Make the Diamond’s Touch-Zoom Wheel Work in Other Programs

Some more registry tweaks have been found at XDA-Developers that allow you to make the circular touch-sensitive zoom area around the action button on the Touch Diamond work in other programs besides Opera, the Photo viewer, the Messaging application, and Google Maps. The hack is not easy however, since you need to know the Class name of each application you want to add, and you have to add each application to the registry individually. This …

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Change the Tab Order in TouchFLO 3D

One of my complaints about TouchFLO 3D on the HTC Touch Diamond was the inability to change the order of the tabs. My suggestion was that since the left most and right most tab icons are the easiest to access (by simply scrubbing your finger all the way off the left or right side of the screen), then the Home panel should be in the middle so that you could have two other most-used panels …

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FriendMobilizer makes FaceBook Mobile Easier

Since using a web browser for desktop-designed websites on a mobile device can be very frustrating, many companies are developing native applications that are designed to interact with your favorite web services. FaceofMobile’s Friend Mobilizer is another such application, and it interfaces with Facebook. The software lets you: – Get notifications sent directly to your home screen – Set your status – Approve friend requests – View Group/Event invites – Check your wall and inbox …

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HTC MyConnect 2.0 and TouchBook Software

HTC has released a few new applications and services for the Asian market recently. HTC’s MyConnect 2.0 is an application that connects to HTC’s PL@NET portal services, while TouchBook seems to be finger friendly magazine reader application. A flash animation here shows TouchBook with 3D animated page curling & turning features. For more information and links to download the apps, see 1800PocketPC. Originally published on Pocketnow on July 6, 2008. More Software articles from the …

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Running Full Windows on the Touch Diamond

While we have mentioned this before, and you’ve seen some screen shots in our Touch Diamond Review, now we’ve got a video of the Remote Desktop Mobile client in action. With a VGA screen, the Diamond can act as a thin client for running full Windows operating systems and applications. You can essentially run anything that supports 16bit color as well as the 640 x 480 pixel dimensions of the Touch Diamond. The speed of …

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YouTubePlay: Free Web-Enabled FLV Player

Speaking of the need for better web-enabled applications, there’s actually a free YouTube video player application available on XDA-developers. It can search the entire YouTube library and plays the videos in FLV format. Unlike the YouTube application included with the Touch Diamond, YouTubePlay does not have an option for loading the high-quality versions of YouTube videos (yet), however it does seem to be much more stable than that official YouTube player included with the Touch …

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