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How to read PDFs on your Windows Mobile Phone

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One of the things I did most with my Palm Treo was to read books while stuck waiting some where. Multimedia is great but not appropriate entertainment in all locations. When first fired up a PDF novel on my Windows Mobile phone it was unreadable. By the time I made the font readable you had to scroll every which way to read the page.

Pocket PDF is what you need to read PDFs on your Window’s Mobile phone. There is a box you can check to tell it to display ‘text only’ and it will reformat the text to fit the screen you you can read your PDF  with out scrolling from side to side.

Written by timestocome

September 28th, 2007 at 6:00 am

How To Watch Videos and You Tube on your Windows Mobile Phone

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I found this on the Treo Central Forum. If you have problems, go there, read the thread and see if someone had run across your problem before.

First if you have TCPMP installed on your phone remove it.

You will need two files
TCPMP Smartphone version

and
Flash Video bundle ( You need a free TreoCentral.com account to download the file. )

Both files must be installed on either the card or phone.

Do a soft reboot on your phone.

Go to YouTube.com. When it redirects you to the mobile site go to the bottom of the page and click the link to ‘classic view’ and you’ll return to the main YouTube site. This plugin does NOT work on the m.youtube.com mobile site.

Pocket PC Freeware also has this software TCPMP & Flash Plugin for Windows Mobile. I didn’t try the versions there. I see no reason that they wouldn’t work just as well.

The TCPMP player will also let you listen to streaming music.

If for some reason you still don’t get it working try XDA Developers YouTube Tutorial

Written by timestocome

September 26th, 2007 at 6:00 am