Database Users

NEW: Tray Today Items

I've developed a nifty little tray application that lets you enable/disable and move up/down items on your today page. This saves a lot of time when you're playing around with today screen plug ins, compared to going through the settings pane.
You can get the first beta here: http://oxymoron.se/traytodayitems_beta1.cab
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Please tell me what you think of it, and how I can improve it. You can also try my Today Programs plugin that you can see in the screen shots, by downloading it from http://oxymoron.se/todayprograms_beta1.cab.
Skip

Hi.
This is very good and saves lots of time. I had to put a short cut in the startup folder myself. Apart from that its perfect on my PDA2K.
Thanks,
Ian Watson

@skip: Looks like your TodayPrograms plugin is about what I am looking for, except: From what what i read is that you put all shortcuts in the 'Programs' folder on the plugin. I would like to have only the shortcuts in a specific (best but not neccesary would be a configurable...) folder shown . . .
Could you introduce that into your plugin?

Great that someone is trying it out!
Like I said it is still a beta version, although I am not aware of any bugs per se. I'll definitely make so that it automatically installs in the startup folder. Also, a program icon would not be too shabby.
Skip

Edsub, your suggestion is not a bad one at all. I first had an idea to make a toggle for every program whether it would show on the today screen or not.
Now I'm thinking that your idea might be even better, let the user choose a folder from which to get the shortcuts. This would allow for an even more flexible choice of programs. However, this would definitely make it harder to customize for people who would rather not deal with the file system and shortcuts.
I'll look into it.
One question: Is a .EXE installer desirable? I'll definitely make the my programs available as .CABs, but would anyone prefer a .EXE installer for Windows and Active Sync?
Skip

IMO a CAB is better. Just copy to the device & tap . . .
With .exe you allways get the question if its a PC or PPC exe . . . .

Hi.
Is it possible for you to add OPTIONS in the menu to allow you to get to the options screen for that item.
Thanks,
Ian

LeSkip said:
I'll definitely make so that it automatically installs in the startup folder.
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You should always take care about putting anything in the startup directory, since this modifies the device's behaviour at startup. If there is a problem which requires a reset, the user might not like you messing with startup - I don't.
edsub said:
IMO a CAB is better. Just copy to the device & tap . . .
With .exe you allways get the question if its a PC or PPC exe . . . .
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Disagree again I'm afraid, what about people who don't want to install to the default location but want to put the s/w on a Storage card? Unless you have CABinstaller you can't easily. Always provide both options if you want to keep the users happy.

That's a good idea. I should be able to call up the options screen somehow. I'll see when I find time to work on it.
Skip

LeSkip said:
Edsub, your suggestion is not a bad one at all. I first had an idea to make a toggle for every program whether it would show on the today screen or not.
Now I'm thinking that your idea might be even better, let the user choose a folder from which to get the shortcuts. This would allow for an even more flexible choice of programs. However, this would definitely make it harder to customize for people who would rather not deal with the file system and shortcuts.
I'll look into it.
One question: Is a .EXE installer desirable? I'll definitely make the my programs available as .CABs, but would anyone prefer a .EXE installer for Windows and Active Sync?
Skip
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Hi LeSkip, good start, really like to today tray items program.
With respect to the Today Program yes an EXE installer would be great. I like your original idea to be able to choose which programs to display.
Also if I choose say 15 programs to display it overlaps the programs instead of say placing on a second line or like iLauncher having an Icon to get to the second set. Also making the icon Size configurable would be great.
I have the Icons on my screen, but tapping one does not start the program. Also I have choosen 8 icons to display, the eight Icon is cutoff (it is cutoff about 1/2 cm before the right side of the screen).

Today Programs is definitely far from finished, I just wanted to see there was a user base for this kind of application.
An option to use 16x16 icons instead of the large 32x32 is high on my to-do list. Letting the user show more than the number of programs that actually fits on the screen isn't much use, so I'll just limit the number to whatever width the screen has.
I am working on tapping as a way of launching.
Small arrows that show when there are more programs to scroll to will be added soon.
The right side cut off has to do with the program being launched when a scroll bar was visible. I'll try to solve this problem.
Skip

Hi.
I have only installed the Tray Today software. Is the other software with the icons for creating software shortcuts? I use tdLaunch: http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=176
The Tray Today software is really good - even better with an "options" in the menu . But there seems to be quite a few other icon shortcut software for the Today Screen. Is yours going to be any different to others? Like I said, I have not installed yours yet.
Regards,
Ian Watson

The sole purpose of "Today programs" (horrible development name) is easy access to the Programs folder with the D-pad. I was getting annoyed with having to click Start>Programs to access them. I haven't tried any similar products, but there's probably several of them.
Skip

Possible new name: Today Switcher... because the natural progression of this tool has got to be to permit people to store multiple Today configurations and switch between them via the tray tool.
It's something I would love to develop - I believe there's one buggy one out there - but I just don't have the hours in the day! So go for it, the world is waiting for it!

