Ever wanted to know how the names of the built-in applications / settings applets have changed during the evaluation of the Pocket PC / Windows Mobile operating system?
Microsoft, during the Pocket PC / Windows Mobile maturation / evolution, has changed some of the names of the built-in applications and settings applets (in addition to, naturally, changing their contents and capabilities).
In my articles, I tend to list sometimes two names for a given application so that readers that (possibly) only know their own version of the operating system are not forced to try to guess what I’m talking about.
For example, when I speak of the built-in Web browser in Windows Mobile, I refer to it as both Pocket Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer Mobile. Similarly, when referring to the built-in mailer client, I refer to this as both Inbox and Messaging. Finally, when I refer to the built-in Office applications, I use both “Pocket Word / Excel” and “Word / Excel / Powerpoint Mobile”.
Of course, this tends to clutter up my articles a bit (I have to repeat in all my articles related to, say, Messaging that it was called “Inbox” before the WM2003SE operating system and so on); therefore, I found it necessary to elaborate on this question a bit so that, later on, I can just refer to this article instead of cluttering up my articles with all the possible name versions of each standard Pocket PC application I refer to.
To find out how these names have changed, I, first, recommend Chris De Herrera’s excellent article “Windows Mobile Application Name”, which lists the name changes of the major built-in applications. (Please note that, of the chart, I’ll elaborate on “Internet Explorer” a bit later!)
Second, I also supply an additional chart showing
some other apps missing from the original chart
the changes introduced in the new WM5 AKU’s released after Chris’ publishing the article (more than a year ago) (Not sure what AKU's mean? Read this!)
the Settings applet name changes.
My additional chart is as follows:
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(note that if you have rendering problems, it’s also available here.)
Italic shows the first introduction (when it wasn’t right in PPC 2000) and bold shows the name changes.
What about Internet Explorer?
While the program icon is named Internet Explorer, internally, and as can be seen on their default homepage too, it is called Pocket Internet Explorer (see the screenshot showing this here) under pre-WM5 operating systems and Internet Explorer Mobile under WM5 (screenshot here).
Updated to include WM6 (Crossbow)-related information. (Also see the new, WM6 / Crossbow-related, forthcoming updates to my other articles!)
Related
Now that I’m working on a FULL roundup of EVERYTHING Windows Mobile instant messaging-related, I’ve also scrutinized the current state of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) applications. As I’ve already published several articles on Windows Mobile IRC clients, I’ve decided not to wait for the instant messaging article to be finished, but publish the news (as they are, as is the case with
First, PocketIRC .
PocketIRC has always been one of the best IRC applications for the Pocket PC (see these search results for more information on this question). The brand new version just released adds / fixes the following:
The much requested Favourite Channels list and auto join on connect capability (example screenshot here)
More detailed error messages, and improved disconnect detection
Verdict: a must for all existing PocketIRC users and recommended for anyone that wants to access IRC on his or her Pocket PC.
DXmobile releases Glam IRC, a “modern-style IRC app”
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DXmobile, a newcomer to Windows Mobile development, has recently released a brand new IRC application called Glam IRC. Note that DXmobile doesn’t have a homepage; therefore, you’ll need to download their app (if you bother, that is) from third-party servers like PocketGear and Handango.
Unfortunately, while, on paper, this application seems to be pretty capable, in reality, it is really-really weak.
First, it doesn’t run properly on WM5 and WM6 VGA devices: it has major rendering problems. It seems it’s sensing a QVGA screen as can be seen in for example this Dell Axim x51v screenshot (the same in Landscape). The same stands for WM6 (Crossbow), as can be seen in here. It’s, however, OK with WM5 QVGA (including landscape) and WM2003(SE), both QVGA and VGA, as can for example be seen in this WM2003SE VGA Pocket Loox 720 screenshot.
Unfortunately, this title is one of the worst IRC apps for Windows Mobile I’ve ever tested. It’s very hard to find anything positive about it, except for the DCC and the offline messaging capabilities (which I couldn’t test because of the major trial restrictions, and I, generally, don’t request a review copy of apps I know I couldn’t write anything positive about.)
