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Always nice to hear which programs people love, so here we go:
what MUST HAVE programs do you use?
Please give a short explaination what kind of program it is editor's note: This subject hasn't been covered lately. Let's help bassbug find some good programs!
Freeware:
* ftxPBrowser (freeware) - tabbed web browser
* Where Is My Ram? (freeware) - identify the folders taking up the most space on your PPC
* WiFiFoFum or MiniStumbler (both freeware) - detect the presence of nearby WiFi networks
* Python (freeware) - a Python programming environment on your PPC
* BatteryTime (freeware) - Today plug-in that displays battery level. Works with WM2003ME (unlike BatTimeMem)
* MagicButton (freeware) - makes the X button close (not just minimize) the current app. Plus it puts icons of all running apps in the title bar. Works with WM2003ME (unlike icBar, Wisbar)
* Shutdown (freeware) - lets you turn off or soft-reset your PPC. Looks like the WinXP shutdown dialog
* Flite (freeware) - Text-to-speech - paste in some text and it will read it aloud
* Gikadiver (freeware) - great looking game to show off to your friends the capabilities of your PPC. Spaceship side-scroller. Picture here: http://www.pocketpc-spiele.de/gikadiver.gif
* GsFinder+ (freeware) - powerful replacement for File Explorer. I love the ability to make the fonts super-small, and to re-associate file extensions.
* HandyShopper (freeware) - Checklist manager (not just for shopping!). I love the handy dropdown which enables you to easily access any of your lists. Port of the very famous HandyShopper for Palm (same file format). No desktop companion program, but exports to CSV.
* VadeMecum (freeware) - Great tool for viewing websites offline. Excellent alternative to AvantGo, which suffers from a 2MB download limit. Uses Plucker to do the scheduled website downloading.
* WiFiPower (freeware) - For Axim X30 users: just turns on WiFi. The built-in program always turns on both WiFi and Bluetooth (yep we X30 owners are lucky dogs).
* Adobe Reader (freeware) - read those pdf's on the go
* Calc 98 (freeware) - powerful calculator replacement
* Frequency Tuner (freeware) - graphical frequency graph - used for tuning musical instruments
* Launcher by Scott Seligman - (freeware) - place dozens of tiny icons on your Today screen as shortcuts to your favourite apps. Use cLaunch (freeware) if you want to have tabs. Use tdLaunch (freeware) if you want control over icon size and a graphical user interface for easily picking programs. I prefer Launcher to tdLaunch because (1) Launcher alphabetically sorts my entries automatically, and (2) tdLaunch's GUI is unwieldy I want to add a lot of apps at once - with Launcher it's a simple matter of copying shortcuts from one directory to another.
* NoteM (freeware) - MP3 recorder. MP3 files are a lot smaller than WAV files.
* VBirthday (freeware) - Shows the birthdays for your contacts
Commercial:
* Pocket Informant. Powerful replacement for the primitive built-in productivity apps (calendar, todo, notes). You can get it for half-price ($15) by clicking this link: http://www.handango.com/basket.jsp?s...g=1&code=CBA77
* Another good freeware program: Tombo, for saving passwords in an encrypted text file. Better than many password programs, which don't save their data to My Documents, hence losing your precious passwords on a hard reset. Because Tombo's data is stored on My Documents, you have an (encrypted) copy on your PC in case your PPC dies.
Another great find: Skype. Now I can use my Dell Axim X30 as a phone whenever I'm at a WiFi hotspot. Although it does look kind of cheesy to talk into your PocketPC. On the other hand, kind of Star Trek-ish.
I have extracted and sorted the ratings for the 1025 freeware Pocket PC programs at freewareppc.com.
Now you can see at a glance which freeware PocketPC apps get the highest ratings: http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2004/1...acted-and.html
Enjoy!
Hmm...
Mastersoft Money: This is what makes my PDA the most useful to me. It's a finance program that does everything on your pocket pc (every other program wants you to sync with Money it seems and is pretty much just there to allow you to put in entries on the go but wants you to use the main program on the PC for everything else like viewing how much you are spending in each catagory or making charts or even budgeting).
Pocket Breeze: Shows what tasks you need to do today, tomorrow, the whole week, or up to a month (then you can show the rest that are scheduled to) on your today screen. Not just how many and not just what is due today. And you can check off the tasks that are done on the today screen instead of opening tasks. Also shows appointments for each day, has a birthday tab, and they're trying to make it so you can add tabs too.
TodayCalendar: Shows a minicalendar on your today screen.
PocketDVDStudio + BetaPlayer: this combo allows you to put your dvds on your pocket pc and watch them.
PocketPutty.exe: I read my email on a server that requires me use SSH to connect so this allows me to ssh into it and read my email (provided I have wifi connection of course)
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