Possible new name: Today Switcher... because the natural progression of this tool has got to be to permit people to store multiple Today configurations and switch between them via the tray tool.
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I originally didn't intend to go that far with it, but the idea is starting to appeal to me. I'll try to have an updated version ready by next week, but I'm not sure how much I'll be able to complete by then.
I'm trying to finish my degree this semester, so I don't really have time for my hobbies...
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hello, i found this (or same name) application VERY useful someday, only problem is, that links aren't working now, anyone have link?

Program Memory - what's yours?

After a soft reset, only the auto start stuff active (like MagicButton), I have 15.88MB Program in use.
This seems like a lot to me, especially when the WM2003 Emulator with lots of apps only has 11.5MB in use.
1. Is this typical of the Magician? How much Program memory is yours using after a soft reset?
2. Can anyone advise how I find out what this memory is doing
Comments advises appreciated, thanks, Dave

9.68 in use

For monitoring your system, use Memmaid program! It is very handy and have many functions like memory cleaning, startup managing, memory settings, apps manager etc.
and another thing you must know: if you don't let the extended rom to install, you will have about 30 mb program memory and 10 mb storage!!! (adjusting with slider)

My program memory is about 19MB in use after soft reset

Around 14MB with startup of sbp pocket plus, airscanner firewall, vgs mail, f-secure mobile anti-virus, ae button plus & vjokbutt.
Cheers, M

I've been running most of the day and I've got around 18.55mb. Could probably squeeze a bit more out of that, but I generally keep my installation quite clean.
I'm running AEButtonPlus, MultiIe, FileDlgChanger, Program Menu, SmallMenu, VJToggleToday, VJAccioPhone and VJOkButt.
TodayPlugins: PhoneAlarm, VJAudioNotes, Alarm Today, Notes Today, SPB Weather, VJQOTD, VJTodaySpacer and Claunch.
If I'm feeling particularly thrifty and use VJOkButt in Phone Close mode, I can get 21.57mb. But that's just for special occassions, I almost never have memory problems, and I almost never have memory problems. :roll:
I've been doing some work on the Universal of late, and think there's methods of getting quite a bit more performance out of WM2003 and Wm5. Will investigate and post findings as they come.
Oltp: Re - VJOkButt. How are you finding it? Any problems? Pm or post in the other thread if you find any. I haven't done any programming for a day (!) so I still have to make the latest round of updates.
V

Hi
After soft rest I have 21.55 Mb available.
I running in the backgraound this software:
Magic Buttom, Photo Contact pro, PhoneAlarm, AlarmToday, WorldMate, Time Sync, psShut, Redial, Battery Monitor, Storeaway Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard
Regards
Gigino

I have 13.2 MB in use after SoftReset.
Running:
Wisbar +Adv desktop
voicecommand
Pocket Hack Master
VJToggletoday (go vijay555)
8)

Jewcookie: that seems a bit low. Just for laffs, could you give us a reading before and after the heavy weights, ie before and after wisbar/WAD, and likewise voice command?
I've been compelled to start playing with Voice Command for some developments/hacks I'm doing for the Universal, and I realised how much I missed the sexy voice (!). But it's quite a big install.
PS Apologies for the slow ToggleToday update. I got distracted by a very cool hack I'm working on, kind of related, but which might come some time after the "basic" ToggleToday. You've never seen anything like it :wink:
V

Oh come on VJ,
Give us some more details pls pls pls pls pls .... pls
btw forgot I'm running dktoday & spb weather as well

oltp, I've got to tweak one or two things and then I'll try to send you a screenshot (or a movie :wink.
V

vijay555 said:
Jewcookie: that seems a bit low.
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Oeps.. i checked it at wisbar memory meter :lol: but thats free memory.
How about this..
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

It's even lower! How do you find performance? Everything smooth enough?
V

vijay555 said:
It's even lower! How do you find performance? Everything smooth enough?
V
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Yeah, everything is smooth, i even use pocket hack master to lower the speed to 312 Mhz... And still its smooth dude.

