Contact-ing from Birdsoft

[Jason Dunn]

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[Edgar_]

Yikes I have 1500+ contacts - thats alot of thumbnails.

You don't want to see what some of my vendors look like ;)

Truly, I'm great with names, I'm lousy on putting names to faces. I couldn't use this.

-Edgar

[Darius Wey]

It's nice to see some Treo 700w software concepts being extended to other Pocket PCs. I'll definitely give this a test run later in the week.

[ramjet73]

It's nice to see some Treo 700w software concepts being extended to other Pocket PCs. I'll definitely give this a test run later in the week.
Did Birdsoft develop the Today contact plugin for the 700W, or just copy it?

ramjet73

[alex_kac]

Remember PI's had a contact picture list view since last year way before the Treo. No, its not meant for dialing, but I just wanted to interject that.

[Janak Parekh]

Did Birdsoft develop the Today contact plugin for the 700W, or just copy it?
The Treo's today plugin is just for speed dial. You can use either names or pictures. In that sense, this Today plugin goes much farther. I think it's worth crediting Palm with popularizing some of the ideas, but as Alex implies, Palm didn't do something revolutionary with the concept.

--janak

[Gex]

Not sure if its ok to post this but over at xda developers they have extracted the speed dial/picture dial functionality out of the 700w's ROM and made it available to all WM5 devices.... I had it working in the emulator :)

[efjay]

Be interesting to see if this product gets better support than Ultiplanner which hasnt been updated for a year.

[Birdiestyle]

Yes, the Treo's speed dial along with many other applications including our own Ulti-Contacts and Ulti-Planner(which has had pictures for a while now too) make up the concept of this. We definitely hope we do much more than the limited picture speed dial of the Treo.

And we plan on having a beta of Ulti-Planner 3.0 out possibly next week.
As we have said in our forums, Microsoft has changed and took away some very important things that were crucial to the base code of UP, but we think we have found a way around most of them, some discovered while writing this program and Project-ing. And I believe UP has been working fine on WM2003 devices for the most part, so..... Yes, this has been a painful update process for UP, but its only 1 year. Alex and John from PI and AF have spoiled the PIM world with their update cycles. Of course we won't charge for our update when it becomes available. And we will try to get back on track and "spoil" too...

Thanks for taking a look....

[PPCMD]

Over at the XDA-Developers site they managed to get the Treo 700w today plugin pulled out and it works great on my XV6700. It was the only missing part and now I have it.

[rzanology]

Over at the XDA-Developers site they managed to get the Treo 700w today plugin pulled out and it works great on my XV6700. It was the only missing part and now I have it.

do you have a link?? i been searching their forums for the last 30 minutes.

[rzanology]

Over at the XDA-Developers site they managed to get the Treo 700w today plugin pulled out and it works great on my XV6700. It was the only missing part and now I have it.

do you have a link?? i been searching their forums for the last 30 minutes.

found it....

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70677

[Paladin27]

Is it pulling the pictures from the photos saved in the Outlook profiles, or is it assigning pictures from a folder? If the later, I'm not interested. I've already assigned at least 50 photos in Outlook to my contacts and they are synced to my KJAM.

[g-dog]

That depends on your device type. On WM5 devices it'll use the Outlook profile images. Give it a try.
On WM2003 it still uses the Outlook Contacts. The images are handled differently... since the devices do not have the ability to use photos/images/avatars with your Outlook contacts, it allows you to assign them by browsing to the file location. No need to use a specific directory for your images, the path will be used along with indexes to minimize the load time.

[Birdiestyle]

http://www.birdsoft.biz/images//contactinglsvgass2x.jpg

Version 2.01 has been released, which includes a bunch of fixes and enhancements including an option for smaller images and an option for no names under images.

http://www.birdsoft.biz

[kss55442]

What do you run after you install the program. All I can find is a DLL. There is nothing in the "Today items" to enable.