Database Users

How are you guys customizing your today screens?

I know you can download different today plug-ins, and i know about VisBar and such, but I don't see how your today screens look so different from mine (after looking at various 'today screen' threads).
My screen is just several horizontal lines, with the usual "no new messages", "active tasts", etc, and a couple of plugins.
I see people's screens with a completely different layout.
Cheers for any replies

matheprat: it might be worth reading through some of the threads on this subject, eg here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=26468&highlight=
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Thanks for the link, very helpful.
How do you get rid of only the bottom toolbar in WM5? I downloaded the program that other people had used, but I could only get rid of the top bar (which i'd prefer to keep), and not the bottom one.
Cheers

matheprat: If you're referring to the program ToggleToday, I haven't released it yet for WM5, but it's coming very soon.
{
"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"
}
If you need an alternative, try Wisbar Desktop Advance.
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Note: Wisbar 2 or desktop is very very laggy
Use PPX instead if you want better speed, its just as good as WisDesktop.
This is the skin I m currently using

Does PPX work on WM5? Looking on their website it doesn't mention specific compatibility, but has anyone got it runniung satisfactorily?
Cheers,
Fin

Yes, I forgot to mention PPX. It takes quite a bit of headscratching to get it set up, but it works well in the end. Never tried it on WM5.
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vijay555 said:
matheprat: If you're referring to the program ToggleToday, I haven't released it yet for WM5, but it's coming very soon.
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Yeah, that is what I was refering to. When do you think it will be released?
Many thanks

There's so many program's out there that can change the way you're today screen looks
- PocketBreeze
- PocketPlus
- RescoExplorer
- and many more
I'm still looking for a alternative interface for my phone to operate more easily with my fingers instead of my stylus.
It's so hard to quickly find a contact in my contact list while on a bike, in my car, etc since the scrollbar is like 3 pixels wide. Or to lock the phone or close an application, the icons are to frigging small
Not that I have big hands, rather small for a guy even but still...
Any suggestions?

matheprat: not sure when it'll be released, when I get time!
I'm working on too many other things as well, it's really just when I get a few minutes to work on each bit. Hopefully release fairly soon, as I said, WM5 is done, I need to join it to my old WM2003 code and then check it against a companion today plugin I wrote. Quite a bit of behind the scenes stuff involved
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vijay555 said:
matheprat: not sure when it'll be released, when I get time!
I'm working on too many other things as well, it's really just when I get a few minutes to work on each bit. Hopefully release fairly soon, as I said, WM5 is done, I need to join it to my old WM2003 code and then check it against a companion today plugin I wrote. Quite a bit of behind the scenes stuff involved
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I didn't mean to come accross pushy, sorry if I did. I know there's a lot of work needed in developing programs, and no doubt it will be worth it when it is released.
Many thanks

matheprat: no offence taken at all, didn't think you were being pushy.
ToggleToday was one of the first programs I ever wrote, and then I bought myself a Universal to start development on, but accidently wrote VJBigPhone and that kept me busy for a month or so
Now VJBigPhone has gone quiet, I'm finally getting around to re-writing ToggleToday! It's a messy program to write, particularly for dual WM5/WM2003 compatibility, but the basic code is written. Now I'm wrapping it together and will work on a GUI for it.
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well......what's the full name of PPX? what's their website? didn't find anything...
greetz Stefan

Nemesis311088 said:
well......what's the full name of PPX? what's their website? didn't find anything...
greetz Stefan
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PPX3k.com
Also I actually like this PPX skin... thinking to swtich

thanx

Mesh said:
There's so many program's out there that can change the way you're today screen looks
- PocketBreeze
- PocketPlus
- RescoExplorer
- and many more
I'm still looking for a alternative interface for my phone to operate more easily with my fingers instead of my stylus.
It's so hard to quickly find a contact in my contact list while on a bike, in my car, etc since the scrollbar is like 3 pixels wide. Or to lock the phone or close an application, the icons are to frigging small
Not that I have big hands, rather small for a guy even but still...
Any suggestions?
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This will let you change the size of the scroll bars :
http://www.back-pocket.co.uk/pocketmate.php