The problems:
Has a lot of typos - no serious app should contain typos
Major incompatibility problems with WM5 / WM6 VGA models
Absolutely no user control commands (kick etc) (1; in Menu / List channelname Users, there is no context menu and the main menu only offers DCC file sending to the user
No colors, bold, underline, italic etc
Trial mode entirely useless, you can’t even tell anything to anyone
Upon receiving a message in another tab, you don’t get any kind of a notification; not even the color of the tab name is changed
Not any kind of copy/paste support (including clicking URL’s), let alone logging and other advanced functionality that have long been supported by alternate clients
Verdict: forget it, this REALLY overpriced ($19) and REALLY bad application is just not worth bothering. There are a lot of even FREE IRC clients that are way better than this one.
The Mundu instant messenger client is widely known among both Microsoft Smartphone (in the new, WM6-related parlance, “Windows Mobile Standard”) and Palm OS users – on these platforms (particularly on the Palm), it’s probably the best IM client.
The developer has just come out with a heavily updated, new version. While it’s only meant for the MS Smartphone platform, thanks to the convergence between the MS Smartphone and the Pocket PC (Phone Edition) (in the new parlance, “Windows Mobile Classic / Professional”) devices, it works pretty good on all Pocket PC (Phone Edition) devices starting with WM5.
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Much as it does have some problems on Pocket PC (Phone Edition) devices (for example, it doesn’t support working in suspended mode and vibration, unlike with MS Smartphones, where both are supported), I really recommend it particularly if you
want seamless auto-logging capabilities
want conference support with MSN, Yahoo and, according to the developer, AOL/AIM
want file upload (no file download is possible)
Note that, in addition to the connectivity problems (it doesn’t work while the PPC phone is suspended) caused by the officially not-supported platform, you also need to learn to live with the lack of touchscreen support. This means you’ll need to use the Action button (the center button in D-Pad with most Pocket PC’s) instead of for example double-clicking to, say, initiate a conversation with someone. Note that you can still select and use the menu with the stylus.
Another great news item is that the Mundu folks will release a Pocket PC (and a Symbian)-specific version very soon. Hope that version will also fix the issues caused by the differences between the Smartphone and the Pocket PC platform; most importantly, the (on the Pocket PC) lack of vibration and suspended mode support.
Finally, note that I’ve thoroughly updated the comparison / feature chart of my well-known Windows Mobile Instant Messaging Bible (cross-posted to: PPCT, MobilitySite, AximSite, XDA-Developers, FirstLoox, BrightHand, HowardForums), the source of ALL information on instant messaging. In there, you’ll find a REALLY thorough comparison of Mundu to all the alternative instant messenger clients on the Pocket PC – and tons of screenshots. Make sure you check it out to discover what this messenger is really capable of and how it compares to the alternative messengers.
Probably the "prettiest" of the bunch out there (also fairly large in size at nearly 3mb installed).
I really liked the graphics and the options but it was a little laggy (running on the Moto Q).
What killed it for me though at least in my limited tests (<10 mins, lol):
--> It kept a constant data connection (to Gtalk at least), like if I were streaming a video kind of connection. I could have only imagined what my battery would have looked like after 30 minutes.
Then again maybe it was a fluke or after 10 mins it does some awesome idling, I dunno.
I know you didn't get to test the bandwidth but if you get around I'd be interested to see if you get something similar.
I’ve dedicated several articles (for example, THIS) to tracking Registry changes. In addition to the WinDiff-based method I’ve explained, there are also other solutions doing the same; most importantly, SKTracker and the pretty new, free, highly recommended CeRegEditor (see the Registry Editor Bible for more info on the latter).
Now, however, an, in some cases, MUCH better, dynamic tool, RegLogger has been released for both current Windows Mobile platforms: Pocket PC (Windows Mobile Classic / Pro) and Smartphone (Windows Mobile Standard – man, I DO hate these name changes and the subsequent need for ever entering both names...).
