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Personal Homepage in PIE improved!

Sure, you can have your homepage point to google or MSN or some other site.
Wouldn't it great if you could have your own homepage where you can set your own links? Well, hell yeah. Better having to go to favourites > link... etc.
This lady created a HTM page that you can edit and set your own links.
For example on my own page I have links to google.ca, my yahoo email, HoFo, the two social groups I run, my bank's website. All the moment that PIE starts.
Excellent share...
It is easy to setup and you really do not need any HTML experience.
Cheers!
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/03/03/83349.aspx

Amazing, it's only 2 weeks ago that I was looking for something exactly like this, as it's a bit of a pain using the favourites in pie. Thanks for the link.

Bit of a pain to edit.
I use Google Bookmarks as my home page. It loads quickly and means I can access my favourites (with tags!) from anywhere. Editing it is even more easily done on my PC.
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

Although it is good that people are coming out with more options.
You cannot compare a 2k file that pops up instantly when you start off PIE with 10-15 of your favourite links.
Going to Google Bookmarks is not as easy specially if you have tons of bookmarks. Not bad when using a Laptop but not as easy when using a PPC.
But hey, to which is own, right?

check http://mobilust.net/bookmarks via mobile. easy to signup and save you bookmarks. i use it . still needs to be improved but at least designed for mobiles.

I checked it out, promising, but if you don't mind having a small, unknown company knowing all your bookmarks.

no. i wouldn't put my bank accoutn details there lol

Images in emails

Hi all,
Firstly, WOW what a handset! This has to be the best HTC handset yet!
Anyway, on to my problem/request...
Is there a way to enable loading of images in the email messages on my handset? At the moment, I get empty windows with a red "x" in them.
Thanks all!
Wayne

there should be an 'internet pictures blocked' message at the top of it. click on that to allow them and you should see the images.

catinthehat said:
there should be an 'internet pictures blocked' message at the top of it. click on that to allow them and you should see the images.
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Duh! Thanks!
Is there a way (perhaps a reg edit) that will allow this by default? I have got the amount of data downloaded set to a minimum so not bothered about the size of the email. Would just be nice to get the images by default.
Once again, thanks!

Just replying to this to keep it fresh. Not sure what replies I'll get if this moves too far down the list

Not ever found such a reg key to allow this.... it's a right royal pain in the ass.
Only work around Ihave ever found is to use a 3rd party application like Flexmail by Webis - http://www.webis.net/products_info.php?p_id=mail
(But I don't use it myself as I find it a little unwieldly with my Corporate ActiveSync integration)

If you use a third party mail checker, does it integrate into TF3D and S2U2 like the default mail software?

Enable e-mail images by default?
wayneywoo said:
Duh! Thanks!
Is there a way (perhaps a reg edit) that will allow this by default? I have got the amount of data downloaded set to a minimum so not bothered about the size of the email. Would just be nice to get the images by default.
Once again, thanks!
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Wanted to re-visit this thread folks. Anyone know of a way of always enabling images in e-mail because this is a royal pain in the arse!
Failing that is there an alternative e-mail client?
Cheers...

No images.
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there should be an 'internet pictures blocked' message at the top of it. click on that to allow them and you should see the images.
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Well, no, I click on that, tries to (?) download images, still no images...
Same with the RSS hub reader... no images whatsoever.
IE and Opera running smoothly (with images ), so it's not a problem with the Internet access...
Thanks for help
(currently on Miri's WinMo 6.5 ROM (latest Premium 7.3 release), but same behaviour on Dutty's and others)

This is a long standing issue with Windows Mobile.
Microsoft "claim" its a security "feature". I still remain unconvinced. Since when have Microsoft been bothered about my security?
;-)

[Q] Where are these settings stored?

I'm still working on setting up the perfect UC for my phone. I'd like to know where to find these settings (whether in a file or the registry, doesn't matter).
1) Regional settings
2) Windows live account (including e-mail)
3) Other e-mail accounts (POP3 as well as IMAP)
Thanks in advance!

regional settings would be in hklm\nls
so for me in ENG-US id use DefaultLCID 0x409
Live settings are here
hklm\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live
Not sure about pop/imap as i don't use these on my phone (and not quite sure what you're trying to do ), but try hlkm\system\inbox\settings or hklm\software\microsoft\inbox and search around in there.
I guess the easiest way would be to add a pop or imap account and just search the registry for the name of the account.