Mesh said:
I'm still looking for a alternative interface for my phone to operate more easily with my fingers instead of my stylus.
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i use .mobile contacts on my jam and it makes finding contacts and calling them much much easier while driving. don't know if its completely compatible with WM5 but won't hurt to try. heres the link http://www.sygic.com/mobile/phoneedition/index.php

The MOST stable Today Information plugin eva
By the way, can someone recommend the most stable Today Information Plugin?
I was using latest PowerLevel plugin by ScaryBear but it has lots of memory allocation/deallocation problems. Then I switched to simple 15Kb "TodaysInfo" plugin by Lou Terrailloune (v1.7) and it is quite stable but it has significant rendering delays when rotating screen. So, what is the most stable/fastest one to show battery/memory levels and perhaps it can inform you when your battery charge completed (aka PowerLevel/AudioInformer)?
Thanx!!!

Sounds good - any chance of a link?

Best software for one handed operation

Hey guys, I'm loving the Xda Trion (Hermes), but I'm finding it's use as a phone / SMS device a bit sub-par. It's so annoying to have to use the stylus to send a quick text message, for example, and having to use the built in keyboard and trying to text while walking is a non-starter.
Basically, I'm just wondering what third-party software other people are using to make the Trion more of a one-handed phone (in the style of a Sony Ericsson K800, for example). I'm in particular need of a half decent SMS app, that lets me use the touchscreen with my thumb. It doesn't matter if it's free or commercial software; I'm interested in anything that can make the phone functionality of this pda better.
Also, is there any third party software that can improve the camera? Or anything that can manage associations (i.e. the applications which open whenever a file has a certain extension e.g. ".avi").
Cheers!!

Many different questions warrant many different posts, best not to lump them all together.
For managing associations, I use GSFinder.
What do you want to do to improve the camera?
Have you tried SPB Mobile Shell (re one hadned use)?
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Hiya!
I would rather lump them in altogether so that I can get lots of different answers and opinions to look over in the same thread!
Regarding the camera, seeing as it's essentially a software program which takes the pictures, I just wondered if there is third-party software out there that provides a better interface to the camera, or removes the blurriness from photographs.
Haven't tried the Mobile Shell. Does this improve texting with one hand?
Edit: The camera and file associations thing is secondary really. It's the calling and texting with one hand that I'm really interested about.

jedininja666 said:
Haven't tried the Mobile Shell. Does this improve texting with one hand?
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Mobile Shell doesn't help with texting, but makes all the other functions more or less on your phone much easier to operate by thumb! Free trial available.
For texting, try Tengo Thumb, which means you can just use your thumb(s) to input text, no stylus needed. Free trial available.

I think the moderators generally advise keeping posts to one topic (although the moderators are the worst examples for not doing this), and then making sure that your post title matches your post, eg
"Miscellanous musing and ruminations on the use of single digit physical input, improving the camera software and how to assign file associations".
And squeeze that into the topic title length limitation!
Check out the various text input (SIP) replacements that will let you define your own large input keys. Some are free.
I wrote a skin for ThumbKeys once, which I found to be particularly effective.
{
"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"
}
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If someone could also point me to Image stabilizing software, a moisture proof Herms case, HCSD drivers (to store pictures), screen cleaner, and a prvacy filter for my screen, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks.

todd_jg said:
If someone could also point me to Image stabilizing software, a moisture proof Herms case, HCSD drivers (to store pictures), screen cleaner, and a prvacy filter for my screen, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks.
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Are you being facetious? Stop hijacking my thread, I was posting legitimate questions you wind up merchant!

Please be nice...
On a related note, AtekSoft do excellent camera replacement apps. Highly recommended!
http://www.ateksoft.com/
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jedininja666 said:
Are you being facetious? Stop hijacking my thread, I was posting legitimate questions you wind up merchant!
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My sincerest apologies - I was indeed trying to be facetious. Did not mean to hijack your thread.
Sheesh - now I *am* curious why you would want one-handed operation so urgently.

todd_jg said:
My sincerest apologies - I was indeed trying to be facetious. Did not mean to hijack your thread.
Sheesh - now I *am* curious why you would want one-handed operation so urgently.
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very interesting indeed.
You know I had to go to google.com and do "define:facetious". :-/

I wrote a skin for ThumbKeys once, which I found to be particularly effective.
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Hey vijay, nice to see u're back
What "thumbkeys" are you refering to?

Sorry. my bad Glancing at my own old posts show that I have some kind of Freudian oversight embedded in my mind - it's not thumbkeys, despite me always referring to it as such, it's Touch Keyboard - http://www.orthancsoftware.com/TKeyboard.htm
I haven't used it for many years, since moving to the Hermes I use the SIP less and less. But for relatively large amounts of input on a non keyboard device, Touch Keyboard was the easiest for me to skin to my satisifaction, after trying many types of skinnable keyboards.
There are other more "conventional" SIPs for use with big thumbs.
If you're a real psycho you can check this one out:
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/phonesip.htm
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PS: yeah, I don't know if I'm "back" yet, I've been super busy at work (I'm a lawyer and we just got absolutely blown out of the water on this big case that took 6 months of last year up).
But hopefully I'm logging in again, and it's nice to see that not too much has changed! Some new faces, lots of new roms! I found it rather amusing to see some of my stuff in http://wmblack.info/

phone pad
ei, i dunno exactly what u want but i hope this cab file helps with regard to your problem with "making your trion a one handed phone".. this one looks like the phone pad in the xda mini.. you could compose SMS the same way when you do so with an ordinary cellphone.. works great with my xda atom. u have to install it in the main memory k? i couldn't remember where i got it.. hehehe.. hope this helps..

ltxda said:
very interesting indeed.
You know I had to go to google.com and do "define:facetious". :-/
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I had to go to Google and do a "define:wind up merchant" ...
-Humbert

What I do is that I have installed the "Smart Dialer 2.0" which can be found at www.pocketpc.myluckypda.com.
Using this application you search for your contact using T9 (Very good for one handed operation due to large buttons). Once the contact is found this application has the option to take you directly to messaging application with the touch of a button. From here on I use the "SPB On Screen Keyboard" to type the message and send it. Alternately I can also use the slide out keyboard on my Jasjam but I am a bit reluctant to do so for the fear of its getting loose over time.
And if you want real one handed operation I suggest you use Smart Dialer to search for the contact and take you to the messaging application, followed by the Intellipad as has been posted above.
Regards

Hey guys, many thanks for the excellent suggestions so far! I'm gonna research these when I get back from work today.
Cheers!

Just wanted to say I'm using the Intellimate Phone Pad and it's awesome!
One thing I noticed though, it's actually an HTC cab, dated 2004. It does the job, but I'm just wondering if there is a newer version out there. I like to have the very latest version of all my apps!

Vijay,
Which of your apps (or is it someone else's?) makes your top bar have all of those icons with the counters for how many SMS's, missed calls, etc.
That seems like an excellent usage of the real estate!

You mean in this screenshot? Or something else?
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yes, that screenshot.
the counters for email, sms, voicemails, etc. across the very top.

[03/29/2008] PocketCM Keyboard 0.14 - "Free at last"

Feel free to share it with anybody. BUT PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH BINARY ON YOUR WEBSITE, link to mine. And that includes zip, cab, OEM version, included in a ROM, hotlinking, etc...
Hi,
I've made a new SIP for Windows Mobile devices, it works quite well for me... some screenshot:
See a video of the product in action
{
"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"
}
More information and explaination http://www.pocketcm.com/keyboard.php
What's new in 0.14?
- Autocomplete feature (will propose to complete a word if no other suggestion can be made)
- 2 gesture support: space and backspace (slide left to right, or right to left)
- Internal change in the data structure, should be a lot faster and consume a less memory
- Bug fixes: option dialog, layout association dropped after selecting a skin, ...
- Updated some layout and dictionary
Thanks to all the people that have donated for PocketCM software, and due to the lack of free time, I've decided to remove the time limitation in PocketCM Keyboard, you can now use it for free (personal use), without any restriction in feature or timing. Of course, donations are still appreciated!
Download here: http://www.pocketcm.com/keyboard.php

Very excellent program!
I forward the comment I made in the Contact Manager thread:
If the keyboard background could be customizable, we can draw the "spacial" keys (\N \M \B) directly onto the background or, even better, we can create separate PNG files (with trasparency) that will be displayed over the corresponding key (so the keys layout will remain fully customizable).
Marshall

Marshall07 said:
Very excellent program!
I forward the comment I made in the Contact Manager thread:
If the keyboard background could be customizable, we can draw the "spacial" keys (\N \M \B) directly onto the background or, even better, we can create separate PNG files (with trasparency) that will be displayed over the corresponding key (so the keys layout will remain fully customizable).
Marshall
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That's the idea... next step would be to get the actual images?

