Archive for July, 2006

Nes Emulator for the MDA

July 25, 2006

Well the other day i was looking through the attick and found some ofmy old computer and console systems

Nes Famicom

Supernintendo

Nintendo 64

Megadrive

Master system

Game Gear

Game Boy

Spectrum

Dreamcast

so i connected up the old Nes and found the old mario games and played these now these are games that are majorly addictive and enjoyble eat your heart out xbox 360

So after playing Supermario 3 alover again i decided hmm how about looking for a Emulator for my MDA well i looked and found a very good one that runs lovely and fast

this is Nester 0.7 download here

Ok so you own some cartridges and want to play the roms take a look at

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/

You must have the original games in order to play these

MDA vario rom for non CID unlocked G4 chips

July 22, 2006

Ok if your MDA is new and not cid unlocked you cant flash another rom well that is till now risidoro on the xda developer forums created a way to flash the roms so i have cooked up mrclean 2.24 with aku2.3 rom and uploaded it the flashing tool is in italian but is easy to follow just tick box and next,next

make sure battery is at 100%

i take no responibilty for if this damages your phone but it works fine on mine

I have run this for over 2 weeks and had no problems at all it is a lot faster than the original t-mobile uk rom and includes the minimum t-mobile customizations to run

i usualy have 25mb spare rom for applications to run

Download here

Alternative download via rapidshare here as i ran out of bandwith on the other site

close applications automaticly

July 22, 2006

The VK task manager had one slight bug and that was that you have to actually be bothered to close the apps and also when the phone keypad was running closing it would cause it to go nuts.

So i have found an even better application that is smclose you dont see it run all it does is convert the x at the top in to a close rather than minimize

download from here

http://mediamax.streamload.com/eddieitman/Hosted/smclose100.zip

Task manager for MDA best i have found and free VBAR

July 18, 2006

http://vieka.com/vbar.htm

At mere 21K bytes, vBar is the world’s smallest and fastest Pocket PC Task Manager

I really do like this application and has to be on my top 10 of software

Monitor free minutes on phone

July 16, 2006

Phone Dashboard is a Today Screen plug-in that enables you to quickly and easily track your Pocket PC Phone usage on a daily/monthly basis.

Unlike simple call logging applications, Phone Dashboard is the first application designed to intelligently classify your calls based on your actual mobile phone plan, generate useful statistics, and make them available with a convenient interface so all important information is one or two taps away.

This product is invaluable for casual users and professional users who need to separate personal and business calls – you’ll soon see why Phone Dashboard has been called the “Killer App” for Pocket PC Phone Edition devices.

http://www.hudsonmobile.com/products/phodash/

Speed up Internet Explorer on WM5

July 16, 2006

One of the most common and effective tweaks for web browsers on the desktop is also possible for IE on WM5. Stored in the registry are two keys which tell Internet Explorer how many connections it should make to a server when downloading a web page. They define the “Maximum number of concurrent connections” and they’re just itching for a tune-up.

Details after the jump…

By changing the following key:

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/MaxRequestThreads = 5

to a value higher than the default (5) will enable greater bandwidth saturation during page download and a noticable improvement in page load time. I took a guess and raised the MaxThreads to 10 and have had no problems (thus far).

[Update] Also, you will want to add the dword value:

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/MaxConnectionsPerServer

and set it to the same value as you choose for MaxRequestThreads.

But, obviously, nothing is free in life. Here’s the hitch: threads use memory. No matter what value you raise the the MaxThreads to, you’re going to be using some amount more memory than you were before. It’s a tradeoff. So don’t go crazy and set that value to 200 and complain when starting IE causes your phone to burst into flames. (I hereby renounce any liability resulting from injuries that may occur to phone or owner during this tweak ;)

Playlist manager for WMP

July 16, 2006

For those like me who have been frustrated that with mobile WMP you cannot edit/make new playlists (asx format) I found this.

This is a freeware playlist manager from Vicott Wong see here http://mobile-sg.com/ppc/apps/?p=PlaylistMgr

New rom available from T-Mobile

July 4, 2006

T-mobile have launched a new rom based on aku2.0 the rom is available here

http://www.tm-phonedownloads.com/download_manager_mda_vario.html

How to obtain free push email account for WM5 AKU2

July 4, 2006

Sign up live.mail2web.com and use push mail on your WM5 devices for FREE!! (Your WM5 must have push mail enabled – aka AKU2)

Ok so you have setup the account but dont know how to setup the mobile device, well follow these instructions and you should be up and running with free push mail

In Activesync

click

- add server source..

Server name: mobile.exchange.mail2web.com
User name: [yourusername]@mail2web.com
Domain: ad2