PocketPC Freeware and News

romabravoBible v0.1 BETA

2010-04-08T01:01:00.000-07:00

I was searching for a finger friendly bible app but couldn't find one so I created this app. ... more

MMTaskManager v1.5.100407

2010-04-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

(M)aximus (M)obile TaskManager is a small and simple task manager that allows you to easily and quickly switch between current running applications. It also allows you to close any selected application or all applications right on your finger tips.
In additional to closing applications, MMTaskManager reports how much memory each of the application uses to see which application takes up the most space in memory. The app also display the total amount of memory your device has as well as available memory. ... more

WattCost v1.0

2010-04-08T00:10:00.000-07:00

WattCost is a FREE utility that calculates the energy cost of an appliance based on its power consumption and average use. It can be used alone or as a companion for energy monitors like the Kill A Watt.
There are two usage modes available:
Watt: Use this mode if you know the energy consumption of an appliance, either from technical specifications or by measuring it.

Watts: Enter the energy comsumption for the appliance, in watts. This information can be obtained from specification papers or by using an energy meter.
Hours per day: Enter the average daily usage in hours.
Cost per kWh: Enter the price for the kWh charged by your local provider. Usually you can find this information in your service invoice.

kWh: Use this mode if you know the total consumption in a given period. You can use this method as a complement to the information provided by an energy meter, in order to obtain the electricity costs.

kWh: Enter the total power consumption for the appliance in a given period, in Kilowatt/hours.
Total Hours: Enter the total period measured, in hours.
Cost per kWh: Enter the price for the kWh charged by your local provider. Usually you can find this information in your service statement. ... more

Boxee Remote v0.92

2010-04-08T00:04:00.000-07:00

Boxee is a cross-platform freeware Home theater PC (HTPC) program with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV.
This is a simple remote for Windows Mobile devices that allows you to operate basic program functions using a wireless connection (WiFi or cellular).
Features:

Navigation mode: up, down, left, right, select, back, home and exit
Play mode: play, pause, stop, rewind, forward, previous, next, volume up, volume down, mute
Input mode: allows text input into Boxee (hardware keyboards supported)
Other functions: toggle fullscreen, suspend
Media information: title, artist, season/episode, duration, summary, thumbnail etc.
Hardware keys supported (up, down, left, right, select, vol up, vol down)
Automatic pause on phone call or SMS
Automatic discovery of the machine running Boxee (manual configuration is also possible) ... more

GPS2day v1.0.9

2010-04-08T00:02:00.000-07:00

GPS2day is the GPS related Windows Mobile application, which was implemented as Today Screen plugin for mobile devices. Currently GPS2day program works as GPS informer. It shows a various types of information for users, such as:

Current geographical coordinates (latitude, longitude)
Course and speed
Some information about satellites and fix type
Exact current date and time from the satellite atomic clock
Battery life state which is important when you using GPS device ... more

F1 Pocket 2010 v2.3

2010-04-08T00:01:00.000-07:00

Technical features:

MultilanguageDrivers, Circuits and Teams information.
Internet updateable.
When you make an update, it warn you if there is a new version.
vga (480x640) , qvga (240x320) ,wvga (480x800) and wqvga (240x400) versions.
Improved graphical interface.
Poles, first, second and third places information.
Also dropouts information.
Time remaining until next race. ... more

Developer Files - Meet Ricardo Fraile Martínez

2010-03-22T10:49:00.000-07:00

Name/Nickname: Ricardo Fraile Martínez

Age: 28

Country: Spain

Site: http://ricardofraile.webcindario.com/

List of applications: F1 Pocket 2010, Liga BBVa, Liga Adelante, Guia Televisiva, Liga Argentina, NMEA log, ...

How many years have you been developing applications?

10 years, mobile applications only 4.

Which project are you most proud of?

Mobile app: last one! F1 pocket 2010.

Are you working on any project at the moment?

MotoGp 2010 and a android version of F1 pocket 2010.

Which Windows Mobile application do you use most often?

Spb mobile shell, sbp time and Liga BBVA (Developed by me only in spanish).

Do you have a favourite model of Windows Mobile device?

I think that HTC HD2 it's great, but know I have put up with my diamond.

What is your favourite web site?

forum.xda-developers.com and elotrolado.net

Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android or iPhone?

At the moment, Windows mobile.

Tell me in few words how your day usually passes.

Go to work, go to gym, make university project-homework, have a dinner with my girlfriend watching tv series, work on my own app before sleep.

What are your positive and negative qualities?

positive: committed person;

negative: I don't know how to differentiate my work and my privacy life.

What will you say to our future readers?

Collaborate with new ideas for new projects.

