Guest Webreaper Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Looking for some suggestions for useful stuff to customise the homescreen. Weather forecasts, etc. Caveat is they must be freeware. Any suggestions of useful stuff that people use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Lee Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 I don't think there's much in the way of freeware. Personally I'm more than happt with the SBSH offerings for my homescreen, PocketBreeze, ContactBreeze, PocketWeather and iLauncher. They were definitely worth the money I paid for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Webreaper Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Fair enough. I thought there'd be a bit more freeware stuff out there (e.g., I run forecastfox on my browser, which is totally free). I mean, I like the idea of getting a weather forecast on my device, but not enough to pay for it. If I'm that bothered about getting the weather and can't have it on my home page I'll just navigate to www.bbc.co.uk/weather. 8) Anything else that's worth having? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uwaku Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Fair enough. I thought there'd be a bit more freeware stuff out there (e.g., I run forecastfox on my browser, which is totally free). I mean, I like the idea of getting a weather forecast on my device, but not enough to pay for it. If I'm that bothered about getting the weather and can't have it on my home page I'll just navigate to www.bbc.co.uk/weather. 8) Anything else that's worth having? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sure. You can use Weather To Go from tonaya.com. It doesn't update automatically (you have to click the update button), but you can specify two locations (by ZIP code) and show up to a five-day forecast. Click on the day's display & get more detail. It's free. What else are you looking for? I pretty much won't buy anything for my MDA because next time I upgrade, I tend to lose it. I had a nice freeware program called WorldToday that gave me local time in from 2 to 6 cities, but it doesn't like WM5, so I lost that... There's also a googlesearch today app that searches directly from your today screen; kinda nice. The only other apps I generally use are cLaunch and PPC Profiles. Both are free. If you REALLY want to scare people with your screen, try eXPerience, the XP shell for your PPC. It's free because they went out of business, but it works nicely on WM5 (http://www.digitalexpedition.com/main/index.htm). When in doubt, hit freewareppc.com and look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Webreaper Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 (edited) Cool, thanks. Saw that eXPerience thing, but although it's now a free download, they say WM5 isn't supported. I'll have a look at the google thing - that sounds cool, and the weather-to-go. Of course I could download cracked versions of the apps like spb etc., but being a software developer that kindof goes against the grain, so if I'm going to download anything I'd at least prefer the author was giving it away free (like my own app, Webreaper). 8) Edited March 20, 2006 by Webreaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marcwic Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Fair enough. I thought there'd be a bit more freeware stuff out there (e.g., I run forecastfox on my browser, which is totally free). I mean, I like the idea of getting a weather forecast on my device, but not enough to pay for it. If I'm that bothered about getting the weather and can't have it on my home page I'll just navigate to www.bbc.co.uk/weather. 8) Anything else that's worth having? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> c-launcher is good, lets you have destop icons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest esh Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Pocket Weather also quite good and free. dktoday is excellent and shows cell/mobile operator and total mins of calls made and bluetooth control. there is a free version of pocketzenphone too for profiles. all work on wm5 - and all found at www.pocketpcfreewares.com enjoy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lpasq Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) PHM TrayLaunch is a MUST have and is freeware. It's on xda-developers and be sure to read the entire thread before getting started. It is really simple and combined with SmartsKey, they make a killer combination. Edited March 23, 2006 by lpasq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest XNUK Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Cool, thanks. Saw that eXPerience thing, but although it's now a free download, they say WM5 isn't supported. I'll have a look at the google thing - that sounds cool, and the weather-to-go. Of course I could download cracked versions of the apps like spb etc., but being a software developer that kindof goes against the grain, so if I'm going to download anything I'd at least prefer the author was giving it away free (like my own app, Webreaper). 8) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah... WM5 first installs the app ok, then gives 3 icons on the standard today screen. Clicking on any of them bring up a fullscreen error that tells you to press quit. Shame.. All ide ever want out of a home screen is an XP look and feel. Shame no one has pulled their finger out yet and cashed in on this mass market! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest XNUK Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Cool, thanks. Saw that eXPerience thing, but although it's now a free download, they say WM5 isn't supported. I'll have a look at the google thing - that sounds cool, and the weather-to-go. Of course I could download cracked versions of the apps like spb etc., but being a software developer that kindof goes against the grain, so if I'm going to download anything I'd at least prefer the author was giving it away free (like my own app, Webreaper). 8) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah... WM5 first installs the app ok, then gives 3 icons on the standard today screen. Clicking on any of them bring up a fullscreen error that tells you to press quit. Shame.. All ide ever want out of a home screen is an XP look and feel. Shame no one has pulled their finger out yet and cashed in on this mass market! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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