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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Microsoft Adds a File Explorer and New Start Menu Navigation to its Smartphone OS

Posted by Jerry Raia in "SOFTWARE" @ 11:00 AM

http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3223

"With the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 2.3 release for Smartphones, Microsoft added some useful features to its Smartphone platform, including a file explorer and a slightly modified Start menu. Microsoft always uses these AKU releases to either fix bugs or to add new features and while most stuff and changes are under the hood, these two new features can be seen and used by the users and both adds more convenience to the Smartphone use."

One of the things I like about my Q is being able to scroll through all the programs in the start grid view. Until now you had to "more" your way through it on all the other Smartphones. Some enhancements to the built in file explorer are also included. The catch here of course is will you be able get your hands on this latest AKU. Here is a list of them so you can see where you are. :)

Tags: microsoft, smartphone, file, explorer, adds, start, menu, navigation

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Extend the Menu Functionality with Right Menu

Posted by Mike Temporale in "SOFTWARE" @ 06:00 AM

http://www.smartphone.net/smartphonethoughts/software_detail.asp?id=1744

"Right menu is an excellent tool for your smartphone which extends the right-key on the smarphone to a highly-effective multiple menu. Being Integrated into the whole system, It could improve your production significantly and simplify your operation. *Support multiple menu and adding menu option, pop-up menu and separator. *Integrated with the whole system."

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This looks like a pretty interesting application. What happens when the application already has a menu assigned to the right softkey? If anyone here installs this, please let the rest of us know how it works. You can download a trial version or purchase a copy for $7.99 at our Affiliate store

Tags: with, menu, right, functionality, extend

Monday, September 12, 2005

gStart Menu for MS Smartphone Released in Beta Version

Posted by Jerry Raia in "SOFTWARE" @ 05:00 PM

http://www.airfagev.com/forum_view.asp?msg_id=169074

"gStart Menu can be used to replace your Start Menu to a grid menu with options to customize background and color schemes. You can also re-arrange your Start Menu order with it."

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Every once in a while a little utility comes along that is truly useful. I think this may be one of them and it is a free beta. :)

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Tags: beta, smartphone, released, version, menu, gstart

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Contacts Menu Makes it Easy to Share Your Smartphone Contacts

Posted by Mike Temporale in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM

http://www.airfagev.com/downloads.asp?cat=Utilities

"This free Contacts Add-On has been inspired by RJV SendContact. Since the SendContact has many drawbacks like you can't use T9 search from list of Contacts, etc., Ondrej has developed this and shared it to airfagev as a freeware. After installing the app, you should see Send via email/SMS added to your contacts menu. This utility also allows you to select which contact info you want to send like Name, Mobile No., Work No., etc."

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If you have ever attempted to share a contact before, you'll appreciate this handy little application from Ondrej Hanak over at airfagev.com. Nice job!

Tags: share, smartphone, contacts, easy, your, makes, menu

Monday, February 16, 2004

Tweak: Change the Start Menu Order

Posted by David McNamee in "SITES & RESOURCES" @ 06:30 AM

The following tweak involves editing your Smartphone's registry. Improperly editing values in the registry could cause unexpected behavior or cause the Smartphone to stop working. For more information on editing the registry, see this post.This tweak is provided as is, with no guarantees as to its effectiveness, or to the safety of using this tweak.

Change the Start Menu Order.
Instructions provided by Jonny Midnight

Purpose
The programs listed in the Smartphone's Start Menu are in alphabetical order - except for the first few that are fixed by either Microsoft or the service provider. Since it might be nice to have the programs listed in an order in the order in which you'd likely use them, we provide this tweak.

Instructions
  • Open up Regedit, and browse to the following:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Shell/StartMenu
  • Select 'Values'
  • Select 'Order'
  • In the value data you can now change the order of the links in the start menu. The easier way to find the link names is to open up All Explorer, Smartexplorer, or even browse to the phone via the computer, and look at the files in '\IPSM\Windows\Start Menu'. Don't forget to add '.lnk' at the end of the program name, or it won't work.

    If you want any of your own custom links, just make sure you put them in the \IPSM\Windows\Start Menu folder.

  • Now you must reboot your phone for the changes to take effect.


Re-published with permission from Jonny Midnight.

Tags: start, tweak, change, menu, order
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