shrinking the bars - PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General

okay i love my new- well newer than my 2020, (got a 2020i for £75 on ebay!) but there is one BLOODY annoying thing about it, is there any way to make the top and bottom tool bar auto hide or reduce the size of them so there not making me look though a letter box at web pages?

The browser should hve a full screen function, if not, try Opera for PocketPC.

or try The Minimo (Mini Mozilla)

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Need a few things for my tilt

I'm in the midst of getting my tilt to be just where i want it to be, custom speaking.
I need help finding the following.
1)Is there a free weather program that I can run, that does NOT sit in my today screen, that will show me radar and dopler maps of weather for my (city/zip code/etc)? I know I can pull up a site in a browser, but i want this. Also, preferably one that can sit in the background and keep updating. and one that might show a movie clip or animated gif so it moves
2)Is there a free add-on for PIE that adds a "find" function and also tabs. With the tabs, I'd prefer one that doesnt add a huge thing at the bottom to click between, as browser space is already limited.
3)I'm running Rhino battery status on my today. and I love it. But i'm 1-2 pixels short so now I get scroll buttons. Is there a thinner battery status, or better yet, for the HTC Home buttons that already shows the battery meter, is there a way to turn that into a % instead of the ||||| graphic?
4)Does anyone know of a free lnk editor? smart.lnk wont install. at least the versions that I tried. total commanders lnk creation is clunky at best.
thanks!
for the weather you may like this one.....
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=150417
cool thanks. going to check it out.
for the #3 - battery, i found this pbar here that actually just takes up a pixel or 2. and is a task manager.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284952
works great