Angelusz said:
I'm still working on setting up the perfect UC for my phone. I'd like to know where to find these settings (whether in a file or the registry, doesn't matter).
1) Regional settings
2) Windows live account (including e-mail)
3) Other e-mail accounts (POP3 as well as IMAP)
Thanks in advance!
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Run it before and after and compare the results w/ tools like "beyond compare"

Sorry
Please forgive my intrusion, can someone please enlighten me as the what "UC" stands for? I have seen it mentioned a few times and just can't place it.

alias_neo said:
Please forgive my intrusion, can someone please enlighten me as the what "UC" stands for? I have seen it mentioned a few times and just can't place it.
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User Customization. Find more info here.
jackleung said:
Run it before and after and compare the results w/ tools like "beyond compare"
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Interesting. I understand this makes a snapshot of my entire registry so it can be compared?
jhoffa said:
regional settings would be in hklm\nls
so for me in ENG-US id use DefaultLCID 0x409
Live settings are here
hklm\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live
Not sure about pop/imap as i don't use these on my phone (and not quite sure what you're trying to do ), but try hlkm\system\inbox\settings or hklm\software\microsoft\inbox and search around in there.
I guess the easiest way would be to add a pop or imap account and just search the registry for the name of the account.
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Thanks! The regional ones I would not have found without help.
I had already found that windows live folder, but I'm not sure if that actually restores my e-mail account too if I'd import it.

Krazp. Tried beyondcompare, but beside some system state keys and a bunch of hex values (maybe that's it), nothing along the lines of e-mail accounts changed! T.T
I do know it's possible to set them up using provisioningxml, but I just can't get it right that way, as I don't know the possible functions.

Very cool program Jack! Doesn't look easy to import Angelusz... I ran it against idiffce and came up with tons of changes at:
(incl subkeys)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\PIMSources\1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Security\CredMan\Creds\ (this one looks tricky because the values change each time)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Extensions\ContextMenus\Contacts\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Windows Live
*.mpb files in \Windows\Messaging
MxpDatabase.db
WindowsLive.vol
cemail.vol
pim.vol
edit: found this key too that wasn't in the change log... HKCU\Software\Microsoft\pMSN\SavedUsers

IDEA: Easy way to have a native GMAIL app on Windows Mobile...

I had an epiphany today, I want to share this idea, perhaps someone here has the knowledge to pull it off, unfortunately, I am not a C programmer:
Gmail already has built in RSS feeds. Every Gmail account hass RSS feeds for every label at https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/LABEL/ (This also works for Apps at https://mail.google.com/a/DOMAIN.TLD/feed/atom/LABEL/ ).
The only requirement is that the feed reader support authentication.
Now lets bring pRSSreader into the equation (http://code.google.com/p/prssr/)
Supports SSL, Yes!
Supports Authntication, YES!
Source Code Available! GPL!
So to start: A competent developer begin with the pRSSreader code, change the UI a bit so that it will revolve around inputing gmail accounts and it will be able to read our mail)
The next step is to add a simple SMTP component that will send outgoing mail through the GMAIL smtp.
What do the smart people here think?

I'm not critisizing your idea by any means, but why not using the mobile JAVA app done by google?
It works flawlessly with JBED or JEODEK for WM. The functionality is also great. Of course, it's not native WM app, but it's still worth a while.

fbifbi said:
I'm not critisizing your idea by any means, but why not using the mobile JAVA app done by google?
It works flawlessly with JBED or JEODEK for WM. The functionality is also great. Of course, it's not native WM app, but it's still worth a while.
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URL for this mate?

fbifbi said:
I'm not critisizing your idea by any means, but why not using the mobile JAVA app done by google?
It works flawlessly with JBED or JEODEK for WM. The functionality is also great. Of course, it's not native WM app, but it's still worth a while.
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The JAVA app is great... except that the text font (including menu and everything) is too tiny and small on my Diamond. Otherwise it's great app...

Wiggz said:
URL for this mate?
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Go to m.gmail.com on your phone, and then download it. It should automatically recognize that you have a windows mobile phone and offer you the JAVA version to download.

fbifbi said:
Of course, it's not native WM app, but it's still worth a while.
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^^ that was the point of ethanpil's suggestion.
@ethanpil, I think it's a good idea, the only hole I see is that it's mostly for people who actually use the labels now, yes?

wait....maybe i'm not understanding u guys properly...u dont wanna use the mail program that it came with?? i have a diamond and i synced it to my outlook which has gmail..so when i'm on WIFI it vibrates when i get a gMail.....
so what is it that Java program do that this one doesn't??

