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Spb Software House Releases a New Version of Spb Pocket PC Tips & Tricks with 40 System Tweaks

Remember this? Now it has more tweaks and tips! Check out the press release and head over to Spb to check out the details.

August 04, 2005 - Spb Software House extends Spb Pocket PC Tips & Tricks by adding system tweaks. Spb Pocket PC Tips & Tricks is a collection of more than 200 tips and tricks about using your Pocket PC, written by 10 different professional Pocket PC authors.

There are many questions about using the Pocket PC that not all Pocket PC users can answer. Spb Pocket PC Tips & Tricks was created to answer these questions and also to provide users with many different tips and tricks about their Pocket PC. The text is written by 10 of the most talented, experienced, and well-known Pocket PC authors in the mobile world.

The new version adds more than 40 system tweaks that help users access undocumented Pocket PC features like installing CAB files to a storage card, showing the date on the taskbar, renaming your storage card folder, disabling the start menu animation, changing all of the system fonts and colors, etc. All tweaks include detailed help written by Pat Logsdon who also wrote the Multimedia and Personalization topics for the first version.


Pricing and Availability

Spb Pocket PC Tips & Tricks 1.5 is a free upgrade for the registered users of the first version. A free demo version of Spb Pocket PC Tips & Tricks 1.5 can be downloaded, or the full version can be purchased for $19.95 USD, from www.spbsoftwarehouse.com.

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Quboid

Is this actually any use? Are the tips of any use to users who are reasonably knowledgable, enough to use MemMaid and suchlike (but not necessarily enough to know how to spell "knowledgable" :) ).

hnelson59

i did a review of version 1.0 that you can check out here. it is a useful piece because it is always with you . . . it may not be useful to the power user who can hack his/her registry. like all software . . . some will love it and some will find no need for it, imho. :)

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AtticusFinch

is it a book or a program like Tweaks?

amheck

Originally Posted by AtticusFinch

is it a book or a program like Tweaks?

I was wondering the same thing....until I read this again.

"The text is written by 10 of the most talented, experienced, and well-known Pocket PC authors in the mobile world."

So it sounds like you pay $20 for something that would be free just by visiting this wonderful site!
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e-powersellers

Suggestion = Pass, it is not worth the money, I own version 1.0 that I got on a nearly free deal with Handango, but after 2-3 min of looking it was unintalled, no great value unless you are totally new to PocketPC's or have trouble searching for answers online.

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koan

Is there a good registry hacking site around? I have seen a few, but haven't found one that covers all of the things that say Tweaks2k3Net can accomplish.

For example, I used it to brute force VGA mode for an application (NetHack), and that remains in force, even though the application was used in trial mode and is no longer installed.

So I am presuming this is a registry hack - perhaps with an additional bit of software that remains after uninstall... but where is the registry hack?

koan

axim_wannabe

Originally Posted by e-powersellers

Suggestion = Pass, it is not worth the money, I own version 1.0 that I got on a nearly free deal with Handango, but after 2-3 min of looking it was unintalled, no great value unless you are totally new to PocketPC's or have trouble searching for answers online.

ditto...

i have version 1.0 - and it was a complete waste...

just spend time in PPC forums like Aximsite, and you could actually write your own "Tips and Tricks"

PS: it would also seem like a marketing ploy to sell apps - after each tip they usually provide a recommended app to get...

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DinarSoft

Originally Posted by koan

Is there a good registry hacking site around? I have seen a few, but haven't found one that covers all of the things that say Tweaks2k3Net can accomplish. For example, I used it to brute force VGA mode for an application (NetHack), and that remains in force, even though the application was used in trial mode and is no longer installed. So I am presuming this is a registry hack - perhaps with an additional bit of software that remains after uninstall... but where is the registry hack? koan

try http://www.tweaks2k2.com/
Other than the comercial tweaks2k2 .NET (which is a great utility) they do have a free lite version from the same wel-known program.
and if you are a do-it-yourself type of person, then check out their forums
http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/forum/index.php?forum=8

xdalaw

Originally Posted by AtticusFinch

is it a book or a program like Tweaks?

It's actually both. I agree that it's mainly going to benefit a newbie, but the information and the tweaks are pretty decent. As hard as it may be for us to believe, there are a lot of people out there who would like to do more with their PPCs, but who don't enjoy (or want to spend the time) reading posts here at Aximsite. :)

havanna

$20?!?! HAHAHAHAHA...sorry. That's just plain ridiculous.

redhatnick

It's not the price that gets me. It's the space it takes. Space on Device - 4.1MB. It must have a lot of pictures of something, cause I don't see that little bit of text is using up that much space.

gjw

Originally Posted by koan

For example, I used it to brute force VGA mode for an application (NetHack), and that remains in force, even though the application was used in trial mode and is no longer installed. So I am presuming this is a registry hack - perhaps with an additional bit of software that remains after uninstall... but where is the registry hack?

This hack doesn't even involve the registry.
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...233#post782233

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Originally Posted by koan

Is there a good registry hacking site around? I have seen a few, but haven't found one that covers all of the things that say Tweaks2k3Net can accomplish. For example, I used it to brute force VGA mode for an application (NetHack), and that remains in force, even though the application was used in trial mode and is no longer installed. So I am presuming this is a registry hack - perhaps with an additional bit of software that remains after uninstall... but where is the registry hack? koan

Try:

http://www.phm.lu/PocketPC/RegTweaks/

Good list of tweaks (including for example the date / title bar display) although some are for old OS versions I think; on the same site you can also download PHM's reg editor, and a few other utilities:

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/

All freeware, from Phillipe Majerus, who deserves much appreciation!