Trailcompanion is a pocket pc software for gps-enabled windows mobile phones that allow you to track your way offroad. Trailcompanion is designed with trekking in mind and will let you record your path, save waypoints, follow routes and exchange them with Google Earth and many others desktop software. Trailcompanion aims to be lightweight, fast and battery-savy so you can easily enjoy a full day of trekking. Trailcompanion is free software and open source.

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7-zip is a free, open source file archiver, much like winzip found on most of your devices. Some of you may even use the PC client of 7-zip to archive and unzip files. Well now you can do the same with your PPC. Don’t let the dull design fool you, as this app wasn’t meant for looks… it’s meant for functionality.

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Microfi Nitrogen is a native Windows Mobile application that allows you to play songs stored on your Windows Mobile device. It features a file browser, custom playlists, full skin support, 10-band equalizer with presets, “Shuffle” and “Repeat” modes, a built-in sleep mode and a command to blank screen to prevent energy waste while playing music.

Nitrogen was built due to the lack of finger-friendly players for the Pocket PC. It features large buttons and you can browse among your playlist by drawing circles on the screen (tapping in the appropriate space). For those unfamiliar with the Microfi Nitrogen music player and not satisfied with their current one, you should definitely try it.

Now with even more new features:

-AAC/MP4/M4A/3GP/WAV/WMA support (with GSPlayer plugins)
-multilanguage support (only English and Portuguese for now)
-many bugfixes
-memory leak corrections
-option to remember last song position
-and much more!

Tip: many features are now accessible through long-tap (tapping and holding for a while): fast-forward/rewind, advanced playlist actions and so on!

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FreeOTFE is a free, open source windows mobilw app to achieve “on-the-fly” transparent disk encryption on your mobile device and they also have a PC counterpart. Using this software, you can create one or more “virtual disks” on your PC/PDA. These disks operate exactly like a normal disk, with the exception that anything written to one of them is transparently, and securely, encrypted before being stored on to the disk drive. The app provides a wide array of encryption algorithm to choose from. Full Feature List

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Locking was never so fun! G-sensor has really made it in that way.
SensorLock is a program designed for the HTC Touch Diamond (and will probably work on the HTC Touch Pro too). SensorLock allows you to lock the device’s screen and buttons, thereby preventing random button and screen presses while the device is in your pocket.

Locking and unlocking is simply done by rotating the device around its longest axis (clockwise for locking and counter-clockwise for unlocking) and can be done in any program (Media Player, TomTom etc) without disrupting normal device operation.

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Quakk is an Opensource Twitter client for Windows Mobile.

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Microfi Nitrogen is a native opensource Windows Mobile application that allows you to play MP3/OGG songs stored on your Pocket PC device.
It features a file browser, full skin support, smart shuffle and repeat modes, a 10-band equalizer with preset support (8 included presets), built-in sleep mode, a blank screen command to prevent energy waste while playing music and many more new features. Nitrogen uses the MAD/OVD decoders, which are opensource. As the official releases of MAD for Pocket PC seem to be discontinued, Nitrogen uses the libraries from an opensource player (GSPlayer).
Nitrogen was build due to the lack of finger-friendly players for Pocket PC (you have to use stylus even for simple tasks). It features large buttons and you can browse among your playlist by drawing circles on the screen (using skins which support wheel component). In future releases the program will be expected to have other extensions support and more features, but such things are still being tested to ensure stability and efficiency.

Key features
:: Full MP3/OGG playback;
:: Customizable interface with skin support;
:: 10-band equalizer with 8 presets;
:: Large and easy-to-use buttons;
:: Media browser with playlist editor;
:: Large menus to perform tasks with the fingers;
:: Kinetic scrolling;
:: Smart shuffle and repeat modes;
:: Adjustable sleep timer;
:: Amazingly fast to load and to play;
:: Blank screen command to save energy;
:: Native C++ code: no need for .NET framework;
:: Extremely lightweight;
:: File association support;
:: Album art support;
:: Opensource;

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Pocket Forecast is an open source weather application for Windows Mobile. Pocket Forecast is a weather application that supports mutliple locations, multiple languages, QVGA AND VGA display, cached AND user defined updates, customized theme, AND is open source written in Basic4PPC.

Features :
Multiple locations (supports up to ten locations)
Finger swipe to scroll through locations
Cached weather feeds for each location
Skinnable themes – background images, colors & fonts
Uses Yahoo/Weather.com RSS feed
Open source – written in B4PPC
Configurable interval for updating weather feed
Integrates with S2U (custom weather setting)
QVGA and VGA support
Multi-language support
Integrates with AppToDate
Integrates with Levenum’s Today Screen plug-in
Pocket PC and PC versions

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Departure is a Windows Mobile freeware application that allows users to get train departures from German stations and filter them for their needs.

Current Features

• unlimited number of stations
• each station has its own filters
• filter by train name, train direction, station platform
• countdown for selected departure
• shows if a train is late
• kinetic scrolling

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Whats your favorite video player on your PC / Laptop ? If its VLC Media player then I got some good news for you , this little Pocket PC Freeware will allow you to control the VLC Player on you PC using your Windows Mobile device. The application requires Windows Mobile 6.x and .NET Compact Framework 3.5

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