Jewcookie: Good good. Will give wisbar a go some time.
V

I can make a movie with my cam if you want. You can see my smoothness

VJ, looking forward to it.
As for performance, no fancy screenshot yet, I'm running with storage 8.63MB & program 26.48MB in use. Have an enlarged cache & PIE soups up a lot. But must say it still goes as fast/slow as just after the reset

Running: AEButtonPlus, CardExport, GPSGate, SPB Pocket Plus, Cyberon Voicedial
TodayPlugins: PhoneAlarm, SPB Pocket Plus, PocketBreeze, Contact Breeze, WeatherPanel.
Free: 14.47MB (Storage) + 20.39 MB (Program) = 35MB.
In case I need to free more resource (TomTom + IGuidance + TCPMP player when I am driving), I will run NoPlugins Today to disable all Today Plugins.

Storage = 24.70; Program = 12.25 (in use after soft reset).
Today items:
PhoneAlarm
Calendar+
QuickTasks
IndiBar
WeatherPanel
PocketMusic
'Running in storage memory':
Weather Panel
MortSaver
Sprite Backup
MS VB Runtime
Pocket RSS
ThemeMaster
Bluetooth Patch
PocketHackmaster
Remote Keyboard
TomTom
Abidia Wireless
WisBar Adv
IndiBar
PHM Powertoys
Card Export
Pocket Informant
Resco Explorer
PocketMusic
Engineering Calc.
Adobe Reader 2.0
Intellidialer
PocketLookout
PhoneAlarm
Pocket TV Listings
MS SQLCE 2.0
Checkpoint 5.0
Calendar+
QuickTasks
Probably a few other things too; could do with more memory I think!

Hi!
Main memory:
Storage 13,14 MB (5,86 MB in use), Program 44,27 MB (12,67 in use).
Internal storage:
26,72 MB (22,16 MB in use)
I have applied the Big Storage hack, and have moved as many dll's to storage as possible, and installed almost every program to storage.
The following programs are installed:
Spb Pocket Plus 3.0
Spb GPRS monitor
Spb Diary
Spb Extended Theme Pack
CAB installer
Check Notifications
MemMaid
Outlook Quick Clean Up Addin
Sprite Backup
Where is my RAM
PhoneAlarm
ScreenGuard
AE Button plus
ArcSoft MMS
Scandinavian keyboard
OperatorConfig (Norway)
Resco Explorer (with registry addin)
Phone Pad
Smart Dialing
vCard
VisualGPS
TomTom 5.21
eWallet
vxUtils
PhonePad skin Reflex Graphite
Resco Sudoku
Spb Arkaball
PK

Why is my HTC Universal still so slow? Experts pls help...

Has anyone realised that the HTC Universal is not as fast you expected? I've tweaked the registry and done all the optimisations, but my HTC Universal can get sluggish sometimes.
I bought a Dopod 900, and I am using the latest Dopod 900 ROM. Made some Extended ROM modifications, which only involved removing the extra telcos settings from my phone.
Let's see what I have installed in my ROM:
Pocket Breeze + Contact Breeze
Resco Explorer (w/ FTP Client and Registry Editor)
Total Commander
Pocket Informant
Pocket Music
Pocket Hack
Pocket Mechanic
ClearVue Office Suite
Photo Contacts
Now for my other programs in the SD card:
TCPMP Player
SPB Benchmark
My Registry Tweaks:
Upped the Glych Cache to 32MB (limit = 32768)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\
Speeded up the Start Menu Animation (AniType = 1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\
Increased Font Cache to 16MB (CS = 16384)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Systems\GDI\SYSFNT
Increased Storage Cache to 16MB (CacheSize = 16384)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Systems\StorageManager
After soft reset, my free ROM is 19MB and free RAM is usually 20-25MB. I only have the Pocket/Contact Breeze Today plug-in on my Today screen.
However, after all the tweaks my Dopod 900 is still not as fast as I expect it to be. Just to quantify "fast" I mean no lag or little lag (less than 2 sec) when open programs and stuff.
I ran SPB benchmark on my clean hard-resetted Dopod 900 and the CPU Index was around 1000+ while the Graphics Index was only 200+
I did a search and found a SPB benchmark for a Dopod 900 from some Chinese review. The CPU index was around 1300+ and Graphics Index was around 200+
My CPU index seems to be 20% slower than the reviewer's result. Is something wrong with my set?
And is there something wrong with Dopod 900 Graphic Drivers? A score of 200+ on Graphics Index is pathetic especially when you consider that the Eten M600 and even the Dopod 838 (HTC Wizard) can achieve 2800+ on Graphics Index.
If anyone has SPB benchmarks results to share of their own HTC universal, please share with us.

