If you have ever used Total Commander for Windows then you know how fast it is. It gives the command prompt a run for its money.

I was looking around the other day, and notice there is a version for Windows Mobile and it is FREE. Grab it here.

Main features:

• Copy, Move whole subdirectories
• In place rename, create directories
• Delete (no recycle bin)
• Zip and unzip
• Properties dialog, change attributes
• Built-in text editor
• Search function (also for text)
• Select/unselect groups of files
• Select with [Sel] button
• FTP client
• Registry editor
• LAN access
• Send/Receive via Infrared (OBEX)
• Brief, full and large icons mode
• Single or two file window mode
• Option to hide all files in ROM
• Directory hot list as in Total Commander
• Directory history through drop down list
• Tree view
• Configurable button bar
• Simple help function
• Supported languages: English, German, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Swedish

ceSnipURL:

Features:

• Auto places URL’s from clipboard into conversion window on application launch
• After conversion the snipped URL is placed on the clipboard for use in your SMS/email or application of choice
• Very simple one screen application
• Built in checking for update via the about screen

MPlayer is one of the most popular Linux/Unix media player. Now, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member amitv_17, the porting to Windows Mobile has started.

This application pretty much plays anything, and is a great application to have install, ready and waiting.

Here’s another option:

The Core Pocket Media Player is an open-source media player for Windows CE / Windows Mobile-based devices.

Here’s an article that list tons of shopping Web sites that have a mobile interface.

Shopping Search, Via Mobile Phone

Has lots of information on these sites and more:

• Amazon
• eBay
• Froogle
• PriceGrabber
• Yahoo! Shopping

Live Search Mobile is like the Swiss Army knife of Windows Mobile apps. Or maybe it is more like having your own butler ready to take care of just about anything you need. About the only thing it won’t do for you is drive your car. Who knows, maybe the next version.

 Local information and navigation

• Find local businesses and restaurants, and click to call them
• Get turn by turn driving directions
• Explore interactive maps with satellite imagery
• View current traffic information and find cheap gas1 stations
• See movie show times by theaters

Web search from any phone with Internet access

• Search the full Web
• Find the latest news items
• Search images and photos
• Get instant answers for weather, stocks, maps, etc

Easy to use, and optimized for your phone

• Choose the customized version that’s best for your phone
• Speak your questions—no need to type
• Browse business listings by categories

What a feature of many modern applications that just about everyone loves? Tabs. Visual Studio has them, Internet Explorer has them, and on and on.

What about Internet Explorer Mobile? It doesn’t have them be default but it is easy for you to add them.

Here’s how:

Install Web Viewer for Windows Mobile.

Features:

• Tabbed Browser
• Standard Navigation Buttons (Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop)
• Open links in new tab
• Duplicate tab
• View Source (customize external viewer/editor)
• Remember closed tabs
• Remember typed URLs
• Full Screen mode
• Hide Tabs Option (to increase viewing area)
• Various Tab Options (Close, Close Others, Reload All)

 

Digg.com is probably one of the most well known and most used Web 2.0 sites on the Internet.

Check out the article on Digg.com on Wikipedia.

 

But today we live in a mobile world, is there any we can have our Digg and not be chained to our desktop?

The answer of course is YES.

Here’s a couple of easy ways to have your Digg on the runn.

Digg has mobile enabled Web site at http://m.digg.com/.

 

And there is another mobile Digg site at http://mobits.com/digg/.

 

See I told you Digg was popular, and dgm8 proves it.

And last but not least, there is Digg River.

If you haven’t been hiding under a rock for the last couple of weeks you’ve likely heard of the iPhone application: I Am Rich.

Basically, it is an iPhone application that costs $999.99. That’s right, it costs more than the iPhone itself. Heck, that’ll pay for many months of the data plan as well.

Well, for better or worse, when it comes to Windows Mobile, everyone is a developer and the app has been “ported” to both Windows Mobile (and Palm OS which just cracks me up).

