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n00b, today screen, internet, please help

so i got a t-mobile wing. my first smart phone. its amazing. anyways i have a few questions:
1. Where can i get a nice big digital clock today screen plugin? i see them on screen shots of peoples screens but i can't find any.
2. Are there any good weather today screen plugins?
3. Some people (or at least on other devices) have SMS as a softkey, mine are calendar and contacts, is there a simple option to make the calendar softkey be SMS instead? or do i have to edit the registry or something crazy like that to get it?
4. Do i really have to worry about viruses on this thing? i saw something like WM5 Anti Virus program, so im just wondering.
5. What is the best browser to use?
if you guys could help me that would be great. i have yet to find a forum about WM6 or the Wing that where people actually go to the site.

All of those and more are located within the forum in easy to find threads. The great thing about looking around the forum is you will find stuff out that you never even thought of. I would recommend reading and getting acquainted to the forums, its a much better way to learn than someone just linking you somewhere. And congrats on your new Wing.

wyldstallyns2589 said:
so i got a t-mobile wing. my first smart phone. its amazing. anyways i have a few questions:
1. Where can i get a nice big digital clock today screen plugin? i see them on screen shots of peoples screens but i can't find any.
this is HTC home plugin
2. Are there any good weather today screen plugins?
HTC home plugin shows weather. if not try SPB Weather, SPB Traveler, SPB phone suite (the only ones I have experience with)
3. Some people (or at least on other devices) have SMS as a softkey, mine are calendar and contacts, is there a simple option to make the calendar softkey be SMS instead? or do i have to edit the registry or something crazy like that to get it?
Go to Settings, Buttons to change the softkeys
4. Do i really have to worry about viruses on this thing? i saw something like WM5 Anti Virus program, so im just wondering.
In my opinion, no not really ... just be considerate of what you install on your phone and what executable files you run.
5. What is the best browser to use?
I haven't settled on one yet, but I use Mozilla's MINIMO and OPERA 8.X apart from IE.
if you guys could help me that would be great. i have yet to find a forum about WM6 or the Wing that where people actually go to the site.
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Hope this helps

i guess my other post didn't show up? well every search results in HTC Home or TouchFlo.
i don't want all the stuff from HTC home, just the clock and simple weather, no tabs or any of that stuff. is there a way to have just the clock and/or weaher?
and thanks for your help

also, going to settings>buttons has no optinos for softkeys, only hardware keys.

opera mobile is a lot better, i like how you can scroll by dragging on the screen.

I do use Opera most of the time, I've just always been a big supporter of Mozilla stuff ... so I keep it around
I just wanted to give you a few options so you could try them out for yourself and see what you liked.

i havn't tried minimo because i heard it was slow and uses a lot of memory. is that true?

Favourite calendar application

What's the best calendar application out there? I think the built-in one is too limited. I owned a Mteor before I bought the TyTN II and replaced the built-in one with Papyrus.
The best one for PocketPC/Windows Mobile Professional that I've found so far is Agenda Fusion (www.developerone.com).

Pocket Informant every time

I'd recommend looking at AgendaOne more than Agenda Fusion these days. It's the newer/slicker version of the product. I use that & have for years after upgrading from Agenda Fusion.

I tried Agenda One, Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant. I prefer PI.
What I do NOT like about Agenda One is its limited icons. Maybe the made new ones in the meantime, but there were only a few and the TONS that exist for Fusion are NOT COMPATIBLE with One! Go figure. Also, it is supposed to be faster and fine-tuned for one-handed operation --- well, YMMV but I found it could not live up to that promise.
Good luck making you choice.
EDIT: THIS WAS MY 100th POST
CHAMPAGNE!
MUSIC!
DANCE!

For those who are using Agenda Fusion on the Tytn II, how fast/slow is it? Are there any lags when opening the application? What version of AF are you using?
I have version 7.85 installed on the Tytn II and I have a delay of approx. 2 seconds from when the application starts to when the tasks in are listed.