Great!!!
Is it possible to to with ÅÄÖ in next release or tu use T9?

heikow said:
Great!!!
Is it possible to to with ÅÄÖ in next release or tu use T9?
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I don't understand you. If you need another keyboard layout, you can make one. Or you're asking something else?

Can not use it - instead of this nice keyboard I have the standard keyboard. I have a russian localized rom and it seems that the probleme is related to that fact

tene said:
I don't understand you. If you need another keyboard layout, you can make one. Or you're asking something else?
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I tried to use with the keyboard but many of our word is with åäö och the keyboard can't "find" the words from T9.

This program has great potential and it is just what i have been looking for, thanks for all your hard work in all your programs, anyways my only problem is that it isn't as quick as i would like it to be, otherwise great software.

All I've got to say is "Bad. . . Ass. . ." lol Great job as usual Tene.

ksjulsen said:
This program has great potential and it is just what i have been looking for, thanks for all your hard work in all your programs, anyways my only problem is that it isn't as quick as i would like it to be, otherwise great software.
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What do you mean, what not fast enough? what kind of device you have?
It runs decently on my 200Mhz device.
If it's the time to suggest that seems to long, you can reduce the dictionnary size, the current one has 21887 words, you can probably get better result with let say 2000 words, I'm sure you don't use stupendous, pasteurization and extemporaneous that often

Tene: next version needs disabling the word suggestion. I cant use it since its replacing the polish text to english.

tene said:
What do you mean, what not fast enough? what kind of device you have?
It runs decently on my 200Mhz device.
If it's the time to suggest that seems to long, you can reduce the dictionnary size, the current one has 21887 words, you can probably get better result with let say 2000 words, I'm sure you don't use stupendous, pasteurization and extemporaneous that often
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Ya i think that must be it thanks for da quick reply

its a bit faster when i delete the french dictionary and stuff, but maybe in future releases you could have an option to completely turn off the suggestion bar, just an idea

How do you edit the dictionary?.
Edit. Nevermind, I'm a tool.

can you add a delay time on the letter pop up? like 1 sec?

I love this but I have to agree about killing the word suggestion. I tried to type the name Lisa and it kept changing it to kiss, it was really annoying.

maevro said:
I love this but I have to agree about killing the word suggestion. I tried to type the name Lisa and it kept changing it to kiss, it was really annoying.
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great apps, tene. been trying to find something where i can use a finger. t9 takes half the screen and is not ideal. just need some nice skin to go along with it.

*bows down to the developer*...One major grudge for me (with WM) has been the SIP, have tried lots of them but liked none..fancied an iPhone just for the SIP part (rest is crap for me), and now its here...lemme try and and then ill give u the feedback...

when typing SMS in PocketCM, the PCMKeyboard suggestion box blocks the view of the message i am typing.
I would suggest that the suggestion box be setup horizontally and be part of the keyboard. This will avoid this issue. Liked the scrolling in the suggestion box, horizontal scrolling will be nice!
just my wish list!

Great job on this app! However, is there any way for a 3rd party SIP to parse the built in dictionary? Oh yeah, and allow us to disable the word suggestion.

I like this keyboard a lot!

Just wondering if this keyboard is out, because I am very interested in the layout, etc. If so, can you guys direct me to this 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"
}

where did you find this?

nope thaz samsung's new take at a iphone competitor..its not even a smartphone/ppc...kinda like a LG Voyager...expect maybe sum keyboard skins from other Kbs to resemble it..

Taninpv said:
Just wondering if this keyboard is out, because I am very interested in the layout, etc. If so, can you guys direct me to this CAB.
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You could probably achieve this with a skin on the PocketCM Keyboard. In fact I think it has been done. Search PocketCM Keyboard and there will be links to the skins in that thread.

