Everyone At XDA has given me so much I feel like I need to Give a little back.
I learned this when I had my treo 650, If you hate the tiny radars and satelite pictures you get on your phone, or don't want to load the whole weather page from your local news site, here is my fix for that.
1) on your computer find the local radar or Satelite that you want on your phone. (if you want animated view, animate 1st.)
2)Move cursor over map and right click mouse. Select properties.
3)High lite the Address (URL) right click mouse copy and paste in an E-mail and send it to your phone.
4) once on your phone you can open the e-mail and just select the URL address and your browser will load it. Save it to favorite's and you got it.
You only have to do this one time is seems that updates and changes are automaticaly saved to the same URL address.
5)the following web sites I know work where I am. P=Pic/A=Animate
Wungerground.com (P&A)
Accuweather.com (P&A)
bigblue marble.com (P&A)
Intellicast.com (P)
(intellicast and big blue marble sat's photos are huge(date size) but pretty and detailed)
Noaa Radars USA (Use Standard Version link below NOAA Emblem) (P&A)
National Hurricane Center Sat's (P)only
Localwireless.com USA (P&A)
I used them during the 2005 hurricane season and was well informed
Try your locals and nationals good luck' Jami J
Java loads and Flash will not work on my phones (TREO 650) Or (TILT)
dose anyone know how to make them work?
Nice tip, thanks. I check Weather Underground every day on my PC but hadn't thought to try it yet on my Tilt.
I guess I'm hitting on a topic that has had endless discussions and has just plain been posted thousands of times, so it's probably a big annoyance for most of you; however, I have yet to see a concise and informative post or even a website anywhere that helps me get applications for my first Pocket PC, an AT&T Tilt. So if it's not too much trouble could you guys please help me out here? Please follow this format for each application you post:
[Category] - Pricing/Freeware
Application:
Description:
Positives:
Negatives:
Rating: 1 being worst - 5 being best
Where to get:
Example...
[Scheduling] - Freeware
Application: TodayAgenda
Description: TodayAgenda displays appointments and tasks on your today screen up to 30 days in advance. It replaces the default Outlook plugin with a lot of more features. (Straight from the site)
Positives: Great features, Very customizable.
Negatives: Can lag a little bit sometimes, Some features that Spb Dairy has that it lacks.
Rating: 4
Where to get: http://tiews.info/index.php?show=&lang=en
I think if we follow this format, we can give this thread a longer life expectancy as well as alleviate many of these types of posts. Even though I expect this to be an thread for great applications, if you feel the need to criticize another application please do so in a thorough manner following the format. Thank you for taking your time to read this and I hope to see some amazing applications!
[PIM Manager]: $29.95
Application: Manages your contacts, tasks, diary & Todo lists.
Description: An impressive all round product to help assist with managing your data in a simple but complex interface. Pocket Informant doesn't just simply let you work with your daily events through lists and grids, but with the new Events and Journal views you can look at your life's past and future in an easy cohesive environment. Even create contact links within your appointment or tasks' subject and notes let you quickly access a named contact without having to resort to links or a search. Most suprisingly, this power doesn't come at the cost of a complicated, cluttered interface.
Positives: Very customisable, easy to use, all in one management.
Negatives: None that I can complain about
Rating: 4
Where to get: http://www.pocketinformant.com/
For me the best application which in fact has prevented me from shifting to Symbian is SoftMaker's Office.
Category = On purchase. This is a suite of Spreadsheet and word processor.
Positives = So powerful that it can do almost what the PC counterpart can do. I need extremely complex spreadsheets even including conditional formatting and drop down lists. Never once I have encountered a situation where there was a mismatch between the desktop and the device. Round trip integrity of documents is just perfect.
Negatives = Not really many except for the steep price but I guess I do not mind this much as the overall functionality it provides is just great.
website = www.softmaker.com
[Category] - Pricing/Freeware - $40.00 - $60.00
Application: - CalliGrapher
Description: - Writing Recognizing Program
Positives: - Actually works...It has a function call Write Pad which allws fast printing across the bottom of the screen. I can take meeting notes very quickly during meetings. I gave up my Palm TX to go back to a PPC speciffically because of this ability.
Negatives: - There is a learning curve.
Rating: 1 being worst - 5 being best - 5
Where to get: http://www.phatware.com/calligrapher/index.html
[Taskmanager] - Freeware
Application: wkTask
Description: Task- and discrete Batterybar
Positives: Very nice and customizable, uses almost no CPU (especially compared to MagicButton which does the same but is quite ressource hungry)
Negatives: Notification icon might get hidden behind the taskbar (just set it such that there's enough space, still automatic would be nicer )
Rating: 4.5
URL: http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html
Business (power user) - Worldmate FREE Worldmate Pro $74.95
Application: Worldmate
Description: Multiple apps for travel..Weather, Conversions, flightinfo and organiser
Positives: All of it.
Negatives: renewable yearly license (covers data subscriptions for weather and realtime flight info)
Rating: 5
Where to get: Online.
UTIL - Freeware
Application: MOJOPAC
Description: Used in conjunction with Softkick card export, gives a carry around vitual PC.
