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Document Viewers, Editors Office Enhancements and more
Image Viewers and Editors
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Database Programs, Software Development Programs (read
our database review!)
| Title | Description | Company | URL |
| Custom solutions | Databases, forms and more for corporate users | Green Mountain Software | www.gmsw.com |
| HPC DbExplorer | A tool that allows you to browse and manage databases on your mobile device | PhatWare | www.phatware.com |
| MobileSphere | Collaboration tool for corporate users. | River Run Software | www.riverrun.com |
| NS Basic/CE | The Basic programming lanuage ported to WinCE | NS Basic Corp. | www.nsbasic.com |
| MobileDB | A must-have on the Palm and Pocket PC. Can be used to read many freely available databases such as zip code, area code and other databases. The pay-for version gives you the ability to make your own databases which you can distribute. | HandMark | www.handmark.com |
| HanDBase | A powerful relational database that can read and write from Excel, Access and ODBC sources among others. Also available for Palm. | DDH Software | www.ddhsoftware.com |
Internet, Communications and e-mail
| Title | Description | Company | URL |
| Mail on the Run! | Provides remote access to most popular mailing systems such as Lotus Notes¨ Mail, Microsoft Exchange Server¨, Lotus cc:Mail¨,Microsoft Mail¨, and Novell GroupWise¨. | River Run Software | www.riverrun.com |
| NetProfile | Allows to you save multiple TCP/Ip network profiles for your ethernet card in your PDA so that you need not manually change network settings when changing locations | PhatWare | www.phatware.com |
| bFAX | A full-featured fax application | bSQUARE | www.bsquare.com |
| AvantGo! | Popular offline web browser. Download specialized web pages (called "channels") from your Mac or PC to your Palm OS computer to read offline. Subscribe to the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Variety and other free channels. | AvantGo! | www.avantgo.com |
| Connect Force, Internet Force, Scotty FTP, Shell Force, Telnet Force, TFTP Force | Popular and useful 'Net programs for traditional connectivity such as FTP, Telent and shell access. | Ruksun Software | www.ruksun.com |
| vxFtp | A great ftp program. Supports passive mode, anon
ftp, View, rename and delete local and remote files. Make and remove local and remote directories. For HPCs and Pocket PCs. They also make an ftp server for WinCE. |
Cambridge Computer Corp. | www.cam.com |
| vxUtils | Free! Includes DNS Audit , DNS Lookup , Finger , Get HTML, IP Subnet Calculator , Password Generator,Ping , Port Scanner , Quote, Time Service, Trace Route and Whois. For Pocket PCs, WinCE Pro and HPCs. | Cambridge Computer Corp. | www.cam.com |
| ceipConfig | A handy free utility that allows you to examine the properties of your current network adapters and their TCP/IP information. In addition, you can release an adapter's DHCP lease or renew it. This is extremely useful when shifting between wireless networks and those times when your Pocket PC just doesn't manage to pick up those Internet settings. Works on ARM-based Pocket PCs. | Furrygoat | www.furrygoat.com |
| Thunderhawk | A way cool web browser that takes the next step Pocket IE never did. Supports html 4, javascript, CSS1, SSL and more. Allows you to view web pages in landscape mode in ~ 640 x 480 resolution using image compression and a Bitstream font set design to look good in small sizes on the Pocket PC. Read our review here. Yearly subscription fee, software itself is free. | Bitstream | www.bitstream.com/ wireless/ |
| Gopher King | Browser-based email service that handles POP, IMAP, Hotmail and most all ISPs email settings and protocols. Includes SPAM files and virus scanning of attachments. Read our review here. Yearly subscription fee. | Gopher King | www.gopherking.com |
| PocketWiNc | PocketWiNc is a full featured WiFi sniffer that tells you the SSID, BSSID, channel, MAC address, signal strength and WEP details for WiFi access points within range. Get detailed status on access points and your connection. It also offers ping, traceroute and release/renewing of your Pocket PC's IP address. | Cirond | www.cirond.com |
Personal Productivity and Financial software
| Title | Description | Company | URL |
| Calcy Force | Free scientific calculator | Ruksun Software | www.ruksun.com |
| Expense Force | Free expense tracker | Ruksun Software | www.ruksun.com |
| PocketMoney | Personal accounting software, awesome! Faster than MS Money. | Catamount Software | www.catamount.com |
| PoQuick Money | Available in Lite, Pro and Enterprise versions. Financial money manager with many features. Track your bank and credit card accounts, graph your income and expenses, view P&L ledgers and more. The most powerful financial money manger available for Pocket PCs. | Mastersoft Mobile Solutions | mastersoftmobile solutions.com |
| Omnisolve | Advanced forms-based financial problem solver combined
with a built-in finance calculator. |
Landware | www.landware.com |
Contacts managment/ Travel/ Sales Force Automation software
| Software Title | Description | Company | URL |
| TimeReporter, ExpenseDirector | Time and expense tracking software | iambic Software | www.iambic.com |
| Street Atlas USA | maps and GPS | Delorme | www.delorme.com |
