Articles Archive for May 2008

mDesktop - Controlling Your Smartphone Fron Your PC
Posted in Windows Mobile on 30 May 2008

mDesktop is a Pc-based application that allows you to control your Windows Mobile From Your Computer.
All you have to do is connect your Windows Mobile Smartphone to your PC and start the application which by the way can be downloaded here (direct link) but you can check out their site here
Features:

make outgoing calls from the [...]

3 Themes To Make Your Blackberry Look Even Better
Posted in Blackberry, Freeware on 29 May 2008

I like how the blackberry devices look but the themes aren’t the best I’ve seen that’s why I looked for some better ones. Here’s what I found:
A site called elecite has 3 very interesting themes. It’s a page of the eveek.com but if you try to reach this page from there, you will have to [...]

7 Next Generation Apps To Upgrade Your Windows Mobile
Posted in Review, Windows Mobile on 28 May 2008

iwindowsmobile.com has a nice collection of applications for your Windows Mobile phone. Basically everything you need to make your phone a bit more ‘next generation’.
Here are the products:
1. FunContact
You can scroll a contact list just with a flick of a finger. The animated windows switching and sparkling interface with bulging tap-ready buttons make contact managing [...]

xPlayer - Free Media Player For Blackberry
Posted in Blackberry on 27 May 2008

It’s a free application with the characteristics of a premium player. There’s not much to say, it is like all the music players but better then the one provided by Blackberry.
xPlayer supports all types of multimedia: mp3, m4a, avi, mp4, 3gp, wma, amr, mid, and wav.
The interface is smooth and simple, as it should be.
Read [...]

Take Your Dictionary With You
Posted in Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile on 26 May 2008

We forgot how to use a dictionary when the e-dictionaries appeared for PC but now we can take the dictionary with us. Without a laptop.
There are some well known applications so here’s a list you can choose from:
SlovoEd
Read, learn, work and travel with an authoritative Windows Mobile Pocket PC dictionary in your pocket from the [...]

Opening Packed Files With Your Windows Mobile Smart-phone
Posted in Freeware, Windows Mobile on 23 May 2008

There are a few packing formats but the two best known are the .rar and the .zip

The best thing is that there’s an application developed by the same people who developed WinRAR for Windows. And we have to admit that it’s the best you can get. The application for mobile phones is called PocketRAR and [...]

Secure Email Software To Make The Difference For The iPhone
Posted in Review on 22 May 2008

In one of my previous posts I was talking about how the Blackberry beats the iPhone when it comes to business applications. Well, things might change in the future because Sybase announced a new application that ‘lets businesses securely distribute email to the iPhone’
The business software maker already sells software that companies can use to [...]

5 Registry Cleaner Applications For Your Windows Mobile Enabled Device
Posted in Windows Mobile on 21 May 2008

Registry cleaners used to be applications for your PC only but now some of the smart-phones need this kind of apps too. Especially when we’re talking about Windows Mobile enabled devices.
Here are some of the choices you have:

Registry Cleaner 1.0

The new MindSoft Registry Cleaner for Windows Mobile is a powerful tool for your device. Scan [...]

Smartphone And Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2008
Posted in Review on 20 May 2008

Smartphone And Pocket PC Magazine has announced the best smartphone software winners. Click the links if you want to see the best applications in each category. For a more detailed categorization (including subcategories) check the home page
Here are the categories:

Communication
Emulators
Games
GPS
Information Managers
Internet
Multimedia
Text and Reference
Travel
Utilities

Read more here
Past years’ winners

Documents To Go - Use Your Blackberry To Read Office Documents
Posted in Blackberry on 19 May 2008

There’s not much to explain if we’re talking about this application. Just three words: doc, xls and ppt (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) This application can open and edit these files created on your computer.
Features:
Documents To Go can open native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files right on the mobile device, without any desktop conversion [...]