 

Windows Mobile: I Am Rich

Palm OS: I Am Rich

iPhone: I Am Rich

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a video of the original application running on someone’s iPhone:

 

Here’s some of the coverage this application has gotten:

IPhone Apps: $999.99 iPhone App "I Am Rich" Probably Only Applies to Developer

Slashdot | 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1000

Digg - Worthless, $1000 "I Am Rich" iPhone App Disappears

Here are a bunch of applications to allow you to control your desktop from your Windows Mobile device:

 

Remote Desktop Mobile - [Download]

[Image Source: Remote Desktop: A Mobile Killer App - RussellBeattie.com]

[Image Source: Windows Mobile: Remote Desktop Client « Inspect My Gadget]

[Image Source: MobileViews Blog :: Windows Mobile Remote Desktop Connection]

zaDesktop - [Download]

[Image Source: zaDesktop freeware for Windows Mobile]

LogMeIn - [Link]

[Image Source: LogMeIn available for Pocket PC users]

PocketPC VNCViewer Client - [Download]

[Image Source: VNCViewer for PocketPC]

“The climate is made up of “weather”; whether it is nice out depends on whether it is raining or not. A wether is just a castrated sheep.” – Source

Windows Mobile Weather Application Reviews:

• Weather App Smackdown! - Week o' Weather Apps
• XDADeveloperWiki Software Recommendations
• Weather Freeware for Pocket PC

Windows Mobile Weather Applications

Spb Weather PAID

Spb Weather is a very powerful weather forecast Today plug-in. You can customize weather views, skins and even the weather forecast data source. Spb Pocket Plus users can save space on their Today screen running Spb Weather as a tab.

WeatherPanel 2.0 PAID / FREE

Version 2.3.0 has been released! New features include a more powerful layout engine, allowing for a totally customizable display, and new detail screens (summary, stats, radar, and compare).

Weather Watcher Mobile FREE

Weather Watcher is your personal Windows mobile weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only) for over 77,000 cities world-wide.

WeatherBug Mobile Weather PAID

Plan your day with confidence – always be informed and prepared.

Tweaks2K2.NET PAID

Tweaks2K2, home of Tweaks2K2 & Pocket PC devices. PC Counselor, Everything about Pocket PCs. PC Counselor, news, Pocket PCs, tips & tricks.

PocketTweak FREE

PocketTweak is a small program for Pocket PC to configure device settings without using any registry editors.

 

KaiserTweak FREE

KaiserTweak is a little tool that tweaks some of your HTC Kaiser (P4450, TyTN II, Vario III) registry settings.

Advanced Configuration Tool FREE

Features:

• Extensible tweak list
• Multi-devices support
• Multi-languages support
• Customize key mapping
• Customize file associations
• Customize ClearType settings
• Customize connection settings
• Customize Comm Manager
• Import provisioning XML

SmartTweaker Paid

Smart Tweaker 2008 is the successor of Top-Selling SmartTweaker. It now supports new Platforms and versions of Windows Mobile for Smartphone and Pocket PC devices.

Many phones today have GPS functionality built-in. And if your phone is one of them there is tons of great GPS software available for you to take full advantage of.

If you know of any other Windows Mobile GPS software, let us know about it in the comments.

CoPilot Live (pay)

I’ve always been impressed with CoPilot. They even have an SDK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Google Maps (free)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iGuidance (pay)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iGo 8 (pay)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft Live Search (free)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TomTom Navigator (pay)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TrackMe (free)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VisualGPSce (free)

So you have the perfect phone, and now you need the perfect ringtone?

Maximum PC has an recent article, 20 Must-Have Geek Ringtones and Text Message Alerts (And 10 to Avoid!) that is prefect for find the ringtone of your dreams.

Top 10 ringtones for geeks

Top 10 text message alerts for geeks!

Ringtones You Absolutely Must Avoid!

Here are some more ideas:

IGN: Top 10 Tuesday: Videogame Cellphone Ring Tones

 

Geek to Live: Make a ringtone from any MP3

The top 7 geeky ringtones - Den of Geek

Some things just go together:

• Bat & Ball
• Peanut Butter & Jelly
• Bacon & Eggs
• Bread & Butter
• Table & Chair
• Bees & Honey
• Comb & Hair
• Lock & Keys

What about personal computers and printers? Well, as long as you are talking desktop computers sure, everybody has a printer. And I believe that everyone who has a Windows Mobile device probably also has a printer. But do they “go together”? Probably not.

