Saturday, June 11, 2005
At Long Last - Use Your PPC As USB Mass Storage
Posted by Jon Westfall in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:05 AM
* Switch USB mode from Active Sync to Card Export
* Insert your Pocket PC into cradle or connect to USB cable
* And after few seconds desktop drivers automatically mount cards as a logical disk!
Many Readers have been emailing us about Softkick's new Preview Version of CardExport II for PPC. While Palm users have enjoyed the ability to plug their devices in and have them recognized as Mass Storage devices (Effectively turning their PDA into an SD Card Reader), this is something we've longed for in the PPC world. The Preview release looks pretty interesting, however it is limited in capability to PPC's running the Intel PXA25x and PXA27x processor. If you've got a device that it will run on (Such as my Dell Axim x50v), take it for a spin and let us know how it works (Works wonderfully on my Dell, no problems in initial testing... now in the "reaching for wallet" stage :D). If your device isn't running one of those processors, you may want to drop a feature request to Softkick to support your processor.
It's fairly attractively priced at $14.95, so with just a little bit more compatibility, we may all be soon enjoying this feature to access our files on non-activesync computers!
* Insert your Pocket PC into cradle or connect to USB cable
* And after few seconds desktop drivers automatically mount cards as a logical disk!
Many Readers have been emailing us about Softkick's new Preview Version of CardExport II for PPC. While Palm users have enjoyed the ability to plug their devices in and have them recognized as Mass Storage devices (Effectively turning their PDA into an SD Card Reader), this is something we've longed for in the PPC world. The Preview release looks pretty interesting, however it is limited in capability to PPC's running the Intel PXA25x and PXA27x processor. If you've got a device that it will run on (Such as my Dell Axim x50v), take it for a spin and let us know how it works (Works wonderfully on my Dell, no problems in initial testing... now in the "reaching for wallet" stage :D). If your device isn't running one of those processors, you may want to drop a feature request to Softkick to support your processor.
It's fairly attractively priced at $14.95, so with just a little bit more compatibility, we may all be soon enjoying this feature to access our files on non-activesync computers!
