http://www.articlearmies.com Articles posted by Andrew Fadeev. en-us Copyright (c) 2005 ArticleTime.com http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/train-your-brain-with-pocket-pc.html Spb Brain Evolution Review Author: Nowadays thousands of people are becoming increasingly aware of their physical health and fitness. Gyms and sport clubs are overcrowded with those wishing to take up some sport or just keep fit, and all in all healthy lifestyle has become common practice. But while it’s quite clear with the body, what about brains? When did you last do mental arithmetics? Can you recall your first school teacher’s name and surname? Can you keep your shopping list in mind without writing it down? Do you know when the Titanic was built? If your answers are ‘no’ or ‘don’t know’, then it seems your brain needs serious training. Spb Brain Evolution 1.0 is a high-level training centre for your brain and one of the most intelligent games for Pocket PC. It’s a set of 10 games – because games are the best way to combine fun and enjoyment with unobtrusive training. Start leading a healthy mind lifestyle now with this extremely useful program. Every training program starts with measuring the current situation. Use Brain Marking mode to find out what your current Brain Status is. Take five tests and see how well you do. It is especially important that this mode tests different mental skills, and you’ll be able to see where you have problems and concentrate on these specific skills. The game keeps all statistics so this mode is also good for observing the overall progress. After Brain Marking you proceed to Brain Training, the second mode that consists of the training programs. Each program is composed of several mini-games. Start by playing simple ones and get high results to unlock higher difficulty levels and new games. After successful completion of a program, you’ll have a chance to read some new interesting facts added to the game’s Knowledge base. Try to complete all the programs to get to the full base and have a chance to surprise your colleagues and friends with your remarkable erudition. In order to make your training varied and interesting, there are 10 mini-games testing and training your knowledge, logic, memory and many other skills and abilities. You’ll find both classical games such as Minesweeper and Matches and those you’ve never played before. Handy hardware keys control makes the gameplay easy and adds up to the overall fine experience. Spb Brain Evolution is suitable for a wide-range audience: how about training your child’s mental skills together with improving your own? Three difficulty levels and a system of awards for outstanding results can even make playing Spb Brain Evolution your family contest! The mobility of your Pocket PC allows you to train your brain wherever and whenever you want, and soon you’ll feel the difference. Put on your thinking cap now… and don’t take it off! Spb Brain Evolution Features: • Support for qVGA , Square Screen and VGA devices • Addictive gameplay • Brain Marking and Brain Training modes • 10 development mini-games (Sudoku included) • Handy hardware keys control • Different awards for better play • Knowledge base • User profiles support Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/role-playing-on-pocket-pc.html PDAMill Arvale Short Tales Review Author: Dungeons and Dragons, the very first role-playing game, was also the first game to be programmed on a computer. At those times, a computer was not a small box connected to a monitor or a TV. It was a room full of huge steel cabinets. These computers could only display text; they had nothing like billion color displays or surround sound of today's PCs. Yet, role-playing games were still available in text-only mode. Just imagine gameplay where a computer would print something like "You are in a dark room." You would type "Light lantern with match", and the computer would reply with "This room appears to be a library. There's a table with a crystal ball in the center. You also see bookshelves, ladder, and a door leading east." Was it fun to play? Sure, at the time, it was! Luckily, modern role-playing games are very far from those of the early days of computers. Today's computer fits in the palm of your hand, and today's role-playing game displays pictures and animations, and produces realistic sounds to make the process even more fun! Arvale: Short Tales by Handster http://www.handster.com/ is a great modern role-playing game. It's small enough to fit even into the busiest person's PDA, while sports crisp graphics and a dynamic sound track. Unlike simpler Pocket PC based role-playing games, Arvale: Short Tales includes not one but four unique stories with four unique characters to enjoy. (Spoiler: there is a hidden fifth character somewhere in the game!) You'll get endless hours of fun and entertainment with free exploration of open-ended, quest-style gameplay. Keep playing and relax with a carefully thought-out, simplified scoring system. Explore beautifully painted, stylish locations with hundreds of detailed maps. Meet friendly characters and mendacious monsters. Enjoy the difference between night and day with unique available actions. Take multiple side quests, experience unique atmospheres, feel the ambience of the sound track. Have fun talking to the characters (some of them are hilarious!) Can't get enough of it? Discover the special fifth character for even more Tales! Download your free trial copy at: http://www.handster.com/product.php?id=200 and start playing now! You are guaranteed to have hours of fun and entertainment with Arvale: Short Tales. Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Computers/track-calls-and-sms-on-your-windows-mobile-phone.html Spb Phone Suite Review Spb Phone Suite is designed to enhance your PDA with new features, missing in the phone side of standard Microsoft Windows Mobile 5. Once installed, it'll add phone profiles, missed call notifications, unread SMS notifications, call filtering, reject and reply with SMS, photo-dialing, photos in call log, automatic profile and these are just a few things to name! To start with, you will discover a powerful Today plug-in where you can see the most frequently used options, such as photo-dialing (called "photo speed dials"), counters for missed calls and SMS messages, profile manager, call filtering mode switcher, and other phone related controls and indicators. You will see all important phone related data at one glance and access any option with just one tap. Fine, isn't it? But let's cut to the chase. One of the best in Spb Phone Suite and "most wanted" in Windows Mobile functions is profiles. Phone profiles allow customization of ring, alarm tones and volumes (Normal, Silent, Loud), as well as the settings for Bluetooth, WiFi and backlight. As it is with any other option in Spb Phone Suite, profiles can be customized with just a tap or two. There are also automatic profiles that get triggered on some events automatically; this includes such profiles as Headset, Car, Meeting, and Cradle. Now you don't have to worry about triggering the silent mode for scheduled meetings. You can also set a profile to activate for a certain time interval. If you'd like to make your own custom profile in addition to the default ones, the program provide you with this opportunity. Any profile can be changed in a couple of taps from the Today screen. The photo-dialing option allows you to add a photo avatar to a contact in order to dial a contact with just one tap. To add an avatar, you need to go to the settings dialog or simply tap and hold on the dialer area. Spb Phone Suite lets you use 14 photo-dialing avatars on the Today plug-in. If there are no photos for a contact, you can choose a default avatar from the inbuilt collection. Other interesting features include "Reject and Send SMS" option, which is useful when you are not able to answer an incoming call. You can drop it in three taps with an SMS message containing a predefined text. Besides, there is "Call Filtering" that will help you create whitelists ("pre-approved" contacts list) and blacklists. With this option in place, your PDA can accept all calls, accept all calls except those from the blacklist, accept only whitelist contacts, or ignore all. Isn't it cool or what? What's more, you can set up wildcards (masks) for numbers from blacklists and whitelists and an ability to change the filter from the Today screen. If you think the above mentioned features are something your PDA is missing and wish you had them, then you are invited to download an evaluation copy of Spb Phone Suite. You can test it free of charge to see its possibilities and benefits. Download now! Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Computers/pocket-pc-instant-messenger.html Webmessenger Mobile IM Review Author: If you are an active Internet user, then you probably have lots of buddies you’re used to chatting with in many different IM networks. Some of them like ICQ while others are keen on Google Talk. That doesn’t mean you have to install all of them and have several programs running on your handheld, as now there is a universal messaging centre that allows you to keep in touch with all your mates regardless of their IM network. Mobile Instant Messenger for Pocket PC, developed by Webmessenger, is a convenient and undemanding for resources application that is an absolute must-have for every Pocket PC user who wishes to communicate easily and appreciate the true mobility of communication. Just login with your Mobile Instant Messenger and you will be logged automatically into all the networks you have selected. All major IM networks are covered by this useful program, and now you can easily talk with your buddies from AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber without leaving one application. Never has communication on a handheld been easier and more convenient. You don’t have to worry about compatibility as Mobile Instant Messenger runs simultaneously with the phone and email applications on your device. This messenger has all the features one would expect from a true communication centre. All extended presence information and the device of origin can be sent and received, so you will always be able to know if your buddies are online. Import all your contacts from your IM network contact lists and manage them from a single application. Actually all your favourite functions you enjoy on your desktop messengers are combined with the convenience of a user-friendly interface in Mobile Instant Messenger. You can organize all your contacts into personalized groups, see them clearly structured and show or hide certain groups at your will. Customize your application by setting shortcuts and save and display history with timestamps – everything is just a couple of clicks away. But the World of Arvale is definitely more than just a beautiful decor. It is a living world with its own stories and