Winterface & FunContacts & Zoomboard

You have to try those to believe how good the Winterface application is. I saw the review on Tiltsite.com today, downloaded it and immediately loved it. It is extremely finger friendly, the interface is very intuitive and beautifully designed. It also uses minimum amount of system resource thus is very efficient.
http://iwindowsmobile.com/vito-mobile-shell.html
Their FunContacts is also a gem to have. Extremly finger friendly, smooth scrolling of the contact list like the iPhone. It absolutely replaces the old school "stylus-required" contact application included in WM6.1.
http://iwindowsmobile.com/contact-manager.html
I've also tried their Zoomboard application, I think it's a good concept, however there is room for improvement. It is still quite slow to type on the Zoomboard application. However the accuracy of the text is improved dramatically because of the zoomed in text let you see what you've pressed on the screen. But it still can't beat Kaiser/Tilt's excellent keyboard for typing.
http://iwindowsmobile.com/onscreen-keyboard.html
Enough said, I strongly encourage people to try it out. It will be a investment well spend. They also have a whole lot of other nicely designed applications on their webpage, check them out too.
http://iwindowsmobile.com/
seems like alot to spend on a couple of good apps that already exist freely...iContact, HTC album (for the photo thing) and even the (Samsung Glyde copy) button interface all exist free of charge. I'd have to see better to be convinced to put down $40 for 2 apps.
how do you install over an existing GUI... today screen , start menu, taskbar, etc???..
does it wipe them all out?
can you go back easily?
tahnx
nufsaid said:
seems like alot to spend on a couple of good apps that already exist freely...iContact, HTC album (for the photo thing) and even the (Samsung Glyde copy) button interface all exist free of charge. I'd have to see better to be convinced to put down $40 for 2 apps.
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Just some extra options for people to try, you don't lose money for trying it..
amkaos said:
how do you install over an existing GUI... today screen , start menu, taskbar, etc???..
does it wipe them all out?
can you go back easily?
tahnx
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I don't know what to say other than, yes, no, yes!
Conflicts
Do you know of any conflicts with this app? I have HHC installed right now.
amkaos said:
how do you install over an existing GUI... today screen , start menu, taskbar, etc???..
does it wipe them all out?
can you go back easily?
tahnx
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You slide your finger in an arc to enable the interface from your home screen or anywhere else. You can click okay button and easily go back to normal interface if you choose to do so.
When phone is unlocked in Winterface, you can "slide to unlock" the phone with a touch of a finger.
I installed this over Garmin's DK1 WM6.1 cooked rom, so far everything works smooth as silk. Garmin's DK1 includes HTC Home v2.0.1812282.1 that I enabled in my home screen. This app run dependent of HTC Home plugin so there is no problems that I found.
In my opinion this app totally replaces HTC Home just because it is much more intuitive (it displays # of new message you got or # of missed calls you have and stuff like that). Couple finger movement after you can reach almost any application on the phone.
I don't work for this company or anything... Just think it's a really cool app to try.
And after couple hours of useage, here is a little short list of pros and rooms for improvement:
Pro -
Extremly finger friendly, smooth flow, elegant design layout.
Low memory useage, fast start up anywhere in the OS.
Very intuitive interface, texts under icons are extremely useful, compare to some other apps who only incorporated icons.
Love to be able to mix and match the apps I need and put them in order I want.
Room for improvement -
Slide to unlock button will disappear if a phone call caused the phone to lock itself, the phone would also lock itself unwanted after a phone call is in progress. It is annoying because when you want to press the keys on the screen, you find the phone locked with slide to unlock.
Contrast of the default icons are rather low (The whites are a bit above mid gray color)
Would be nice to flip from first page to last and then from last to first in one direction.
Would be nice to have option to display non-clear type fonts, my eye don't see well under clear type fonts.
Too bad SMS-Chat and FunContact have problem displaying typed text in landscape orientation in windows mobile 6.1 device (no problem in 6.0 though), or they would work great alone side Winterface.
bennyj71 said:
Do you know of any conflicts with this app? I have HHC installed right now.
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so, how do i get that display of clock and slide to unlock?
edit :: wait, i get it.. this doesnt come w/anything else..
i like it -- really fast and nice to look at..
thanx..
Hmm,
I found quirks about the FunContact... Clear Type fonts used in that application will make all the typed in text display go blank when viewed in landscape mode... not recommended......
lifanus said:
Hmm,
I found quirks about the FunContact... Clear Type fonts used in that application will make all the typed in text display go blank when viewed in landscape mode... not recommended......
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doesnt that always happen in landscape + clear type ?
amkaos said:
doesnt that always happen in landscape + clear type ?
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I think it does, the system wouldn't even let me enable clear type on landscape mode... Maybe that's why all those apps that use cleartype in landscape mode would not display typed text properly
nufsaid said:
seems like alot to spend on a couple of good apps that already exist freely...iContact, HTC album (for the photo thing) and even the (Samsung Glyde copy) button interface all exist free of charge. I'd have to see better to be convinced to put down $40 for 2 apps.
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I personally LOVE the Zoomboard because of it's accuracy when typing one-handed (usually while driving). Obviously, I also prefer the regular hard keyboard, but we all know that's not always an option.
What free software that is similar to Zoomboard are you talking about?