I am no expert. I am a newbie to Pocket PCs, but one thing I've learned, as long as you minimize installing applications in the main memory, you can speed up your universal.
You can install Total Commander to your SD Card too. I have that in my SD Card and it works just fine.

cktlcmd said:
I am no expert. I am a newbie to Pocket PCs, but one thing I've learned, as long as you minimize installing applications in the main memory, you can speed up your universal.
You can install Total Commander to your SD Card too. I have that in my SD Card and it works just fine.
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I thought it was the other way round. WM5 PPC access ROM faster than SD Card right? So my installing my core apps into ROM, it should run faster.

RE
I think you should sell your Dopod 900 because you'll be vey disappointed for the simple reason that your expectation of less than 2sec opening for each and every application will never be realized

the most of registru hacks you applied speed up the display but decrise program memory. my expirience says: more program memory - faster device. I get rid of EVERYTHING I don't relly need and my wizard starts with ~27mb of program memory and I love it!

mine is fast, starts up with 30meg.
i think you have amped up your registry tweaks to total overkill. wind em back to the recommendations.
i also believe your pocket breeze and contact breeze are slowing it down, what happens when you remove from today and soft reset.
i can only assume you have done the really obvious, like removed the antivirus software, disabled error reporting, and disabled auto beams.
what is in your startup?
do you have applications on the today screen access the SD card? do you have sd card memory readers on the today screen? are you running any close features such as magic button etc
is activesync auto running in the background?
i have SPB PP, SPB Diary, SPB Backup, SPB GPRS, SPB Weather, all running on startup as today plug ins and my device is acceptable (generally sub 2 - 3 seconds application launch and screen rotation), but if I switch them all off, everything is instantaneous. I also have MSVC running on startup with the SPB stuff. On boot up, RAM is 25mb instead of 30mb.
also, do you have a large PIM file from synchronising contacts and calendar? mine was 5mb and slow. by controlling what I was syncing, namely calendars, and only 100 contacts, it is down to 1mb, this had a big impact.
Also, there is a big trick, if you dont use video calls, disable it. its on these forums, or can be done via hard reset and not install the cab. there is a registry to disable it. this will consume 30 meg.

Yes, this is all discussed elsewhere. Ensure you haven't installed the extended cab as far as possible, and indicate if you're using the extended rom dialler skin, which is a considerable drain.
Is the bench marking app reliable? I know Buzz was working on some lightweight roms and it'll be interesting for us to benchmark our different flavours.
V

The simplest way to make your device speed up by almost 40% is to prevent the Ext.Rom from installing. All you need to do is first hard-reset your device and when during the process of windows setup, when you come to the operator customisation screen, just soft-reset. This will prevent your device from installing any of the carrier customisation files on the Ext.Rom.
Try it, you won't regret it one bit.

vijay555 said:
and indicate if you're using the extended rom dialler skin, which is a considerable drain.
V
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Can you please post a screen shot of what our phone skin should look like? I know I used corporate mode on O2's ROM, does this ensure that I did not let any of the Ext ROM to install?
I also found the thread that discusses about the phone skin. Here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=40342
Are you referring to this registry tweak to correct the phone skin?
To set or remove the operator phone skin
The setting is at 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin'
The 'Enabled' DWORD value can be set to '1' to show the operator skin or '0' to show the default skin
For example, to show the default skin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\Enabled = 0

I don't have my phone and facilities infront of me to take screenshots, so am posting some rubbish from my site. But basically, WITH the extended rom specific skin, your VGA phone looks like this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Without the ext rom skin (this is the pin entry screen, but it's similar but less screwed up):
The without skin is much much faster.
I've had an idea about how to re-skin the phone hopefully in a light weight manner, but haven't had a second to play with the idea. When I get some time, hopefully next week, I'll play with a proof of concept.
V

But Vijay, doesn't that mean that you lose the ability to make video calls?

wouldn't know, no one ever wants to see my face!
Generally I think it does, but I think the more complete thread posted above contains some details about how to re-enable it. There's also posts somewhere on how to re-enable the terrible intellidialer.
V

Thanks very much Vijay. I'll try it too. Since I'm in the US, we don't have video calls yet, I think.