riddles. The man you accidentally meet in a village may turn out to be an outcast lord from another continent, and what looks like an ordinary stick may actually be a mage staff lost ages ago and now recovered by you. Interact with more than 500 NPCs and hundreds of objects to get to know the story of this enthralling world. Cut scenes unveiling some parts of the plot will help you find your bearings and decide on what to do next. Even such sophisticated features as 3DES encryption of the communication can be selected, and there’s an enterprise version available that supports IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft LCS, Reuters Messaging, and Jabber XCP. Mobile Instant Messenger runs under Pocket PC 2002, 2003, 2003 SE and Phone Edition – that means you can use it on most Pocket PCs. Still thinking? Why not try instead? Download an evaluation copy of the program and enjoy its unlimited functions during 15 days after installation. Feel free to visit the developers’ site from where you can create and manage your accounts, download Desktop and other clients and review the license agreement and privacy notice. Mobilize your communication with Mobile Instant Messenger! Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/addictive-windows-mobile-epic-journey-game.html PDAMill Arvale II: Ocean of Time Review Author: There's an adventurer in every one of us. Free yours and enjoy the outstanding experience of playing Arvale II – Ocean of Time 4.0, which will be your gateway to a world of valor and great deeds. Your fate and the fate of the world are in your hands! There's an adventurer in every one of us. Free yours and enjoy the outstanding experience of playing Arvale II – Ocean of Time 4.0, which will be your gateway to a world of valor and great deeds. Your fate and the fate of the world are in your hands! No spoiling here, but the plot of this captivating game is Epic from a capital letter, involving powerful gods and goddesses, time travel and, of course, saving the world. The story begins and develops in a vast World of Arvale composed of eight different continents each with its peculiar climate, geographical conditions and settlements. The amazingly beautiful and very detailed world is a true pearl of this Pocket PC game – try not to forget about the actual quest when marveling at the picturesque views! But the World of Arvale is definitely more than just a beautiful decor. It is a living world with its own stories and riddles. The man you accidentally meet in a village may turn out to be an outcast lord from another continent, and what looks like an ordinary stick may actually be a mage staff lost ages ago and now recovered by you. Interact with more than 500 NPCs and hundreds of objects to get to know the story of this enthralling world. Cut scenes unveiling some parts of the plot will help you find your bearings and decide on what to do next. The game is tightly packed with action: apart from the main line, there are lots of side quests and additional puzzles. Travel through space and time, engage in various games of destiny and feel the true freedom of an adventure. Your fate depends on the path you choose, and so does the ending of the game. Fighting monsters and villains, rescuing princesses and collecting ancient artifacts – the whole epic hero pack of activities in one game on your PDA! All the diamonds and pearls of the plot and gameplay are artfully set into a mount of wonderful visual and sound effects. Hear the whistle of the wind in the rich green leaves and enjoy the ambience of the game environment with more than 125 sound effects and a total of 27 soundtracks. The vivid colours of the game and amazing visual effects will make you want to play again and again – luckily, there are three levels of difficulty to choose from. Compatible with all current Pocket PCs, this version requires a Windows Mobile 2003 or newer device. Thousands of users have already tried the game; join them by downloading a trial version to lift the veil of mystery covering the story and come back for the full version. An immense world that has its own spirit awaits a hero that will take the challenge and face the evil in the greatest battle of all. This game is definitely worth the 40 hours (or even more) you’ll spend glued to your Pocket PC as well as the money it costs. Arvale II – Ocean of Time 4.0 is truly an ocean of joyful and interesting time. Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/rss-reader-for-your-pda.html Spb Insight Review Author: If you are often on the move, keeping your PDA close at hand, then Spb Insight from Spb Software House is a good pick for your "road warrior" arsenal. If you are often on the move, keeping your PDA close at hand, then Spb Insight from Spb Software House is a good pick for your "road warrior" arsenal. Spb Insight is a RSS/Atom newsreader for Windows Mobile PDA that will let you keep up with all of your favorite news or blog sites, letting you download all your feeds to PDA and then read them offline when you’re waiting for a plane in the airport, taking a bus trip to another city, standing in line at the store, or waiting for a meeting to start. Spb Insight will turn your downtime into uptime! As it's with anything associated with PDA, Spb Insight stands out for the wireless convenience it offers to PDA users. Instead of being constantly wired to your desktop computer in order to read your news feeds, you can install Spb Insight onto your Windows Mobile PDA, and