Why not use Emoze? That has true push and works great with Gmail. Gmail also has a Exchange server for your calender and contacts.

sinara said:
The JAVA app is great... except that the text font (including menu and everything) is too tiny and small on my Diamond. Otherwise it's great app...
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sinara, look for VGA hacked JBED (here on XDA) - it solves problems with small fonts on our devices.

sinara said:
The JAVA app is great... except that the text font (including menu and everything) is too tiny and small on my Diamond. Otherwise it's great app...
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You can fix the font sizes with simple regedits.

Why do ppl want this?? Outlook can link to IMAP from google natively. Which All wm6 phones have...so why does anyone care about an external app that windows can do by default. I'm not discounting it or anything I'm just really confused on this issue

xcom923 said:
Why do ppl want this?? Outlook can link to IMAP from google natively. Which All wm6 phones have...so why does anyone care about an external app that windows can do by default. I'm not discounting it or anything I'm just really confused on this issue
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I am with you here, gmail with imap is the way to go. If your device automagically finds gmail settings, just misspell gmail when entering your email addy, then fix it after you have unchecked to automatically find settings.

I believe the reason for doing this is to get away from the built-in (WM) applications which for the most part suck. Not to mention that the emails are stored in a database and not in individual files (as in Qmail). Even if it was stored in a database, the database should be easily manipulated to allow for quick backup and recovery operations (SQLite?). Not to mention that such an application can implement great features like imap-idle and connecting over 1x/gprs to save battery life (and privates).
Just my two cents.

The reason is as many have guessed above:
1) The Java version sucks for WM users: its not native, and a few times alerady if I exited hastily by hitting the X instead of through the menus then my DB was corrupted and I had to reinstall the app
2) Something native will be able to take advantage of all of the features of WM and run in the background better.
3) The native apps also suck.
4) Push IMAP and activesync take horrendous battery power
Anyway, I have been using NewsBreak to read my gmail by RSS and it works great, updates once per hour, and runs real fast in background and I get notification of new emails and I only downlod the labels I need... Its just a pain to then login to gmail app to reply...

I have a small application (in VB.NET) that I am working on but in this moment it is "work in progress". I am able to connect to GMail over SSL in POP3, SMTP and IMAP.
In this moment I am trying out POP3 but I have some problems when downloading larger attachments from GMail (out-of-memory exceptions) which I have to sort out.
I guess I could make a native application for GMail - however the first beta version would not support attachments (at least larger attachmnets - let's say more than 200KB - until I have sorted out the problem mentioned above).
In order to produce a first version, I still would need some days but if there's interest, I could give it a shot.
Rgds,
Tilleke
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Add spellchecking to your applications.
See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=495728

this would def worth a shot since it's a bunch of shareware ideas taken into an all in one freeware app to add to our collection of greatly developed freeware. i'd rather use a custom made freeware app that will always add features rather than waste memory with certain shareware programs just to have all the bells and whistles scattered across the cluttered memory

boog321 said:
I am with you here, gmail with imap is the way to go. If your device automagically finds gmail settings, just misspell gmail when entering your email addy, then fix it after you have unchecked to automatically find settings.
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I've been doing that since my 8525.. I can't believe that anyone would rather 'fight' with a 3rd party app.. I can see the argument for push, but if you really need up to date inbox, just get a scheduler to set your 'active' hours so you get faster updates when you need it. Typically I get emails at the same time though.

HTML Email on HD2

Hi All,
Is there any way of getting full html support for email on HD2?
Cheers

Uhm... could you detailt up a little bit?
there is 100% full support of html e-mails on HD2...

I think he means, that embedded pictures are not shown instantly. Thats not a lack or bug its just for your safety because some kind of malware is using this way to srew you up
Therefore you always have to click on "show blocked images" or whatever it says....