Positives: Carry more than just a Pocket PC
Negatives: Really needs a large SD card to be fulfilled.
Rating: 5
Where to get: Online
Tomeraider
oops - doublepost
Tomeraider
[db / ebook reader] - £19.95
Application: Tomeraider
Description: "TomeRaider is a text database browser and reader for handheld devices and Microsoft Windows made by Yadabyte"
Positives: Not just an eBook Reader but SO much more. On my SD card, I have a file containing the whole of wikipedia - it is very, very fast too. You wouldnt know that there were literally millions of articles. I also have IMDB on it too - lots of files available (4000 according to the site) - you can even author your own
Negatives: None found as yet
Rating: 1 being worst - 5 being best: "5+"
Where to get: http://www.tomeraider.com
[GPS navigation] - around $150, depends on country
Application: iGo MyWay Plus
Description: excellent GPS navigation software
Positives: Best interface that I've ever seen in any GPS software. Extremely convinient and easy to use. Fast, reliable. A lot of infromation on the screen, yet nothing is ever covered by anything, you get the whole view. Has a very large selection of maps. Not sure about others, but California map is very well detailed - last update was in Jan 08 with over 2 million POIs. Nevada map is ecellent too, other states probably the same. Supports TMC, internal/external GPS, speed cameras, excellent voice guidance, day/night skins, various transportation devices, toll road avoidance, and much more stuff.
Negatives: Does not get traffic updates from the web. Rest is minor glitches: If device goes to sleep, it may not return from it if iGo is running (happens very rarely). If phone is on vibrate - switches it to "silent" mode... although maybe this bug has to do with my config/device.
Rating: 1 being worst - 5 being best
Where to get: http://www.i-go.com/en/
Excellent idea! Should hopefully curb the "Just got my HTC xxx - what programs should I put on it?" posts!
My contributions
[Synchronisation] - £16.00/Free trial
Application: Easy Sync by Pocket Wizards
Description: Excellent program that lets you sync any files from any location on your PC to any location (including microSD) on your PPC
Positives: Much better than Active Sync file transfer. Leave all your files exactly where they are on your PC. Set up a sync partnership for that file using the straightforward wizard and choose where on your device you want to sync the file to. Choose your update frequency and job done - whenever you change the original file, the synced copy also updates. Can set up uni or bi-directional sync, so changes made to PPC version are automatically transferred to your PC file at next Sync. Can be set to trigger when ActiveSync starts up for a fully automated process. Also allows for sync of entire folders.
Negatives: The only one I can think of is that it is compatible with .NetCF 2.0 only, not with 3.5. Other than that, very smooth and stable. Well worth the money.
Rating: 5
Where to get: Handango etc
[Utilities] - Freeware
Application: GroupSMS
Description: Easy way to send SMS to multiple contacts
Positives: Allows you to choose multiple SMS recipients by ticking the boxes, rather than choosing them one by one. Can set this up for different contacts groups too.
Negatives: Can only set up groups via Outlook, although this function is on the creator's To-do list
Rating:4
Where to get: www.shubaroo.com - lots of other great little apps on this website too!
App Launcher
[App Launcher/Today Plugin] - $15
Application: UltimateLaunch 1.2
Description: Tabbed app launcher and today plugin. Animated tab transitions, unlimited tabs, gestures.
Positives: Very customizable, unlimited tabs, custom icons, low memory usage.
Negatives: Learning curve to configure, uses icons instead of png.
Rating: 4
Where to get: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Launcher-Applications/UltimateLaunch-56169.shtml
[SIP Keyboard] - Usually $19.99. But at the moment, $12.98 for two licences. Give one to a friend like I have!
Application: TouchPal 2.0 Professional
Description: Finger/thumb-friendly predictive keyboard with a special technology called T+ where you tap and slide each key in a different direction for different symbols, letter, case, number etc. Many many features including multiple languages, dynamically-resizable keyboard, fast custom word input. Innovative design.
Positives: way too many to list. accurate and quick predictive input due to design of two letters on one key, powerful, looks great, excellent support people who will consider your feature requests VERY quickly, excellent value. Still looks like a normal qwerty keyboard.
Negatives: Some people not used to predictive input may undergo a little learning curve. Try it, it's much faster and with this one, it usually has the word you want as the first one so you can just keep on typing!
Rating: 5+
Where to get: http://www.cootek.com/
Pros:
Hi, I am looking for an application which simply shows HTML pages(local or remote) on home-screen(widget) and refreshes itself in specific time intervals.
It would be great for people, who knows how to work with javascript but doesnt know java and it would be very useful and simpler to create RSS-like widgets with it.
Any suggestion? Thank you.
I'm looking for something similar that will pull this image into a widget on my homescreen:
EYE EM GEE ESARESEE="http_//spc_noaa_gov/products/outlook/day1otlk_0100.gif" alt="SPC Day1 0100Z Outlook Categorical" width="582" height="408"
I had to edit the html a bit due to me being a noob
Success! Use "Webcam Widget" in the Android Market.
Then, you can copy the URL and resize the widget with LauncherPro!