ThrottleLauncher v1.0.1

2010-03-22T08:16:00.000-07:00

ThrottleLauncher is a launcher application designed for Windows Mobile 6. Basically it consist's of several pages containing rows. Each of the rows depending of it contents can be scrolled horizontally by using the finger. The app is fully configurable through xml files so the rest of the features depends on the diferent setups.
The rows can contain several type of items:

icons: can execute any program or link.
clock: analog clock.
text: can be updated periodically and can contain dinamic dates or registry values.
photo dialer: you can place contacts with asociated photos on a row.
running and recent apps: all running and recent apps can be shown inside a row. ... more

S2U2 v2.33

2010-03-22T08:06:00.000-07:00

S2U2 (Slide2Unlock2) is a simple lock/unlock application which has the iPhone style slide unlocking. It can be used as a screensaver while you don't use your device. And it's has a CallerID function (some devices may not work, so please try it first); and S2P control plugin. ... more

Multi-Platform Development May Become Real with WP7S

2010-03-09T12:36:00.001-08:00

In a CES keynote or two of year's past, Bill Gates talked about a future where we'd be able to share certain computer experiences across multiple devices. Most commonly that means the PC, phone, and TV. The idea of being able to start a task on your PC and finish it on your phone or on the TV in the living room is a truly compelling idea.
With Windows Phone 7 series and the recent demonstration of a true multi-platform game that you can start on your computer and continue on your phone or Xbox (thanks to common XNA development), we may start to see some killer ways to leverage this concept. The most common example is in gaming, but there are many other scenarios where a multi-platform approach would lead to some cool possibilities. Add the Courier to the mix (due to be released later this year), and the potential expands. Imagine taking notes on your Courier in a meeting. The notes are sync'ed to the cloud, and on your way to lunch, you pull out your phone and review the notes you took earlier. Then, you get back to your laptop, pull up the same notes, and use several quotations in a PowerPoint presentation you're working on.
Another example of how multi-platform development could enrich our lives is through entertainment. Start a TV show on your desktop, continue where you left off on your phone as you commute to work, then finish the show on your Xbox in your living room when you get home in the evening.
Also consider looking for a new restaurant to try. You use an application on your PC to narrow the choices. Then, you get in the car, and your phone knows which restaurant you've chosen, and it launches the navigation software to help you get to your destination.
You can already do a lot of these things through different applications and protocols. But the idea behind multi-platform development is that the apps are programed in common languages, which allows for consistent interfaces and experiences, whether you're looking at a 3.8" screen or a 42" screen.
What killer multi-platform apps or tasks would you like to be seen made possible?

via pocketnow

ArkSwitch v1.1.2

2010-03-09T12:23:00.000-08:00

ArkSwitch is an easy to use, finger-friendly task manager for Windows Mobile 6.5.3 (with a WM6.5 compatibility mode). It is developed mainly in C#, with a C++ helper DLL.
"There are many task managers floating around out there, with lots of neat features and great UIs. I've been looking for a good replacement for the HTC Task Manager home screen button that no longer works properly in Windows Mobile 6.5.3, and I've been unable to find one I really like. So I made my own!" ... more

Samsung explain SUPER AMOLED

2010-03-09T12:22:00.000-08:00

Send Contact v1.0.2

2010-03-09T12:17:00.000-08:00

Send Contact for Pocket PC Phone is a smart application for quick contact sharing. It is the best way to comply with immediate requests to transmit contact information about particular persons without running special programs or typing the text yourself. Just press the button, and the recipient will instantly get the required information in the SMS format. The program does not have to be installed on the recipient's device, which comes in handy. ... more

cleanRAM v1.9.9

2010-03-08T12:41:00.000-08:00

Description:

cleanRAM is a very useful tool for Windows Mobile 6+ devices (specially for HTC TouchFLO interfaces).
cleanRAM is a memory reclaimer similar to Oxios but with advanced settings and actually works!
this applications is specially for diamond/pro devices. Great solution for the Windows Mobile memory leak problem.
cleanRAM attempts to release as much memory as possible without damaging the internal state of the Windows Mobile device.
it'll refresh your device RAM.
cleanRAM can save you a lot of SOFT RESET! ... more

SMS Manager v1.0

2010-03-08T12:30:00.000-08:00

A smart, rule based filter software for SMS filtering. It gives you the ability to block unwanted SMS. It can also add prefixes automatically forwording sms depending on your settings. In addition, you can take control of incoming SMS and more!

Features

SMS messages filtering
Supports regular expressions (Start with, End with, Equal, Not equal, Contains)
Forwording SMS to another mobile
Automatically replay SMS to another mobile when missed call, sms received or email received.
Filters by numbers.
Filters by SMS/Email contents.
Filters by SMS sender's name. ... more

Dictaphone v2.0

2010-03-08T12:25:00.000-08:00

Here comes a little utility program for recording audio, phone calls in mp3 format, and any other audio on HTC phones, (all windows mobile 6.1 or 6.5), Touch screen feature makes more easier to recording. ... more

Eric Rudder Playing Indiana Jones On Stage

2010-03-08T12:21:00.000-08:00

"Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered! Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."

