SPBattMet (Battery Meter)

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After installing Windows Mobile 6.1 I decided to give Saman’s Smartphone Battery Meter another try. This battery meter puts a very thin battery meter at the very top of the screen. It gives you a really good idea how much batter life you have, much better than the default 4 bar battery meter that is default.

For some reason I didn’t like this battery meter as much when I was running Windows Mobile 6.0 - I think because it made the top icon bar feel too cramped. 

When installing you may be notified that “this program was developed for a previous version of windows”. This is OK, continue installing.

After installing, restart your Windows Mobile Smartphone.

(The battery bar is kind of hard to see in this picture, it’s much mroe visible on a smartphone screen)

Base Hue Express

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Base Hue Express is a cool little app that lets you easily change your phone’s color scheme on the fly. You can select the Base Hue for the Header and Soft-key bars. It will also change the color of some of the other elements on your phone (scroll bars, menu backgrounds, menu highlights, etc) as well to a matching lighter hue of the color you select.

All in all, Base Hue Express is a convenient app that lets you easily customize your color scheme on the fly (which is great is you don’t like a color scheme that came with a theme you like). I’ve package Base Hue Express up in an easy-to-install/uninstall CAB file — The CAB file will install a shortcut in your Start Menu.

If you decide you want to revert to your theme’s original Default color scheme after using Base Hue Express:

1. Go to Start > Settings > Display > Home Screen
2. Change “Color Scheme” to something other than “Default”
3. Click Done and go back to to the Home screen, you will notice the color scheme will change
4. Go back to Start > Settings > Display > Home Screen
5. Change “Color Scheme” to “Default”
6. Click done and go back to the Home screen, the default color scheme will take effect

LED Alerts

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You know when I pay money for software its gotta be good, and LED Alerts is one of the few programs I’ve shelled out cash for… and it’s worth every penny.

This application notifies you of new Text Messages, E-mails, Voice Mail, Missed Calls and Reminders by blinking your phone’s LED one of 7 different (user defined) colors. Its so unobtrusive, yet so informative.

LED Alerts is the perfect quiet way of letting me know if there is anything on my phone that requires my attention. When i’m at work, I dont like my phone playing a sound whenever I get a text or e-mail, and I don’t like it vibrating to alert me either (vibrating can be loud when the phone is on a hard surface) .. with LED Alerts I turn my phone on silent, set it on my desk and can know if there is anything I need to check on just by glancing at it.

LED Alerts is a brilliant must-have product — I can’t believe its not a built in feature on Windows Mobile 6.

SMS Bubbles

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SMS Bubbles is an application that pop up new SMS messages on your start screen as they are received.

May require application unlocking. If you have trouble installing the application because of certificate issues, app unlock your Blackjack2.

Ilium Screen Capture

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This lightweight application takes screenshots of your Windows Mobile Smartphone. I use this application to generate all the Windows Mobile Smartphone screen captures on this site.

Screen captures are saved as /My Documents/shotXXX.bmp