Now I have Day 1 Convective Outlooks, Day 1 Storm Reports, Day 1 Watches/Warnings and the local news live Doppler Screen grab (added the widget four times) on one my homescreens!
i am looking for something which can handle HTML, Javascript and CSS
not only image files...
[How to move with root explorer]
Step 1. go to your download folder and press menu and multi-select the sounds you downloaded (make sure you do copy otherwise your sounds will get deleted when flashing a new rom)
Step 2. move the files to /system/media/audio/notifications all done.
if you guys no other ways to push them there tell me thanks.
-----------------Old Sounds we love and miss are here!------------------
Castlevania Death http://www.mediafire.com/?snpj85ios61ptl1
death 2 http://www.mediafire.com/?yz7bxdpn1cmygwz
Contra sms http://www.mediafire.com/?yz7bxdpn1cmygwz
Ghost & Goblins http://www.mediafire.com/?2fhkk73f2un4589
Kirby extra life http://www.mediafire.com/?2fhkk73f2un4589
Mario 1 up http://www.mediafire.com/?bs2sny1jc3dvvvd
Mario 3 Sms http://www.mediafire.com/?jf75i6qbwu64w2b
Mario Coin http://www.mediafire.com/?d38695n450svrdv
Metal Gear solid codec http://www.mediafire.com/?13gbtzt6aszy41x
Metal Gear solid health http://www.mediafire.com/?u85lehejp1ma8b6
Metroid 2 Get item http://www.mediafire.com/?qmili2asu2verv6
Ms Pacman Eats Ghost http://www.mediafire.com/?qmili2asu2verv6
Pacman http://www.mediafire.com/?0jm6surrvrz01dt
Pacman dies http://www.mediafire.com/?y5gnic6bkhsj9dc
Pacman theme http://www.mediafire.com/?oxa4dt7q6xeno8t
Sonic Rings http://www.mediafire.com/?51yu7urzqku7eu2
FINAL FANTASY FFVII VICTORY TONE http://www.mediafire.com/?7u116c2d9qgqvd5
--------------------------------Z E L D A--------------------------------
Saria song http://www.mediafire.com/?16wan39pwnqa5qc
Small item http://www.mediafire.com/?5bfmlc77m0vat2r
Navi listen Ver 1 http://www.mediafire.com/?666s8n40pd6untz
Secret http://www.mediafire.com/?o5ldszqcjo9pof9
Navi listen Ver 2 http://www.mediafire.com/?am27pnc83bnt62n
reserved for future post
easier to put them on sd card in a folder named media/audio/notifications..........then you do not have to reload every rom change...........you can do the same for ringtones.
Thanks Monky
Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
Why is it so hard to find, yet create, such a clock face. It was a a no brainier on the pebble and I understand the moto360 has such a watchface (at least the dual time part). The closest I have come is to use WatchMaker but I cannot overcome a few obstacles:
1. My local time, which course never changes, needs to be fixed to my local location. The best way I figure to do this is to assign my local location to one of the extra time zones, say location 1. Issues: I can only express the time in 24 hr format and the weather will be tied to the GPS location of the watch/phone.
2. My second time can be tied to another extra time zone, say 2. Again I can only get the time in 24hr format but I at least get weather at my location 2 since it is tied to the GPS.
So a compromise might be to live with the weather only in my current location but I would prefer a solution to use 12 hr time. Any solutions.
I know this is about a year old, but just ran into the issue myself. I used a custom script to solve the problem. Unfortunately, you have to hard code the time zone difference, although I'm sure you could get a lot more involved and use manipulation with the different time zone hour tags. But this is how I customized it to use a LUA script to hard code the timezone in. For example, if you're 6 hours apart...
({dh}>6 and {dh}-6 or {dh}+6)..":"..({dm}<10 and "0"..{dm} or {dm})
Hopefully you can make sense of that. Essentially you're using an if statement to say if the hour is greater than 6 subtract the 6 hour time difference, if it's less than 6 then add 6 since subtracting would give you a negative number. In LUA an IF <x> THEN <y> ELSE <z> turns into <x> and <y> or <z>. Also .. is the string concatenator, and unfortunately, {dmz} which is the minutes with leading zeros tag gets truncated when you treat it as text, so I used a second if statement to add back in the leading zero if necessary.
You'd just have to adjust the 6's in my example to match your respective time zone, so 3 hours would turn into...
({dh}>3 and {dh}-3 or {dh}+9)..":"..({dm}<10 and "0"..{dm} or {dm})
i was looking for a solution that used the time zones setup on the application instead of a hard coded one. I didn't find one, so I wrote my own script:
(string.sub("{tz1t}",1,-4) + 0 == 0 and "12" or string.sub("{tz1t}",1,-4) + 0 < 13 and string.sub("{tz1t}",1,-4) or string.sub("00"..string.sub("{tz1t}",1,-4) - 12,-2))..":"..string.sub("{tz1t}",-2)
this one does a two digit hour and a two digit minute by manipulating the time from the timezone tag provided by watchmaker. if you want timezone 2 or 3, simply substitute the 1 in {tz1t} with the 2 or the 3.