I tried using Taglocity 2.0.  When it comes to finding data, Taglocity's ability to filter Outlook folders is great.  All of the emails without the specified tag(s) simply vanish from the Outlook explorer (mail folder view).  I really like being able to use all of the norrmal Outlook searching and sorting on results.  This much nicer than working with search results from Windows Desktop Search, Google Desktop Search, or Lookout.

HTTPort is a useful tool for http tunneling of http, but the documentation is incomplete.  Here are a few errors and solutions I've encountered.

httport errors:

Collected from many different sources...

• Run Cygwin's setup.exe  http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe and add the repository for Cygwin Ports -- ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports
• Select Cygwin's Ruby package (you'll get a 1.8.x release)
  

I had the devil of a time getting a Belkin USB Network Hub (Model F5L009) to work.  Symptoms included:

I've been burned a few times by the Microsoft Loopback Adapter (MLA).  It's a nice idea to have a loopback adapter, but it appears to me that when a program asks Windows for an adapter (pick an adapter, any adapter) Windows either provides the loopback adapter as the default, or when a program asks for a list of adapters, the MLA is the first adapter in the list.

So what? There is lots of software out there that once it finds a connected adapter, it stops looking for better adapters.  Yeah, I know that isn't the fault of the MLA,  but here's the effect:

This works better than the method by headtailgrep at http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47229 because Blackberry Desktop will auto-uninstall headtailgrep's installs, but not Blackberry Desktop's installs.  htg's method works for generic Java applications, while this method works for Blackberry applications.

This method is useful if you don't have a Blackberry data plan.

Prerequisites:

• Make sure IMAP is enabled in your GMail account settings (on mail.google.com)
• New Email Account Wizzard
• New Account Setup: Select "Email account" -- NOT "Gmail"
• Identity: Enter your firstname and lastname, plus youremail@yourdomain.com
• Server Information:
• Server type = IMAP
• Incoming server: imap.gmail.com
• Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com
• User Names

This device is not yet "spouse ready."  My tech-savvy kid will use it, but my wife will find it too frustrating.  It is cooler than Tivo, but Tivo has a better user experience.

• The first thing to do is to run the firmware refresh until it says there are no more updates.
• The "xim button" is the button with a pseudo-asterisk on it.
  

I tried to get Blackberry Desktop and Blackberry Device Manager to work under VMware.  I found the VID and the PID in the host, and set up an autoconnect in the .VMX file, but the BB device mananger was unable to locate the BB.  I went through some drastic troubleshooting, suggested by VMware, including deleting all the USB devices (all of them -- not just BB) and rebooting.

Eventually, what got it recognized was when I did two things (one might be enough, but which?):

1. Open the back cover and push a paperclip into the reset hole in the BB.

I use a Blackberry 8700 -- without a Blackberry data plan -- just a regular data plan.  Here's how I installed Google Sync 0.4.6

1. Install UserAgentSwitcher 0.6.11 into Firefox 3, and configure a user agent:
1. Description="blackberry 8700"
2. User Agent="BlackBerry8700/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/180"

2. Tell Firefox to use the "blackberry 8700" user agent.