SoftMaker Office for Pocket PCs

SoftMaker Office is an absolute favorite of mine so I wanted to give you a quick reminder that SoftMaker’s Black Friday/Saturday/Sunday sale ends today. For the rest of this Sunday, you can still purchase all SoftMaker products with a 20% discount.

Find out more:  http://www.softmaker.com

Laptop Alarm

Concerned about losing your laptop on the road?  Here is a simple solution from from Syfer that just might be a solution for you.

Did you ever hesitate to leave your laptop for a few minutes in a public space like a library? Afraid that someone will take your laptop? Now there is a simple and free solution to this problem!

Laptop Alarm will ring a loud alarm if someone will try to steal your laptop! When the laptop is disconnected from AC-power (someone pulls the AC adapter plug out) or someone removes or moves the USB mouse the alarm will go off. Version 1.2 adds Mouse movement detection.

Laptop alarm is free to try. The shareware version has every functionality the full version has, and you can try it as long as you like. The full version will be available soon.

You can also download from ZDNet here.

Historia

 Advanced call history for Windows Mobile devices. 
Here is a program that will will give you several advantages over the built in call history of Windows Mobile.  Some of the features of this program are the ability to search for a number in your call log, view the details of each call without having to tap on each number and the ability to see when you talked to an unknown caller in the past.

You get:

• Detailed information on each call .
• sorting by any column.
• 15 lines of calls per page.
• Copying a number.

Take a moment and check out Historia here at Festinger Software

Data Restore for Dummies

There was a nice article I read today by  KathleenT who wrote a piece to help others recover data from their mobile phone’s memory card in the event you experienced a loss of data.  Kathleen lost all her vacation photos and was frustrated trying to find a solution.  After finally finding a solution and recovering ALL her lost files, she put together a little piece to share with everyone in the hopes that you will not experience the same frustration she experienced. 

Kathleen used Card Export and Memory Card Data Recovery and clearly is happy with the result. 

Take a moment and checkout Kathleen’s article here at Data Restore for Dummies.  It is nice that she felt strong enough to share her experience and how she solved it with others.  Nice job Kathleen!

Spb Keyboard 4.0

Spb Software, world’s leading Windows Mobile software developer releases Spb Keyboard 4.0 - an award-winning on-screen keyboard, which works great with the stylus, but is optimized for typing text with one’s bare hands. Created back in 2002, Spb Full Screen Keyboard pioneered in the finger-friendly approach to interfacing with a mobile device, and in its six years of market presence, proved to be a bestseller with the end-users, and a hit with the device manufacturers (recently seen as a customization enhancement in Toshiba Portege G810.

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SpoonAlarm - Use MP3s as Alarms

Need to spice up your alarm sounds?  Not happy with the inbuilt alarm sounds that come with your device?  Here is a very cool application that allows you to use MP3s as alarms.

Now you can turn your Windows Mobile device into a useful alarm clock with this simple and useful alarm application, combining a friendly interface with a loud mp3 based alarm capabilities.

With a couple of clicks—you can setup your next alarm, select your favorite mp3 song, configure your preferable snoozing option and all—using a friendly user interface designed to work with no stylus.

Designed to replace the default Windows Mobile ® alarms functionality, the SpoonAlarm is simple and intuitive to use, and includes a few ‘must have’ features like:

Finger Friendly user interface

Support for both mp3 and wave files (to wake up with)

Recurring Alarms

Configurable Snooze

2-3 Clicks to configure alarm

Countdown clock

Click here to download the SpoonAlarm.

Visit the SpoonTools.com website for some other great FREE tools to make your ability Experience Mobility better.

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Pick Up Some Bargain Booty with Astraware’s Talk Like a Pirate Day Sale!

 

Avast me hearties!!! Friday 19th September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and the Astraware Team is celebratin’ once again! ARRR!

To celebrate with us, get your hands on some fine booty - 6 of the best pirate/nautical/treasure games on very special offer for just 24 hours with more than 50% off each!

Save several dubloons off the price of Tradewinds, Tradewinds 2, Hidden Expedition Titanic, Seven Seas, Bubble Babble, and Golden Skull, but don’t delay - at the stroke of midnight the offer ends! Don’t be a scurvy landlubber, get yourself along to http://www.astraware.com/promo/tlapd08

A word from Captain Redbeard Tomlinson: “Yarrr, these games be great for when ye’ve been marooned and the rum’s run out!”

Don’t forget - Friday 19th September - Yo Ho Ho!

A Cool File Explorer Extension

This freeware by Hou Ming is a very cool (and very small) add on for File Explorer that adds a lot of missing features that will enhance your ability to work with files on your device. 

Here are some of the fantastic “must have” features it adds:

• Resizable header for easy sorting by file name, date of last modification or size
• Tree view of folders; you can now jump easily from a location to any other on your device in one step
• Icon view that enables the display of files as icons similar to your desktop computer
• Real time image preview; now you don’t have to open several files in order to send the one you desire
• Show extension option for those who ask themselves the same question I do: “What type of file is this?
• Open with Program allows you easily select an application to open the specific file you select (useful in case you don’t have the correct file associations or when you want Album app to open your images instead of Windows default picture viewer.
• File property context menu for easy renaming and attribute changing
• Open all executables with Parameters in case you need a special parameter when launching an application
• Sending shortcut to Programs for instant shortcut creation of executables placed directly in Programs folder in Start Menu.

