Spb Wireless Monitor gets Updated, MobileShell Happy!
Looks like the first update of 2010 from Spb Software is their Wireless Monitor, gets new widget for MobileShell and support for WM6.5.
SPB Wireless Monitor is a complete solution for measuring data traffic via all types of connections and calculating network usage costs according to your data plan.
What’s new:
Version 3.1 (Jan 26, 2010):
- Wireless Monitor widget for SPB Mobile Shell added
- Support for Windows Mobile 6.5 added
- Bug fixes
- Get the update here: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/wirelessmonitor/
A Heap Of New Fuze/Touch Pro Tips & Tricks Added In Our Forums by jimski
Wow! I gotta say our forums are blessed with a lot of helpful contributors that go out of their way to help people. Earlier I wrote about norcal colby and his VGA Skull Candy Splash, and now we have jimski adding a HEAP of new tips and tweaks to our Complete List Of Tips & Tricks For The AT&T Fuze & HTC Touch Pro thread which has been viewed over 210,000 times! There are some very good tweaks that everyone should check out. So head on over to our forums and register to take advantage of the collective knowledge of our community. Also, don’t be scared off because it is listed in the Fuze/Touch Pro forum, the majority of these Tips and Tricks are very useful for a lot of other Windows Mobile Devices.
You can check out jimski’s new Tips and Tricks by CLICKING HERE.
Memoirs of a Web Server
Initially, to make flashing roms and reinstalling software a little easier for myself I tossed all the cabs I used onto my server so could flash anywhere on the run and still get my programs back quickly. A few months later it occurred to me that if I shared the site with everyone else on XDA I could watch the logs to see XDA’s visitor demographics including where they were from and what they were using to visit my site. Most interestingly I could see of the programs I put on my site which were in the greatest demand (which software was downloaded the most frequently) both to satisfy my curiosity and to offer that information to the developers to give them a high five in the form of a pie chart. A few months later, December of 2008, I got rid of the password and said hello to Google and that’s when things got interesting.
Maybe some of you share this idiosyncrasy that values this information so much that you’d make your own website just to acquire it. But I would like to save you the trouble so let me share with you some tidbits from and reflections on my parsed logs while resisting the temptation to plug my site. Warning, this article is above-average in length.
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VGA Skull Candy Splash
I wanted to give a shout out to our forum contributor Norcal Colby for continuing to hook us up with some of his splash goodness. He says:
“I love the aesthetic appeal of my new skull candy SKpro dj headphones. the sound quality is amazing. ive owned two previous pairs of skullcandy headphones (ink’d earbuds and the rasta G.I.s) and ive loved them all. i just decided id put together a splash screen for my favorite headphone brand”
This should work great on your VGA Touch Pro/Fuze/Diamond Device.
Head on over to Mobility Digest Forums and register to download the Skull Candy Splash or just CLICK HERE
Upgrade To eWallet 7.0 For $10.00
One of my “must have” applications has always been eWallet from Ilium Software. eWallet helps you keep all your private information safe and secure and makes entering and backing up this information easy with their PC Desktop application that comes with eWallet 7.0.
With this release, upgrading just got easier! For a single upgrade of just $10.00, you can use eWallet on any Windows Mobile device, BlackBerry, Windows PC, laptop or Windows netbook you use. And you’ll get a preview of our upcoming Mac OS X version.
So if you switch to one of the devices listed above in the future, or use more than one of the listed devices, you can use eWallet on them all. No extra versions. No extra purchases. Because when you upgrade eWallet, it’s for you, not your device.*
eWallet 7.0 adds many great features, including a completely redone Windows PC version. You can read about them all on the Ilium Software Website or just CLICK HERE.
You can get eWallet 7.0 for the special price of just $10.00, and use eWallet on all the devices listed above.
If you already own eWallet on an iPhone or iPod touch, the iPhone eWallet 7.0 upgrade is free and available through the iTunes App Store.
Mobility Digest Welcomes Doug Simmons!
The title says it all doesn’t it? After years of asking my Buddy Doug Simmons (C’mon’ you had to ask, he’s the guy behind blownfuze.org) to jump over to our community, he finally gave in! Doug is one of the most knowledgeable people in all our Mobility Community. His contributions at blownfuze.org are tremendous and have helped thousands of people. There is a TON of great information and it all was collected and posted by him. Anyway, I have always thought that we should join together and continue to help our community and build awareness to the awesome capabilities our devices have. That was yesterday, today, he is part of Mobility Digest! I know some of you might be thinking that Doug has a “tell it how it is” approach to things and can be a little rough around the edges. Well, he is still going to tell it exactly like it is, but with just a few less colorful words. LOL So you can count on Doug’s humor, candidness, willingness to address any issue, and tell you exactly how he feels unrestrained. I am very excited to have my buddy Doug part of our website and I cannot wait to read his articles, reviews, editorials, and whatever else he feels like writing! Don’t tell him cause I don’t want him to get a big head, but I am also a fan! I am also hopeful that I can talk him into doing some podcasts with me. Maybe we could call it the D2 Mobility Digest Podcast? Lot’s of possibilities. In any case, please help me welcome the one, the only, Doug Simmons to Mobility Digest!
