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Zealot et al re #557-
I did go ahead with the cab v. of iPhoneToday and it installed beautifully. I subsequently attempted a cab install of several other app's I found here & there on the4 Web. Not a one of them would install even tho all were characterized as working under win CE.
But I think I will not use iPhoneToday; too much trouble to a) install (& perhaps have to find elsewhere) the appropriate icons and b) then associate each icon with the respective app. The old familiar CE-type GUI is, relatively, good enough for now for what I've had in mind.
I had tried installing iris-browser-1.1.9.cab to no avail. But I may not have used the proper technique. I can't remember just how I got iPhoneToday to install--whether via disk-drive or active-sync mode and whether I first loaded it to the SD card & then installed from there or installed from the file while in the desktop; whatever I did, I did it with just a few clicks and bingo!--there it was up & running in the 1060. But nowhere can I find instruction on how one is supposed to do that kind of thing! Would you have info on that? And if you have a later v. of Iris, I would appreciate it, to try again. Let me know if so & I'll get you my email addr.
I've wanted to use the W1060 primarily for displaying slideshows of my stored photos. But the 1060's image viewer, unhappily, lacks a means of establishing "favorites" of the saved slideshows; One has to click thru folders every time, 1 by one til the appropriate one is reached, then click again to summon up the slideshow's parameter file, then click more times to start the show. In the meantime, one's audience will have snoozed off. What I'd like is a desktop icon for each slideshow; 1 click and off it goes.
My Suspend works OK, it seems, but I have issues with the USB feature: After suspend, it seems I have to reboot if I want to use the USB connection to the desktop. Also, sometimes when I unplug the USB, then re-plug it, the computer no longer recognizes the Sd card--even tho I (sometimes but not always) hear the audible "chime" in the desktop indicating the connection. Then I have to reboot the 1060--but reboot only w/out the USB plugged in; that's another annoyance. Further, of course, the USB:desktop connection is only between the SD card and the desktop--and the card is rendered inaccessible within the W1060 while that connection is in effect. And still further for me, occasionally the desktop freezes when I do such a re-plug--but I find that if I cycle my KVM switch (to another computer) several times it recovers. That's odd...
What the W1060/A81 and/or Win CE ought to provide is an easy way to put a shortcut on the screen that will lead right to an image, or an image-set, or a document, already presented in whatever app is appropriate for it or them. It would seem like a simple task to implement--but "simple" has never been Microsoft's strong point in my view. Except for CE: that's tooo simple!
And finally while griping...I'm wondering if any CE-based app would be able to make use of the 3 left-side buttons and the top rocker-button of the C-type 1060 (and I suppose the later A81 model)? Or would one have to go to Android or the like? I understand from Lencho Lee that Wirelession (or perhaps the A81 people) is working on a customized Android 2.2 UI. I'll be interested in that when & if it's available as a download.
KCH
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