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The focus of the Mastering section is finding and using third-party software and peripherals that will help you get the most out of your Windows Mobile device. It also includes advanced topics such as editing the registry.

Using your handset as a modem

Submitted Friday, August 1, 2008

Werner Ruotsalainen describes in detail how you can use your smartphone as a modem for a computer. Click here for the article.

Turn off the screen during calls

Submitted Friday, August 1, 2008

A tip from WMExperts.com describes how to use a freeware program to turn off the LCD screen on your smartphone during calls to save battery power. Click here for the article.

Download free GPS tracking software

Submitted Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Mologogo is offering free GPS tracking software for Windows Mobile 6 GPS-enabled touch screen smartphones. Mologogo can be used to keep track of friends or kids, share your location on the Web, find your phone if it gets lost, and more. Mologogo can be downloaded at wm.mologogo.com.

Download free “Cool Stuff” from Microsoft

Submitted Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Microsoft has created a new site that offers free Windows Mobile downloads (windowsmobile.com/coolstuff). The site includes Ringtones, Wallpapers, Themes, Games, and Maps, Directions, Traffic.

The Today screen “New” menu

Submitted Thursday, March 6, 2008
On pre-WM 5 touch screen devices, there was a convenient built-in feature on the Today screen: a New menu in the lower left corner that allowed you to quickly open a new Word document, Contact, Appointment, or other item without having to navigate to it through the Start menu.
This feature was left off of Windows Mobile starting with version 5, but a third-party freeware program called WM5NewMenu (saman-cz.com/ppc/index.html) is available that adds this feature back to Windows Mobile
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GPS vs. aGPS: A Quick Tutorial

Submitted Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A number of new devices are coming out that feature aGPS (assisted GPS). Malatesta at WMExperts.com provides an excellent tutorial on the differences between aGPS and standard GPS. Click here for the article.

Download GPS config for BlackJack II, Q 9h, Q 9c, and others

Submitted Thursday, February 7, 2008
There is a "must-have" GPS utility that can assign it to COM4 for some non-touch screen smartphones. Click here to read about it and download it.
For a hack to improve GPS signal acquisition on the Sprint Q 9c, click here.

Listen to Sirius or XM satellite radio on your device

Submitted Tuesday, January 29, 2008
With a subscription to Sirius or XM satellite radio, the proper software, and a live Internet connection, you can listen to commercial-free music and other satellite radio programming on your touch screen device. Here’s how you do it.
Sirius subscribers
  1. Download Sirius WM5 at geekstoolbox.com and install it on your device.
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Add iPhone-like Contact scrolling to your device for free

Submitted Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A freeware program for touch screen devices called iContact provides iPhone-like scrolling for your Contacts. The program displays all your contacts vertically in a full screen format (except for the top task bar), and the list can be easily scrolled up or down using your finger or a stylus. A light touch on a contact name will open the normal Contact page, and if you tap OK, you will be taken back to the iContact list of contacts.
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11 great free applications for touch screen devices

Submitted Friday, December 21, 2007

Here is a list of 11 great free applications for touch screen devices, including an excellent tetris game called Kevtris.

Personalizing Windows Mobile Device Center

Submitted Wednesday, December 19, 2007

mrailing on PDAPhoneHome.com has written a series of posts about how to have an image of your device appear in the Windows Mobile Device Center menu instead of the default generic image. The posts also provide a variety of different images of Windows Mobile devices. Click here to view the posts.

Delete shortcuts to built-in programs

Submitted Thursday, November 29, 2007
There are many programs built into Windows Mobile devices, and you may never use some of them (e.g., Terminal Services and Bubble Breaker). Unfortunately, you cannot delete these programs because they are permanently installed on the device. You can delete a program from the Start menu by going to Start >Settings >Menu and un-checking it in list.
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Partition an SD card

Submitted Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Some programs may have trouble accessing small files in a large storage card. It can help to partition the card into smaller chunks. "TheBlasphemer" at xda-developers.com has written a how-to on partitioning an SD card. Click here for the article.

Bluetooth A2DP support via freeware

Submitted Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Some Windows Mobile devices do not support Bluetooth's Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP), which decodes incoming Bluetooth audio and sends it wirelessly to a Bluetooth headset, allowing a user to enjoy music wirelessly through headphones on the device.

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Transferring PIM information (Contacts, etc.) and messages to other Windows Mobile devices without Outlook/Exchange

Submitted Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen explains how to transfer PIM files like Contacts and Calendar appointments from one Windows Mobile device to another (without using Outlook and ActiveSync) by using third-party programs such as SK Tools and PIM Backup. Click here for the article.

Stop the soft input panel from automatically popping up

Submitted Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen reviews three different "null-SIPs," third-party programs that automatically hide the built-in software input panel when they are activated. Click here for the article.

Optimizing your Yahoo mail account

Submitted Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Read Werner Ruotsalainen discuss how to optimize a Yahoo mail account for Pocket PCs with the use of POP3, HTTP, or WAP accounts here.

Viewing WordPerfect files on a Pocket PC

Submitted Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen discusses how WordPerfect files can be viewed on Pocket PCs by converting them to RTF files, since no third-party program exists to do it. Click here for the article.

Avoiding problems with the Windows Mobile shutdown model

Submitted Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen discusses ways you can improve the management of opening and closing processes. Click here for the article.

Wi-Fi synching in ActiveSync

Submitted Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen discusses the inability of using Wi-Fi to sync using ActiveSync and other options that are available, including Bluetooth. Click here for the article.

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