Current Windows Mobile apps won't work on Windows Phone 7

2010-03-08T12:15:00.001-08:00

Confirming many a suspicion, a top exec for Microsoft's mobile division admitted Thursday that thousands of existing Windows Mobile apps won't be compatible with the upcoming—and radically overhauled—Windows Phone 7 OS.Microsoft exec Charlie Kindel told reporters during an event Thursday that Windows Phone 7 "marks a pretty distinct break with past versions of Windows Mobile," according to CNET—not a shocking revelation, given that the new Zune-like touchscreen OS looks nothing like the labyrinthine Windows Mobile UI of old.
In an accompanying blog post, Kindel wrote that "the cost of going from good to great is a clean break from the past," meaning that "previous Windows Mobile applications will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series."
That's not to say that existing Windows Mobile apps—and there are many thousands of them—couldn't be modified to work on WP7, Kindel said (as quoted in the CNET story), but it sounds like the process wouldn't be an easy one. "In some cases, some work can be done to get those apps to run, but it's fundamentally a different platform," he said.
Kindel also confirmed another recent rumor: That Windows Mobile 6.5, obsolete though it is, isn't going anywhere.
"We will continue to work with our partners to deliver new devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will support those products for many years to come," Kindel wrote on his blog. (Now, why anyone would want to buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone now that Windows Phone 7 is on the way is an open question.)
Meanwhile, we've still getting mixed messages from Microsoft about which existing Windows Mobile 6 handsets will be upgradable to Windows Phone 7 ... if, indeed, they'll be upgradeable at all.
Just a few days ago, a Microsoft spokesperson essentially punted on the question, telling me that "we cannot confirm that WM6.X phones that satisfy [Windows Phone 7 hardware] requirements will be upgradable." But during Thursday's Microsoft mobile event, "the company also confirmed that it has no current plans to allow any current Windows Mobile phones to run the new OS," CNET reports.
Microsoft has promised to answer more of our Windows Phone 7 compatibility questions at its MIX developer conference in Vegas later this month. In the meantime, though, Engadget is plaintively asking Redmond to "please put a line in the sand and tell us" if the red-hot HTC HD2—an upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 handset for T-Mobile with "the best hardware we've ever seen"—"will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 Series."
So, what do you think: Shocked (or not) that Windows Mobile 6.x apps won''t work on Windows Phone 7? Annoyed that your old WM6.x apps are obsolete, or are you fine with making a "clean break"?

via Yahoo! Tech

Tele2 and Opera drive mobile Web growth across Europe

2010-03-08T12:07:00.000-08:00

Opera and Tele2 today signed a frame agreement for Opera Mini. The frame agreement enables Tele2 operations in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Croatia and the Netherlands to offer one-click access to the full Web to their subscribers.
Surfing with Opera Mini, rather than a natively installed browser, allows users to enjoy a faster and easier surfing experience with all their favorite features from Opera’s desktop browser, including tabs, bookmarks, password manager and Speed Dial. Opera Mini’s server-side compression technology helps reduce monthly data charges by sending less information to the phone, which makes page loading quicker and lowers costs.
“We are proud that Tele2 has selected Opera Mini. The Web browser delivers a smart surfing solution that helps to drive the mobile Internet on handsets, simply because it is so easy and inexpensive,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.

BusGuide v4.0

2010-03-08T12:00:00.000-08:00

BusGuide is a Windows Mobile application to get the bus arrival timing of SBS busses at different bus stops in Singapore.
Search for Bus Stops along any road and bookmark a particular one for quick retrieval of the timing of your next bus.
Use the nearby function to get the list of bus stops near your current location. Works even for phones w/o a GPS. ... more

Pocket Forecast v1.2.6

2010-03-08T11:58:00.000-08:00

Pocket Forecast is a weather application that supports mutliple locations, multiple languages, QVGA AND VGA display, cached AND user defined updates, customized theme, AND is open source written in Basic4PPC. ... more

Convhex v1.01.0386

2010-03-08T11:53:00.000-08:00

A very easy, intuitive, and graphical base converter. Features Copy & Paste functionality, as well as an "Exit" button to conveniently close the application. Performs the conversions in real-time as you enter the values, and uses large buttons, so you're not limited to the stylus. ... more

XChange R8 v2.0

2010-03-07T06:26:00.000-08:00

Xchange R8 is a simple currency convertor. You can choose 3 currencies to be displayed and for the time being you have two WebServices available: Bank of Romania (for my Romanian friends) and Bank of England (for my other friends). Bank of England currency are accessed via the Export Technologies WebService.
You need of course an Internet connection. ... more

CapSure v1.11g

2010-03-07T06:24:00.000-08:00

I've tried to address everyone's wish list for a screen capture app. I hope you enjoy.

Features:
Supports screen captures in BMP*, GIF*, JPG formats (*not on all devices)
4 capture options

Screen - Capture active app
From task list - Capture a specific app from task list
Timed - capture screen after time interval
Repeat - Repeat any of the above captures with user-selected interval and user-selected max captures ... more

Gippos v1.9.0

2010-03-07T06:22:00.000-08:00

Do you like to meet new people on the streets? Chat with them for free? Know where your friends are? Meet and communicate without trouble! ... more