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Old 01-15-2007, 10:50 AM
Brad Leyden
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Re: ANN: REVIEW: Teksoft's brand new Pocket PC utility suite Smart Bar

I've heard of and may or may not have partaken of a blue movie but blue
music just didn't do it for me the same way...

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"Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices" <management@NOSPAM.ClintonFitch.com>
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> Great stuff Werner as always.
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> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:19:01 +0100, "Werner \"Menneisyys\"
> Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices]" <!ei.maileja@kiitos!>
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>>Teksoft, developer of the excellent BlueMusic application (see for example
>>this article & the links), has just come out with a brand new suite, Smart
>>Bar, of system management applications. I decided to give it a try as it's
>>a
>>pretty capable suite of utilities with some really excellent modules.
>>
>>They even promise an application capable of recording both (!) parties in
>>a
>>phone conversation (so far, this has been impossible with all Pocket PC
>>Phone Edition devices of both HTC and ASUSTeK (Fujitsu-Siemens T8x0)); I
>>think it'll work by directly "tapping into" the Bluetooth unit as can be
>>seen for example in here.
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>>Availability, price
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>>The suite is available here. To review the (pretty good and recommended)
>>manual, visit this link. There is a(n unfortunately, pretty restricted)
>>trial version too.
>>
>>The "price" of the suite is 200 credits; that is, between 20 and 25 euros
>>(depending on the amount of money you transfer to your online credit
>>account). The registration is a one-device only (that is, CPU ID- and not
>>PPC owner name-based); licenses can be transferred to other devices in
>>case
>>of a device change (for example, when the previous one bites the dust and
>>gets exchanged).
>>
>>Install
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>>Use smartbar_setup.exe for pre-WM5 and the CAB files for WM5; see
>>install.en.txt for the latter case.
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>>Compatibility
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>>It's stated to be compatible with strictly QVGA devices with at least the
>>WM2003 operating system. (I've also tested it on Pocket PC 2002; it indeed
>>doesn't work.)
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>>You can, of course, try to install it on VGA devices, but I don't think
>>you
>>should give it a go. I've tested it on three different VGA devices (Dell
>>Axim x51v A12, WM5 iPAQ hx4700 2.01, WM2003SE Pocket Loox 720). On the
>>hx4700, the PowerPlugin Today screen plug-in was absolutely useless; on
>>the
>>two other devices, it was shown, but not anything else. On the Dell Axim
>>x51v, I've received frequent gwes.exe crashes after a reboot, because of
>>which I had to entirely disable PowerPlugin.
>>
>>
>>...
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>>more at:
>>http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ind...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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Old 01-15-2007, 10:50 AM