One of the feature missing on the new HTC devices are the lack of hardware buttons. Previously we could assign these hardwatre buttons to launch our favorite apps. To sort out this dilemma siggie1970 from xda-devs released the open source Butler application. Butler is a windows mobile freeware that uses the capacitive area as stroke launcher and many more features on to the Touch PRO and should also work on the Diamond.
Application Features :
Better vibration for incoming calls. I found the built-in vibration function very annoying as it vibrates permanently during an incoming call. This extensions vibrates in pulses of 300 ms with a pause of one second when a call is incoming
SIP changer depending on stylus state. If stylus is out, another soft input panel is selected as if stylus is in. Can be changed via the registry keys StylusInSIP and StylusOutSIP.
Stroke Launcher. If the finger is stroked from one button to another, an application is launched.Four directions are possible: From home button to accept phone call button and vice versa as well as from back button to reject phone call button and vice versa. The applications can be configured via the RightUpApp, RightDownApp, LeftUpApp and LeftDownApp registry keys. The required length of the stroke can be configured via the GestureMinLen registry key. Unfortunately, the program has to poll HTC’s NAV sensor directly in order to not disturb the functionality of the wheel sensor. The sleep time between two polls can be configured with the GesturePollingDelay (in ms). If you use very fast strokes and the device does not react, try to decrease this value.
Key lock if device is face down. The key lock is activated and the device is powered off if it is turned face down. The key locked is acknowledged by two short vibrations. Key lock can be disabled depending on the foreground window or active process list. Exclude list can be specified via the ExcludedProcesses and ExcludedWindows registry keys. The tolerance for the face down detection can be configured via the FacedownTolerance registry key.
Display backlight brightness – Shows current level of display backlight (shows value depending on AC/Line mode), on tap opens device-specific backlight manager
Balance – Shows current SIM-card balance, query and reply parsing options are customized in plugin settings. On tap proceeds immediate query
Phone – phone module status, turns on/off phome module on tap
Wifi – show current wifi module status
Bluetooth – current bluetooth status, turns on/off on tap
SMS – current SMS store status (number of unread messages), opens standard tmail.exe on tap
iDiamond 0.2b is a windows mobile freeware iPhone UI clone for TouchFLO 3D enabled VGA device. It’s a simple application laucher at the moment, but the developer promises to develop it into a complex UI over time.
Installation instructions:
1. Disable TouchFLO 3D
2. Unzip all files from “Device” dir into device root (“\”) OR install the .cab
3. Run TouchFLO 3D
4. Add/arrange all necessary applications/bookmarks to main menu, customise icons (default iPhone iconset included)
CT Scheduler Lite is a simple program which allows launching programs, documents, media and other files in accordance to your time plan. Tasks can be scheduled to launch based on definite time, dates, day of the month and days of the week. The program has an ability to activate and deactivate scheduled items. There is no need to delete and create them again.
If you have Manilla 2d installed on your device ( if you dont you can get it here ) then you can install this finger friendly application launcher called M2D App Launcher this replaces the folderview.exe in your \Windows directory.
Features:
1) Interface is very similar to M2D. It uses the graphics of your current M2D theme. If you change your theme, you can exit the app launcher and re-launch in order to effect the changes.
2) Navigation is very much similar to M2D. You can scroll up and down the list or drag-scroll the tab icon bar. The icons in the tab bar represents the folders of your Start Menu; the “Main” category represents links in the root of Programs folder. (Limitation: It only reads the folders under \Windows\Start Menu\Programs. Sub-folders are ignored.) You can alternatively use the D-Pad: Up and Down moves up and down the items; while, Left and Right moves through the folders.
3) It uses you current custom folder icons (icons.lnk). If you want to customize your folder icons, just do a search on how to do it. It has been discussed several times in the past. In order to customize the “Main” category (or Root of Start Menu\Programs), just drop an icon.lnk on your \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ folder.
Yet another Finger Friendly Pocket PC Freeware, TouchLaunch is simple application launcher, which scans startmenu shortcuts, and list them alphabetically.
Features:
finger friendly scroll function
quick alphabet shortcuts
skinnable
you can use todays’ background image as this launcher’s background
supports custom icons ( 46 included in cab )
you can categorize shortcuts in unlimited number of categories
finger gestures to move through categories, left and right sweeps changes category
TouchLaunch is simple application launcher, which scans start menu shortcuts, and list them alphabetically. Kind of similar to scoll launcher
but this has new quick alphabetic scroll function. This is very early alpha and my first program release.
Features:
finger scrolling
quick alphabet shortcuts
skinnable
you choose whether it closes after program launch or not
antslava
Saijo George
Anonymous
Andrearommi
YellowStar
SAHITYA KUMAR
Benny
DeeDee
