It is still in Beta but Ikanos Consulting is working on a very useful piece of software that literally turns your Shadow (smartphone, pocket pc phone, windows mobile phone) into a SideShow device for Windows Vista. SideShow has been one of the most ignored features of Vista mostly due to the fact that there aren’t many devices that can act as a SideShow device. Why Microsoft hasn’t written the software enabling a Windows Mobile device to act as a SideShow device is beyond me. However it isn’t beyond Ikanos to write the software.
While there aren’t many SideShow gadgets at the time of this writing, I can see many more useful gadgets being written once this software goes on sale. I was lucky enough to get a preview of Go Gadgets by Ikanos Consulting and I was just simply impressed at how easy it was to use. Using my phone I can control many things on my Vista computer including Windows Media Player, Email and the Calendar.
 
My copy is for testing purposes only so don’t ask for mine 
 
  
  
Not exactly eye candy but useful candy at this point. Very neat to be able to read email from the desktop pc.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
welcome back
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:02 am
Thanks Bao! Been real busy going through all the comments and catching back up on stuff.