Pocket PC News
Sunscape is a screen saver and locker for PocketPC mobile devices. It is similar to the iPhone slide to unlock feature, but targets the Windows Mobile system. It provides an interface that displays configurable information about the handheld device. The graphics used are completely replaceable, allowing users to build their preferred custom interface. The main goals are to keep Sunscape completely configurable to the user as well as maintaining a very low memory footprint.
Release notes:
This release fixes some bugs from the previous version and adds stability and new features. More work has been done on the phone handling routine so that it should now correctly get the caller contact. A volume gauge and a signal gauge has been added as well as single color transparency for gadgets. Sunscape now relies on a library in order to remove repeating code. A real-time wallpaper transition effect has been added as well as localization settings for all text on screen. Speed was boosted and many other bugfixes and enhancements have been applied.
http://handhelds.freshmeat.net/releases/289689/
Pocket Forecast which is formerly known as Pocket Weather has been udpated.
This weather forecast application has the following features:
1. Multiple locations
2. Cached weather feeds
3. Skinnable themes
4. Uses Yahoo/Weather.com RSS feed – see http://www.yahoo.com/weather to look up location codes (also uses U.S. zip codes)
5. Open source (code posted on Basic4ppc.com forums)
6. Configurable interval for updating weather feed
7. Integrates with S2U
Changes:
cab installer for PPC (includes up to developers release .38)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445576
TF3D should start automatic. If no user action is recognized after 30 seconds S2U2 will appear, and after another minute (aprox) device goes to standby, after standby (give it some seconds in standby) TF3D will restart. On power key device goes to standby, too.
Changes:
-add more stability
-make it faster
-make it lighter
-all in one cab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450556
MyWeatherForecast is an upcomming new weather forecast application. Goal is to make it as finger friendly as possible, and support multiple resolutions (currently running in VGA) while keeping it simple feature-wise.
Changes:
– changed update behavior (no update on startup, only manual)
– cached last weather settings: Program will start with last downloaded weather data and display “age” of this weather data in hours or minutes
– Update now also possible by clicking the upper panel (in addition to the large weather icon)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452057
G-Alarm is an alarm clock with a special mechanism to wake you up. Before the alarm clock stops you need to guide a ball through a labyrinth or solve a mathematical task.
Changes:
[FIXED] OutOfMemory bug
[UPDATED] Language: hungarian
Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422362
http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/about
Task Facade, previously known as Dynamo 3, is a cool, animated task manager for your PocketPC 2003/05/06 device. Say goodbye to boring text lists of running programs and instead manage your programs by sliding in images of all your running applications onto your screen. For each program on your device an image is saved and when you click the hotkey they all zoom onto your screen. Simply click the one you want and it will increase to fill the screen. Quickly seeing all the running programs is far more efficient than having to read through a text-based task list so Task Facade can make task switching a much faster, and cooler, experience.
Task Facade also allows you to quit programs from inside the image view meaning that it does everything your old text-based program manager could do.
As well as just looking generally cooler, Task Facade offers far more customization than before and allows the whole application to be controlled using either your PDAs hardware keys or the stylus.
Changes:
+ Silent start-up
# Fix: NullException in OnActivate
# Fix: Closing from outside (e.g., reinstall/uninstall) could cause exception
# “Ban/Bar process” operation renamed to “Hide
***BEFORE INSTALL***: Before installing version 3.8, uninstall the previous version AND MANUALLY REMOVE THE ‘TASK FACADE’ FOLDER from Program Files’. You do not need its old content.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420220
G-Alarm is an alarm clock with a special mechanism to wake you up. Before the alarm clock stops you need to guide a ball through a labyrinth or solve a mathematical task.
Changes:
[FIXED] OutOfMemory bug
[FIXED] Today plugin: wrong time format (you have to save the alarm again)
[FIXED] Some small bugs
[UPDATED] Languages: slovak, swedish, italian, french, japanese, czech, turkish, norwegian, chinese simplified, portuguese
Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422362
http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=galarm/about
CapSure by sahoopes is a screen capture application for Windows Mobile devices.
Changes:
-Fixed: Bug in Save after Edit caused by lowercase extension
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375573
Pocket Forecast which is formerly known as Pocket Weather has been udpated.
This weather forecast application has the following features:
1. Multiple locations
2. Cached weather feeds
3. Skinnable themes
4. Uses Yahoo/Weather.com RSS feed – see http://www.yahoo.com/weather to look up location codes (also uses U.S. zip codes)
5. Open source (code posted on Basic4ppc.com forums)
6. Configurable interval for updating weather feed
7. Integrates with S2U
Changes:
– added S2U option to show either current or forecast
– fixed retrieving from web, even if refresh value set to zero
– trap retrieveweatherdate error
– lines now have same color properties as borders
– added check to see if form visible before doing screen timer refresh
– added HTC Diamond Theme in theme post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445576