it will wirelessly deliver the latest news of your choice, or let you read the news stories you have downloaded from the desktop computer before going out. Spb Insight will provide full offline reading optimized for a small screen including images. Fine, isn't it? Spb Insight is easy to get started with. You only need to subscribe to the so-called "channels" (news feeds) and then download the news stories to PDA. There are several options to get subscribed to the feeds. One of the quickest and most convenient is via Spb's Online Catalog. It offers over a thousand of selected channels on a great variety of subjects from all over the internet – the latest news, sports, finances, you name it! The channels are grouped into categories, making a selection a cinch. As Online Catalog is driven by the suggestions from real users, it’s constantly being added new feeds. You can add your own feed too! Another way to subscribe to a feed is familiar to all RSS/Atom savvy users - you need to input the URL of a RSS/Atom feed you are interested in. However if you don’t know the exact address of the feed, you can take advantage of the built-in search option, which lets you specify the keyword, for example, "laptop" into the search form and within seconds get the listing of the news feeds related to the keyword from the server at Spb. Then, you can subscribe to the feed with much the same simplicity as you would with the feeds from Online Catalog. Other ways of getting subscribed include local template and OPML, which lets you import the feed setup in the XML format from another RSS/Atom program. Regardless of the way the subscription is done, all you efforts are restricted to just to a couple of clicks. Once the channels have been added, you can update the feeds and download the news stories. Spb Insight gives you the choice of either manual or automatic updating. In the first case, it is left to you to choose the time when the update should be executed. To update the feeds, you can use ActiveSync, HotSpot WiFi connection, GPRS or EDGE connection if your device has it. In terms of networking, Spb Insight offers you some interesting options. You can configure the program to use only free of charge internet connections. This gives you total control over the data charges, restricting your channel updates to only those connectivity options that are provided at no cost. This Pocket PC program can also be set up to update all channels automatically when cradled. You can get your channels updated when you connect your PDA to your desktop over ActiveSync, which eliminates the need to remember to set the channel updates on your own. Spb Insight will help you get the most up-to-the-moment news via the PDAs wireless interface connection or ActiveSync and read the stories when you have some time to spare. At just $19.95, Spb Insight will be an excellent software companion for any "road warrior", traveling with PDA at hand. You can see the program in action right now if you download its free evaluation copy from Spb Insight page. Enjoy wireless news on the go! Spb Weather Features: • Full website news; • Full RSS/Atom support (0.9x, 1.0, 2.0); • Offline reading with pictures; • Easy to use interface; • One-hand operation; • Article thumbnails; • No desktop component needed. Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/your-organizer-for-pocket-pc.html Spb Diary Review Author: Manage your day-to-day activities without leaving your Today screen with Spb Diary. If you are a frequent user of a Pocket PC or Windows Mobile based PDA, you probably know how limited and generally useless the main display is. According to many users, the standard Today application that appears when you turn on your Pocket PC is nothing short of dismal. The default Today does not show you that much information, and it won't allow you to change that appointment without running an external organizer. Power users require more than that. If you are using your PDA device to plan your daily activities, and have no extra time to run multiple applications when you need to check your mail or change an appointment, you'll soon start looking for a replacement for that limiting Today application. Spb Diary will save your day by allowing you not only to see all the information you need right on your PDA's Today screen, but also to modify it - all without having to start an external mail or organizer program! Spb Diary will remind you in a timely manner about scheduled tasks and upcoming birthdays. You will be able to use your Windows Mobile device to plan your day or change your appointments without needing to launch external applications or access your desktop. Tight integration with Microsoft Pocket Outlook and third party organizers such as Pocket Informant allows doing most of your planning activities directly from the Today screen. No two people are alike, and neither are their organizers. With that in mind, Spb Diary enables you to customize your PDA in a much deeper way than Microsoft ever did. Display any kind of information you want, the way you want it. You can show everything or create a filter to display just the important stuff. Have quick access to your calendar, tasks, contacts, notes, email or SMS messages, special events such as birthdays, and even weather predictions - all that from a single screen of Today! But isn't this a bit too much information to fit on a small, low-resolution screen of a pocket-size mobile device? Won't it become so overcrowded