When they developed AgendaOne, they did change the required icon format and the Fusion Icons generally won't work. But usually for $5-6 bucks you can find good icon packs around. DesignsByBert has three different packs available, for example. I happen to like the business one...

Yeah I have seen them, but I found them inadequate. I know picky picky.
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When they developed AgendaOne, they did change the required icon format and the Fusion Icons generally won't work. But usually for $5-6 bucks you can find good icon packs around. DesignsByBert has three different packs available, for example. I happen to like the business one...
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Is AgendaOne faster than AgendaFusion? AgendaFusion is quite slow to start (same applies to Pocket Informant, for that matter).

I found AgendaOne to be much faster than AgendaFusion.
There's a slight delay when it loads as it builds the view, but it's typically only 1-2 seconds for me (something like 200 appointments, 20 task, 850 contacts). I recall Fusion being much longer, but then it was also on a slower device with less RAM and it was around eighteen months ago.

I have played a little with Pocket Informant now. I like it better than Agenda Fusion. Features are similar, but it looks way better.

When using Pocket Informant is there anyway to combine the calendar with PocketCM for Contacts?
I love pocketCM but when I install PI I get lumbered with PI's Contacts - which arent as nice as PocketCM
PS How rude of me... I'm new in here and didn't even have the courtesy to say HI
PPS Hi All. I'm new in here. Loving the Kaiser/Vario III/Tytn II/all the other names!

scouser_75 said:
When using Pocket Informant is there anyway to combine the calendar with PocketCM for Contacts?
I love pocketCM but when I install PI I get lumbered with PI's Contacts - which arent as nice as PocketCM
PS How rude of me... I'm new in here and didn't even have the courtesy to say HI
PPS Hi All. I'm new in here. Loving the Kaiser/Vario III/Tytn II/all the other names!
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Good question. The PI contact application stinks. I'd love to replace it with something else - even the built-in one. I don't think that's possible either.

Handling alarms and notifications
Two questions:
1. I really like the option in Agenda Fusion to set an alarm by absolute date and time. Is this possible in Agenda One or Pocket Informant?
2. When a notification pops up, I would like to be able to select the Menu/View Item option and have the appointment come up for editing in Agenda Fusion rather than the default Calendar. Is there any way to accomplish this?
Thanks.

jahnotto said:
Good question. The PI contact application stinks. I'd love to replace it with something else - even the built-in one. I don't think that's possible either.
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if you install pocket cm and then use RemapSoftkeys to make pocket cm your contacts soft key bobs you uncle

Windows 6.1 interface ?

Where i'm find the interface presented for windows mobile 6.1 like http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2008/06/03/customizing-the-sliding-panel-homescreen.aspx this ??? txs a lot !

ABstar said:
Where i'm find the interface presented for windows mobile 6.1 like http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2008/06/03/customizing-the-sliding-panel-homescreen.aspx this ??? txs a lot !
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If you read the thing it says
The built in plug-in names are:
1) CClock – The big clock
2) CAppointments - The calendar plugin
3) CHome – The notifications plugin
4) CMyPhotos – The photos plugin
5) CMessage – The message center (this is off by default on all sliding panel built in layouts.
6) CMusic – The music plugin
7) Settings – The settings plug-in
8) Custom Plugins – Users can specify custom plug-ins with static content that can be displayed on the home screen.
Just search and download those plugins and you can get it

Where i'm download ?

ABstar said:
Where i'm download ?
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Your Kaiser is running WM6.1 Professional.
What you see there is WM6.1 Standard (non-touchscreen)

johanromijn said:
Your Kaiser is running WM6.1 Professional.
What you see there is WM6.1 Standard (non-touchscreen)
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He should still be able to run the plugins though . Just obviously no touchscreen support.
@ OP here is a good place to find them

So are there any ROMS that use the new interface?

jimlivingston said:
So are there any ROMS that use the new interface?
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No. As stated above, this interface is for Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, for non-touchscreen smartphones only. Since you would only see a pretty picture with no touch response, cooks will not bother to include it in their ROMs (not a bad thing).

