Breathing new life into old hardware

The HP Jornada 720 - 206Hz of mobile productivity.

This is a quick test to see how effective my old Jornada 720 Handheld PC is as a little workhorse for updating WordPress.

I should be able to send updates using WordPress’s email gateway, via some iPhone tethering to my trusty Cisco Aironet 350 wifi card. The benefits of using the Jornada 720 is a nice hardware keyboard, large 640 x 240 touchscreen for editing and viewing most of the post. Of course, a ten year old piece of kit can’t do this out of the box. I needed to install QMail3 as the email client; the built in Pocket Outlook cannot be used for IMAP mail accounts, nor can it send emails directly (it needs to be conected back to a PC host). This setup should let me jot off the occasional quick post at lunchtime from my van based ‘office’.

Sent from my Jornada 720!