The pic is from Gizmodo
And yes, that is not even a Windows Mobile device, let alone a smartphone. It is the LG Vu. Give up hope on someone being able to "direct you to this CAB," since it's not at all Windows Mobile compatible. However, I'm sure there are similar looking skins for PCMKeyboard. Check here.
Alternatively, Resco Keyboard has a skin competition going right now, with some nice looking skins entered so far. IIRC, "Gesta" looks pretty similar to this. Resco Keyboard is, however, not free.

Azimuth21 said:
The pic is from Gizmodo
And yes, that is not even a Windows Mobile device, let alone a smartphone. It is the LG Vu. Give up hope on someone being able to "direct you to this CAB," since it's not at all Windows Mobile compatible. However, I'm sure there are similar looking skins for PCMKeyboard. Check here.
Alternatively, Resco Keyboard has a skin competition going right now, with some nice looking skins entered so far. IIRC, "Gesta" looks pretty similar to this. Resco Keyboard is, however, not free.
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Yes, the picture is from Gizmo. I don't think it is WM, but I thought perhaps someone could whip up this cab for MW. I did look into PCMkeyboard, and Resco. However, they are not like this at all.

You've checked all the skins? Even if they're not too similar, they're certainly nice enough. Personal preference, though. Maybe you could whip up this skin for us, then

I have the other ones....
Here the screenshoot
Mod Edit: NO WAREZ
Official Download site:http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/?en
I hope that's help u....
Thanks....

Yeah, the first pic is the virtual keyboard from the new Samsung Instinct, due out next month from Sprint.

black_shadow69 said:
I have the other ones....
Here the screenshoot
Mod Edit: NO WAREZ
Official Download site: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/?en
I hope that's help u....
Thanks....
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This is interesting. I have not seen this keyboard.
Downloading it, and will test it out on my Touch. However, I will do more research and find a program that I could incorporate the keyboard layout like the one I posted.

Made a simple skin to mach this design to my old flash keyboard:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=313585
If you like it just download it from the post above and use this jpg with it:
http://rapidshare.de/files/39303971/back.zip.html

How many times do people have to say this! No warez! Keep this a good forum for developers! There are enough warez sites if you don't want to buy for something people worked hard for!

hmmm....dont know if you refer only to the other post, but my software is freeware...

twolf said:
hmmm....dont know if you refer only to the other post, but my software is freeware...
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I was only thinking about the SPB link not yours twolf
(Not sure which mccune was referring to but yours are fine)
Mike

I actually tried TouchPal, but I have mixed feeling about the program. I just recently went back, and found that there is a newer version. I actually like this.
Here is the download link

twolf said:
Made a simple skin to mach this design to my old flash keyboard:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=313585
If you like it just download it from the post above and use this jpg with it:
http://rapidshare.de/files/39303971/back.zip.html
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This is very close to what I was talking about. Thanks twolf.

pdamedia keyboard v2.1lite - free
I would upload the quick skin, but the "manage attachments is giving me an error
http://www.pdamedia.biz/

Taninpv said:
I actually tried TouchPal, but I have mixed feeling about the program. I just recently went back, and found that there is a newer version. I actually like this.
Here is the download link
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Personally I can't recommend TouchPal highly enough. I guess if you are looking for a thumbpad style keyboard it won't work so well for you but it's the quickest and easiest way of getting typed data into a WM machine that I know of. And you can use it one handed. And you can 'train' it to predict all sorts of names, abbreviations, odd words, etc as you go along

I use touch pal .It was hard to get used to cause i like the full keyboard look. but once you get used to it, you can type pretty damn fast. but if the word isn't in it's library you have to spell the entire word by pushing the button then sliding left or right towards the letter on each button, then tell it to save the word. Still the best portrait mode keyboard imo.

I am sure that someone will be able to dump the ROM on the OP's original post. It is teh LG insight I think and just like they were able to rip out the today menu from the LG KS20, I am sure some amazing XDA member will do the same.
SPB Full Keyboard has been around a long time. Its not bad, it used to be one of the best, but I personally feel they now lag behind and there are much better virtual keyboards now. Plus SPB take up the ENTIRE screen, with a little view box.
PCM and TouchPAL are both great, I personally feel that TouchPAL is better. Either way, they are both free while SPB Full is not.
I was using TouchPal with my Atom Life and had been using it with my Touch Cruise, but I am actually liking the OEM keyboard that HTC has preinstalled on the Touch Cruise.

