Hands up if you’ve got a Windows Mobile phone that you never bothered to sync with your PC.

Well, there’s an easier way now. I’m talking about Microsoft’s My Phone offering that was just unveiled weeks ago at the Mobile World Congress show.

The simple yet nifty software service lets you back up your Windows Mobile 6.x phone’s calendar, contacts, photos and SMS messages (yes, SMS messages, finally!) to an online depository for free.

Microsoft invited Techgoondu to be among the first 200 users in the world to test it out, and I have to say “it’s about time”!

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Getting one of the new Media PCs to consolidate all your media needs sound like a great idea. But if you have a MacBook Pro (MBP) – even an early rev A version like mine, all you need is Plex and you already have a Media PC ready to go.

First, props to Techgoondu friend Chris who gave me a heads up to Plex. Plex is a media center software based on XBMC Media Center. I have yet to try XBMC but it apparently is Mac, Linux, Windows and XBox compatible, unlike Plex which will only work with Intel Macs running Leopard – but there should be quite a few of you Techgoondu readers out there who are running that, at least according to our logs.

So after the usual download and install routine, I hooked everything up and voila, there was I, using my Apple Remote to navigate through my media files and playing them back on the LCD TV.

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