Index / Tomas / Hobbies / MC16 / Ideas
  • Save your display from scratches
    • In the manual for the MC16 it says "dont draw with the pen on the display", which makes you wonder how to move the cards of the solitaire game included with WinCE, not to mention how to use all the interesting notes and drawing software around ? 
    • A solution that works for me (and my solitaire loving girlfriend) is to cover the display with a plastic film cut out of a transparent map when drawing on the display. This plastic has the property to have very low friction, it feels like teflon. After about a hundred hours of solitaire, there are still no scratches on the display, so I belive it works. Further more, the low friction plastic film has a better feeling than the original display, making less resistance for the pen. Of course the screen gets a bit darker, but not enough to be inconvenient
  • Increase the speed when you surf through a cellular phone
    • It is a good idea to create a special "MC16 startpage" on your homepage.
      It should contain a minimum of graphics,
      It should have a format and typeface which is easy to read on the MC16.
      It should be filled with links to interesting low graphics, quick loading sites.
      This is because it is practically impossible to surf in the ordinary way at a speed of 9.6k
      so it pays very good to have a prepared startpage with MC16 friendly links.
    • My own MC16 startpage.
  • Connect a headset to the "Surf anywhere case", so you can ansver incomming calls without having to remove the phone from the case.
    • I´m working on it, have to untangle the wiring of the cable connection that can be made between the MC16 and a cellular phone first, so I know if a headset and an MC16 can be connected on the same time. I´m wating on a cable at the moment.
    • By the way, I plan to include a tiny FM receiver in the "Surf anywhere case", so I can listen to it through the headset, and have it all connected so that an incomming call switches the headset back to the cellular.