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VITO Technology has a new message that they want us to hear It sounds like a fun interface you can play with. Hopefully it won't cause crashes on our devices like some freewares out there. here's the message!
12 February, 2008 – VITO Technology releases new version of task manager GoodWin. New GoodWin features Today plug-in and also fully supports FunContact and SMS-Chat. New GoodWin also features some minor improvements like quicker start-up and instant switching between favorites, installed programs and settings. Finger-friendly interface with animated menus is very appealing, once seen never forgotten, and once tried always used. Manage your Windows Mobile device with a flick of a finger!
The main advantage of GoodWin as a launcher and task manager is its scrollable finger-friendly interface. GoodWin presents on a single screen all important PIM info together with quick access to the list of favorite and running programs, installed applications, and settings! Apart from smooth finger scrolling you can also quickly jump from Favorites & Running to Programs, Settings or menu button by tapping transparent up and down arrows at the bottom of the screen.
A good piece of news for Today plug-ins fans. New GoodWin supports Today plug-in for quick access to GoodWin, Messaging, Tasks, e-mail, and call log. If you already use FunContact or SMS-Chat, you can benefit by using this software with GoodWin. The big text messaging icon in GoodWin takes you directly to SMS-Chat while the missed calls icon opens call log in FunContact. It's time to say farewell to the old-fashioned Windows Mobile interface!
Other changes include replacement of the big clock icon with a task icon that shows the number of current tasks. The clock has moved to the top bar. It provides quick access to time settings. Tapping cellular carrier icon now opens phone settings. Thanks to inexhaustible feedback from our customers VITO Technology never stops optimizing GoodWin. This version is just the beginning of changes that are still due to come.
Thanks for posting this. I downloaded it to my AT&T 8525 and it does improve the overall user experience for a non-stylus access to the device. Clearly, the rest of the MW5/6 applications need to be updated all for a non-stylus mode of interaction.
One comment (not against this software), I have always felt that the touch screen on my 8525 was "insensitive". This application proves it. I really have to press hard to "grab" the "desktop" to scroll it.
I have an iPhone in addition to the 8525 ... the iPhone taught me to hate the stylus and love multitouch displays. The iPhone and HTC touch prove that you can make a better, easier to use and more intuitive interface that what Microsoft has been supplying all these years. Let's hope changes like these shove Redmond in the right direction.
you put a knife in my heart after you mentioned the iPhone . . .
j/k I actually want one. I just didn't want to pay the monthly fee to Jobs after paying $400 for it.
Thank you for your recommendation and point of view. I wish there are more applications like you said too. I have the Touch and I can't use it to its full potential yet, but hopefully it's getting there.
My iPhone belongs to work (my wife has one for her own personal use) ... the 8525 is mine. I also have an N80 and N95 and several other handsets. My day job is research into multimedia and mobile applications, so I get to play with some cool stuff. Between the iPhone roll out and all the hype about Android, the fires have to be burning in the Windows Mobile camp.
On the hardware side, multi-touch interfaces are the hot thing. The Microsoft table computing effort and the iPhone show that some very cool and intuitive interfaces are possible with this technology. I also think the accelerometer in the iPhone has tremendous possibilities for gaming.
I will get an iPhone on my personal account when they finally get a 3G version. The iPhone has it's own set of issues ... like rotation only works in some applications, but not all. The e-mail app has a serious need to allow for landscape usage to make reading easier for those of us with less than stellar vision. No on-board GPS or 3G is lame. No bluetooth profiles for the simple things like pc sync and stereo headsets is lame.
BS in Communications - Ohio University, 1984
MS in Computing and Information Science. Case Western Reserve University, 1991
23+ years of work at AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent/Avaya.
8+ years of working in human/machine dialog systems (Interactive Voice Response), machine mediated human-to-human dialog systems, contact center agent automation, multimodal/multimedia user interface systems including interactive voice/video response.
Before that, 8 years of work in speech recognition systems including subword rejection, large vocabulary name dialing, speaker trainable name dialing using phonemic recognition, voice control of streaming media, voice control of messaging systems, etc.
Before that 5 years on factory information systems design/development.
Before that, 2 years on a precursor to modern ATM switching (small fixed size packet switching.) Mostly writing diagnostics in 68000 assembler.
It was a long path, but a big chunk of it is knowing when it is time to move on. The research gig was by invitation ... I am extremely happy that I jumped on it when it was offered. The group I had been with at Lucent was axed about 3 years after I left. I had a bunch of work friends that left for Cisco in the mid-1990's and all ended up with a minimum of 2-3 million in options, but they worked their butts off. The CEO of JDS Uniphase (Kevin Kennedy) was a supervisor in my department before jumping to Cisco in the mid-90's. So, in someways, I am an underachiever ...
lol I want to be like gwerhart0800 when I grow up. but there are a lot of finger friendly apps out for the 8525 and it brothers. you just gotta look. and I definitely agree with what was said earlier about the sensitivity of the 8525. one word: suck. but there are ways to increase the sensitivity that im looking into at the moment and soon as I figure it out ill be right back.
Please let me know on the 8525 screen sensitivity thing ... I have been assuming that my phone could have been a bad example. Sounds like it might be more universal.
I am somewhat addicted to Monopoly on my MW phones ... that app is extremely stylus based ... very small buttons on dialog boxes, it does not respond to any keyboard buttons, so you have to use the stylus.
As to the being me ... I have two sons in high school and I really don't want them to go down the computer science path ... too much is getting out-sourced to off-shore. The only cool path I see is something like going with a startup, but Colorado is not a good place for that. I have friends that do the serial startup thing and I think it would be easier to win the lottery than get into a startup that actually survives.
ok i found this on the XDA site. i didnt work for me but i think that's because of ROM im using. if this doesnt work for anyone else let me know and ill keep on lookin =]
thru the PHM registry editor(or any PPC registry editor)
go to..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Drivers\TouchPanel
then find DWORD PressureThreshold'
Change the value of PressureThreshold.(INCREASE value ONLY!!!)
i tried doubling the default value. until i have reached my desired setting.
now,its like tapping soflty without having a feeling that i have screen protector. Also less stress on the stylus and screen and faster tapping.
WARNING: Only INCREASE THE VALUE BUT NEVER THE DECREASE THE DEFAULT VALUE.
Lowering the value of Pressure Threshold means you need to apply more pressure in tapping than you normally do.
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AT&T 8525
AT&T US (Raising tha Bar Every Once Ina While)
OS ~ Schap's 4.20
Chunky ... bummer, no such registry key on my MW6 8525. Doing a "find" on "touch" only brought up 2 entries and both were under the hardware heading and both seemed to be about calibration.
gwerhart...i take it im not getting a job offer...haha..dang
Considering that Avaya has a hiring freeze at the moment ... we are looking for someone in the area of acoustic analytics. Ph.D required ... must have a research track record and will have to give a 1 hour presentation on your current research.
yea i have none of that. i was just trying to get in the try-phones-out gig. kind of joking around but yea congrats on that sweet job. hard work obviously gets you there...
VITO Technology has a new message that they want us to hear 
It sounds like a fun interface you can play with. Hopefully it won't cause crashes on our devices like some freewares out there. here's the message!
Way cool, but ... 
Linear Mode