It allows for dynamically tracking what changes there have been in the Registry dynamically (in runtime). Just an example of creating a subkey called “menneisyys da king” (see the, in the first screenshot, highlighted “Create” action) and, later, setting a String value “yeah” (see ID 144 in the same screenshot):
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(WM6 VGA Pocket PC screenshot. Note that the value I’ve given to the new string can’t be seen; neither can be seen the full registry tree I’ve attached the new subkey to. These problems might be fixed in the subsequent versions.)
(WM6 QVGA Smartphone screenshot)
(WM2003 PPC screenshot)
(WM5 VGA PPC screenshot showing Resco Registry Editor’s reading out all the Registry values)
Availability, compatibility
Get the PPC / SP version HERE. It’s compatible with all PPC and Smartphone platforms starting with WM2003. Just unZIP the file, transfer its contents to your handheld and run REGLOGGER.exe. To start logging, enable Log / Capture. Note that, on some Smartphones (NOT on my CID / app unlocked WM6 HTC Vox / s710!) you might also need to import TestCert_Privileged.cer, should you encounter authentication problems.
Tips
Because of the HUGE amount of Registry access going on all the time, there are two text input fields and some checkboxes in Log / Settings you will need to make extensive use of.
First, if you’re absolutely sure the app you’re running and would like to track its Registry changes doesn’t have any active code in \Windows, which would result in the Registry change you’d like to find out, you can just enter \Windows (feel free to just leave out the leading backslash) to filter out most of the, in this case, unnecessary traffic in the “Exclude processes with this sub-str” as can be seen in the following:
Note that several programs put an executable file under \Windows; for example, Pocket Controller 6’s (the best Windows Mobile device controller app with a brand new remote Registry editor) PCCommLoader.exe under \Windows\StartUp. In these cases, you won’t want to filter out \Windows but, instead, enter PCCommLoader (or a substring of it) to the other text input field, “Include only from processes with sub-str”, as can be seen in the following screenshot:
You can also set which operation you’d like to track; by default, everything is logged, even reading (querying). You’ll most probably want to limit the number of the enabled checkboxes at the bottom.
Finally, you may also save the tracking results to a file using File / Save As. Note that, currently (as of version 1.0), it doesn’t contain the missing for example full Registry tree information either.
It runs fine on HTC Kaiser (WinMo 6 Pro), but then my device hung when I run PIE with capture on.
*end report*
There have been several YouTube players for Windows Mobile, two of them being, in my opinion, the best: the commercial, but highly recommended CorePlayer (which, with the recent, 1.3.0 upgrade, has fixed almost all the problems I’ve talked about in my dedicated all-in-one bible) and the free FlashVideoBundle. While some of the alternatives (for example, Kinoma Play with the built-in YouTube support and the recently released Flash Lite 3.1) offer more functionalities (for example, built-in account support in Kinoma) and/or better (more “natural”) browser integration, in my opinion, these two players still remain the best choices for YouTube playback, particularly if you have a VGA device.
Enter YouTube’s own player. First of all, before you run to download it: at the current state, I in no way recommend it. It’s in every way worse than CorePlayer: it’s less polished, uses much more CPU for playback and is simply not optimized for being played back on VGA devices, resulting in sometimes ridiculous frame rates. It doesn’t support videos with greater resolution than QVGA either, which is bad news for (W)VGA users having enjoyed the higher-resolution HVGA (480*320) H.264 movies. It seems not to able to work (connect) on some phones; for example, using exactly the same WLAN network, I was able to play back videos (hmmm… more like slideshows on this VGA unit) on my HP iPAQ 210 but couldn’t do the same on my HTC Wizard and HTC Universal phones and my Dell Axim x51v – they complained about connection errors. Again, all this under exactly the same (networking) circumstances.
All in all, it seems this title is worse as the official Symbian version (see 1.3 Using the official YouTube MIDlet, YouTube for Mobile (beta) (currently, Symbian)) of YouTube’s player.