Ah I see, I read that backward in my head. Damn dyslexia!
That interface would be very nice if it was finger friendly
I have tried throttle launcher and pointui, both of which were lacking. Does anyone know of other UIs?

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He should still be able to run the plugins though . Just obviously no touchscreen support.
@ OP here is a good place to find them
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There's a difference between Home plugins and Today plugins.
Frankly, I'm a little disappointed with WM6.1 Pro. WM6.1 Std is the best thing since sliced bread. Totally revitalises the crippled smartphone interface.
What did 6.1 do for Pro?

Yea I agree. 6.1 Pro looks and acts much the same as 6.0. After seeing all the screenshots and videos of 6.1 Standard that my expectations were relatively high for Pro. To make matter worse my brother-in-law just showed off his iPhone 3G today. Its interface is so much smoother and user friendly than what I can get for my Tilt. I guess MS still thinks a stylus is better than a finger; I disagree.
Oh well, I guess we can't have our cake and eat it too!

NotATreoFan said:
No. As stated above, this interface is for Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, for non-touchscreen smartphones only. Since you would only see a pretty picture with no touch response, cooks will not bother to include it in their ROMs (not a bad thing).
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I think I'd rather have a useful, goodlooking today screen that I use with the hardware buttons than a bunch of plugins that dont really do exactly what you want them to anyways. Dont you think so? I'm starting to get fed up with HTC Home...

reonan said:
I think I'd rather have a useful, goodlooking today screen that I use with the hardware buttons than a bunch of plugins that dont really do exactly what you want them to anyways. Dont you think so? I'm starting to get fed up with HTC Home...
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I already gave up on HTC Home. I haven't even installed it on the last 5+ flashes. I agree with the sentiment in several other threads that Microsoft really screwed-the-pooch on 6.1 Professional with regards to interface upgrades (read: none), but I also wouldn't want my Today screen to be filled up with icons I cannot tap for a response.

NotATreoFan said:
I already gave up on HTC Home. I haven't even installed it on the last 5+ flashes. I agree with the sentiment in several other threads that Microsoft really screwed-the-pooch on 6.1 Professional with regards to interface upgrades (read: none), but I also wouldn't want my Today screen to be filled up with icons I cannot tap for a response.
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What other today screen have you been using? I tried HTC, Winterface, Point UI( both version). I was thinking about the Touch Xperience(?).

bennyj71 said:
What other today screen have you been using? I tried HTC, Winterface, Point UI( both version). I was thinking about the Touch Xperience(?).
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I don't use anything. Just the default WM Home Screen.

[Q] [REQ] Calendar / Agenda software?

Hi everyone! I have my Raphael since November 2008 (man, time goes fast!) in replacement of a Palm Lifedrive. The PPC sistem is very nice, and I love my phone... the only thing I miss is the calendar/agenda sistem of the Palm OS, where you can separate your meetengs, etc by category and these are showed in the agenda in differents colors. I think this is VERY useful! I now using the GREAT and last version of ENERGY ROM (TP2 Manila xbmod), and this interface have a nice improvement in the TF3D with the CALENDAR TAB, but this "show" a "busy" day only by a white mark, and the WM6.1 calendar doesn´t have any colors to show in the Week or month view. So... my question /request is : Is there any way to tweak the TP2 manila or the WM6.1 default calendar so it could show different colors depending on different categories? or Is there another good software that replace the default agenda and has this feature?
...well , that´s it!, THANK YOU VERY MUCH !
PD: sorry my terrible english.... Chile present in an international forum!

I use pocket informant 8.... better cal app then the default.
SoBBie

Thank you! I´ll give it a try!

There's also Agendus that was on Palm and now is on Windows OS
http://www.iambic.com/agendus/wmppc/

thumbcal is very nice.