that, although all information is there, you won't be able to actually see anything? That's certainly true with many other Today plug-ins, but not with Spb Diary. Save valuable space on your Today screen by using tabs! Tabbed user interfaces, and tabbed Web browsing in particular, are the modern response to the increasing amounts of information needed to be displayed on a limited screen space. All modern Web browsers are equipped with tabs. Your mobile Today screen space is extremely limited, yet the amount of information that must fit on it is extremely high. Why not use tabs where they can help most? Spb Pocket Plus introduces a tabbed interface for your device's Today screen, allowing you to conveniently assign tabs to your most frequent activities. You can have one tab for appointments, another one for email, and the third one for contacts. Create as many tabs as you need! Spb Diary is well integrated with the Spb Pocket Plus tabbed interface, and supports tabs for Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, Messages and Special Events, allowing you to access and modify corresponding data without ever leaving your Windows Mobile Today screen. Unlike the default Pocket PC Today, your Spb Diary empowered Today screen will dynamically refresh with every new event. You'll be able to see new mail or SMS messages the moment they are received. Spb Diary is highly customizable and extremely easy to use. You'll be able to set up your Pocket PC organizer to display exactly what you need to see in less than twenty minutes! Stay in tune with Spb Diary! Download your free evaluation version at http://www.handster.com/product.php?id=15, and chances are that Spb Diary will quickly become your favorite program! Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/weather-forecast-on-your-pocket-pc.html If your travel a lot and want to know what to put into your suitcase before you go to London, Moscow, or Beijing, then a little wonder called Spb Weather is all you need. Spb Weather is a Today plug-in for Windows Mobile PDA that will let you know when to take an umbrella or put on warm cloths that’s, of course, if you have the PDA at hand! The real value of Spb Weather on PDA is its convenience. Instead of trying to get the weather forecast on the radio or TV, or surfing to a weather forecast site, you need to install Spb Weather onto your Windows Mobile PDA, and it’ll wirelessly deliver an up-to-the-moment worldwide weather report from a variety of weather sources and a full 7-day weather forecast. It’ll download up to 10 days ahead and that’s something other weather forecasters miss. Spb Weather presents the weather forecast for a city as a clear horizontal graph with icons displaying sunny, cloudy, rainy or stormy conditions. Underneath there is a text box offering more detailed weather information. One day weather forecast can contain information on max and min temperatures, humidity, pressure, and wind speed and direction allocated by 4 periods of the day. The plug-in is skinnable and can look anything you want. Besides, it can be extensively customized to suite your personal tastes. With Spb Weather, you’ll have control over various parameters, including frequency of updates, view modes, traffic statistics and even weather forecast data source. The weather information can be represented in one of four modes, including 7 days view, 5 days view, 4 days view and Multiline view. If a 4 day mode is selected, you can see four weather information entries for a selected city on the graph. The Multiline mode allows you to view five day forecasts for several different cities simultaneously. City entries are represented with separate graphs in this mode, rather than with tabs as in all other modes. Weather information can be updated as frequently as you like. It can get updated every time your device is docked. Or, the weather forecast can be updated every time you add a new city to monitor in Spb Weather. You can specify an update behavior: this can be either a manual update (weather data will be downloaded only upon your request) or automatic update (in this case data will be downloaded after every specified time interval). Setting Spb Weather to work is a breeze. You need to input which cities you want to monitor, and this can be done by typing in the city name, or its ZIP code. Custom names for cities can be specified too (Pete instead of Saint Petersburg). You are also prompted to select a weather source for the city. Once the city (or cities) is set, the program prompts you to specify preferable view, skin, units and decide whether you want to update the weather information manually or automatically, track hourly or daily weather data. That’s all! Ease of use and excellent usability earned Spb Weather place in top 10 most sold Windows Mobile programs The program supports Spb Pocket Plus, so you can free up some resources and gain more space on the Today screen of your PDA as Spb Weather will run as a separate tab. Spb Weather will help you get weather forecasts for virtually any city around the world and look up the local forecast too. At just $14.95, this nice plug-in for PDA represents excellent value to your eyes and looks to be a necessary purchase for any traveler. You can see it in action right now if you download its fully functional evaluation copy from http://www.handster.com/product.php?id=3. Enjoy accurate weather forecasts! Spb Weather Features: • Integration with Spb Mobile Shell; • Integration with Spb Diary; • Integration with Pocket Plus; • 4000+ cities; • Optimized traffic (400 bytes for 5 day forecast); • Easy customizable interface; • Professional skins; • Easy configuration from context menu; • Custom weather source support; • Custom city support. • In Top 10 Windows Mobile Software! Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices. http://www.articlearmies.com/articles/Technology/smart-and-friendly-pocket-pc-phone.html Spb Mobile Shell Review Windows Mobile based phones have great abilities for communication, productivity, entertainment. But more complex devices are harder to use. Most users while switching from regular cellular phones to PDA-phones notice that PDAs are harder to control when things come to simple phone tasks, like one hand operation, making calls from a phonebook and so on. For example, to write a new text message on the Windows Mobile phone you have to start Messaging application and tap "New" button. At the same time, there is a "New Message" item in every simple cellular phone's However, there is one significant advantage for Windows Mobile phones – these inconveniences can be improved with good software. Spb Mobile Shell will warp all the power of Pocket PC with easy and familiar interface. Let's take a closer look. Spb Mobile Shell consists of three parts: a powerful Today Screen plug-in, a cell phone-like menu and a new standby screen. Today Screen Plug-in Today Screen Plug-in is a light version of Spb Pocket Plus, Spb Weather, Spb Time and some sort of photo-calling application. One of the biggest advantages of Spb Mobile Shell Today plug-in is that it saves space on your Pocket PC's Today screen. When you install Mobile Shell it creates four Tabs: Home, Time, Weather and Dial. The Home Tab is a smart quick launch panel. Its icon shows you battery charge status and the content is automatically formed from frequently used applications. The Time Tab shows you time in three time zones of your choice and the next alarm time. The Weather Tab shows a forecast for a selected city. In the Dial Tab you can place photo icons of your contacts for speed dial. Also, you can add any Today plug-in as a Tab. For example Spb Pocket Plus for customizable quick-launch of Pocket PC applications. If you use Spb Time and Spb Weather, the corresponding Tabs also have extended functionality like multiple alarms and weather forecasts for different cities. Auto-hide function is another prominent feature of Spb Mobile Shell Today plug-in. It keeps Tab contents hidden when not in use, thus leaving Today Screen free to enjoy nice background pictures. Phone-like menu The second major part of Spb Mobile Shell is its Menu. It can be assigned to any hardware button or to the soft key of your PDA. Spb Menu will look familiar to you if you have ever used cellular phone. It is really well considered. The menu has eight icons with submenus which perfectly fit in a landscape mode. For example, "Messaging" icon opens the submenu, where you can choose from items like: "Create new SMS", "Create New E-Mail", "Read SMS", "Read E-Mail". Very user-friendly, now you don't have to navigate through folders and menus of Messaging application. Every icon contains such submenus with additional useful functionality that you can easily access. In Multimedia you can browse media library, start a slideshow or launch different modes of camera. No need to tap on a screen with a stylus, all can be reached with a device navigation button or numeric keyboard. "Now" Standby screen Spb Mobile Shell also features a nice standby screen, called "Now". This screen can be activated manually, by the time-out or every time you switch your device on. This screen shows all current information in a very tight form. Clock (digital or analog), weather for today, battery charge status and signal strength, missed calls, SMS, e-mails and upcoming appointments – all this information on one device screen and easy enough to read on the go - the thing mostly missed by users after switching to Windows Mobile Phone. Simple, nice and useful! Conclusion Spb Mobile Shell is a great application. Power means nothing without control, and if Windows Mobile potential is power, then Spb Mobile Shell is control. It has practically everything that is needed for comfortable work with PDA like with an ordinary cell phone: • Several Today Tabs, by the way, big enough to press with a finger • Convenient dialer • Photo-contacts on one of the Tabs • Support of third party plug-ins • Excellent menu: every application or setting can be easily reached without a stylus • Under Tabs' stripe there can be other elements of Today Screen. The opening Tab will simply overlap these elements. Besides, Spb Mobile Shell operates quite quickly, Tabs are switched instantly, and there is no difference in operating speed after the installation on Pocket PC. As a minimum, this utility will allow to spare a considerable amount of space on Today by compressing six rows to one neat row on the screen. And as a maximum, it will enable to navigate a PDA with one hand only without a stylus. With such application your device gets cell-phone usability and keeps all advantages of Pocket PC system, something that you should really give a try. Compatible devices list ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, P535 and others Dell: Axim X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena O2: XDA series T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other Windows Mobile Powered Devices.