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Contacts replacement app

I read somewhere on here about an app to replace the default contacts and shizzle manager, but i cant remember for the life of me what its called, anyone refresh my memory please

anyoone got any suggestions

I use Agenda Fusion and it's very good indeed. Replaces contacts and calendar function of Pocket Outlook perfectly. It looks daunting at first but once you get the hang of it, it's so powerful.

I use Pocket Informant - highly recommended.
http://www.pocketinformant.com/p_pocketinformant.php

Help : Contact/Calendar Softkey remap

First, I have Cingular 8125 with Qtek AKU2 ROM.
I have installed informant PIM and .mobile Contact Phone softwares. I love both of them, a way better than PIM apps that came with origrinally. However how can I remap the softkey for Conact and Calendar in TODAY and PHONE screens? I want to open informant when I press Calendar and Contact button for .mobile Contact Phone.
Help Please ~~

download this app i just installed it and it works great
http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...ys=0&postorder=asc&highlight=softkey&start=25

Here is what I'm using. Even though it doesn't give you full control of what you want. It might suit your needs though.

Calendar Software Tools : Which is easiest on my memory ?

I have found for WM5 for calendar, contacts and tasks.
Pocket Informant : http://www.pocketinformant.com/index.php
Agenda Fusion : http://www.developerone.com/agendafusion/index.htm
Super Calendar : http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/sc_overview.html
I am currently using the today Plugin for calendar and tasks "Today Agenda" (http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda&lang=en) which is compatible with Informant and Agenda. I have not tested it with Super Calendar yet.
Questions :
1) Calendar tool with least memory stamp ?
2) Least buggy ?
3) Which is BEST ?
Other tools found:
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
Calendar Today bar: http://www.omegaone.com/pocketpc/calendarbar.html
Today Task plugin: http://software.forest59.com/taskplus.aspx
Financial Economic Data into Calenda (USA Only)
http://www.syncpak.com/aboutus.html

Re: Calendar Software Tools : Which is easiest on my memory
Digs said:
I have found for WM5 for calendar, contacts and tasks.
Pocket Informant : http://www.pocketinformant.com/index.php
Agenda Fusion : http://www.developerone.com/agendafusion/index.htm
Super Calendar : http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/sc_overview.html
I am currently using the today Plugin for calendar and tasks "Today Agenda" (http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda&lang=en) which is compatible with Informant and Agenda. I have not tested it with Super Calendar yet.
Questions :
1) Calendar tool with least memory stamp ?
2) Least buggy ?
3) Which is BEST ?
Other tools found:
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
Calendar Today bar: http://www.omegaone.com/pocketpc/calendarbar.html
Today Task plugin: http://software.forest59.com/taskplus.aspx
Financial Economic Data into Calenda (USA Only)
http://www.syncpak.com/aboutus.html
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Only one I can comment on is Agenda Fusion.
I ditched it after taking far too long to open upwards of 5secs - and was too much to bear if needing a quick TODAY check or quick "Need a phone number" fix.
I also disagreed with the fact I paid for v7 and then had to pay an upgrade fee for v8 that "apparently" solved some compatibility issues with WM5.
Havent tried any of the others - sorry.
Matt

Sometimes when the TODAY AGENDA is Running and I change My TODAY SCREEN (wallpaper) The Aganda goes into "Updating" mode and does not update itself for a long time.
The other features work perfectly all right . It is just This Agenda which does Not show any entry.
I have tried HARD RESETTING the device and Fixing The Today agenda Right in the beginning.
The problem is STILL there.
ANY SUGGESTION?

I use the in-build PIM and SPB Diary as today plug-in. Very stable and surprisingly fast. Since most of my calendar/task/mails are now done on the today plug-in, which PIM to use at the back does not bother me anymore. SPB Diary can be installed in external storage hence save on the internal memory.

Depending on how heavy your schedule is.
I've used `Pocket Informant` before and its layout and stuff are pretty good. I came from a Palm5 device and if you heard, Palm5 agenda stuff are pretty impressive and this Pocket Informant is almost as good.
However, Pocket Informant is relatively slow on startup (not much on a memory issue, just start up). However, once you got it started up and sitting on your taskbar, you can access it instantly. I would recommend that if you have heavy schedule.
For my case, I use Pocket Breeze together with the built-in PIM (of WM5). Since I have `medium weight` schedule, I'm pretty happy with PBreeze on my Today screen. Since I can set PBreeze to display my stuff appearing 7 days in advance, I don't usually go into the built-in PIM to check on my stuff. PBreeze has also direct links to your appointment/task for which you can then edit them. And I have the WM5-new-menu program that can create new task/appt easily, I hardly use any sort of PIM (e.g. Pocket Informant).
Anyway, these software has trial period, give it a go and see if you like it.

hanmin said:
Depending on how heavy your schedule is.
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Well frankly speaking My Schedule on Appointments is Not so heavy, Just 3-5 entries a day.
Yes I have tried SPB diary But SINCE MY ADDRESS BOOK has 2800 or more Contacts that does take time to load up...
I have tried A New software (FREEWARE) Calender Plus the Link of which I got from here only and thats just working Fine Now...

Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10

I have tested Super Calendar and Agenda Fusion.
Agenda seams to much calendar for me.
Supper Calenda is lite. It enhances the Month and Year view compared to the WM5 standard calendar. Does not do tasks or contacts.
Todays Agenda is the BEST today plugin, and seams to work ok with Super Calenda.
I have found Ulti Planner at : http://www.birdsoft.biz/upmain.htm
which is lite on memory and covers calendar, tasks, contacts. Also has text in month view.

Contact Manager

Does anyone know of a contact manager that lets me have contatcs in multiple groups: i.e. Friends, Family, Work etc?
Thanks

Scottland said:
Does anyone know of a contact manager that lets me have contatcs in multiple groups: i.e. Friends, Family, Work etc?
Thanks
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what do you mean by groups? as a method to filter your list or just to sort the list.
I edited my contacts to put those topics(work, friends, kids friends, restaraunts, utilities, etc) in as "Company" and then sort by company
look at pocketCM for a freebie
Look at SBSH Pocketbreeze or SPB Diary for a retail app

Radimus said:
what do you mean by groups? as a method to filter your list or just to sort the list.
I edited my contacts to put those topics(work, friends, kids friends, restaraunts, utilities, etc) in as "Company" and then sort by company
look at pocketCM for a freebie
Look at SBSH Pocketbreeze or SPB Diary for a retail app
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By groups I mean similar to how WLM works - in that you have have several groups exanded or collapsed with contacts in each. SPB Diary looks like it has that option, but it only seems like it works from the today screen - rather than a seperate app like the default contact manager.

SBSH has a seperate contact manager "ContactBreeze"

OK, ready to be flamed!
Why not just use the standard Outlook Contact app? You can assign each person to one (or more) categories and then filter it to just show one particular category. Saves installing more software on your phone!

Business people out there?

Hi
I have my HD for already a week and it's amazing!!.
but I decided to buy it because I needed a tool like this for business purposes, by now I'm using it for mail on the go, and of course like a powerful agenda with Pocket Informant, but due my short experience with a pocket PC, I know that there must be much more uses and software that I don't know yet, then I would like to ask for advices about this matter, may be software or even tips to be able to to take more advantages of this incredible phone!
BTW I found this two thread, but are quite short
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450957&highlight=business
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=436642&highlight=business&page=1
Thanks!!

hi, im not quite sure what you are asking for? but, i use mine for work to. i dont find the need for anything extra than what is already included in M$ mobile office
i use the calendar and outlook which is synced through my organisations exchange server though activesync over the mobile network. in the main i do this manually but also by setting it up to do autosync at intervals.
you can set it to have pushmail too if your companies mail server will allow this
pocket outlook does all that the full pc version does (near as dammit) email, access to my corporate address book, meeting scheduling and invites etc etc
is that what you wanted to know?

OK, here is the "business" oriented sub-set of all my apps:
apMemo 2.3 http://www.apsoftsystems.com/apmemo/index.htm
apMemo allows for alarmed note taking on the go
Ilium Listpro 5.0.0.2016 http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/lp/listpro.htm
Listpro is great - I use this for whole loads of lists on the PC and HD and swop the lists back and forth
Metro 5.71 http://www.nanika.net/Metro/
Metro is useful for business trips (and pleasure)
MxCalculator 2.1 http://www.trancreative.com
NewsGator Go! 2.0.0.25419 http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals...o/Default.aspx
I use a RSS feeder for business news
Pocket Informant 8.51 http://www.webis.net/index.php
RCX Lexipedia 1.2 http://www.revolution.cx/Lexipedia/Lexipedia.htm
Yes, I know this is an old app but it's still there when I need answers and don't want to go online
SBSH PocketBreeze 5.4.15 http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows...c/pocketbreeze
Fantastic today plugin to view my calender (must be used with SecondToday)
SPB Finance 2.7.0 http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/finance/?en
Not really business, but keeps track my my finances
From my thread comment: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3117017&highlight=secondtoday#post3117017

I use keepass for securing those important but (sometimes) easy to forget ID's & passwords:

hi, im not quite sure what you are asking for? but, i use mine for work to. i dont find the need for anything extra than what is already included in M$ mobile office
i use the calendar and outlook which is synced through my organisations exchange server though activesync over the mobile network. in the main i do this manually but also by setting it up to do autosync at intervals.
you can set it to have pushmail too if your companies mail server will allow this
pocket outlook does all that the full pc version does (near as dammit) email, access to my corporate address book, meeting scheduling and invites etc etc
is that what you wanted to know?
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thanks, well yes something like that I was looking for, but may be a little more focused in meetings and projects, I'm using list Listpro for this two purposes but I can imagine there are better and specialize software for this.
about meetings I need to lead meeting sometimes, and write down some ideas or comments in each topic on this meetings.
same with projects, I start a project, and I need to write down all the steps of it, and the progress of each one too
thanks Cheesy Dave, there are really useful app there!
thanks audscott