Actually if you are using Win. mobile 6.5 you will want to stay away from pretty much every 3rd party app until 6.5 is officially released. none of the 3rd party cal's have the information to update there software and many are creating (in my opinion) big issues with the cal. and the phone.
I was using 6.1 and PI worked great. I also liked SBSH Cal. touch but it was not as robust. BUT now that I upgraded to 6.5 I am trying to stay away from any of them since none fully work with it :'(
Thanks,
SoBBie

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Actually if you are using Win. mobile 6.5 you will want to stay away from pretty much every 3rd party app until 6.5 is officially released.
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This is so true. I tried PI8 and SBSH. Neither worked right. However, Thumbcal is working like a champ.

supersobbie said:
Actually if you are using Win. mobile 6.5 you will want to stay away from pretty much every 3rd party app until 6.5 is officially released. none of the 3rd party cal's have the information to update there software and many are creating (in my opinion) big issues with the cal. and the phone.
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I have been using Agenda Fusion 8 for a few years and find it to be, by far, the most productive app on my phone. It works fine on my 6.5 ROM. I can read and write current and new appointments and tasks with no problems at all. Frankly I was surprised to see that some other apps are not working with 6.5.
If you try Agenda Fusion 8, be sure to give it a good try. It has so much functionality that it takes a while to sort through what you will use and not use. The trial is 15 days. It has a great interface for tasks and appointements. It also has the ability to create templates for new appointments and tasks to speed repetitive entry on the go. The app is stylus based and not finger friendly, but as a business application to manage my Outlook data on my phone, I have never found anything that even comes remotely close, and I have tried several.
There are several that look better, but none that are more productive.
www.developerone.com
Doug M.

Hi,
In order to get an overview of my appointments in different colors I have the following setup:
- I use Oggsync to sync OTA my Google calendars (category is automatically assigned for each calendar)
- I've installed 'Manila Today Page' http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=508102%5C
- On the extra Manila page, obtained from MTP I've put TodayAgenda http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2723505, which allows to display all of my appointments, with colors according to their category.
- I use Thumbcal to create appointments for it's 'finger-friendliness'.

dwmackay said:
I have been using Agenda Fusion 8 for a few years and find it to be, by far, the most productive app on my phone. It works fine on my 6.5 ROM. I can read and write current and new appointments and tasks with no problems at all. Frankly I was surprised to see that some other apps are not working with 6.5.
If you try Agenda Fusion 8, be sure to give it a good try. It has so much functionality that it takes a while to sort through what you will use and not use. The trial is 15 days. It has a great interface for tasks and appointements. It also has the ability to create templates for new appointments and tasks to speed repetitive entry on the go. The app is stylus based and not finger friendly, but as a business application to manage my Outlook data on my phone, I have never found anything that even comes remotely close, and I have tried several.
There are several that look better, but none that are more productive.
www.developerone.com
Doug M.
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AgendaFusion looks good but I dont think they ever made it touch friendly ... I will play with it again but pretty sure it is stylus based. PI8 and SBSH both are great for thumb use. PI8 has just as much functionality as AgendaFusion PLUS it has the touch feature which is very nice.
But that is my personal preferance. I want a thumb based organizer. ThumbCal works fine but I use tasks a lot and I dont know if it handles that (dont think so last I checked) but I may also take a look at that one.
Thanks,
SoBBie

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AgendaFusion looks good but I dont think they ever made it touch friendly
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You are absolutely correct. Agenda Fusion is not the least bit finger friendly. For me however, I can use the simple Today screen on 6.5 to see upcomming appointments. But if I really need to spend time with my calendar and tasks, I use Agenda Fusion. It works so well for me, that I do not even take my laptop home or on appointments. Everything I need is accessible through Agenda Fusion.
I did write to DeveloperOne a couple of months ago to see if a newer release is scheduled. They have stopped development becuase they already had so much functionality, there was really nothing left to do. So... no finger friendly versions are headed your way...
If I had a tool to do so, I would post screen shots, but I do not have anything.
Doug M.

