What’s with the hexagonal honeycomb style application icon layout in the new Windows Mobile 6.5 leaked screenshots we’ve seen? Was this design implemented purely for the sake of being different? What’s the point? Well, there actually is a point. If you’ll notice, there are no more scrollbars in the honeycomb interface. However, with the hexagon-shaped grid layout, you are easily able to recognize a pattern to the layout and instantly see that the pattern continues …
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Editing Photoshop Files on Windows Mobile
There’s a lot of nattering negative nabobs out there talking about the demise of Windows Mobile, but it’s still got a few tricks up its sleeve. Here’s one that might be useful to any one who likes to take photos with their phone and doctor them up a bit. It’s also great for graphic designers. Conduits Pocket Artist has been around for a long time, but it’s becoming much more useful these days now that …
Continue readingiGuidance 2009 Now Shipping for Windows Mobile
Since version 1, iNav’s iGuidance has been the most accurate and easy to understand voice-guiding GPS navigation program on any device. The 5th version is now available. You may have had some problems with version 4 and 3. There were a number of bugs that made the software unusable for me. I’m happy to say the new 2009 version works great on the ATT Fuze I’ve tested it with. The text-to-speech voice prompts work great, …
Continue readingLive Search 4: New Features in Action
If you haven’t already downloaded the newest version of Live Search for Windows Mobile from wls.live.com, here’s a short video showing the new features in action. The software now loads your location based on cell phone towers as soon as you start up, thus making searches for nearby locations much easier. All you have to do is press the “Speak” button and say what you want to search for. Originally published on Pocketnow on January …
Continue readingLive Search v4 Also Has Bird’s Eye View!
If you saw Daniel’s post earlier about the new version of Live Search now including a “Locate Me” feature that does not require GPS hardware, you were probably pretty excited about that alone. Well, that’s not all that’s in version 4 of Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile! There’s also predictive text for your search queries, as well as a “Bird’s Eye” view that lets you see 3D aerial photographs of many of the map …
Continue readingWindows Mobile’s Security Features
If you don’t need quite as much security features as the General Dynamics Sectera Edge, (which we think President Elect Obama should be using) then have a look at all of the security features that already exist in Windows Mobile without any customization. Here’s a presentation posted by abhisheksharma. Originally published on Pocketnow on January 12, 2009. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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