Take back control of your device with Pointui Home. No need to fumble for a stylus anymore as Home is designed with generously sized controls.

Release notes:

New Features
* Smartphone support
* PDA’s (without phone) support
* Voice mail count is now displayed under the missed call count for those with phone networks supporting this feature.
* Lock screen will fade back to Home screen to allow you to see all of the status information even when device is locked.
* Translation support – see the forums for more information.
* New customise option: can choose digital or analog clock.
* New customise option: Lock Device, Show Home, or Show Home Screen when device is switched on.
* New customise option: automatically switch bluetooth on only during phone calls and switch off at the end of the call (not supported on all devices). The idea behind this is that if you only use bluetooth during phonecalls for headset etc and don’t need it on all the time, then this option could be useful to you. It will turn bluetooth on as soon as an incoming/outgoing call is detected, and turn it off when you hang up.
* New customise option: can choose to use Home’s comm manager or system default if supported.
* New customise option: can choose to not show screenshots in Currently Running screen (if your device has issues showing the screenshots).
* New customise option: can choose to Show Home, Show Call Summary Screen, or Do Nothing when call is finished.
* New customise option: can choose to use Home’s task bar or standard system task bar.
* The list of applications now merges the list of favorites so you can view the entire list together
* Call summary screen added to display who was called and how long call lasted for at end of call.
* Lock screen can now be used on smartphones – you press up then down on dpad.
* You now have an additional option to “Lock Device” on power on.
* Battery saving – now only uses marginally more battery power than normal – smartphone users should notice a big difference (of course this is dependent on how excessive you are with using it).

Changes
* Taskbar in all other standard apps is no longer changed except for the Start button area which still takes you to Home’s Task Menu.
* Windows Media icon has been replaced with Favorites.
* Appointments summary shows only the next 7 days of appointments.
* Tasks summary no longer shows completed tasks.
* Force close now returns focus back to Home.
* Ringer volume and profile button on sound screen for non-phone devices are no longer displayed.
* Appointments now display all day events in bold and should not display events that have been completed for the day.
* “Today” and “Tomorrow” in appointments also now show the date after them
* Smartphones no longer have a Windows Mobile section as it’s not relevant.
* Shortcut no longer includes “.” at start which was causing issues for button mapping.
* Soft key on Today screen no longer overridden. (NOTE: you will need to reset it back to what it was manually if you have a previous version installed).

Bug Fixes
* Many bugs fixed!
* Memory leak issues fixed.
* Lock screen locks keys as well, and when orientation changed while locked the keys remain locked.
* Recurring appointments now displayed.
* Hardware buttons now working.
* Volume controls now working.
* Volume controls support stereo.
* Control panel applets have had a number of bug fixes. They still are only categorised correctly for English ROMS unless you use a translated terms file as described in the forums.
* Battery shouldn’t show 255% any more but some devices for some reason do not report the correct % when asked and can take a while before they report it successfully.
* The speed that tasks load has been improved and should no longer cause freezes.
* Currently Running screen causing device to freeze has been fixed on most devices, but still is problematic with some devices in which case you need to switch off the screenshots option.
* Closing home sometimes caused it to freeze needing soft reset issue has been fixed.

Known Issues
* See the forums for more details.

http://www.pointui.com/Home.aspx

Caisses is a Sokoban clone that includes 500 levels and 14 different backgrounds and themes.

Changes:

– CPU optimizations
– Ram optimizations
– Support for WinCE GPS
– Added Check and Cross to show which games are finished and which ones aren’t in the level selection screen…

Thanks to Mollusk, the coder himself, for the news.

http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=42.msg129;topicseen#new

This is Stanl3yCZ’s first project, which is a simple painting application.

http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1626

FicEdit is a simple Notepad style program for Pocket PC’s.

http://newmagic.progs.googlepages.com/ficedit

Metro is your free guide on PDA (Palm, PocketPC, Smartphone…) to public transport systems worldwide (400 cities covered now).

http://metro.nanika.net/

Gelahten released a prototype / beta of his new game “Speed Chaineeze”.

Release notes:

Thats first beta release of my game.
The main idea: you need to connect shapes by following simple rules:
Two figures can be connected if they have same color or shape, i.e you can build following chain:
[red square]->[yellow square]->[yellow triangle]->[blue triangle].
You can connect only to underlying or placed on the same line figure, up connects are not allowed.
If you open the chain and do not connect at least 2 figures in it, u’ll have the antiscore bonus.
Bonus will executed only if figure which contains it would be linked at least as second in chain.
If you just start chain from bonus figure, bonus will fired up and in future versions this will give you antiscore.

Bonuses:
+ Time bonus – Movement (not time) is stoped for a bit
+ Score bonuses (disabled)
+ Paint bonus – Colors underlying figures like rainbow
+ Path bonus – (looks like 3 diff arrows picture 🙂 ) – on each figure selection would mark next available for connection figures (bonus works for 10 second)

Free/beta version for now has following limitations/bugs:
+ (BUG ) Time bar do not actually shows remained time (45 seconds anyway for level)
+ (DEMO) You can enter player name and this name is saved through sessions, but highscore table is updated using “DEMO” name
+ (TODO) No rules screen still
+ (DEMO) All bonuses are shown and works except SCORE bonuses (+300, -100 e.t.c., they are shown and animated but there is no score changes)
+ (TODO/DEMO) No in game scroll speed change and there is no different difficulty levels
+ (TODO) There are plenty of bonuses shown for now, thats done for testing purposes and bonus quantity will be reduced

I’m going to implement all missed stuff and probably add/repaint some gfx, hope it would be done soon, ‘coz running Photoshop CS 3 on my 1,6 celeron laptop with 256 ram is real war for virtual memory.

I’ll be glad to hear all proposals and critique. Sorry for my English

Executable must be unzipped and copied to PPC where it could be runned.

http://www.xflib.net/index.php?topic=41.msg122#msg122

Pocket Device Power Manager will help you easily manage the energy consumption of your device.

Pocket Device Power Manager is a completly FREE Software. It contains absolutely NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE, NO REGISTRATION, NO POPUPS, NO MALWARE or other unwanted software.

http://www.pocketpowermanager.com/

Weather Watcher is your personal Windows Mobile weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service (US only), and zoomable radar/satellite map for over 77,000 cities world-wide.

http://www.singerscreations.com/RSS/Posts/390.asp

Through an intuitive user interface, take the basics of the conversation in a foreign language on your mobile phone and speak in the most common situations.

A video in action can be found here: http://www.help2speak.com/index.php?page=videos

http://www.help2speak.com/index.php?page=news

SpeedyCaddy is a shopping list application for Pocket PC’s in french language.

http://nuts9000.free.fr/speedycaddy/index.htm