Pocket PC News
PockeTwit is a twitter client for the Windows Mobile Professional platform.
Features:
– A unique user interface
– Works on VGA, QVGA and SmartPhone devices
– Support for multiple twitter and identi.ca accounts
– Uses standard notifications to alert you of new frields statuses or replies
– URL shortening with is.gd
– Take photos and send to TwitPic
– Integrated search.twitter.com
– Show profiles
– Clickable @names and URLs
– Option to check for new version on startup
Changes:
Lots of bugfixes, especially for SmartPhone
Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411536
http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/
PockeTwit is a twitter client for the Windows Mobile Professional platform.
Features:
– A unique user interface
– Display public, user, and friends timelines
– Update status
– URL shortining with is.gd
– Reply to tweets
– Show profiles
– Clickable @names and URLs
– Option to check for new version on startup
Changes:
Bugfixes. Less Memory. More configuration settings
Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411536
http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/
Manage your contacts and more with iContact Burt Edition.
Features:
– It’s totally free
– Finger-friendly contact management
– Contact pictures support
– Integrated Call History
– Favorite Contacts list
– Quick jump to contacts by alphabet letters
– Filter contacts by categories
– Fast and comfortable work even on slow devices, loading time is less than 1.5 seconds for 100 contacts on 200MHz devices
– Optional SIM contacts support
– Full-scale T9 search
– Ability to Call, SMS or E-Mail to a contact
– Handy contact details screen
– Quick access to standard Outlook’s contact viewing or editing dialog
– VGA support
– Fully skinnable interface. Two QVGA skins included, more skins can be found in my Skin Downloads area or at forum.xda-developers.com
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=402724
Snap2Face is a free Facebook client for Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PC and Smartphones). With Snap2Face you stay in touch with Facebook friends all the time…
Snap2Face is completely free. Data usage charges may apply depending on your mobile carrier. We recommend you get an unlimited data plan from your carrier.
Discussion: http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f323/snap2face-free-wm-facebook-client-hits-v1-0-a-90274.html
Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the indirect news hint – The webboard at Thoughtsmedia holds a buch of interesting releases which will effect future Pocket PC news.
http://www.magnifoca.com/download_snap2face.html
S2U2 (Slide2Unlock2) is a simple lock/unlock application which has the iPhone style slide unlocking. It can be used as a screensaver while you don’t use your device. And it’s has a CallerID function.
Changes:
– added the option to lock the device when the LCD is blanked (e.g. by S2P or other music app).
– fixed the bug that the OffLCD did not work on some devices.
– fixed the bug that occasional power drain might occur on some devices when ActiveSync is running in the background.
– fixed the bug that ShowAppointment could not display any appointment on some devices.
– extended the ShowAppointment to display the next week appointments.
– fixed the bug that the registry values looked messy.
(To make it works, after the installation of this version, please run the S2U2 Settings & save the settings once.)
– some minor bugs fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412418
GSlide, “Generic Slide”, is simply a explorer with a kinetic slider interface.
Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=421034
http://81.93.138.210/GSlide/
Musicman247 has released a new version of his application MusicFlo.
Changes:
-fixed clock
-removed Weather Auto Update
-fixed restart-startup error
-fixed various other small bugs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403815
ThrottleLock is a pattern based lock application, fully skinable and with multilanguage support.
Fixes:
– SIP problem
– Top bar problem when changing pattern
– Clock not updating on top bar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419525
Want to have your Pocket PC / Windows Mobile Phone have an optical iPhone look? iPhone GUI PSD is the thing for you!
Changes:
Changes to layer names to better reflect names from Interface Builder
Added progress view
Added activity indicator
Added page control
Added smoked glass menu
Added phone keypad
Added on call menu
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447