| All in Sync! | Remotely access your calendaring and scheduling info on your server. | River Run Software | www.riverrun.com |
| Zagat To Go | Have the Zagat guide to restaurants in the Palm of your hand. Covers 30 cities and also has nightlife listings for NYC, LA, San Francisco and New Orleans. Includes a subscription so you can download updated lists. | Zagat Survey | www.zagat.com |
Utilities (sync, handwriting recognition, security)
| Software Title | Description | Company | URL |
| Calligrapher | Handwriting recognition software for Pocket PCS and Handheld PCs. You can write in script, print and mixed. Great for Handheld PCs since they don't come with handwriting recognition. Avail. in English, French, German Spanish. | Phatware/Paragraph | www.phatware.com |
| eWallet | Use eWallet to store, protect, and back up your bank account info, passport data, credit card PINs and much more. Encrypts and password-protects you info both on your handheld and desktop PC when you want it. A must have! | ilium Software | www.iliumsoft.com |
| Flash Format | Get detailed info about your storage cards, repair them and format them. Supports Pocket PC, HPC 2000 and WinCE pro devices. Work with CompactFlash, SD and MMC cards. Very useful and afordable, don't leave home without it! | CNetX | www.cnetx.com |
| Jot! | handwriting recognition software that allows you to write ANYWHERE on the screen! | Communication Intelligence | www.cic.com |
| HPC Spell | Spell checker than includes an English dictionary of 90,000 words | PhatWare | www.phatware.com |
| HPC Translate | A utility that allows the user to translate single words from one language to another. Spanish and English are included. French and German also available as ad-ons. Dictionaries contain about 30,000 words. | PhatWare | www.phatware.com |
| ListPro | Powerful and flexible, but very simple list manager. Projects, collections, shopping, auctions, errands, to-do's and more. | ilium Software | www.iliumsoft.com |
| QuickNotes Pro | Write ink notes | Communication Intelligence | www.cic.com |
| Resco FileExplorer | A file explorer for your PDA that's more powerful and full-featured than the built-in file explorer. | Resco | www.resco-net.com |
| Resco Zipper | A fully PC-compatible zip/unzip utility for your
Pocket PC. Try it to: send & receive your e-mail attachments
in zip format, compess storage card files and encrypt zip files on
your PDA. |
Resco | www.resco-net.com |
| Intellisync | Need to sync Public folders or folders other than the default in and out boxes? Also supports Lotus Notes, Groupwise and more. | Pumatech | www.pumatech.com |
| Nyditot Virtual Display | A cool and stable utility that allows you to change the resolution and orientation of the display. Want to view at a virtual 800 x 600 in landscape mode? Give Nyditot a try. | nyditot | www.nyditot.com |
| Storage Tools | Works with WinCE 2.11 through Pocket PC 2002. Older Palm PC users rejoice. This utility works with CF cards, Microdrives, PC Cards, MMC and SD cards. Allows you to get detailed info about your storage card, verify/repair it, format it and even defragment it. | SoftWinter | www.softwinter.com |
| CrunchIt | Compression utilities supporting ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2 and JAR file formats. It and integrates with File Explorer and other Pocket PC applications so that working with compressed files is made easy. It also includes file encryption and decryption so that users can secure and share their data over the Internet. | NSC | www.nsctech.com |
Language Translation/ Educational
| Software Title | Description | Company | URL |
| Traveler's Companion Chinese | Translates common words and phrases you'll need when travelling to China (or even Chinatown!). Translates to pinyin, Traditional and Simplifed. Also speaks sentences for you using SpeechWorks International text-to-speech technology. | EasyTap Software | www.easytap.net |
| ChinaFlash! | You guessed it: digital Flash Cards to help you lean Chinese with 11 lessons and 500+ characters. Has Simplified, Traditional and Pinyin. Very reasonably priced. | EasyTap Software | www.easytap.net |
Medical Reference and Applications
| Title | Description | Company | URL |
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary |
The world's largest database of medical, pharma, biotech, agrochem and healthcare abbreviations (and their meanings). 46,000 entries. | Pharma-Lexicon | www.pharma-lexicon.com |
Development Tools and IDEs
| Title | Description | Company | URL |
| NS Basic/CE | The Basic programming lanuage ported to WinCE | NS Basic Corp. | www.nsbasic.com |
| eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0 & Pocket PC 2002 SDK | The standard for Pocket PC and WinCE development. And it's free! The IDE includes an editor, project manager, C/C++ compiler, Visual Basic compiler, linker, and an emmulator. | Microsoft | www.pocketpc.com |
| MobileVB | Develop Visual Basic applications for Pocket PC (and Palm and Symbian) using MS Visual Basic and Mobile VB. A very popular product. | AppForge | www.appforge.com |
Reference and Reading
| Title | Description | Company | URL |
| Palm Reader | Free ebook reader that allows you to read books purchased from Palm Digital Media & Peanut Press. Great stuff! A pro version is available, but it's not free. | Palm Digital Media (formerly Peanut Press) | www.palmdigitalmedia.com |
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