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Spb Releases Time app for Android!

By Nate Adcock, May 27, 2011
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The timeless time app from SPB software now available for Android, with skin features (and free skins), World time, multiple alarm settings, and much more...Read on for full release info and links.


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Spb Releases Time app for Symbian!

By Nate Adcock, March 12, 2011
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Pretting good timing this, since you may have forgotten it's time to spring forward--which translates to being more tired than usual for the next few days.


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Wizcode runs weekend PayPal blowout sale!!

By Nate Adcock, April 10, 2010
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Wizcode, makers of the ultimate in storage card tools, and other usefully cool WinMo utilities like Pocket Mechanic, are offering a 40% discount on all software for this weekend. The offer is only available for Payal users...check it out at the link above...


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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.

Powering down phone-enabled devices to conserve power

Submitted Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Most phone-enabled devices can be powered down (completely turned off) to conserve battery power. This is accomplished by pressing and holding the power on/off button (or the red End Call button if your device has no power button). Note that powering down a device is different from leaving the device in suspend mode (which means that the screen is off but the device is still using power and its phone and other core operations are still running). Pressing the power button once on a touch screen device will put it into suspend mode (pressing it once again will turn it back on).

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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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Set X button to close down programs completely

Submitted Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The X button in the upper right corner of a touch screen display does not really shut down the current program. For example, if you are working on a Word Mobile document and open Calendar to check an appointment, when you tap on Calendar’s X button Word Mobile pops back up and you no longer see Calendar. But Calendar is still running in the background, using some of your system RAM to do it.
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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.

Synching Contacts between a Pocket PC and a smartphone

Submitted Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Read Werner Ruotsalainen’s recommendation on how to directly sync Contacts between a Pocket PC and a Smartphone using the third-party program Indovisi SMS here.

Boot into Safe Mode

Submitted Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen explains how to use third-party software to re-boot your Pocket PC into Safe Mode if you are having trouble re-booting correctly, particularly after installing a third-party program. Click here for the article.

Roundup of registry editors

Submitted Tuesday, August 28, 2007

If you are interested in making changes to your registry, make sure and read Werner Ruotsalainen’s “Ultimate Roundup of Registry Editors for the Pocket PC.”

Install .CAB files from your desktop

Submitted Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Read Ben Stanley's description of how to use a third-party program called CABviaActiveSync to install CAB files to your device using ActiveSync on your desktop computer here. 

Displaying a Pocket PC on a projector

Submitted Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen discusses the different methods of displaying the screen of a Pocket PC through a projector, including the use of an external CF/SD VGA output card. Click here for the article.

How and why you can kill the ActiveSync process

Submitted Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen discusses why you may want to kill the ActiveSync process and the third-party programs that can be used to do so, incuding KillSync and Resync. Click here for the article.

Stop the Internet disconnect when it’s not actively in use

Submitted Thursday, August 16, 2007

Read Werner Ruotsalainen’s recommendation on how to disallow the automatic Internet disconnect using the third-party program vxUtil. Click here for the article.

Changing the text font color on the Today screen

Submitted Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen discusses the third-party programs (including Tweaks2K2 and CETuner) that can change the Today screen’s text font color. Click here for the full article.

How to set an arbitrary suspend timeout in Windows Mobile

Submitted Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Werner Ruotsalainen explains how to set an arbitrary suspend timeout in Windows Mobile by using a third-party registry editor to make registry changes.

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How to change your Messaging account names

Submitted Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The built-in Messaging application doesn’t allow you to change an account name after it has been created. Read Werner Ruotsalainen’s explanation of how to get around this using the third-party program Pocket dbExplorer.

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How to extract Contacts from backup files

Submitted Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Werner Ruotsalainen explains how to use his own third-party program to extract Contacts from ActiveSync and backup files.

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