Browser Advice: Try this Opera Mini CAB

In case no one has seen this yet, I highly recommend to try this "build" of Opera Mini:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455655
It solves the issue of small fonts, and has no problem with data connections or permissions. It is FAAAAST. It is best version I've seen, and I've tried a bunch of them.
After 10 minutes with this, it is hard to go back to another browser. My advice -- embrace the "mobile" rendering mode, don't bother with the desktop pan/zoom mode, and enjoy simply paging up/down (with the left/right dpad) on pages that are reformatted almost perfectly on the small screen.
UPDATE: and, by the way, to use your BACK key to go back in pages, add this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Keybd\ChangeBackVKeyCode\Jbed_NativeUI = dword:00000008
(This makes the BACK key map to BACKSPACE, so it will also delete text when doing data entry, etc.)
I will certainly give this a try........thanks for the highlight.
I downloaded and installed the cab. The browsers good, but is there anyway to make the menu button at the bottom larger, because currently I am not even able to access it.
buttuns said:
I downloaded and installed the cab. The browsers good, but is there anyway to make the menu button at the bottom larger, because currently I am not even able to access it.
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Well the easiest way to change that would be Menu -> Settings, and then change the font size, but if you can't access the menu button at all I think you can change the font sizes in the registry. I don't remember the location off-hand though.
could anyone post a screenshot please??
which version is now the best?? 20081016 or 20081203??
this browser is super fast, but i miss the zoom and drop down menus dont seem to work
I like it better than the default opera, but I have noticed some issues.
extending the keyboard seems to cause trouble, it causes the touchflo gui to cover up the opera menu bar. Tilting does not change from portrait to landscape.
Awesome browser. I wish you could zoom with the scrolling motion on the D-Pad like opera mobile, or that you could zoom at all. Thats the only problem. :/
Oh and if you start with your keyboard out the Touch Flo doesn't interfer with the menu bar at the bottom.
EDIT: I changed the font size, so zooming isn't needed. I love the mouse, it is so awesome. How can I set this as my default?
is this the one with the rainbow loading screen for the jvm?

Need Opera browser With slider for zoom

I had a version of opera browser and it had a little slider bar on the bottom of the screen to slide for zooming in and out instead of useing those plus and minus keys the had on the screen. I cant remember which version it was.. Anyone know?
thanks
I would try an opera version that's been ported from the Diamond, seems those always have the sliders. Try looking around in this thread, and just try some different versions. Good luck,
Dave
OK thanks will check it out

[Q] The app that is like a real writing book?

Is there in the market some app that work's like a real handbook?
What i mean is that i don't need to change page to continue writing, the app it self goes down as i continue.
Can some help
Also looking for a notebook app like this.. anyone has any ideas? =)
One that automatically scrolls left/right/up/down when you reach the end of the zoomed part so you wont have to click or drag someplace else like lecturenotes and anitpaper notes does?
Lecturenotes is pretty great but I'm planning on using it for college, and it takes a while switching from pen to hand tool, drag, then back to pen tool then same process for only a couple of words..
FreeNote has something like this, although far from perfect - in one of the input modes, letters drawn in the lower part of screen are reduced and put in regular note's lines at top, each time when you get to edge of screen while writing you have to pause for a millisecond, then the input area moves and you can continue writing the line until it's end, then press newline icon and start next one so on and so on...
@alsseja: I am glad to hear that you like LectureNotes. However, there is no need to change to `hand´ mode for scrolling, the app comes with several better ways to move the page: In case you use stylus hardware or software detection or save zone, you can enabled one and/or two finger scrolling and zooming in all modes. Additionally, you can use the `arrow´ icon (hidden by default), the volume keys of your device, or a connected mouse to advance the page by an adjustable amount, plus a `page forward´ icon (hidden by default) to advance by one page. Last but not least, the app has an auto-forward mechanism that automatically moves the page horizontally or vertically when your writing crosses an adjustable boundary on your screen. Needless to say that all methods append new pages if needed. For further details concerning any of these methods, please have a look on the app's help page.
Try to use evernote..
It's the nice app..
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@alsseja: I am glad to hear that you like LectureNotes. However, there is no need to change to `hand´ mode for scrolling, the app comes with several better ways to move the page: In case you use stylus hardware or software detection or save zone, you can enabled one and/or two finger scrolling and zooming in all modes. Additionally, you can use the `arrow´ icon (hidden by default), the volume keys of your device, or a connected mouse to advance the page by an adjustable amount, plus a `page forward´ icon (hidden by default) to advance by one page. Last but not least, the app has an auto-forward mechanism that automatically moves the page horizontally or vertically when your writing crosses an adjustable boundary on your screen. Needless to say that all methods append new pages if needed. For further details concerning any of these methods, please have a look on the app's help page.
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I definitely agree with this one!! It is the BEST notes app for the note. I use it extensively for work and grad school!! Worth every penny!
@ultra99: Many thanks for your kind comments, I am glad to hear that.

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