04-02-2005, 01:00 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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PressOK for PocketPC1 Available at PocketGear
"The window that pops up when you go to certain pages in Internet Explorer asking you to Press OK to continue can be very annoying. Be annoyed no more. With PressOK the message will be automatically closed. It does one job and it does it very well."
If you own a WM2003SE device and you visit a website that makes use of Flash animations, you'll see this dialog come up often enough to make you go bonkers (boy, do I know)!! Anyway, PressOK for PocketPC1 will relieve you of mind-numbing OK-tapping and allow you to just surf! You can pick up a copy here at PocketGear for $8.99 [Affiliate Link]. For what it does, this doesn't come cheap and (hopefully) the need for this will actually become obsolete once we move past WM2003SE, but for now, if you surf regularly enough and see this dialog box often enough, paying the fee may be well worth it.
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04-02-2005, 01:08 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 241
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Wow. I gotta say I feel lucky to be content with the 2215.
That dialog box only has one option. press okay. it doesn't give any useful information. It's like some evil coder threw it in on a bad day. Is there any explanation as to why that needs to come up in the first place?
btw: i am no guru, but I am almost positive we will hear from tweak2k3se or somthing in the near future that this is adjustable in the registry. I can't see 10 bucks for this product. thats insane in my opinion. 2 dollars I would be fine with, coder makes a profit and the window goes away, but for a completely background app that prevents the occurance of this one window? 8O outrageous price IMNSHO.
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04-02-2005, 01:22 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,183
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Originally Posted by foebea
That dialog box only has one option. press okay. it doesn't give any useful information. It's like some evil coder threw it in on a bad day. Is there any explanation as to why that needs to come up in the first place?
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Yes. Some idiot company decided to sue Microsoft becuase, it was argued, they owned the patent for embedding plugins in web pages. On the offchance that they won, Microsoft developed a workaround that meant developers had to use a different method to include certain objects on their web pages. That meant a change to Internet Explorer. When the courst case fell through, they somehow neglected to remove that workaround from PocketPC 2003 SE ...
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04-02-2005, 04:51 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 437
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Re: PressOK for PocketPC1 Available at PocketGear
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Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai
For what it does, this doesn't come cheap and (hopefully) the need for this will actually become obsolete once we move past WM2003SE, but for now, if you surf regularly enough and see this dialog box often enough, paying the fee may be well worth it.
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Uhh, or you could just press the Action button on your D-Pad--quick and painless.
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04-02-2005, 04:59 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 2,386
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Re: PressOK for PocketPC1 Available at PocketGear
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Originally Posted by R K
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Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai
For what it does, this doesn't come cheap and (hopefully) the need for this will actually become obsolete once we move past WM2003SE, but for now, if you surf regularly enough and see this dialog box often enough, paying the fee may be well worth it.
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Uhh, or you could just press the Action button on your D-Pad--quick and painless. |
This is true for pages with only one Flash object, but for pages where there are several Flash objects, it gets to be pain in the arse. I still don't quite surf on my PPC enough to make this a must-buy for me though.
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04-02-2005, 07:12 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 761
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I'd love to see a hack like this in tweaks2k 
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04-02-2005, 10:52 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Is this an April Fools day joke?
Surur
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04-02-2005, 12:42 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Hi All
Just wanted to make a comment on the pricing of this.
We are in a very difficult situation with pricing at the moment. Basically PocketPC programs do not sell in large quantities and we barely recoup costs on anything we develop.
What people forget is how much of a cut the distributors take, credit card handling fees etc. Some of those are fixed fees rather than percentages so the lower the price the bigger the impact.
Couple this with the fact that we are in the UK and the $ is extremely weak against the pound and the charges we incur in transferring dollars to pound sterling mean we will not really make any profit until we have sold well over 500 copies even at this price. To be honest in the current market we are going to struggle to get there. We have experimented with lower prices to drive up volume but I'm afraid it does not happen.
I found this 'Press OK' prompt very annoying, I wanted to offer a fix to this the community. So I got our development team to build it but I still have to justify the development costs and its incredibly difficult to do in market which perceives anything over a couple of dollars being too expensive.
As background this problem is related to a patent issue. We were unable to find any simple registry fix and had to come up with a background task as surmised. Actually that is not all that simple either as you have to consider doing it in such a way it doesn't adversely affect battery life.
Yes I know it doesn't seem to do much but what it does it does well with minimum memory and battery usage.
I think this whole issue of pricing for PocketPC software is going to get more and more difficult. Especially with Microsoft starting to charge for development tools. Its very difficult to make any money in the PocketPC market, only a very few key area products (enhanced PIM, battery monitoring etc) will make any real market penetration in sales and the number of sales for other items is really poor. The problem is perceived value. People do not perceive most of the utilites have any real value especially if they are fixing a problem that they don't think should be there in the first place.
Having said all that if anyone can guarantee by dropping the price to $2 we would get an extra 4000 sales I would happily do it. As that is what I would need to break even at that price.
Sorry for the long post but I think its an important subject. Yes I would like to make some profit but I'm not trying to profiteer.
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04-02-2005, 03:08 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 2,386
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Thanks for the input Gary, it's always appreciated to have the developers feedback. :way to go:
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04-02-2005, 03:15 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 22
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No Problem. I do understand where people are coming from on pricing. Its a very difficult market to be in at present. To be honest if we didn't have other revenue streams we wouldn't have stayed in it.
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