Oh wait, there’s more, I also asked Doug to write up a small bio on himself so I could introduce him. The result is a hilarious adventure in all his former exploits! Jump after the break to get to know the man behind blownfuze.org, Doug Simmons a little better!
(Re)Enabling Group Texts and Emails
A while back we showed you the new group text and email feature in 6.5.2. There were rumors floating around that MS was going to remove this from future releases as it was not a popular feature. In many of the recent ROMs the feature is missing. It turns out that MS did not remove the ability to do group texts and emails – they just disabled it. So all you need to do to enable it is a little registry change:
HKCU\Security\Security\Software\Microsoft\Activesync\Contact Groups – set to 1
That was simple:)
Hunting – Tower Defense Style Game Is Out
I just Hunting here on Marketplace and it looks like a nice version of a tower defense game for $3. Here is the description:
Welcome to the wild Stone Age, this is a wild jungle time filled with uncivilized nationalities and wild animals. To protect homelands and food, everyone must be brave to fight with the enemy. In this game, you will be a commander of a tribe to resist the enemy’s harder attack. You will have to not only build the defensive lines strategically, but also adjust each brave warrior’s standing place and structures on the defensive lines to achieve the most perfect protection!“Stone Age” is a very unique tower defense war game. In addition to many different kinds of classically defensive terrains, there’re some other defensive and operating terrains worth challenging.Ready to join this exciting and thrilling tower defense war? Just try it now!In order to provide the good service quality and more various types of maps, our team will update many offensive and defensive objects as well as the multiplayer cooperative mode (Regional network/ Bluetooth) to make this game more fun! Coming Soon!Game Feature:1.abundant and elaborate maps2.multiple and special ways to attack 3.the most types of defensive characteristics4.7 languages: Traditional Chinese, American English, British English, French, German, Japanese and Korean
If you test it out please share your findings with the rest of the group:)
UPDATE: A lite version with the first two boards is available here
Enabling Ringtones
We’ve done our fair share of tips and tricks around here but one that we didn’t report on is changing the restriction on ringtone limits. Some phones (ok it probably only applies to stock ROMs) limit the size of the ringtone you are allowed to have. So when you go to load a ringtone you can’t add those sound files. This issue came up in our forums the other day and jimski was there with a response. It’s just a simple registry tweak: Change Key: HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds – File SizeLimit = 0 (from 300000 or whatever it is now).
Our forums are filled with tips, tricks and friendly people (who don’t flame you if you don’t know how to manually change your registry) so if you haven’t been there in a while drop by.
Marketplace Does Have Good Dev Support
I don’t have enough fingers to count how many articles I’ve read about Marketplace and how it’s unfriendly to developers, nonresponsive, etc. Well I’ve had several opportunities to test these theories both first hand and through conversations with some developers and as it turns out, Marketplace is a pretty friendly place. Let me start with some first hand experiences. I was talking to some developers and when they had questions regarding app submissions I did the simple task of emailing MS and promptly received an email from people within Marketplace addressing the questions. It was far from painful and far from the stories I had heard. And as questions arose the same process played out, with people within Marketplace providing an individual contact person within Marketplace to assist with the submission process.
Just the other day, I put some of the internet rumors to the test. A story that’s made the rounds is that no developers got paid from Marketplace last month. A Marketplaces spokesperson informed me that “Developers are being paid for their applications in Windows Marketplace. We had the first payout cycle in December, and are executing the second payment cycle throughout January. There are some isolated cases where developers are missing key information needed to process their payment and we are working to address those issues.” I also asked about why developers are penalized by upgrading their applications by having the reviews of their apps deleted entirely and also losing their SKU/hyperlink which makes it harder for developers to link to their apps. I was told “We are aware of this issue and are working on a solution that will be available soon.” Many of the other responses that I was provided dealt with individual applications or individual developers and aren’t appropriate to share but my experiences have been confirmed by developers. If there is a problem, a simple email does seem to do the trick and you should be able to get a prompt response to any reasonable question.
I’m not here to say that Marketplace is perfect but I do think it’s received some pretty harsh reporting and from the outside it’s hard to tell if it’s really a cold cold world…it’s not. If you’re a developer considering joining Marketplace don’t be afraid. If you run into any problems just ask nicely…