 

You can get File Explorer Extension v.2.03 here at xda-developers

via WMExperts

PowerSMS - a cool beta application

This is a very cool beta application that I saw over at  Jason Langridge’s WebLog.  It has 6 useful text messaging utilities in 1 cool application. 

PowerSMS is a mobile application for people who love text messaging. It enables a number of interesting communication scenarios, which are either cumbersome or impossible without it.

PowerSMS does not replace your phone’s built-in text messaging features. Instead, it works with the same folders and messages you already have. It’s simple, performs tasks quickly, and gets out of the way. Use PowerSMS to improve communications with your family, friends and colleagues, and they’ll wonder how you do it!

Check out PowerSMS at - Trinket Software

Tweaks2K2 Labor Day Event!

This is too good not to pass on!  Tweaks2K2 is a MUST HAVE utility and there is a special TODAY that you might want to take advantage of!

Tweaks2K2, the Winner of SmartPhone & PocketPC Magazine 2005 Award, is the ultimate easy to use software for hacking your PDA Registry, the biggest collection of more than 125 registry hacks and 2 screens with important information about your pda. With tricks that nobody have seen before in any other tweaks application for PocketPC.

Windows Mobile 2003SE, VGA, Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 Compatible!

You can get your copy of Tweaks2K2 here!

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MobileMonger

How’s your memory?  Are you always concerned about what is available?  Do you wonder just how it is being used?  Here is a neat program that I found over at PocketNow via WMExperts  that will tell you everything you need to know on how your device’s memory is being used in a graphical format that is very clear. 

From the author:

I recently got a HTC Diamond device and have been very happy with it.  One of the first things I did was load it up with all sorts of applications.  Even though the device has a 4GB Internal Storage card, if you are not careful about where you install things you can run out of Main Memory very fast.

When running out of Main Memory I wondered what was using it.  If you hit the link provided in the Windows Mobile memory settings screen it takes you to an explorer window that shows you all files greater than 64kb.  In Windows CE 1.0 this was probably helpful, but they don’t seem to have updated it since.

The usual tool I use for this job on the PC is the last free version of Space Monger.  I tried to point SpaceMonger at my phone through ActiveSync WMDC but found since its not a real redirection SpaceMonger couldn’t do it.  So I wrote an equivalent for Windows Mobile - MobileMonger.

Download:

• Just the CAB - I know what what I’m doing.
• Windows Installer for ActiveSync/WMDC.

You may need .NET Compact Framework 3.5 if you don’t have it already.

MobileMonger

GTS World Racing for the iPhone

A demonstration of GTS World Racing for iPhone and iPod touch.

JGUI’s GPS.Friend

Here is a pretty cool program that allows you to your current geographic location and request a friend’s phone to give you his or her location.

In just a few seconds, or a minute, you can review your position on the map, with no worry about pre-installed maps, because it’s downloading from the Internet.
The second, and even maybe a more important possibility of this program is, in the same short time, you can “ask” someone’s phone (who has this program installed too), about his/her current location. In reply you review his/her position on the map, and the calculated distance and direction between yours.

This program is freeware as long as it’s enough for you, to get own location and receive someone’s external location, ONLY ONE TIME DAILY.

If you want to get several times, unlimited times daily, you may buy and unlock this program to the fully-operates version.

Check out the JGUI: GPS.Friend localizer here

TouchXperience - A Different Windows Mobile Experience

The current rage for mobile device development is a user interface that changes the standard look and feel that we have been used to.  Device manufacturers have implemented their own plugins that give a richer experience and now we are starting to see developers produce applications that offer unique ways of getting that new robust user experience.  TouchXperience is one such application that will offer a different user experience offering a variety of “finger friendly” features.

TouchMenu is probably the most powerful and customizable menu, replacing original Start Menu for an innovative touch interface. TouchMenu supports finger scrolling and gestures, for example you can switch from a menu to another by sliding your finger left/right, or display context menu by a long press on the screen. You can also scroll menus using G-sensor. Each menu has four different views (large list, small list, large grid, small grid). As the rest of the future user interface, TouchMenu has a nice Vista/WM7 look.

Hit the link and check out the 5 videos showing you a new touch experience on Windows Mobile.

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Snap2Face – Cool Facebook Application

There is a new version of Snap2Face, a very cool Facebook application that you should check out if you are into Facebook.  It has a nice user interface that keeps you easily in the know.

So what is it all about?  Snap2Face is a free Facebook client for Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PC and Smartphones). With Snap2Face you have easy access to Facebook while on-the-go.
Some of the neat features you will find are:

Sleek, graphic-rich user interface
Set your status while on-the-go
View friends’ status and detailed information
View friends’ friends and send friendship requests
View your pokes, wall, inbox, and friend requests, all in full text
Poke friends, send message to friends, and post on friends’ wall
Access you and your friends’ photo albums
Upload photos from built-in camera or file folder
Import friends’ profile photos to Outlook Contacts (photo Call ID)
and more…

The new version can be download from http://www.magnifoca.com/download_snap2face.html