Today calender/agenda & tasks plugin (free)

This is a great free today plugin 'TodayAgenda 0.9.9' by Marcel Tiews - its better than calendar + and very configurable and also shows all your tasks due etc.... It has a small footprint and works in qvga and vga resolutions.
Copy cab to device via activesync, click on file through file explorer, install to device - will load better as its a today plugin.
EDIT 14/7/2006 New version available 0.9.11
- Features added:
New appt/task works correctly
Support for Pocket Informant and Agenda Fusion.
Tested withocket Informant 2005 Rev 5 & Agenda Fusion v8.06
Tap on clock opens time/alarm settings
When deleting recurring appointments you will be ask if you want to delete the selected occurrence or the complete series
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Firt to reply :?: :?: :?:
i'm trying that, seems great application, THX :wink:

Is there a web page for it? I may wanted to try it out. PocketBreeze is a bit slow on my already slowed Charmer. However, I tried a lot of other plugins and PBzz is currently the best on for the price of $10.
One of the thing I like about PBzz is the integration of the Tasks and Appointments on the same screen, and birthdays too. Further, I found the others annoying is the fact that they named tomorrow just like any other date, which may undermined the importance of that particular task tomorrow. Hence, everytime I was looking at my Today screen, I have to particularly check todays date to ensure that if the next task/app on the screen is tomorrow or not.

Do a check
can any body from the ones installed this app tells me if it enables me to set the saturday as the first day of the week or no.

Handy little app meschle! Thanks for posting it.
And, gwassef, no.
Steven
chow

hanmin said:
Is there a web page for it? I may wanted to try it out. PocketBreeze is a bit slow on my already slowed Charmer. However, I tried a lot of other plugins and PBzz is currently the best on for the price of $10.
One of the thing I like about PBzz is the integration of the Tasks and Appointments on the same screen, and birthdays too. Further, I found the others annoying is the fact that they named tomorrow just like any other date, which may undermined the importance of that particular task tomorrow. Hence, everytime I was looking at my Today screen, I have to particularly check todays date to ensure that if the next task/app on the screen is tomorrow or not.
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Here is the webpage http://tiews.info/ its in german or english
I have noticed no slow down with this app - it seems to use little resources.

nice one mark 8)

Saturday.......
do anybody know how to make saturday as the first day of the week, i followed the steps in this wiki address http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=WM5_Tweaks_Other
but i did not achieve anything.
can anybody help

can someone zip the cab and post as well. Haven't been able to d/l the cab for some reason.
Thx.

How did you get those icons on your bottom taskbar

bendog2784 said:
How did you get those icons on your bottom taskbar
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snap was wondering the same!

itesla said:
can someone zip the cab and post as well. Haven't been able to d/l the cab for some reason.
Thx.
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Here you are
Icons are via phm traylaunch see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42913

Thank you. That didn't work either :-( Our firewall or something does not like this file. I tried from the author's website too.
IWSS Security Event (inetvscan1)
InterScan Web Security detected the following in HTTP traffic:
Item: http://forum.xda-developers.com/download.php?id=12905
Action: deleted
Reason: Violation of a compressed file restriction
-- File: download.php?id=12905, security warning: Corrupted_Zip_file
The uncleanable file is deleted.

itesla said:
Thank you. That didn't work either :-( Our firewall or something does not like this file. I tried from the author's website too.
IWSS Security Event (inetvscan1)
InterScan Web Security detected the following in HTTP traffic:
Item: http://forum.xda-developers.com/download.php?id=12905
Action: deleted
Reason: Violation of a compressed file restriction
-- File: download.php?id=12905, security warning: Corrupted_Zip_file
The uncleanable file is deleted.
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Thats something your end - firewall or antiviral causing that. It downloads fine for me - try downloading on your wizard through internet explorer.

Ok. I've tested it. My comments as mentioned above,
It doesn't show tomorrow as 'Tomorrow' and, it doesn't even show today as 'Today'. Maybe someone would talk to the author and ask him to make those changes, which is, in my opinion a very good improvement.
But other than that, it is a very good today plugin.

@ meschle
Very nice find! at last I may of found a replacement for pocketbreeze Will have a play for the next few days and see......

ok am I being thick - it wont let me copy them and where do they go anyway??

madkitty said:
ok am I being thick - it wont let me copy them and where do they go anyway??
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Copy the cab file over to the device via activesync - place in \my documents on your phone - click on the cab file through file explorer on the device. Install to device not storage card. Do not unzip the file - cab file is a self installing archive.

right all done - is there anyway of tweaking it though so you can alter how many days it shows?

madkitty said:
right all done - is there anyway of tweaking it though so you can alter how many days it shows?
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Click and hold on the panel in the today screen - and an option dialog will come up - you can change that through this.

