Tools

Launchy 2.0

December 21, 2007

One of my favorite tools, Launchy just got upgraded to 2.0. As the website says, Launchy is an utility desinged to help us forget about the start menu in Windows. I have recommeneded this tool to many of my friends and  not one of them have complained about it. Its like a “must have” tool [...]

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PocketCM Keyboard

November 1, 2007

In one of my earlier post, I mentioned a couple of popular keyboard applications for smartphone/pocket PC running Windows Mobile operating system. One of the reader of that post, Idan pointed me to another cool virtual keyboard application from PocketCM. The keyboard does look a lot like the iPhone keyboard and works a lot better [...]

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Live photo Gallery can now upload to Flickr

October 24, 2007

Live photo gallery was one of the recent applications which got added to my favorite application list. In my previous post on Live Photo Gallery I had wished that the application provided integration with Flickr. The Photo gallery team headed by Michael Palermiti has heard to this wish and the latest update of Live photo [...]

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Unlocking HTC Touch

October 15, 2007

When I bought the HTC Touch Smartphone I was never told by the reseller that it was locked onto Airtel Network in India. Only after seeing some of the comments left on my earlier post, I realized that it was a SIM locked phone. Recently when I traveled to Beijing, I felt the pain of [...]

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SPB Mobile Shell

September 24, 2007

SPB Mobile shell is an extension for the boring default user interface of a Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC phone. Key feature include: Phone style menu Weather forecasts  Photo speed dial World time Launcher Big dynamic tabs on Today Color based themes Smart contact search The SPM Menu based navigation loads faster and you can [...]

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ZAR – Data Recovery Software

September 23, 2007

Contrary to what most people think, deletion of file on windows does not mean permanent loss of the data. When the file is deleted, its not “shredded” Instead, the table of contents that points out the location of the file is erased. To put in more simpler words, the attribute of the space used by [...]

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

September 19, 2007

Along with Windows Live Writer Beta 3 there were a bunch of other tools released as part of the Windows Live Suite. It included Windows Messenger Mail Photo Gallery Toolbar OneCare I have been using the Photo Gallery application from the past one week and looks like I have fallen for one more product from [...]

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Windows Live Writer Beta 3

September 10, 2007

Windows Live Writer Beta 3 was released a few days back and this is one tool from Microsoft that deserves a lot of praise. It definitely simplifies the task of writing posts for your blog. Beta 3 has the following new features:     Insert videos using new ‘Insert Video’ dialog Upload images to Picasaweb [...]

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gCalc – Calculator for Windows Mobile

September 2, 2007

The default calculator that comes bundled with Windows Mobile 6 isn’t made for touch phones. Also the application hasn’t received an upgrade from a long time. Even my 5 year old Casio Pocket PC is running the same calculator application ! gCalc gCalc is a simple calculator application which works great on a touch based phone and  is [...]

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Currports – View active TCP/UDP ports

August 17, 2007

The other day one of the application server wouldn’t start up because of a required port being used by another application. This, I am sure is of the common problem faced by many developers The task manager in Windows shows only the active processes and gives no detail on the ports opened by these processes. One [...]

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