e-Book Readers
uBook
An ebook reader for Pocket PCs that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB, and PRC (not secure nor MS LIT) ebook files. It can read directly from inside ZIP files, and supports BMP, GIF, and JPG images. It can display in portrait or landscape views, and it's resizable and skinnable. You can choose font type, color, and size.
$FREE
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
GowerPoint.com
www.gowerpoint.com
[email protected]
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Travel
GPS Software
ALK CoPilot Live
Software that gives you turn-by-turn voice directions. It will automatically recalculate your route if you go off course. If you have a mobile phone connected, it will send two-way messaging, vehicle location, and itinerary updates to your device.
$229.00
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
TravRoute
www.travroute.com
[email protected]
CacheDragon
A GPS application written exclusively for geocaching. It combines a mapping application and an information database. Features: Filtering to display only certain kinds of locations; full-screen compass or map; color schemes; graphical tracking of paths; odometer; imports GPX files from geocaching.com.
$20.00
Use With: P/PC 2002
Hepcat Software
www.handango.com
[email protected]
OziExplorerCE
OziExplorer is interactive, raster-image, trip planning and moving-map software which allows the user to add waypoints, routes, and tracks to the map by simple point-and-click. Digital maps of a particular area of the world can be scanned and calibrated from paper charts. Free maps are available from the developer's Web site for registered users.
$75.00
Use With: H/PC, H/PC 2000, H/PC Pro, P/PC, P/PC 2002
Des & Lorraine Newman
www.oziexplorer.com
[email protected]
OziExplorerCE (above): Scan charts to make your own maps; navigate routes using GPS.
PowerLOC Destinator
Software that can locate your position on the accompanying 3D or 2D rotating map, give you turn-by-turn directions for your preferred destination and recalculate the directions if you miss a turn, and direct you to nearby points of interest such as restaurants, gas stations, and ATMs.
$249.00
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
PowerLOC Technologies Inc.
www.destinator1.com
[email protected]
TeleType GPS
A mapping and data collection program for vehicle navigation and tracking. It can perform door-to-door routing and has visual and voice alerts. It includes U.S. street-level maps and allows storage and display of your own location points. Maps for Europe are available.
$95.00
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
TeleType
www.teletype.com
[email protected]
TeleType GPS Software (above): Door-to-door routing with voice recognition and prompts with this GPS software.
TomTom Navigator
A 3D and 2D map display GPS navigation software that routes and does turn-by-turn directions with text and voice alerts. The 3D angle-of-view can be adjusted to view the route ahead from different heights above the road. Compatibility with Pocket Outlook allows route planning directly from your Contacts. It also has a "night" mode to dim the display.
$179.00
Use With: P/PC and P/PC 2002
TomTom
www.tomtom.com
[email protected]
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Guides
Metro
Provides directions for many major U.S. and overseas cities. City guides can be updated with current information from the Metro Web site.
$FREE
Use With: P/PC 2002
Patrice Benard
www.nanika.net/Metro/
[email protected]
Pocket Streets 2004
This application is included in Streets & Trips 2004 (for desktop PC). It will enable you to carry and view maps. You can locate addresses, intersections, and points of interest, customize locations by inserting your own pushpins, and map an address directly from Pocket Outlook. You can download maps directly from Streets & Trips 2004.
$24.95
Use With: P/PC, P/PC 2002, and Windows Mobile 2003
Microsoft Corporation
www.microsoft.com
[email protected]
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Utilities
Calculator
Calc98
This calculator includes functions for statistics, use of different number bases (binary, octal, hexadecimal, and base-n), metric unit conversion, and physical properties and constants. It has financial functions including investment, loan, and mortgage calculations. It also calculates time functions and has a stopwatch feature and RPN (Reverse Polish Notation).
$FREE
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
Flow Simulation Ltd.
www.flosim.com
[email protected]
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Document Viewers
Pocket Text Finder
A text search tool that will find all occurrences of a text string and display them in a list. Selecting an item from the list displays the text in a window. The text will automatically be highlighted and the file name and type will be displayed with a button that allows the file to be opened in the program associated with that file type.
