Paul of Modaco has posted a thread called Come share development with Popfly mainly in response to his development of the DupeDeDupe program for Windows Mobile and his desire to create an open-source community development network. By using PopFly, users can share code and collaborate on project development remotely and within Visual Studio. With that in mind, I would like to propose the open-source development of a new program for Windows Mobile theme changing. Themes …
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Windows Mobile’s Secret Today Screen Shortcut
Here’s a nice little tip for quickly getting back to the Windows Mobile Pro Today Screen. It definitely works in Windows Mobile Pro 6.0 and 6.1, but I’m not sure about 5.0. Normally, if I wanted to bring up the Today Screen, I would press the Windows Start Menu hardware key on my device and then press the action or enter button since the “Today” item is the default top-level selection. That’s really too much …
Continue readingGPS Enabled Meeting Reminders?
Julian Bourne CEO & Founder of Proxpro Inc. posted a comment in our How to Design a Killer GPS Navigation Program thread about a product they are developing that integrates GPS navigation with calendar appointment reminders. Proxpro’s Prompt software checks the traffic and estimated travel time required to get to your next appointment in your Calendar and notifies you when you have to leave. This is exactly the kind of innovation we need to see …
Continue readingTouchPal Version 3 is Now Available
Cootek has just released version 3 of their TouchPal software input panel for Windows Mobile. In my opinion, this is the best on-screen software based keyboard around. Version 3 now offers more gestures and two more keyboard layouts. Instead of the original 2 letters per button layout, there is now a full Qwerty 1 letter per button layout, as well as a T9 style 3 letter per button layout. Another new thing is two new …
Continue readingGoogle’s Android Runs On Windows Mobile
This is pretty interesting. Some folks at XDA-Developers have managed to get a build of Google’s Android operating system running on Windows Mobile. Check out a video here. We’re not talking about replacing the ROM here, we’re talking about opening Linux as if it was a Windows Mobile Application and then loading Android within that. Since I’m pretty sure there’s nothing that Android can do that Windows Mobile can’t already do right now, it’s probably …
Continue readingNew Android Build at CTIA
PC Magazine has some photos of the latest build of Android shown at CTIA. Can someone tell me what’s so special about this operating system? It doesn’t look good at all. It doesn’t look remotely usable. The icons on the programs screen are way too small compared to the guy’s thumb size. They’re definitely not going to be readable like that. Maybe there will be a market for magnifying glass attachments. There’s a ton of …
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