SONY VAIO P with Windows XP – Complete HOW TO guide

So you never bought a VAIO P thinking that Vista would be dog-slow on the VAIO P? Well, we installed Windows XP on the VAIO P, which it runs pretty nicely. Here is a complete “how to install windows xp” guide for installing Windows XP on the VAIO P.

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Skype 3 beta released for Windows Mobile

So, what is new in this release?

• Send files: Free to send spreadsheets, photos, music and other files Skype-to-Skype.
• Send texts (SMS): Great value texts to mobiles abroad, and a great way to avoid roaming charges abroad if you text on Skype from a WiFi zone.

Video of skype beta in action:

Odd Fact: Few bloggers are lamenting about the lack of Video calls in Skype mobile. I guess they should be aware of the fact that the Skype mobile takes a lot of processing power even though it is just processing our audio. I guess we will have to wait for the video feature for some more time. Perhaps until all the Windows mobile devices have the 1GHz snapdragon processor.

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Mayakama DVD to Pocket PC 6.0 released

Folks at Mayakama have released version 6 of their most popular software, DVD to Pocket PC. DVD-to-Pocket PC allows you to watch not only DVDs, but also home movies, downloaded content and other video files on your Windows Mobile phone. Turn your phone into a Pocket Movie Player. DVD conversions are up to 4 times faster in the new version. In less than 45 minutes, you can put a full movie on your phone. Now supports the new hi-res devices such as the HTC Touch Pro2, Sony Ericsson Xperia and Toshiba TG01.

Go and grab the new version from this link

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FingerMenu – make all menus finger friendly! [Windows Mobile]

The FingerMenu is a great application developed by Francesco, which aims to make the Windows Mobile menus more finger friendly than ever. The menus look a lot like the ones found on HTC DIAMOND’s TouchFlo 3D interface and work similarly too. The only difference being is the availbility of FingerMenu in every application unlike TouchFlo3D [...]

Give your Resco Explorer XBox 360 look [Windows Mobile]

With the release of Resco Explorer v7, the Resco Explorer gained the capability to skin itself. Sadly, no one ever came forward to skin the Resco Explorer. Although, numerous skins were introduced for it’s Today Plugin, but no skin was ever released for the Resco Explorer. Not anymore now. jmckeejr, a very creative guy has [...]

SMS Minder [Windows Mobile]

SMS Minder is a small application which replies to SMSes for you automatically with the message you set in the application. Current features: Auto reply to received SMS messages Blacklist contacts that would be replied to via SMS SMS reply to missed calls with the ability to filter out the first two digits of their [...]

New GroupSMS released and reviewed! [Windows Mobile]

Windows Mobile lacks the ability to send sms to a particular group of people. Fortunately, there is a way to handle this missing function from the Windows Mobile, thanks to the GroupSMS by Shubaroo.com Installation The installation went fine with no problems. The installation is done via a CAB file, which is meant to be [...]

Backup those favorites! [Opera Mobile 9 Tip]

Unfortunately, Opera Mobile does not give you an easy to backup the favorites that you’ve made on your device. The odd part is that unlike Netfront which shares it’s favorites with the Internet Explorer mobile and vice-versa, Opera manages the favorites separately. If you are going to buy a new device or updating the ROM [...]

New version 3.34 of fring for Windows Mobile released and reviewed!

fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection. Installation fring(yes, the first letter is small) takes [...]

Windows Mobile: How to force an application to run in VGA-mode

Here is a simple but very helpful trick. We see so many VGA devices around. Many of the applications are VGA-ready, but the developers have not made tweaked their applications to use the VGA resolution. For example: There are two adobe reader versions for Windows Mobile. One is already VGA-aware, which means that you don’t [...]