i guess im a caveman when it comes to such business things... i just use ms word to make lists
notepad for basic notes
i find that the ms mobile office suite included does all i need (along with the other software in pocket outlook such as tasks etc)
small tip if you do want to use a different front end like SBSH PocketBreeze or spb pocketplus etc
dont need to run secondtoday type progs which just chew up more memory, just untick manila from the today plugins screen and do away with manila. personally i find it to be just bells and whistles and not much function, uses loads more system resources than other after market apps with nothing more (less in my opinion) on offer
i use spb pocketplus together with spb weather and spb phone suite all sat as my front screen. i can access all my needed software with one touch, make calls with one touch, switch ring profiles with one touch fire up wifi with one touch... in fact 99% of what i need to do with my HD i do with 1 touch using this set of software. the only time i need to use the stylus is for typing (im kak handed using my fingers to type and am pretty fast with the stylus)
as i said up there^^^^ i use MS office for all my other bits as i can bang it stright over to my laptop to use the full versions if necessary
i guess its down to what you need, what you like and what you get used to. ive been using this combo of progs for 4 years now so am a bit stuck in the mud so to speak
ill try to do a screen grab of my today page to show you what i mean.... but you might not like it as i am very much in favour of function over form
(ive trialled spb mobile shell and spb diary but again find them unecessary.... why do you need a diary on your today screen when it is one touch away and a hell of a lot more confidential if your diary isnt open for all to see all the time (i work in healthcare so confidentiality is a big requirement! )

business
I have been using pda in my construction business for many years to keep appointments. I tend to forget them and rely on the alarm. I have most of the incoming phone calls redirected to the phone. I use agenda one because you can link contacts to appointements i.e the alarm sounds to tell me to meet Mrs Smith. I click on that and it brings up Mrs Smiths address.
We are trying business contact manager for outlook in the office as a CRM and have tried the pda add in to view them. It just does,t work. I have heard over other software that makes the contacts visible in outlook mobile.

I also use mine mainly for Business (and pleasure), work in an Australasian role with travel in Australia and New Zealand.
Must admit I am VERY impressed with the function and accuracy of WorldCard mobile. Sure beats the manual data entry of B-Card info
A few of the apps I'm using on my HD
SPB Traveller - to manage my flights, accomodation and rental car bookings.
GarminXT - with Australia and New Zealand maps to help me get to the places I need to.
SPB Weather - helps me know what to expect and what to take when I travel.
SPB Time - My travel alarm clock etc.
SPB Wallet - Helps me remember the multitude of logon details for company (and private)
systems access as well as credit cards and so on.
SPB Finance - Tracks my out of office expenses for me.
Pocket Investor - Mobile management of my stocks.
Softmaker Suite - A really great set of applications which provide me FULL edit and formatting alignment for my Word, Excel and Powerpoint files.
Pocket Informant - Replaces the PIM
RESCO Utility pack - Great file management for shifting documents around, deleting etc.
A few other general apps.
HD Tweak
Gsen
Sprite Backup
MSS Convertor
SKTools
SPB Mobile Shell (but using the "ChangeSKIN" application to provide multiple contact photo screens etc. )
SPB Phone Suite
SPB Brain Evolution

Opening multiple files in Excel Mobile
jonajuna said:
i use MS office for all my other bits as i can bang it stright over to my laptop to use the full versions if necessary
i guess its down to what you need, what you like and what you get used to. ive been using this combo of progs for 4 years now so am a bit stuck in the mud so to speak
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Hi jonajuna, I am a new Touch HD user (and this is my first PDA). Since you use the Office so extensively, could you please help me - how can I open more than one document e.g. in Excel? I often use Excel documents in my work and I constantly need to copy&paste info from one Excel file into another.
Thanks!

I'm also useing mine for business and pleasure. Works well with appointments, addresses, GPS, etc. during business hours.

I've picked up an HTC Touch HD, and I'm a semi-business/pleasure/personal user.
Here are some of the items that I found were useful for me.
As far as the MSDict and MSPhrase apps go, you can find English -> Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Russian, Malaysian, Chinese (trad and simplified), Korean and so on!
Here are the links for the Japanese one since I've been up all night downloading these.
http://htc-touch-hd-t8282.handster.com/product.php?id=3113
http://htc-touch-hd-t8282.handster.com/product.php?id=639
And SPB Traveler is great when it comes on converting common knowledge from overseas such as units, clothing sizes and linguistics as it helps me identify and use the right phrases.
http://htc-touch-hd-t8282.handster.com/product.php?id=439
Also, since I'm both in class and at work, sometimes I'll need a really powerful calculator and the Touch HD does not disappoint with it's capabilities.
http://htc-touch-hd-t8282.handster.com/product.php?id=3627
http://htc-touch-hd-t8282.handster.com/product.php?id=175
There you go, hope this helps.

Hi there,
i´m also one of those guys who using the HTC HD for business.
Maybe the programms i use, would be helpful.
At least it depends on your special needs.
Main focus for me:
Mail -> BBconnect
ToDo list -> MLO ( My Life Organized )
Calender -> Calender Touch
Travelling -> SPB Traveller
If you need further information, just let me know.