  Wow!  What a smart company.

Thanks,  sbsh!

I bought a Dell bluetooth card for my Inspiron 6400 so I could sync my PDA with my Laptop. The card seemed to work well with Vista. However, my ipaq HX-4700 would not agree to perform a bluetooth sync, so I figured I wasted my money. When I upgraded the hard drive on the laptop, I noted the bluetooth did not work, but I really didn’t care — until I replaced my HX-4700 with a Samsung SCH-i760. Bluetooth sync was looking attractive again, but I couldn’t get that bluetooth card in my Inspiron to work. Although it was activated in the bios, it didn’t exist in the system configuration. And the blue light was out.

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