[6/10/08] Tippy v.1.1 [Open Source] UPDATED!

I made a little something for you!
Tippy is a bill splitter and tip calculator for Windows Mobile. It was designed to work on all resolutions and to never require use of the stylus.
I improved many things with v.1.1. Lots of bugs were fixed, UI was made easier to use and a big button SIP was added for number input. You should definitively update if you have 1.0!
{
"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"
}
The files, the source and the changelog are available if you follow this link:
http://nicbou.com/downloads/tippy/
Enjoy!

I will tell you right now this is one useful program. Great Job, I will let you know of any problems as I use it more.

cool, im already a fan and i havent even tried it yet

orlandojumpoff said:
cool, im already a fan and i havent even tried it yet
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I was affraid the demand would be too small but seeing people are interested I'll pursue development a bit.
VGA for devices is ready (Force QVGA) but it needs .net CF and I didn't want it around for a first release. I'll also add more currency symbols as suggested on another forum.
Something I did that I would like to see more often is settings saved to text files. It can be edited easily by anyone and leaves nothing after uninstall.

Thank you for sharing!
I am definately going to try this out.
Great idea!
Best regards,
-boggsie

boggsie said:
Thank you for sharing!
I am definately going to try this out.
Great idea!
Best regards,
-boggsie
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+1 great Idéa thank you

Glad to see this being developed, can't wait for future releases.

feature request
i still haven't been able to put it on my phone, but i'll have a crack at it tonight... from the screen shot on your site... i like how the tip percentage and number of people are configured with finger friendly buttons... what do you think about adding an easier way to add the amount to tip? i don't know if you've used g-alarm... but maybe something like how you set the alarm time in that? where you have add/subtract buttons below each digit (that way u wouldn't have to bring up the keyboard).
keep it up

orlandojumpoff said:
i still haven't been able to put it on my phone, but i'll have a crack at it tonight... from the screen shot on your site... i like how the tip percentage and number of people are configured with finger friendly buttons... what do you think about adding an easier way to add the amount to tip? i don't know if you've used g-alarm... but maybe something like how you set the alarm time in that? where you have add/subtract buttons below each digit (that way u wouldn't have to bring up the keyboard).
keep it up
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That's interesting. I'll try G-Alarm and look for what you are talking about.
I might add a pop-up form with a keypad when you click the text box and see how this work.
I don't like the look very much so I might add a cuter UI (skinnable ) if it doesn't slow down the launch time too much.

I love the idea, and tried it. BUT the calucation is WRONG. Hope it will be fixed soon.

ccheung said:
I love the idea, and tried it. BUT the calucation is WRONG. Hope it will be fixed soon.
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Oops! You are right! Once you start messing with the amount of people present it gets ugly. I'll fix that soon enough!
I don't test my apps enough

I fixed the results so they should be accurate now.
I'm currently working on a big keypad to type the amount. I will also add some languages and currencies and eventually skinnable interface.
UPDATE:
I made the following changes:
-Tip is now accurately calculated
-The amount is entered using a SIP keypad
-The + and - buttons for tip and people are now changing individual digits instead of the whole number. It's much faster and easier to enter it now.
-Changed the look a bit, fixed control resize errors when rotating screen, VGA should work well.
After all I won't add a skinnable UI to save space and keep the app fast and usable.
I only have a few minor fixes left to be done so I should release v.1.1 tomorrow. (I'm on Ubuntu and I'm too lazy to reboot... and Vista sucks).

Ta-da! An update!
A lot of stuff was fixed, including all of the suggestions except languages

looking good! now for a splash of color instead of that plain white background?
keep it up, thanks

orlandojumpoff said:
looking good! now for a splash of color instead of that plain white background?
keep it up, thanks
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I tried loading the today theme picture as the background but it slowed everything down
I might try an alternative later.

nice app good work i can see this coming in handy

Where is hosted these day? The link no work