Vito Technology releases EyePhoto.

VITO Technology releases new application EyePhoto designed specially forviewing photos on Pocket PC Windows Mobile. Slide your photos with finger and enjoy watching them. User-friendly interface oriented on gestures is one of the main features. The program shows only the folders that include jpeg pictures. It is likely to become a photo album that allows you to watch all your photos at once.
EyePhoto organises all your photos into photo albums. Having started the program you face all folders containing jpeg pictures in the main memory and on a storage card. Upon opening a folder you are presented withphoto tiles displayed in one finger-scrollable window. Everything is done for your convenience. The preview window with photo tiles can helpyou find the photo you need just in a moment.
Tapping a photo tile opens a full screen photo. Now you can slide the screen with your finer to flip through the photos just like with a real photo album. Zooming in and out can be done by double tapping the image.
Tapping the photo only once will bring forward upper menu which shows the number of photos, the back arrow to go back to the list with tiles and the button for changing the view mode: landscape or portrait. When in landscape mode photos can be moved aflat, when in portrait - upright. Download a trial version from http://iwindowsmobile.com.

Free: Octro Mobile Instant Messaging with voice integration

This is a nice software that supports GoogleTalk/Jabber, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo. Among other features is the ability to share files through Automatic file transfer, remotely access your PC etc. Learn more from www.octro.com

Astraware releases two games: Hexic and Mozaki

Astraware adds two more games to its already impressive library. Hexic and Mozaki are based on popular MSN games. Hexis is a fantastic twist on the match three genre by famed Tetris designer, Alexey Pajitnov. Hexic is deceptively simple to begin with - just rotate any trio of hexes in order to form a cluster of three or more same color pieces.
Mozaki is a classic brain-teasing strategy puzzler. Grab a piece from the stack and place it on the board, connect pieces of the same color to make an unbroken line from the colored edge to the centre of the screen, and connect the required number of lines and win the level. Read more and download a trial from http://www.astraware.com/.

Alerts on new emails in subfolders

This is a great find by Jason Langridge. Watchflag is an application that will alert you when new emails reach your subfolders. The default alert on our devices only warns us of new emails reaching the default inbox. This is not convenient if you rules set on the server to have emails from your boss sent to a subfolder called Boss. You'll end up missing important emails that could cost you your job.
Fortunately there is Watchflag. Read more on Jason's blog at

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2008/03/26/alerting-on-new-email-in-subfolders.aspx

Tips: How to compose new email from the Calendar

Last year I blogged about dialing a phone number right from the Notes section in the Calendar. Read the article in the link to learn more: http://pocketpcmauritius.blogspot.com/2007/11/tips-how-to-dial-phone-number-from.html. Today, a user asked me how to compose an email by tapping or clicking an email address from the same location. This requires that the email address be entered using the following format: Mailto:email@myemail.com. Tap the email address to start composing your new email.

Tips: remove your email address from a Reply All email

There is this annoying feature in Outlook Mobile e-mail whereby when you select Reply All, it also includes your email address. Therefore, you end up with a copy of the email in your Inbox. There is a way to remove this feature.
Open Activesync on your Pocket PC. Click Menu - Options. Select Email and click Settings. Tap the Advanced button and enter your email address in the My e-mail address box. Click OK.
The steps for Smartphones or non touchscreen devices are the same except after selecting Email and pressing the Settings softkey, you need to click Menu - Advanced. After entering the email address, press Done.

Free Developer Tools

If you are a student, take note. I just found a post on the Windows Mobile Team Blog announcing Microsoft's new DreamSpark initiative which provides full versions of developer tools completely free of charge to students. If you've ever wanted to try your hand at software development and you can prove your academic status, you can obtain suites such as Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Visual Studio 2005 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard RC2 SP2, SQL 2005 Developer, and more! Currently the program is only available to students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium.

To take advantage of this tremendous offer, go to https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

Automatically turn on the speakerphone

OldSap over at Xda forums has published a small application that allows you to automatically turn on the speakerphone when you receive or make a phone call. Speakerphone needs to be kept running in the background for this to work. According to OldSap, SpeakerPhone works with both Smartphones and Pocket PCs running WM5/WM6. Download from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369399.
Free registration is required to download.

Google launches Search plugin for Windows Mobile

Google launched a homescreen plugin for Windows Mobile that makes searching the web faster and easier. To download, point your mobile browser to mobile.google.com. The plugin will automatically add itself to your homescreen, ready to be used.

Tips: Samsung homescreen calendar displays wrong day

Some owners of Samsung's devices who use the Samsung's Calendar as home screen are reporting that it's displaying the wrong date. For example, instead of showing "2008-03-20 Thursday", it shows "2008-03-20 Wednesday".
This is a known issue and a patch is available from http://www.theunwired.net/?item=fix-samsung-blackjack-blackjack-ii-and-ace-leap-year-calendar-patch-available. Note that the bug only affects Samsung's homescreen Calendar.

