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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.
PerfAlbion said:
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

HTC Home Weather + Vista Sync

Hi All
Just starting out with my Kaiser and have a complaint which is not directly related to the Kaiser. Why can I not synchronise my Kaiser with the new applications "Windows Calendar", "Windows Contacts" in Windows Vista using the Windows Mobile Device Center? Very annoying. Have had a quick look around and it really seems as though it's not possible. Apparently, I need to be buy Outlook. Very, very annoying. Has anybody heard whether Microsoft are going to fix this or if someone's working on a 3rd party app to do this?
2nd major gripe is the Weather section of HTC Home. Used to use SPB Weather on my old Wizard but really like the HTC Home Weather; big weather icons etc. Bit annoyed that it can only hold weather for one city at a time but my biggest issue is that is only seems capable of using the American site Accuweather. I'm in the UK and the ability to use, say the BBC's weather would be much better. AccuWeather doesn't seem to be very accurate for UK weather. Does anyone know of a way around this?
Thanks and regards,
J

Jerstep said:
Hi All
2nd major gripe is the Weather section of HTC Home. Used to use SPB Weather on my old Wizard but really like the HTC Home Weather; big weather icons etc. Bit annoyed that it can only hold weather for one city at a time but my biggest issue is that is only seems capable of using the American site Accuweather. I'm in the UK and the ability to use, say the BBC's weather would be much better. AccuWeather doesn't seem to be very accurate for UK weather. Does anyone know of a way around this?
Thanks and regards,
J
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I with "J" on this one I would like to be able to display UK weather

Outlook (v2003 I believe) should be on the CD that came with your phone.

HTC Hero

Pop over to the HTC site and atke a look at this - it looks gob smackingly awesome

look at htc youtube that bl**dy awsome
a mix of Cover Flow,Resco Contact Manager, SPB Shell3, Tachi 2 Dialer, TF3D2 from HTC'S WM Manilla or Rhodium->all in an Android-Phone.
includeD:
- Footprints
- Tabs: peope, weather, internet bookmarks, personal hometab, facebook, flickr and twitter included, (fingerboard) touch keybord
most important MULTITOUCH!!!!! It was definatly love at first sight....
http://www.youtube.com/user/htc 2 vids added today. BRAND NEW
just a hardware slide keyboard is missing. otherwise it would be PERFECT!!!

Looks quite nice. Does Android do over the air Exchange sync yet?

I see the Hero but... display size is 320x480... how can I see it after HD??? The device is very cool but display s*cks!!!
D'rath

I think it may be time for me to either switch from winmo (until wm7) or hope that the HTC Sense UI comes out on WM...
That's a really nice looking phone - hope the price is just as nice

Holy ****!
Its incredible!
Nice hit for Android and HTC Bravo!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kshGq8COSiM

Very nice looking phone, really liking the new UI, just like NG-Devil mentioned before, it seems that HTC has taken all the good bits from other UIs and blended them all together... Very interesting, D'Rath said it, tho, could use a bigger screen and screen resolution...

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Redundant thread
Another one with same topic is on general section since april...

Pictures of the HTC Hero and the Sense UI:
http://www.computerbase.de/bildstrecke/26104/1/
Nice to hear, that the UI should developed for Andrioid AND WinMo.
An a first look video at YouTube.

I hear it doesn't sync with outlook.
What about Tomtom.
If these things don't work then i wouldn't bother...

BazBaz said:
I hear it doesn't sync with outlook.
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It's a "google-mobile-phone" (-> Android and not WinMo). ;-) Why Google should support Outlook, if they had an own (online-)pendant.

if any one has seen the "a week with the htc hero" videos from coolsmartphone on youtube, you will notice that the multitouch isn't present in all applications, so far it was demonstrated on the browser and pictures, but when the guy was using google maps, he wasn't pinching out to zoom in, he was using the zoom in button,
any one know if that will be implemented in the future firmware release?

xdaman85 said:
if any one has seen the "a week with the htc hero" videos from coolsmartphone on youtube, you will notice that the multitouch isn't present in all applications, so far it was demonstrated on the browser and pictures, but when the guy was using google maps, he wasn't pinching out to zoom in, he was using the zoom in button,
any one know if that will be implemented in the future firmware release?
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Good observation. Still way better than the aging looking winmo though. Would be nice to have consistent interface still. Wonder why this is not enforced.
I hope the application store takes off more quickly. The device is not going to meet my requirements if I can't find replacements for my frequently used software applications, regardless of how slick the UI is.
Perhaps someone could start a new thread to share information on available applications for Hero?

Well, the HTC Hero is running on Android 1.5 so im asuming it should be able to run all the apps out so far (i may be wrong though)
n e ways i put some thought into why multitouch isnt on the google maps application, and this is what I think.
We all know now, that the HTC Hero isnt a "by Google" phone, The G1 and the Magic are but the Hero isnt.
Secondly, I remember reading somewhere that Google wouldnt put multitouch capability into their software because Apple requested it, hence the reason the G1 and the Magic dont have multitouch even though the hardware supports it.
So HTC must have realised that in order to compete with Apple they need to implement multitouch thus created their own picture viewer software and made a few alterations to the browser to enable multitouch, but other then that I doubt its going to be universal across the whole platform.

[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...

Livven said:
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...