Favourite Trinity Program

My phone company, 3, have just released these finally in Oz and am heading out to get one tomorrow.
Now is the best time to ask everyone what are their favourite programs they have installed on the Trinity? Saves me searching around forever....
I need one that closes all programs totally (so they dont continue to run in the background), switches what hard buttons do (unless you can do that automatically), plus whatever else people think i need......
I thought this would be a good thread for all newbies and others who want to know what are the best ways to pimp up their Trinity.
thanks
Scott

You can stop all running programs from Start button->Settings->System->Memory.
Also the new ROM i got has an option somewhere with the ability to change the behaviour on the closebutton.. It says HTC menu util or something similar.

Get magicbutton (for the task closing), its free and works fine....

saitan said:
Also the new ROM i got has an option somewhere with the ability to change the behaviour on the closebutton.. It says HTC menu util or something similar.
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It's under START->Settings->System->Task Manager.
It has 2 options;
1) End programs by tapping X
2) End programs by taping and holding X

MagicButton sucks pretty hard, the last version has some issues with the telephone application (it doesnt close it).
The most kick ass application you'll ever get for your trin is this one:
Spb Mobile Shell: This a pretty good application that enhance your today screen with tabbed menus and give you alot of nice features like enhanced menus, task manager and alot of other cool features.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
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Another kick ass application that it's a must is this one:
SKTools v3.1.3: I think it's self explanatory.
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My 2 cents
Thank you for the attention.

MontAlbert said:
My phone company, 3, have just released these finally in Oz and am heading out to get one tomorrow.
Now is the best time to ask everyone what are their favourite programs they have installed on the Trinity? Saves me searching around forever....
I need one that closes all programs totally (so they dont continue to run in the background), switches what hard buttons do (unless you can do that automatically), plus whatever else people think i need......
I thought this would be a good thread for all newbies and others who want to know what are the best ways to pimp up their Trinity.
thanks
Scott
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My core programs are:
Pocket Informant
Flex Wallet
iLauncher, includes a very good task manager and much more
MobiPocket
MortPlayer
TCPMP player
Resco File Explorer
Photo Contacts Pro
Pocket Weather (SBSH)
Today Agenda
Device Lock
Pocket Rar
TomTom Navigator 6
Skype
iMov Messenger
Check Notifications
SoftKey
That should keep you busy .

thanks for that. what are the programs down the bottom where you can have all the shortcuts on the today page? The one with the tabs for Big,Apps, Car,etc plus the little icons below that....... same program?
That is my only shortfall of this beautiful phone- the lack of shortcuts i can program.

Matterhorn, it looks like you would benefit in battery time and also speed, by using the option to properly close your apps rather than minimise them when pressing the X button. I am judging this by all the apps that appear to be open in the bottom of your today screen.

FuzzMunky said:
Matterhorn, it looks like you would benefit in battery time and also speed, by using the option to properly close your apps rather than minimise them when pressing the X button. I am judging this by all the apps that appear to be open in the bottom of your today screen.
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The apps at the bottom of the screen are all just shortcuts, they aren't running. The program iLauncher allows you to make shortcuts at the bottom of the today screen. These are the apps that I use very often and don't want look for them. The other groups of shortcuts "Big", "Apps" etc. are also part of iLauncher and I make the icons big so I can use my fingers to launch the apps. I have iLauncher programmed to close some apps with the X while other programs are not allowed to be closed with the X, such as Messaging, Mortplayer, IE etc. I use the "close all" option when I really want a clean system. Believe me, I don't let apps run unless I need them running .

how do you make it so the ilauncher bar is all the way down the bottom of the screen? mine sits about halfway up....

Montalbert,
Go to start>settings>today>items select program shown and select move up or down!
Regards,
BIQ

MontAlbert said:
how do you make it so the ilauncher bar is all the way down the bottom of the screen? mine sits about halfway up....
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It is a bit tricky because when you have items in your calendar plug-in it moves the whole today screen up and down. That is why I use TodayAgenda instead, it is an app that allows you to set the length of your Task and Calendar list. This way you only scroll within TodayAgenda and not the whole screen. This makes it possible to make the iLauncher stay at the bottom. You just have to set iLauncher to manual height and experiment until you get the proper height for your today screen.
I hope that helps