Travel - Multilingual dictionaries

OutLoud! Phrasebooks

These phrasebooks will allow you to translate common English phrases into French, Italian, Spanish, or German. You can choose an English phrase to see its translation and hear it spoken out in the other language. The English phrases can be displayed by topic or alphabetically. It has a Find feature to find all the phrases which have the search keyword.

Web: www.mobilearn.net  ($30.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs

Travel - Time

WorldMate 2004 Professional Edition

A travel utility which can show time in your home city and four other places in the world. It has a world map where you can see the location of a city that you have chosen from a dropdown list. It can give weather forecasts for over 75 cities of the world. It has a currency converter and currency rates are automatically updated using ActiveSync or through a wireless modem. It has Worldwide flight schedules from OAG, weather forecasts for over 38,000 locations worldwide from The Weather Channel, Itinerary manager, Tip and Tax Calculator, Day/Night map, World Clock, up-to-date currency exchange rates, Currency and metric conversions, international dialing codes, packing list, clothing measurements and more.

Web: www.mobimate.com  ($49.95, includes one year of Premium Online Services)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

CityTime

An application with which you can track time simultaneously in any four cities of the world. A dynamic world graphic shows at which places of the world there is daylight. It shows the sunrise and sunset time and total daylight hours for a chosen city. It comes with a Today screen plug-in that displays the four primary cities and the home and visiting cities.

Web: www.codecity.net  ($11.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Utilities - Calculator

RapidCalc

RapidCalc is an instant access, soft keyboard pop-up calculator that lets you calculate while youÆre working in other applications. You can paste calculation results into any application, and even use the Notes application or Pocket Word as a paper tape. RapidCalc also helps make your data entry easier in Pocket Excel.

Web: www.developerone.com  ($14.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Download: All Pocket PCs

Note: This installation has other applications too from Applian apart from CoolCalc. You can choose not to install them at the time of installing the application.
 

KSE Abacus XT

A calculator with extensive technical and scientific functions as well as computer science and financial functions. It is capable of computations with binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal numbers, with logical operators (AND, OR, exclusive OR, NOT), and with complex figures. It can also do some currency conversions.

Web: www.ksesoftware.com  ($14.90)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs

Utilities - Document Viewers

RepliGo

Converts, optimizes, and transfers Web pages and Office, Adobe, and other finds of document from your desktop computer to your Pocket PC while maintaining their original formatting and appearance. RepliGo Viewer is required to view the converted documents on the Pocket PC.

Web: www.cerience.com  ($29.95)

Download: All Pocket PCs

TextMaker

A word processor for the Pocket PC with most of the features of a desktop word processing program, which allows you to retain all of the original formatting and tables in a Word document that you've transferred from a desktop PC. Features include: unlimited undo/redo, search/replace text and formatting, table support, sort text and tables, calculations in text and tables, outliner, and more.

Web: www.softmaker.de  ($49.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

ClearVue Suite

A collection of viewers that can open and view native Microsoft Office 97, 2000, or XP PowerPoint, Excel and Word files without any conversion from ActiveSync. The viewers also open and view .jpg, .png, and .bmp image files. ClearVue Suite supports timed transitions, custom animation, and inserted text, fonts, images, auto-shapes, charts and graphs.

Web: www.westtek.com  ($29.95)

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Utilities - File Management

Resco Explorer 2003

This application has all the standard file/folder manipulation features that you can find in a file explorer. You can copy or delete files, create folders, run programs, search for files or folders, view a file's properties, and sort and filter your listings. It has a Find dialog with a Feed to Listbox feature. Network support is for Pocket PC 2002 only.

Web: www.resco-net.com  ($19.95)
 

Download: WM 2003 P/PC, P/PC 2002, P/PC

PE Explorer Suite

PE Explorer Suite includes all the capabilities of PE File Explorer, PE Zip Explorer, PE Encrypt, PE FTP Explorer, and PE Net Explorer in one complete package.

Web: www.vieka.com  ($44.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

Utilities - Handwriting

CalliGrapher

A natural handwriting recognition software that employs fuzzy logic and neural net techniques to recognize arbitrary symbol strings as well as words from its integrated dictionary and custom user dictionaries. It also has a comprehensive spelling checker and is available in English, French, Spanish and German versions.

Web: www.paragraph.com  ($29.95)

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

Note: The installation files for this application are in .cab format. You will have to copy these files to a location on your Pocket PC, and then double tap them to install them.
 

MyScript

Web: www.visionobjects.com  ($29.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

PenReader

A handwriting recognition utility which doesn't require special training. PenReader supports 28 European languages and recognizes letters (uppercase and lowercase), punctuation marks, brackets, digits, additional symbols (such as '@', '#', '$', '+' and others), handwritten calculations, and macros that fully duplicate main keyboard functions.

Web: www.penreader.com  ($29.95)

Download: WM 2003 P/PC, P/PC 2002, P/PC
 

Utilities - Notes

HPC Notes Professional Edition

HPC Notes is a notes organizer. You can create notes and categorize them by type, subject, and creation and modification date, which helps you find required information quickly and easily. You can search for specific text in a specific field, and you can protect notes from unauthorized access with a password.

Web: www.phatware.com  ($49.95)
 

Download: All Pocket PCs
 

BugMe! Comics

Software which is a combination of BugMe! and Comic Zipnotes. BugMe! allows you to make handwritten notes to use as reminders. Comic Zipnotes is a collection of 50 fun notepads and reminders featuring Garfield, Ziggy, Cathy, Bizarro, Captain RibMan, and Pat Oliphant's Punk. You can use this stationery for checklists, notes, appointments, and more.

Web: www.bugme.net  (29.95)

Download: All Pocket PCs