Tuesday, May 11, 2004
One for the Plus Column - Pocket Plus 2.0 by Spb Software House
Posted by Doug Raeburn in "SOFTWARE" @ 10:00 AM
Figure 5: You’re not going anywhere until you straighten up your desktop!
Icon arrangement is also a snap. I like my desktop icons very specifically organized, so I usually turn Auto Arrange off when using my desktop. Thanks for Pocket Plus, I can now do the same thing on my Pocket PC.
Figure 6: It's a beautiful arrangement.
A quick session of drag and drop and I’m done. Yeah, that’s much better. Felix Unger would be proud of me for being so neat!
Figure 7: System icons
The other standard tabs include the Connect tab, which contains icons for connectivity related applications such as e-mail and Pocket IE. Figure 7 shows the System tab, which provides access to many of the applets on the Settings screen, while adding even more. For example, you’re a single tap away from applets such as Clock, Remove Programs and Align Screen.
If you’re running Windows XP on your desktop, you may recognize the large square green icon that looks like a button with an asterisk. This is the Reset icon, and with Pocket Plus, it allows you to perform a soft reset without using the Reset button. When you tap this button, Pocket Plus asks you to confirm that you’d like to perform the soft reset, so you don’t do so by accident.
Figure 8: Themes to work pretty well.
In Figure 8, I tapped the “cycle themes” icon that I described above. This is one of the 20 extended themes included with Pocket Plus, and more are available. Note the new set of icons that highlights the new theme.
And this just scratches the surface. You can create more tabs (up to 5), rename existing tabs, and add new icons. For example, if you’d like, you can create a Games tab and move the icons for all of your games there.
Overall, the Pocket Plus adds a lot of versatility to your Today screen with this handy plug-in.