Example screenshots
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Main menu of the player, allowing for accessing the search, top rated, most viewed and most recent categories. The menu (right softkey), as can be seen in the following screenshot, only allows for returning to this screen and bringing up the related list; that is, there’s absolutely no for example account support (unlike with Kinoma’s player or solutions based on the Web – Flash Lite 3.1, the native mobile Web version, http://m.youtube.com, of YouTube or FlashVideoBundle).
A search result. The screen can’t be scrolled down to, for example, see the comments. With more than one search result, the icons can be scrolled from left to right with fingers. Tapping them starts the playback in Landscape. An example screenshot of this:
Installation
Nevertheless, if you still want to give it a try (you’ve been warned…), head to http://m.youtube.com in the built-in Internet Explorer Mobile (unfortunately, it seems alternative browsers like Opera Mobile aren’t supported – I’ve tested the latter with the Omnia build of Opera Mobile 9.5) and click the “Download the YouTube application” link at the bottom, just above the YouTube application copyright message:
If, on the next screen, you’re told your particular model isn’t supported (this will be the case if you aren’t located in an English-speaking country; some people also state the same trick is also needed in English-speaking ones), just click the “Change Language” link at the bottom. The following screenshot shows this (selected) link in Finnish (“Muuta kieli”):
On the next dialog, select English (or English UK):
Now, the download will start; just answer Yes to the question:
After this, just click Youtube in Start / Programs.
Thanks Menneisyys!
As always very usefull info
I´ll try the options and see if finally I can see a video on my Uni
Cheers,
I can´t make it work... not any of the options...
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NotiSender
Hi There!
NotiSender (Aka Notification sender) is an open-source cross-platform notification mirroring application.
With the latest Material-You style UI, this app has a lot of features and benefits and will give you the convenience of using multiple devices.
Notification Mirroring
With tons of customizable options, this app is perfectly capable of mirroring notifications from other devices.
From basic black/white lists, to icon sending, notification gap settings, default text, data split sending, custom scripts, notification importance, due dates, Tasker plugins, and more, we give you maximum choice.
Remote Actions
Noti Sender is also more than just notification mirroring application.
This allows you to pair devices to perform many remote actions.
For example, Noti Sender supports the following "remote actions":
Check other device battery status
Move files from pc to mobile
Or vice versa:
Share image from web directly
Copy text to clipboard
Use mobile device as remote control for presentation
Open web link at another device
In addition to the above, there are many tasks such as:
Send notification with custom title and message
Trigger tasker event
Run application with package name
Run terminal command
Media remote control (like mpris)
(Note: These features work not only with PC-to-mobile, but also with PC-to-PC and mobile-to-mobile communications).
ProtocolAll of this is possible thanks to Syncprotocol, a protocol we developed in-house.
Its a lightweight, two-way communication protocol based on push messaging, designed with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
Whats more, it was recently recognized for its technical excellence with an award from the South Korean government agency "Ministry of Science and ICT".
Also, thanks to these protocols, you are no longer limited by distance.
This means, these protocols work anywhere on the planet because the communication takes place over the Internet (as long as there is an Internet connection).
This is a definite advantage over Airdrop and Nearby share, which only work at a short distance, and KDE-Connect, which only works on the same network.
For more information on this protocol, see:
https://github.com/choiman1559/RemoteSync/blob/master/docs/Specification_rev05.pdf
If you want to try this protocol yourself (No reference documentation available yet):
https://github.com/choiman1559/RemoteSync/tree/master/ProtocolLibrary
Open-Source & Cross platform
Unlike many other notification synchronization apps, all source code for NotiSender is released as free software under the GPL license.
Furthermore, NotiSender is not limited to any one platform, but is designed to work on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Android, with flexible integration between them.
Downloads & LinksGoogle play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noti.main
Github: https://github.com/choiman1559/NotiSender/releases
Desktop client: https://github.com/choiman1559/NotiSender-Desktop/releases
Any questions or comments about the app are always welcome! Please feel free to comment.