DST patches download page for WM2003

For those of you out there having difficulties locating the DST download page for Windows Mobile 2003, I'm posting this link to the download page on Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/daylightdownload.mspx. This link seems to be hidden somehow.

There is a link on the Windows Mobile page, but it points to a page that contains the patches for WM5 and 6 only.

ZoomBoard version 2.0 released

VITO Technology releases new ZoomBoard version 2.0, an onscreen keyboard with zoomed preview for comfortable and accurate FINGER typing. Now ZoomBoard has 2 new zoom modes in addition to the previous lens appearing above the keyboard. The considerable number of layouts will really be a pleasant surprise for ZoomBoard users all over the world. New ZoomBoard also features a very convenient SmartZoom option and gestures support.
Download a trial from http://iwindowsmobile.com/onscreen-keyboard.html

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Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE licensed by Microsoft

This is terrific news for Windows Mobile devices owners. Finally we'll get Adobe's Flash player on our devices. "Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, Adobe's award-winning Flash player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, to enable web browsing of Flash Player compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser..." Read the full press release.

Spb Weather 1.7.4 released - Spb Mobile Shell 2.0 supported

Spb Software House released Spb Weather 1.7.4. This upgrade is free for all registered users of Spb Weather 1.X.

New features:

- Integration with Spb Mobile Shell 2.0

Please download Spb Weather 1.7.4 from:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/weather/download.html

Turn your PPC into an answering machine

This is a feature that is lacking in Windows Mobile. Fortunately iSecretary fills up the gap since this option is available by default on non Windows Mobile devices. iSecretary is a free utility that allows you to configure your Pocket PC to send sms or voice message to callers and record caller's message. This is a must have. Download it at www.isecretary.net/about.php

Sports Illustrated goes mobile

Jason Langridge, Microsoft Mr Mobile, posted about Sports Illustrated releasing the beta version of the mobile site for Windows Mobile devices. You will be able to keep up to date with your 4 favorite teams and more. Go to http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2008/03/11/sports-illustrated-on-your-windows-mobile-device.aspx

Free: Divx player for Windows Mobile

Divx Mobile Player runs on Windows Mobile 2003 and above and can be downloaded at http://mobile.divx.com/divx.

Tips: List contacts as FirstName, LastName

By default, Outlook Mobile displays the names of Contacts using the LastName first. The only wy to change that is through Outlook on the desktop and sync. However, data on your phone will retain their initial format. Only new contacts will inherit the new settings.
Fortunately, there is Contact Changer. It's a nice application that allows you to change the contact format with a single tap on the screen. Not only does it work, it's also free. After downloading the cab file and running setup on your device, a Contact fix icon will appear in the Programs folder. Click to open and select the format you want from the drop down list. Notice that you can include the company name as well. Download Contact Changer at www.shubaroo.com/contact_changer_v1.3.cab

Hot fix for abnormal Nike TouchFlo screen...

HTC released a hotfix recently for the Nike Touchflo scree display. If the screen displayis abnormal and the keyboard output characters are incorrect, download this fix to solve the problem. Signin to http://member.htc.com/member/login.aspx. Note: This fix was released on the February 27.

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Spb Software House releases Mobile Shell 2.0

Spb Software House, the world's leading Windows Mobile software vendor, upgrades its outstanding Spb Mobile Shell software to version 2.0. Spb Mobile Shell is an application that completely overhauls the innate Windows Mobile user interface, making it more direct, logical, and slick.

The software first hit the market in 2007 and quickly gained recognition among end-users and mobile device manufacturers. By the end of 2007, Spb Mobile Shell became the best-selling Pocket PC application in the world, was named the best interface/menu improver by Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, the Best Evolution Application by Handango, and the Best Program for PDA's by the Shareware Industry Awards. Spb Mobile Shell turns the Windows Mobile device into a better phone: gives access to crucial information at a glance, enables one-hand navigation, minimizes the number of taps to launching programs, changing settings, making calls. The new Spb Mobile Shell offers a great choice of haptic animation, it is more futuristic and practical in design, yet it is lower in memory consumption.

"The application is deeply integrated and fits well with the operating system," - comments Yaroslav Goncharov, the Product Manager of Spb Mobile Shell. "The software has become the accepted Windows Mobile interface for many: people buy devices with Spb Mobile Shell preinstalled and use it, believing the software to be an inherent part of the Microsoft platform." Read more at http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/

FindMe, new Facebook application

FindMe allows you to easily locate your friends and vice versa without the need for GPS hardware. The beta version is available at www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6643114437.


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