Up until the last few days, I have had a hard time finding good use for the wireless functionality of my PDA.
In the early days of my use, I pretty much just used it to stream radio as I worked around the house, or IM while sitting on the… Well.. Just sitting…
There were a few other cool uses, such as checking TV listings and weather, but I never really found the POP3 e-mail use practical with the Lotus server we are using, and my personal e-mail would load without my anti-spam settings.
Most of my personal e-mail, goes through my GMail anyhow.
This week, however I have discovered 2 applications that have increased my wireless PDA use.
1 – Gmail Lite
Gmail Lite is a PHP client for gmail, that can be installed on any server with PHP.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116304
I was able to find a number of servers out there with it installed, but I felt a bit uncomfortable passing my login information through a strangers server. (Gmail Lite does not capture login information, but I can see how it would be easy for an individual install to set it up to do so).
I did, however, set it up on my server
http://www.cyberbliss.net/gmail
Feel free to use it.
2 – PocketPutty
Pocket Putty is a handheld version of the popular PuTTy Shell program. It allows me to to a shell login of any of my Linux accounts from my PDA. With enough knowledge (which I am still working on aquiring), I can pretty much run all of my webservers from that emulation.
I have not had enough experience with PocketPutty to give a recommendation, but the prospect is rather sweet.
O will keep you posted.