Doug,
I am playing with agenda fusion... and yes, it is a good program. But, I would advice you to try PI8 again (wait till Windows Mobile 6.5 comes out and they update it). PI8 has at least as much functionality as AF but they were smart enough to make it touch freindly. I am not saying jump right into it but I would advice you to try it again. if you are still using a 6.1 ROM then I would suggest that you give it a try now... but as I said above if you are on 6.5 dont bother with it yet... but try it as soon as they build a version for it.
Have a great day,
SoBBie

[REQ] Skinning the vanilla Pocket Outlook calendar app

Hello, I am the "lucky" owner of an HD2; I've been searching these forums, both the hd2 branch and everything else, for a way to "skin" the pocket outlook calendar to look more finger friendly, but either noone discussed this before, or I've been blind somewhere.
Anyway, the Sense today plugin looks very good, and the HTC calendar tab is really eyecandy, but is basically USELESS, as I need to wait time for the screens to scroll up and down, I cannot have a week view where clicking a day opens the day (not always anyway), I cannot copy/paste/cut a whole appointment, I cannot jump one week forward in single-day view, I am nto presented with a dropdown list where all the most recently "locations" used in single appointments are shown for me to choose from instead of writing them each time... and generally, I have a nice eyecandy animation all over the HTC calendar, but miss a hell lot of functions I got used to (and now aboslutely need for proficiently taking appointments) with PO calendar, when up until a week ago I was using my ipaq 214.
While HTC calendar is full of shortcomings, PO calendar has a big one tho: it is not AT ALL fingerfriendly, and for some reason looks garbled with wrong/missing icons (icons which are quite small).
So, is there a way (tool/file editing/cab/anything) that would let me keep the PO calendar that I oh so much like, but with a different, "bigger" skin?

Dunno if it will help you or not, but try thumbcal ane see, i had the same problem as you before.......

I tried thumbcal, that's extreme skinning to some extent also, it's commercial, and I would need to pay just to use a different calendar only to have eyecandy... plus, it doesn't do what I do need, that is cut/copy/paste whole appointments :-|
I would also appreciate tips on where to look, what PNG to change, or anyway, where to start if I wanted to change myself the appearance of the pocket outlook calendar!

This has nothing to do with skins, but is dependendant solely on the coding. What you could do though is to flash a 6.5.3 ROM, which should be a bit more finger-friendly overall.
Also there are some other powerful commercial alternatives, like SBSH Calendar Touch, Pocket Informant or Agenda One. These are definetely more finger-friendly than Pocket Outlook but don't look as good as HTC Calendar.

Livven said:
This has nothing to do with skins, but is dependendant solely on the coding. What you could do though is to flash a 6.5.3 ROM, which should be a bit more finger-friendly overall.
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I would normally abandon my search for workarounds since you told me that.. but I do have evidence that skinning of vanilla calendar is possible, at least to some extent... Wisbar advance can do that, and I happen to have a license for that utility (I used it on the ipaq 210 with wm6, skinned lot of the UI calendar included), but installing it over Sense -tried it- means unleashing hell over the overall aspect of the hd2 interface.
So I was looking for a way to skin the PO calendar, and that alone...

WAD is not a skin, it's a standalone app...

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WAD is not a skin, it's a standalone app...
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Yes, it is a standalone app... which anyway does skin the vanilla pocket outlook interface (together with a lot of other aspects of WM).
It doesn't include a "WA calendar", it just sets PO calendar to look differently, with different days tab graphics, tab backgrounds, titlebar color and the likes... don't know if it's still possible to use bigger graphics to enlarge the days tabs button tho...

No, it does not set Pocket Outlook to look differently, but it really has its own calendar app - it's just integrated in the whole WAD UI.

I think you should reconsider this... I just turned on my old ipaq 214, which I'm about to put on sale, and I checked the calendar.lnk file in the start menu folder, it points to "poutlook.exe calendar", clicking it opens up the normal PO calendar, with the skinned tabs by WAD.
So WAD does skin the pocket outlook calendar, somehow...