How can we bring these two together?

 

 

 

 

 

http://cloudprint.hpl.hp.com/

• What is CloudPrint?

CloudPrint is a new service that allows you to share, store and print documents easily using your mobile telephone.

• Does it cost anything?

It is absolutely free to use the CloudPrint service. How you get charged for SMS messages is between you and your mobile phone carrier.

• How do I print Web pages from my phone with SMS?

To print a Web page from your mobile phone, you can SMS the URL to +44 77814 88791. The URL should be in the body of the message. Recipients will receive a document code, just like if the Web page was printed from the PC virtual print driver.

• CloudPrint by Email!

Now you can email items to CloudPrint in addition to using the virtual printer driver. Just send emails with attachments to telephone_number@cloudprint.net. CloudPrint currently supports JPEG and PDF's, with more file formats supported soon. [ details ]

• Remote Print Monitor

Print to your own printer with the Remote Print Monitor. [ details ]

Today many people have good data plans for their Windows Mobile 6 devices. And many of those people are in situations where they would like to either share this connection with either other devices or other people.

So our phones are almost always with us, and we have lots of unlimited data plans available to us. But we want more. We want to be able to share this opportunity.

The question is how?

 

 

Here’s a great write up from LifeHacker.com:

Turn your Windows Mobile phone into a Wi-Fi router, providing any Wi-Fi-capable device access to your cell plan's data network, with freeware application WMWifiRouter. Install WMWifiRouter to your phone, run the application, and it automatically sets up an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network named WMWifiRouter that you can connect your laptop—or any other wireless device—to without going through the regular pain involved in tethering an Internet connection to your mobile device. This application is for Windows Mobile 6 only.

Please note that WMWiFiRouter is now a commercial application available for 19.99. This is an updated and fully supported version.

But you can still download the earlier freeware version from the following location:

FreewarePocketPC.net: WMWifiRouter v0.89

You can’t have a pimped out ride with the factory sound system, and you can’t have a pimped out phone with the default themes.

Here are some of the best skins I know of. If you know of any others please share.

 

Name: Microsoft Voice Command Windows Mobile Media Player Skin

Description:

OrangeGlass VGA is a cool, new skin designed for VGA Pocket PCs. If you are tired of skins that mimic everything else under the sun, have a go of this. It is completely original, created from scratch with a close attention to detail and perfection.

Commercial $39.99

Note: You get this skin with Microsoft Voice Command. You can’t buy it separate.

 

 

 

Name: Vista Windows Mobile Media Player Skin

Description:

Glassy looking Vista windows media player skin with accessible interface and big buttons for finger control.

FREE

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Windows Medial Player 11 Window Mobile Media Player Skin

Description:

The Windows Media player skin free for Windows Mobile Standard.

FREE

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Tweak Windows Mobile Media Player Skin

Description:

Introducing Tweak, the new skin from Twisted Pixels Multimedia that includes buttons with real life-like motion.

Commercial $1.99

 

 

 

 

 

Name: OrangeGlass Windows Mobile Media Player Skin

Description:

OrangeGlass VGA is a cool, new skin designed for VGA Pocket PCs. If you are tired of skins that mimic everything else under the sun, have a go of this. It is completely original, created from scratch with a close attention to detail and perfection.

Commercial $1.99

What would you be able to do with a browser that doesn’t suck? Just imagine all the possibilities.

 

Ok so what are our options for a Windows Mobile Browser that doesn’t suck?

Opera Mobile 9.5 is probably my favorite.

Deepfish may be a viable alternative to Opera, but Microsoft hasn't accepted new testers into their pool for many months, and hasn't updated their team blog since March 2007.

If you have a Windows Mobile device that can be upgraded to the newest version of Windows Mobile 6.1, then do so immediately.

Here are some phones that already support Windows Mobile 6.1, or will do so soon.