mChat

November 21st, 2006

mChat - an alternative for pocket icq

ICQ is one of the most used web applications on PC and I think that any of Pocket PC owners early or later decide to install this messenger on their devices. But Pocket ICQ from Mirabilis seems to be forgotten by their developers. That’s why it is worth to see some alternative messengers that support protocol of ICQ.
One of the alternative messengers with support of ICQ protocol is mChat.

This Program has many advantages such as:

- it’s free
- Multilingual Interface (English, German, Russian)
- Two rows contact list (for better overview)
- Smiles-Support
- Quick switch between program-windows with tabs
- Shows X-Status
- Shows Information about ICQ-Client on the other side (e.g. QIP)

Disadvantages:

- Don’t support Toonel.net

Homepage of Project:

http://mgslab.com/Index.php?&lng=en

AvatnGo: The best of the web to go

October 14th, 2006

avantgo news software for pocket pc and smartphone

AvantGo is a program with that you can synchronise and read predefined and self made channels on your Pocket PC, Palm or mobile phone.
After the registration on the Website www.avantgo.com you have a possibility to choose the channels from a big list of predefined news or to make a new one from rss-feed. After the sync, that takes around 2 or 3 minutes (Depends on the size of your channels) you can read your channels offline.
The maximum size of free account is 2 Megabytes and it is enough for 10 or 15 channels, but if you want to have more space, you may buy 8 Megabytes for only $19.95 annually.

Resco Explorer 2005

September 30th, 2006

Resco Explorer 2005 for Pocket PC

Resco Explorer is a file manager for Windows Mobile that I use as alternative for native file manager. Unlike Windows Explorer, that supports only basic functions, Resco Explorer has dozens of useful features. There are such features as registry-manager that makes editing of registry possible, ftp-tool, zip de-compressor, network browser, encryption-tool, viewer for text and graphic, today plugin with system information + quick launch toolbar and so on.
But not only the features played a big role for me, but also design and it is really good.
There is only one disadvantage for me, it is the price of $24.95.