The Windows Phone Guy : Tips and Tricks

Moving your e-mail to the Storage Card

Nuno Luz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:34:31 GMT

A question I get allot from users is “can move my e-mail to the Storage Card?”. The answer is, yes you can, but you’ll need to edit your registry to achieve that: HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings\PropertyPath = "\Path to your Card\Mail" Try it out...(read more)

TIP: Download YouTube Videos

Nuno Luz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:17:45 GMT

This is something we are used to do on the PC, but now that we can easily view YouTube videos on our devices thanks to browser support and other apps, why not download them? In order to download videos, you can use Web Video Downloader, aka WVD. Here...(read more)

Delete or select multiple contacts easily

Nuno Luz — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:06:31 GMT

A common question I get from costumers is how can they manage more than one contact at once, for instance to import them to their SIM card or delete several contacts. The answer is a free app called PPCContactsMgr v1.6 which is free and can be downloaded...(read more)

Increase your HTC Diamond battery life

Nuno Luz — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:13:15 GMT

Ricardo Chaves from pocketpt.net wrote an article about nueDynamicClock which is a software that allows the user to control the CPU Clock. But unlike many CPU Clock management software, this application doesn’t allow over clocking, instead it helps...(read more)

Cortado View, Print and Fax service

Nuno Luz — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:39:25 GMT

Cortado is offering a Fax and printing service for Windows Mobile devices. With Cortado Print and Fax you can: Fax documents in true format Print documents via Bluetooth or infrared Create and send faxes incl. an image of your signature using fax templates...(read more)

Call history export application…

Nuno Luz — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:34:33 GMT

This is still a very simple application but it might prove useful for some: CallHistory export will allow you to export to a tab-delimited text file your call log. As the author describes, this could be useful for statistics purposes, call analysis, etc...(read more)

Very complete guide to Windows Mobile Screen Unlockers

Nuno Luz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:44:00 GMT

Although the author considers it incomplete, the list is the most complete one I have ever came to. Mobilespoon has published list of 8 ways to lock and unlock your device! Here is the application list: S2U2 ThrottleLock OrganicLock mLock TouchLockPro...(read more)

Don’t forget to update your phone for DST

Nuno Luz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:36:37 GMT

Daylight Saving Time are used in several world countries, with the clock being updated twice a year: one in the Autumn and the other in the Spring. In order to get automatic DST updates visit the windowsmobile.com website from your device and update your...(read more)

SYNCING WITH TWO EXCHANGE SERVERS

Nuno Luz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:23:42 GMT

You can use the solution I mentioned on m last post (Chronobis) or this workaround provided by Chris de Herrera: As of Activesync 4.x, for some unfathomable reason, MSFT has removed the possibility to sync one device with two exchange servers, or two...(read more)

FingerSuite – WM 6.5 menus style!

Nuno Luz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:56:46 GMT

I must say that typical Windows Mobile menus are not very finger friendly. I guess this though is shared by many since it seems to have reached Microsoft, and the next version of Windows Mobile will see this improved. While we are waiting for Windows...(read more)

File Explorer extension - a must have!

Nuno Luz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:17:00 GMT

This is surely a must have software, and I advise everyone installing this add-on that provides some very nice enhancements to the default Windows Mobile File Explorer: Resizable header for easy sorting by file name, date of last modification or size...(read more)

Handwriting recognition software roundup

Nuno Luz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:41:00 GMT

I have been asked by several people which is the best free and commercial Handwriting Recognition Software or HRS for short. So I just made a list of some of the solutions I know: Title Link Remarks License MobileWrite http://www.inkmarksoftware.com/page5...(read more)

Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Nuno Luz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:44:23 GMT

This is a great tool to test your server and services like Exchange Activesync and also Autodiscover to check out what could be wrong on your server settings and is making your devices connection to the server fail: “The Exchange Server Remote Connectivity...(read more)

Slideshare goes mobile

Nuno Luz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:56:55 GMT

The famous on-line presentation sharing tool now supports mobile devices, including off course Windows Phones. To access Slideshare from your Windows Phone just enter this url on your favorite browser: http://m.slideshare.com Another...(read more)

Exchange Server 2007 Visio Stencils

Nuno Luz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:48:10 GMT

Ever needed to exemplify an Exchange Server 2007 Messaging solution arquitecture using Visio and felt the need to have specific shapes for the diferent Exchange Server Roles ? Well here you can download those stencils and import them to your “My Shapes...(read more)

Windows Mobile Emulator images and Exchange 2007

Nuno Luz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:39:11 GMT

Say you want to test drive Exchange Server 2007 SP1 security policies on an emulator image ? You won’t be able to do it. When preparing my Lab on Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Security policies for Windows Mobile 6.1 devices, I got discovered that the...(read more)

Never lose your stylus again!

Nuno Luz — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:45:38 GMT

HTC Touch Diamond and Touch HD owners will be most pleased with this small but wonderful software, that alerts the user when the stylus is out of the silo. This applications is free and you can download it here ....(read more)

Free software – change your system font

Nuno Luz — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:01:08 GMT

Change Font is a free application that allows users to change a Windows Mobile Professional device system font. With it you can import new fonts, and select which font will be used for the menu, pop-ups, and system wide. The user can also select the font...(read more)

Sending Group SMS’s

Nuno Luz — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:58:13 GMT

This is another great free application from Shubaroo.com that allows you to send one SMS to several recipients in a very easy fashion. In fact the integration with Outlook Mobile is brilliant, and all you have to do is set the Category property in the...(read more)

Use your headset and save battery!

Nuno Luz — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:50:58 GMT

Auto Switching Bluetooth BETA 1.05 is nice piece of free software that enables Bluetooh whenever you receive or make a phone call, allowing the device to spare precious battery time by not having Bluetooth always on. This is still under development and...(read more)