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"The popular Windows Mobile weather software Elecont Weather is updated. New version is getting weather data from the proven and reliable weather source -- WSI Corp. (www.intellicast.com) Elecont Weather provides the most accurate weather data -- 10 day worldwide weather forecast, current conditions and hour-by-hour forecast. It is the most complete weather solution on the market. Weather data is displayed directly on Home/Today screen with animated icon sets. Elecont Weather has several display modes and cand display weather forecast even only in one line -- it is very useful on small screens. Elecont Weather is easy and powerful."

Having the weather displayed on your homescreen is cool and so is having a 10 forecast. But what really is great about this program is how often it's updated. For less than $10 (until September 14th) you are purchasing a weather program that the guys at Elecont take very seriously and are constantly trying to improve on. I wish more software vendors were like this. You can always check out the trial demo on their site.

"Each of us collided with necessity to close the program for clearing memory for other programs or quickly switch between programs or see the started programs. Windows Mobile does not have convenient means which can help us with this. Elecont Pocket PC and Smartphone manager will give to you a fast and convenient way of management of your device. You can control your device only in two clicks -- open programs, close all except this or close all. In addition you'll always have the main indicators like overall memory usage and battery and memory usage for each program."



Yet another task manager? This one though is a little different - rather than just messing around with the close button, Elecont has elected to approach the problem by using a today/home screen plugin. I really like the idea of an exclusion list - if you had for example a program you want running all the time (Pocket Hack Master springs to mind), this is a life-saver. Another plus point is the app supports all versions of Windows Mobile from WM2003 to WM6.1. Elecont Manager is available for $9.99 through our affiliate links - click here for the Professional version, and here for the Standard version.