So I recently switched my email from Google Apps for Your Domain to Windows Live Hotmail. The main reason I did it is because getting mail from Gmail on my Windows Mobile phone was painful. I was trying to use POP3 and it worked for a while, then eventually it stopped. It just wouldn't download the messages. Then when Gmail started offering IMAP access, I tried that too. It downloaded the messages, but most of the time they showed up blank. So, when I saw that Windows Live Hotmail supported Windows Mobile 6 directly, I decided to try it out. It works very well. I receive messages in almost real time.

I installed the Windows Live Mail desktop application. I figured it should work really well with Windows Live Hotmail. It did at first. I was able to move messages to different folders and it mirrored those changes in the web version of my folders. Then that stopped working. I move messages from the inbox to an "archive" folder and they move in the desktop app, but not in the web folders.

Soon after I started having problems moving messages, I stopped receiving mail completely in the desktop app. I now get this error message:

Server Error: 5102
Server Response: timedout to ip 10.1.130.45:2000
Server: 'http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v2.0.0/Sync.aspx'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8DE00002

I'm not really sure what to do about this. I was really looking forward to all the integration I was going to get by moving my email and contacts to Windows Live.

Lenovo's latest video driver for the X61T is dated sometime in June. I've been having a lot of problems with my video driver "stopping" and "recovering". It gets pretty annoying. The driver installer on Intel's site won't install on the X61T. It says to get the driver from the OEM.

I took a look on Intel's site again recently to see if there was another way to get the drivers and I noticed a zip file you can download.

Once I got the drivers extracted I went into Device Manager and updated the drivers manually. I haven't had a video driver stop message for about a week now, so it looks like these drivers fixed my problem. By the way, this is Vista X64.

I think I found a decent bag to carry my X61T Tablet. I had a real hard time finding something that was small and non-bulky, yet had some extra room to carry a little more than just the tablet itself. This bag is made from neoprene and is very light. It is slightly larger than the X61T, but I think I'll be happy with it. It has a small pocket on the front that could hold maybe an extra battery or a power supply. It also has a strap on the back that you can slide over the pull handle on a rolling suitcase.

Surprisingly, EPSON released a Vista driver a while back for my scanner, which is a couple of years old. The download page says it is a 32 bit driver, but it seems to work just fine with Vista x64. This is really good news because I was contemplating moving back to 32 bit. Now I think I will tough it out. I am hoping Lenovo will release a new video driver soon. I am getting a little tired of the video driver "stopping and recovering" itself every 15 to 30 minutes. It seems to happen more often when I have my external display attached.