Chronobis is a FREE Outlook Web Access (OWA) to Windows Mobile device synchronization tool. It can be used to connect directly to OWA from your Windows Mobile device to sync Exchange calendar and tasks to your PocketPC, all without administrative user permissions. Chronobis is easy to install and use making for the ultimate Exchange Server to PPC device synchronization program.
JB Piano is a free software tool that allows you to play the piano from your pocket PC. JB Piano features unique and completely original artwork, and solid ideas to bring a great piano to your Pocket PC. This portable Piano features a beautiful, double shelved, 49 key piano with rich, authentic piano tones. If your a music lover, we think you’ll get a kick out of using JB Piano. It’s slick, easy and fun to use!
SetVolume is a simple Free tool for Windows Mobile Pocket PC devices. It can be used to interactively (via the touch screen) control the volume level of the peripherals on your Pocket PC by simply sliding your finger around the onscreen speaker icon (or via the +/- buttons). You can also mute or unmute selected peripherals by pressing the central button. SetVolume is tied to the hardware button volume controls of your Pocket PC by default.
WeatherBug Direct is a Free Weather tool for Windows Mobile devices. It allows you to retrieve live, local weather and forecasts from more than 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations around the U.S. and display this weather information on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone. WeatherBug can be run directly from your home screen and is displayed on your today page via the today plugin.
My Mobiler is a Free tool that allows you to use your desktop keyboard, mouse and monitor to navigate and control your Windows Mobile Pocket PC. With it you can view your Windows Mobile screen on your desktop PC. This makes it easy to “control your Windows mobile device with a desktop keyboard and mouse”. Moreover, you can drag and drop files from your desktop to your windows mobile device, Cut and paste text from your desktop PC to your Windows mobile device and capture your windows mobile screen or even stream capture from your desktop PC.
Zumobi is Free software that delivers entertainment, news and web based information content to your phone in a innovative and interactive new way. Zumobi features zoom space with customizable entertainment and information tiles that can be zoomed to full screen on your Windows mobile device. Zumobi users personalize these interactive tiles populating them with relevant and interesting information to suite their own needs.
Live Search for Windows Mobile is Free software from Microsoft that was designed to provide you with important and relevant information that matters most while your mobile. It includes a map, phone book, city guide and more. Live Search for Windows Mobile can be used to find local businesses and restaurants, get turn by turn driving directions, find local gas prices, explore interactive maps with satellite imagery, view surrounding traffic information, find local movie listings and check weather.
psShutXP is a Free utility that can be used to turn off, set display to off, or completely shutdown your Windows Mobile device. It functions similar to how Windows XP’s shutdown manager applet does. In addition, psShutXP Shutdown manager is completely skinnable and is easy to understand. Now you can control the shutdown of your Windows Mobile device via software rather than having to use the hardware button.
Total Commander is a file manager that offers much more than the standard File Explorer that ships with Windows Mobile. Some key features include: side by side file views, enhanced search functions, archive handling (compress or decompress files), file editor, registry editor and a built in FTP client. We feel that Total Commander deserves to be listed as a valuable resource for Windows Mobile users that want to do much more than simply browse files.
Slide2Unlock is an iPhone like sliding unlocker for Windows Mobile devices. It allows a user to quickly unlock a Windows Mobile device via a single (sliding) swipe across the screen after the device has been in standby or screen saver. Works much nicer than the factory lock/unlock tool that comes with Windows Mobile and provides an additional security measure by preventing accidental program launches while the device is in standby.
Google Search for Windows Mobile is a Free internet search query addon for Windows Mobile devices. It enables you to add a Google simple Searchbox to your today screen. This makes for easy access to the mobile version of the Google search engine using your Mobile device, offering everything from local listings to weather and flight updates and much more.
pBar is a Free Windows Mobile task manager for Pocket PC’s and Smart Devices. It comes with a smart application closing tool that is able to override the behavior of the “X” button. pBar also sports a menu with many important shortcuts and additional shortcuts can easily be added for quick access to your frequently used programs. In addition, pBar contains a battery indicator, memory capacity indicator and can open multiple excel files.
Metrix Free Edition is a tool that can be used to display some basic System Information about your Windows Mobile device or Pocket PC. Information such as your Battery Status, Memory and System Capacity and Screen Brightness are displayed within nice graphical elements. The Metrix .cab file is roughly 257KB. Please note that Metrix must be installed to the system. It cannot be installed to and run from a flash storage card.
PIM is a FREE Windows Mobile backup utility. This simple backup tool allows a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 user to backup and restore contacts, appointments, tasks, messages, calls and other personal information residing on windows mobile based pocket devices. The user can choose to backup Windows Mobile information in binary or text based formats. The Binary backup method is the most reliable, however the text based backup method allows the user to easily see and edit or modify the backed up contents.
moBlog is a Free mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile devices. The blogging tool supports Blogger, Wordpress.com and Live Spaces. Future support for LiveJournal and MovableType/TypePad is said to be in the works as well. What is nice about moBlog, is that you can do your writing and editing even while disconnected from the net. “A connection is only required when you initially setup your blogging accounts and when you want to update your blog with the new content.” (quote from the author)
Shopping List makes for an essential application to add to your Windows Mobile device if your one of those people that always forgets something whenever they go shopping. Shopping List is an easy to use item manager that can be used to help you organize and remember the items on your shopping list, you can even send the list via SMS if necessary. This application requires roughly 50KB off free space for installation.