Well actually, I really like that feature since I would find it rather bad if my phone would start downloading lots and lots of kbytes with information on bulky newsletters...
I never tried this, but it could help: try setting up a larger value for the maximum download limit: thus you can allow larger e-mail to be completely downloaded automatically.
I admit I've never tried this, since I am actually fond of the default 2KB maximum limit!
Good luck!

amang2205 said:
Well actually, I really like that feature since I would find it rather bad if my phone would start downloading lots and lots of kbytes with information on bulky newsletters...
I never tried this, but it could help: try setting up a larger value for the maximum download limit: thus you can allow larger e-mail to be completely downloaded automatically.
I admit I've never tried this, since I am actually fond of the default 2KB maximum limit!
Good luck!
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That doesn't change the default action of not downloading images. You still need to click the link to do that.

johncmolyneux said:
That doesn't change the default action of not downloading images. You still need to click the link to do that.
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You're wrong.
In the Message download limit combo box (drop down list), there are the following options:
- 2KB
- 5KB
- 20KKB
- 50KB
- All text, no pictures
- Headers only
- Entire message
Guess what happens when you select 'Entire message'...

If you use an Exchange accout, you'll have less options available. However, the 'Entire message' option is available, so no need to worry.
But if we got here, please keep in mind that Exchange 2003 doesn't offer HTML support across ActiveSync, with Windows Mobile (stupidity, I call it, for it works perfectly with iPhones!).
If you want HTML over ActiveSync, you should contact your server admin. and suggest him upgrading to Exchange 2007 (or even 2010 ).

amang2205 said:
You're wrong.
In the Message download limit combo box (drop down list), there are the following options:
- 2KB
- 5KB
- 20KKB
- 50KB
- All text, no pictures
- Headers only
- Entire message
Guess what happens when you select 'Entire message'...
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You're so sarcastic that it is annoying. Every time I've come across you on these forums you have to attack in a VERY sarcastic way. STOP doing this.
You said, "I never tried this, but it could help: try setting up a larger value for the maximum download limit" Have you now tried "setting up a larger value for the maximum download limit" in order to try and help the OP, or did you decided that you'd rather just try bashing me.
"setting up a larger value for the maximum download limit" DOES NOT DOWNLOAD THE IMAGES.
Stop being so rude - these forums have a lot of long-standing and very friendly users. The best way to get on in here is to try and be the same.

Sorry for any misunderstandings. However, did it help?

amang2205 said:
Sorry for any misunderstandings. However, did it help?
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Thank you - apology accepted. Let's forget about it now.
amang2205 said:
In the Message download limit combo box (drop down list), there are the following options:
- 2KB
- 5KB
- 20KKB
- 50KB
- All text, no pictures
- Headers only
- Entire message
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I can't find those options anywhere. Where are you getting that list?

I can't find those options anywhere. Where are you getting that list?
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Go to the Inbox of any accout -> click on the menu key (right soft) -> on the pop-up menu, select Tools>Options... -> choose an account to edit
Now, if you try to edit a GMail or Yahoo account (or probably any other account, except for the Exchange one), you can select Download Size Settings. You'll have the settings there.
For the Exchange account, when editing, click Next (on the Edit server settings screen), then Next again (on the User Info screen), then select E-mail, click the Settings button. You'll have there the 'Download size limit' option, just like in the other accout types.
Hope it helps!

This is a per account setting, the list in on the last page of the settings.
The same one where you decide if you want your mails in HTML or plain text format.
At leats that's where it is for IMAP and POP accounts (I don't have any hot mail account, and I don't sync my exchange accoubnt so I dont' know for these two)

amang2205 said:
Go to the Inbox of any accout -> click on the menu key (right soft) -> on the pop-up menu, select Tools>Options... -> choose an account to edit
Now, if you try to edit a GMail or Yahoo account (or probably any other account, except for the Exchange one), you can select Download Size Settings. You'll have the settings there.
For the Exchange account, when editing, click Next (on the Edit server settings screen), then Next again (on the User Info screen), then select E-mail, click the Settings button. You'll have there the 'Download size limit' option, just like in the other accout types.
Hope it helps!
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Yeah - found it now. I've got a hotmail account (you don't have this option on there, same as exchange accounts), and a gmail account. I found it in the gmail one. Thanks.

johncmolyneux said:
Yeah - found it now. I've got a hotmail account (you don't have this option on there, same as exchange accounts), and a gmail account. I found it in the gmail one. Thanks.
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I don't know it for sure regarding Hotmail, but you surely have it for Exchange!

amang2205 said:
I don't know it for sure regarding Hotmail, but you surely have it for Exchange!
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Sorry - my bad. I misread your post above.

how to view full (overview) email in one screen
Sometime we receive email in HTML format with some images, the email client does load them but can not view everything in one screen (if you know what I mean... it is like Opera to view full screen of a web page).
Is there anyway to tweak it to work this way? Rather than scroll to right and down. Afterall we can pinch to zoom in.