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title: "Blog related mobile software(asked for)+ Weirdest windows mobile feature ever"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/5/16/blog-related-mobile-softwareasked-for-weirdest-windows-mobil.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/5/16/blog-related-mobile-softwareasked-for-weirdest-windows-mobil.html"
published: "2006-05-16T22:43:00"
updated: "2006-05-16T22:43:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I've finally gotten my precious PDA-Phone and... What do you guys recommend in ways of a blog reading software and blog writing software? It needs to support Windows Mobile 5.0 and the blog posting app should support…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Blog related mobile software(asked for)+ Weirdest windows mobile feature ever

By Roy Osherove May 16, 2006

**Historical article** · Originally published May 16, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

I've finally gotten my precious PDA-Phone and...

What do you guys recommend in ways of a blog **reading** software and blog **writing** software?

It needs to support Windows Mobile 5.0 and the blog posting app should support the MetaweblogApi (.TEXT, Community Server etc..)

Overall Windows Mobile 5.0 looks really nice, but there are several quirks in it that I just don't get (which I hope to post about when I have more time).

The weirdest one? There's an "X" button to close open applications, right? It seems it does not really close them, but merely minimizes them. Slowly but surely, you begin to eat up memory on your pocket PC without even realizing it.

How silly! You actually need to download special software (some free, some not) that replaces that 'X' with one that actually works.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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