$20.00
Use With: P/PC 2002
Saved Software, LLC
www.savedsoftware.com
[email protected]
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File management
Advanced Explorer
A file explorer with zip file support and file encryption/decryption.
$12.00
Use With: P/PC, P/PC 2002, and Windows Mobile 2003
Alpha Beta Software
www.angelfire.com/realm3/alphabeta/
[email protected]
PE Explorer Suite
PE Explorer Suite includes all the capabilities of PE File Explorer, PE Zip Explorer, PE Encrypt, PE FTP Explorer, and PE Net Explorer in one complete package.
$44.95
Use With: P/PC 2002
Vieka
www.vieka.com
[email protected]
Pocket dbExplorer
Pocket dbExplorer allows you to browse and manage databases on Windows Mobile devices. Databases can be displayed as small or large icons or as a detailed list, and can be sorted by name, date, or size in ascending or descending order.
$24.95
Use With: Ps/PC, H/PC, H/PC Pro, P/PC, P/PC 2002, and P/PC 2003
PhatWare Corp
www.phatware.com
[email protected]
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Notes
MultiTimer
MultiTimer adds multi-timing/reminder/alarm capabilities to any Pocket PC device. You can set any number of reminders/alarms. MultiTimer wakes the Pocket PC from sleep to sound an alarm or display a message. Use custom sounds, recorded voice messages, or handwriting/drawings as the alarm. Reminders work even after a soft reset.
$14.95
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
Dijitanix Limited
www.dijitanix.com
[email protected]
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Printing
PrintBoy for Pocket PC
Print e-mails and Pocket Word and Excel documents over infrared, Wi-Fi, modem, or cell phone connections. This utility supports Rich Text Formatting so you can get color, bold, italics, underline, and strike-through in your printout. Works with most printer models, including HP, Canon, Epson, Lexmark (Optra), Ricoh, and more.
$39.99
Use With: P/PC 2002
Bachmann Software
www.bachmannsoftware.com
[email protected]
sqlceEnable
sqlceEnable allows mobile professionals to create and print custom reports from any Pocket PC or Windows CE device, using data from SQL Server CE databases. It's an add-on to SYWARE's Report CE application.
$499
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
Syware, Inc.
www.syware.com
[email protected]
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Remote Host Control
GoToMyPC
GoToMyPC Personal allows you to access your computer remotely from any other Internet-connected computer in the world, using almost any operating system, through a secure private connection. You can access your PC from your wireless device running Windows CE 4.x, Pocket PC 2002, or Windows Mobile 2003.
$19.95/mo. Or $179.40/yr
Use With: Desktop PC, H/PC, P/PC 2002, and P/PC 2003
Expertcity, Inc.
www.gotomypc.com
[email protected]
GoToMyPC (above): View and interact with your computer's desktop from the screen of your Pocket PC.
Home Supervisor
You can control your household lights and appliances with Home Supervisor, your Pocket PC, and a CM11A computer interface. With its event recorder, Home Supervisor also monitors, records, and displays the event log of other remote devices sending X10 signals, such as occupancy/motion sensors, keyless remote systems, and other timers or controllers.
$27.99
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
Alpine Valley Automation
www.alvaautomation.com
[email protected]
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Screen Capture
Screen Capture Utility
The Screen Capture Utility is designed to make screen snapshots for Windows CE mobile devices. The captured screen is saved to your My Documents folder as a standard BMP file. Utility takes only 5K of storage space on your PDA.
$2.99
Use With: H/PC, P/PC, and P/PC 2002
ValkSoft
www.valksoft.com
[email protected]
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Security
Airscanner Mobile AntiVirus
An anti-virus and anti-Trojan-horse software. Viruses are quarantined and tools are included for debugging and removing Trojan horses. You can also enter your own custom virus signatures (for experts). Free for home/personal use only.
