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Text N Walk looks like an interesting Windows Phone app:

Click the screenshot below to learn more about the application and download it from the Marketplace.

How to restore contact pictures to your windows phone

If you’ve set up the Outlook Hotmail Connector to sync your contact and appointment data to your Windows Live account, and then sync this information to your windows phone, you’ve probably noticed that pictures that were included with your Outlook contacts did not sync to Windows Live.

Windows Live accommodates photos with contacts, but the only contacts you'll see in your Windows Live Contacts that have photos are your Live Messenger contacts who have also posted a picture of themselves to their Windows Live account.

You'll need to manually restore the photographs to your contacts on the phone.

The easiest way to restore your contact pictures to your windows phone is to upload the pictures to your Windows Live account and then sync the pictures over to your phone.

Upload the Pictures to your Windows Live Account

  • Gather together all your contact photos and place them in a folder on your computer
  • Then, using Internet Explorer, login to your Windows Live account > go to Photos > Select the Mobile photos album > Create folder > input "Contact Photos" in the space provided (or whatever you prefer to call the album) > Next
  • Open up File Explorer in a new window on your computer, navigate to your contacts folder and select all the contacts. 
  • Drag all of the pictures to the "Drop photos here or select photos form your computer" box in Windows Live (the drag option will only work if you are using Internet Explorer)

Sync the Pictures to your Phone

  • On your phone, open up the Pictures hub > tap all >  now you'll see a "Contact pictures from Windows Live" album.  Open up the Contact pictures album and tap each picture to download it from your Windows Live account, then tap the three periods in the lower right hand corner of the screen and tap "Save to Phone"
  • Go to the people hub
  • Select a contact that you want to add a picture to and tap the pencil icon 
  • Tap "add photo" and then select the picture from your Saved Pictures.

When you sync your phone to Windows Live, the pictures will also sync to Windows Live.  You won’t see the pictures there, but if you get another phone and sync to your Windows Live account, the pictures will be synced over to your new windows phone.

At the airport, waiting to board the flight to the Netherlands

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Viewing YouTube on a Windows Mobile Phone

The easiest way to watch YouTube on a WM5.0 or WM6.x device is to input m.youtube.com into the Windows Mobile Standard or Professional phone’s mobile browser.

Then click the Link, “Download the YouTube application,” to download and install a YouTube client to your phone.

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If you have a Windows Mobile Classic device that runs WM5.0 or WM6.1 (the classic devices are not phones), you can download the software directly to your device by entering this link address into your device’s mobile browser.

After you’ve installed the YouTube application, select/tap Start > Programs > YouTube

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I’ve installed the YouTube application to two WM5.0 devices (IPAQ rx1950 & IPAQ hw6925) as well as to my WM6.1 Standard phone (IPAQ Voice Messenger) and my WM6.5 Professional phone (HP IPAQ Glisten).

Waiting in line at the Dunkin Donuts for my morning brew

Agenda One is a great addition to any Windows Mobile Phone

Agenda One is one of the first applications I install to my Windows phones.

I like its quickness, its simplified user interface, and its ease of use.

I've used Agenda One on WM 5.0 & WM6.x professional and standard phones. It is especially useful on my “candy bar” phones like the HP Ipaq hw6925, the HP Ipaq 910c Business Messenger, the HP Ipaq Voice Messenger, and the HP Ipaq Glisten, because the software is optimized to work “one handed” with the phones' keypads.

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Unthreaded versus threaded text messaging...what is your preference?

You lose details, like time, with threaded (conservation) view (see 2nd screenshot). I prefer unthreaded view (see 1st screenshot).

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Tracking my movements on my HP Ipaq Voice Messenger, GPS, and Trackr

Use Trackr to document your travels, runs, bicycle rides, motorcycle rides, etc. Trackr uses the GPS radio in your windows mobile device to track you. If you want your friends to track you in (practically) real time mode, you can use your phone's data connection to capture your movements and place them on a private, personal web page.

I use Trackr on my windows mobile professional and standard phones. (these screenshots are taken from the IPAQ Voice Messenger , which runs WM6.1 standard).

Get Trackr here: http://www.trackr.eu/

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Google maps with GPS enabled on the HP Ipaq Voice Messenger

Open up Google on the Voice Messenger. Select Menu > Options and choose GPS Settings. Place a checkmark in the box next to "Manage by Windows (see first & second screenshots)

Then select Menu > Use GPS

Place the Voice Messenger in a window with a clear view of the sky and after a few minutes, the phone will start fixing on GPS satellites. Once it finds your location, you'll notice the blue circle on your location on the map (see third & fourth screenshots).

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The Trillium & Celadon Poppies are blooming in my woodland garden!

Image captured with an HP Glisten

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