I'm not sure if I've blogged this before, but I've been using this method for using CSS files in Windows Mobile IE. My method:

1) Create the link for the handheld style sheet using media="handheld".

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="handheld" href="css/handheld.css" />

2) Hide your default big-browser stylesheet using media="Screen" (with the capital S). This hack hides to Windows Mobile IE for some reason.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="Screen" href="css/master.css" />

This method works for me. Good handhelds and phones will recognize media="handheld", but not sure all do. I'm always looking for other suggestions to get decent and readable results in handhelds, but only test in PPC and my Motorola phone. I have not used phone emulators in a while, but I assume they're still out there.

Always with me. 12 May '05, 1.59pm PST.

I'm through with the Sidekick. It was a very reliable phone for email and instant messaging (with the exception of that 3 day outage). But the PIM just wasn't doing it for me and after my son started using it as a full time gaming device and accidentally tore off one its the rubber keys, I just gave it to him. T-Mobile told me they wouldn't be able to replace it for less than like $120. I've owned all three generations of Sidekicks. The last two had something become irreparably damaged within the first year. They've been very usable devices otherwise, but with the SKII, I noticed that web surfing became incredibly slow for some reason. Perhaps it had something to do with the proxy servers?

So now I'm sporting the i-mate JAM, seen above in my palm playing a compressed DVD. Below the phone is the Canon SD 20 digicam. Small, sweet devices that pack a lot of punch.

The Jam is incredible. I ebayed my iPaq a few months ago because I didn't like having to carry it around along with my phone. I thought maybe I'd wait around for those Motorola phones with iTunes or the 3 megapixel digicam built in, but I figured what I needed most wast the PIM features of a Pocket PC or Palm device. After a month of research, I was not impressed with the Treo and didn't like the huge candybar Pocket PCs.

The JAM is tiny for PPC phone. It's roughly the size of a 4th generation iPod. With the JAM, I can do everything I used to do on the iPaq -- watch compressed DVDs, listen to MP3s, email, calendaring, web browsing, etc. All that stuff. When I get a 1GB SD card I may even start carrying my iPod around less. Oh and it's got a crappy 1 megapixel camera too, but I can't deal with the low quality images these camera phones take, so I have to carry the SD 20 with me -- the perfect everywhere phone.

Email is working like a champ, checking both my gmail and regular POP accounts. Internet Explorer is also working well, although there were service problems on T-Mobile these past 2 days. I also got the Computer Devices SDIO WiFi card, which worked great around the house. So far so good.

Synching with my Mac has not been so smooth yet. PocketMac is sort of working right now, but the software hasn't been fully upgraded for Tiger. It's successful at synching my Address Book contacts, but iCal isn't synching yet. iSync isn't seeing the PPC yet either. Hopefully when the Tiger upgrade happens, this will be resolved. I can live with that for now.

Update: Pocket Mac Pro 3 and other PM apps were updated for Tiger. The download is free for licensed users and works like a charm with the JAM.

If you've got the dough to shell out for one of these puppies, I can highly recommend purchasing it through David Weineger, whom I found by sifting through JAM reviews on mobile phone forums. Don't be daunted by the site. He next day Fedexed it to me and was really great to deal with.

Brighthand reports that a PDA cradle is being manufactured by Synosphere that will let you connect a PDA to fullsized keyboard, mouse and VGA monitor. Pictures of the "Blue Dock" are available from the Synosphere site. Very nice indeed. As PDA's get smaller and more powerful, I find it easier to get away with using one in place of a notebook computer for very basic web, email, MS Office work and occassional telneting. I don't forsee a PDA really replacing my desktop any time soon, but for now it's functioning a bit like all those lightweight Internet machines that failed to survive, but with a tiny bit more functionality.

I've had my iPaq 4155 (with WiFi and Blueetooth) for about a month now and after 3 Palm devices, I am officially leaving the Palm world for the Pocket PC. It feels strange loving something that runs a Microsoft operating system, but the Pocket PC far exceeds my expectations, functioning much like a replacement for many of my laptop needs. Possibly the reason this OS is likable is because it is so much unlike many other MS packages I use. It seems, on the surface, to be as simple as it can be while providing some of the functionality you expect from a desktop computer.

With the software that came with the device, I can do very bare bones Word and Excel, I can do IMAP email with my mailblocks.com account, and I can browse the web. With some added software -- some real cheap and some free -- and an SD storage card, I now also do telnet, listen to MP3s and watch MPEGs, and sketch or take notes that get OCRed into plain text. And I can run all those apps concurrently -- as far as I know, Palm still can't do that. The coolest thing, though is ripping and compressing a DVD that I can watch on my iPaq. I ripped my Scratch DVD last week, which was about 128 MB compressed and put in on my 256MB SD card. Now that's cool. And I got the thing synching with my Mac using PocketMac. Sweetness.

A few things irk me. MS needs to improve it's Pocket IE so you can view pages in landscape mode. They also need to a better way to easily switch between open apps and to close running applications. I got a little freeware app called Wisbar to do this, but seems like a necessary utility to integrate with the OS. Overall, I'm very pleasantly surprised.