$Free Home version / $29.99 Pro version
Use With: P/PC 2002
Airscanner Corp.
www.airscanner.com
[email protected]
System Security Monitor Pro
System Security Monitor is a low-level system program which uses a powerful notification engine and was designed to monitor and track down hidden activity on your Pocket PC 2002.
$19.99
Use With: P/PC 2002
ValkSoft
www.valksoft.com
[email protected]
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Soft Keyboards
EZ Note
A soft keyboard with three different full-screen input methods. Large buttons make for one-handed, stylus-free operation. It features predictive input which displays three suggestions for the next word. Includes stylus gestures for space, backspace, enter, and capitalization..
$9.95
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
PDAmill
www.pdamill.com
[email protected]
Tapless
An intuitive accelerated-text-entry program that allows you simply to browse to any word or phrase by entering a few characters and then choosing from the displayed word lists (sorted by size) of predicted completions. There are 40 skins available. Available in two versions: Basic and Premium.
$19.95 & $29.95
Use With: P/PC ARM, and P/PC 2002
Synaptek Software
www.tapless.biz
[email protected]
TenGo
A software QWERTY keyboard that distributes all 26 letters over 6 large keys. It works similarly to a T9 keyboard, predicting words from your keystroke patterns. If more than one word matches the pattern you've typed, TenGo will display all the words for you to choose. Fast text input is possible due to the large keys and familiar key layout.
$19.95
Use With: P/PC 2002
Xrgomics, Inc.
www.tengo.net
[email protected]
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Speech
Speereo Voice Translator
A translator that understands spoken English (even pronounced with a strong accent) and immediately reads back the same phrase in Spanish, German, French, Italian or Russian with a 99.9% accuracy for native English speakers.
$40.00
Use With: P/PC ARM, and P/PC 2002
Speereo Software
www.speereo.com
[email protected]
Speereo Voice Translator (above): Speak English and it says the same phrase in Spanish, German, French, Italian, or Russian.
Voice LookUp
Lets you look up contacts, dial phones, and create e-mails by voice commands. Also outputs dtmf tones and will read a phone number aloud. Voice LookUp doesn't require you to train it for every word in its vocabulary. It is phonetically based, so a short training session is all that is necessary for recognition to work.
$20.00
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
HandHeld Speech, LLC
www.handheldspeech.com
[email protected]
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System and Registry
Pocket Backup Plus
Pocket Backup Plus includes all of the functionality of the standard edition of Pocket Backup, and also allows you to back up directly to your PC or network. The Pocket Backup Plus PC Agent can restore your Pocket PC device even if Pocket Backup Plus is not installed on it.
$29.95
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
Sprite Software Limited
www.spritesoftware.com
[email protected]
SysPack for SideX
A collection of add-on utilities for SideX, an applet platform for the Pocket PC. Includes an advanced close button, a launch menu, settings, a task manager, and log off, reset, and power off buttons. Lets you assign hardware buttons, and has battery/memory indicators.
$9.99
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
MTUX
www.mtux.com
[email protected]
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Task Management
SmallMenuPlus
This program can display a small window on the far left side of your navigation bar which you can tap to bring up cascading program menus. You can create your own menus which are independent from the Programs menu, providing an additional launching path for your applications.
$5.60
Use With: P/PC, and P/PC 2002
Tillanosoft's Windows CE Station
tillanosoft.com/ce
[email protected]
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Theme Creation/Management
ThemeMaker (Basic, Pro, & Plus)
A utility that lets you create themes and import themes. You can adjust gamma, brightness, and contrast; save theme images in either 256 colors or 16 million colors; adjust colors of the title bar, command bar, and text, lines, and dialog box headings; do a screen capture of a finished theme; and customize the appearance by choosing from 11 different skins. Available in 3 versions.
$12 Basic, $24 Pro, and $34 Plus
Use With: P/PC 2002 and desktop PC
Kamware
Pocket PC magazine, January 2004 Page 17