Multimedia - Audio

This player supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA, and WAV files. It also supports a variety of streaming protocols: HTTP, Windows Network, Shoutcast, and Icecast. It also features gapless playback, track crossfading, and Microdrive support, and a 10-band equalizer and preamp with presets (for MP3 and OGG). It supports playlists and is skinnable (Pocket Player skins, WSZ skins).

Web: www.conduits.com  ($14.95)

Download: All Pocket PCs

PocketMusic

An MP3 player which can play files from any folder and not just from the "My Documents" folder. The player has a customizable interface with a 10-band equalizer, a spectrum analyzer, and a playlist editor. You can turn off the screen while the music is playing to prolong battery life. This application supports storage cards and Winamp playlists. It has a toggle full-screen mode.

Web: www.pocketmind.com (free)

 

Download: All Pocket PCs

Note: You will have to register for free to continue using this software. You can register at http://www.pocketmind.com/reg.htm .
 

VITO SoundExplorer

A sound recorder and player that provides hardware button start/stop plus an onscreen Button Bar that includes a visual recording status indicator. Supports different WAV options (bit-rate, mono, stereo) and different playback modes.

Web: www.VitoTechnology.com  ($15.95)

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Multimedia - Graphic Design/Drawing

A graphic editor that lets you edit and retouch photos and images, add text and special effects, and create Web graphics. Features include 24-bit color editing, opening .jpg, .gif, and .bmp files, color adjustment, painting tools, filters, quick shapes, floating selections, image clipboard, blending modes, and tool opacity.

Web: www.conduits.com (49.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Photogenics

This application allows you to draw pictures from scratch or edit existing images, draw and paint with realistic media such as airbrush, chalk, pencil, sponge, watercolor, and smudge, and apply over 60 filters to the entire image, or to precisely the area you want by drawing with any of the media tools.

Web: www.idruna.com  ($49.99)
 

Download:  All Pocket PCs
 

Multimedia - Image Management

Resco Picture Viewer

An application to manage and view your images. It can display images which are in various file formats such as .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .pcx, .cfx, Adobe .psd, and more. It can also play video files which are in MPEG format. You can view images in a thumbnail view and annotate the images with sound or text, do a slide show, and add many effects to images.

Web: www.resco-net.com  ($19.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

IA Album

An image organizer that allows you to browse, view, annotate, organize, and share images on the go. You can add voice narration, music, and text notes to images, and view your images in multiple views: Thumbnail, List, Filename, Filmstrip, and Full screen. You can view .jpg, .gif, .2bp, and .bmp files, and zoom in/zoom out on an image, rotate/flip it, auto rotate it, and more.

Web: www.iastyle.com  ($19.95)

 

Download: All Pocket PCs

An application to create photo albums, slide shows, and add audio to make "talking pictures." You can view thumbnails in select 2x2, 3x3, or 4x4 views, make slide shows with .mp3 sound, add transition effects such as wipe, fade, and dissolve, and add text annotation to an image. It supports .jpg, .gif, and .bmp images. The photos can be zoomed or panned.

Web: www.applian.com  ($19.95)
 

Download: P/PC SH3, P/PC MIPS, P/PC ARM, P/PC 2002, WM 2003 P/PC

Note: Applian has included the trial versions of some of its other applications with the installation of Picture Perfect. You can choose not to install them on your Pocket PC.
 

Multimedia - Music Composition

A music sequencing and sampling tool which allows you to create music on your Pocket PC. The Grid Pattern Editor allows you to input your sounds. The application has a song editor, section editor, parameter editor, and built-in instruments with sampler, synth, reverb, delay, and more.

Web: www.planetgriff.com  (ú39.99)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

A program used to write and play drum patterns and assemble them into full-blown drum tracks. You can define and play drum patterns, using nine different drums: bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat, tom, conga, timbale, rim shot, cowbell, and hand clap. You can define, edit, save, and load the patterns, and create pattern libraries to be used in different tracks.

Web: www.pdamusician.com  ($14)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs

You need to download and install the runtime for Pocket C on your Pocket PC to run this application. Click here to download the runtime for Pocket C.
 

Multimedia - Powerpoint and Presentation

Pocket Slides

This application allows creation, editing, and playback of presentations on your Pocket PC. It allows drag and drop desktop conversion and enables transitions and animations in slides. You can hide or reorder the slides, add shapes, edit text, view speaker notes or slide contents, copy slide and shape text to Pocket Word or Inbox, and more.

Web: www.conduits.com  ($39.95)

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

IA Presenter

This program converts PowerPoint slides on the desktop PC to user-defined or pre-defined dimensions (320 x 240, 640 x 480, 800 x 600, or 1024 x 768) for the Pocket PC. You can annotate slides using ink during a slide show. The speaker notes can be edited, saved, and copied from one presentation into another. The slides can be easily navigated using slide titles.

Web: www.iastyle.com  ($19.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Pocket SlideShow

A PowerPoint presentation viewer. It has an ActiveSync conversion filter that automatically adapts the presentation to Pocket PowerPoint format. It renders the notes in ClearType, has a full screen presentation mode, and supports all standard PowerPoint transition effects. You can adjust the font size and view slides in a thumbnail view and change their order.

Web: www.cnetx.com  ($19.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Multimedia - Remote Media Controller

A remote control program that runs on a Pocket PC to control a WinAmp music player running on a desktop PC. You can remotely change volume, playlists, and EQ settings, and tune into Internet stations, by making selections from the screen of the Pocket PC.

Web: www.mcmajeres.com   ($19.99) 

 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

A remote-control client for Nullsoft's Winamp audio player. It operates over any TCP/IP connection and allows you to control playback, edit and build your own playlists, adjust the volume, and more. It supports both Winamp 3.0 and Winamp 2.0. You can save and load playlist files.

Web: www.smashcasi.com  ($19.95)

 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Zerama Remote

The Zerama Remote connects via a wireless network to Windows Media Player 9 on your desktop and lets you control your music library from your Pocket PC. The Zerama controller consists of two applications: the Zerama Remote and the Zerama Server.

Web: www.zerama.net  ($20)

Download: WM 2003 P/PC, P/PC 2002, P/PC ARM, P/PC MIPS, P/PC SH3
 

Multimedia - Video

PocketTV

An MPEG video file player. It can stream MPEG video files using standard Internet protocols such as http, provided that your device has a wireless network connection that supports the necessary bandwidth.

Web: www.mpegtv.com  (free)

Download: P/PC SH3, P/PC MIPS, P/PC ARM, P/PC 2002, WM 2003 P/PC

You will have to register this application for free for unlimited use at http://www.mpegtv.com/cgi-bin/pockettv-getkey.cgi
 

PictPocket Cinema

An application that lets you view various types of image files such as .jpg, .gif, .tif, .pcx, .pgd, etc. You can also view video files in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, .avi, and .mov formats with sound; zoom in, zoom out, zoom 100%, and zoom to fit; preview images as thumbnails; see streaming video; and do screen captures.

Web: www.digisoftdirect.com  ($39.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs