This technical piece of software allows you to save and share your mapping data in common shape format. You can measure and view distances, areas and lengths using your mobile and then load these images onto maps created using the free AgMapper Image Converter.

AgMapper comes from Australia so it's no surprise the software is recommended for bushtreckers, walkers and farmers.

Download AgMapper 1.4.8 in Softonic

MobSync is a practical tool for Windows designed to improve the efficiency and organization of your synchronizations.

It's main feature allows you to copy riles between your Pocket PC and your desktop PC using different folders... so for example, you could move all your images in (c:\photos\) to your Pocket PC but using any folder name.

Its support for multiple tasks allows you to set up numerous different configurations, with different folders set up for them. In this way, you are able to specify if you're synchronizing - for example - your image files, or your music files, and have the files copied to the correct folder.

The impressive functionality of this program make it worth using for any sort of advanced synchronization operations.

Download MobSync 2.0.2 in Softonic

Why phone someone when you can chat with them using instant messaging? I guess there are about a million answers to that one, but nevertheless if you're hooked on IM then you may wish to text chat via your mobile phone. Slick is a free instant messaging client that allows you to talk online with your friends via the most popular IM networks.

Specifically, the client lets you connect and communicate with friends on ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM and MSN Messenger. Besides just sending and receiving messages you can also add emoticons (not enough to choose from for my liking though), change your status and add new contacts.

The interface is not too taxing to find your way around and owes much of its design to the popular IM clients. Thankfully, it also brings with it some of the more advanced features of these clients too, including the ability to share files, view chat history, and set up all manner of alerts.

If you're looking for a no-nonsense way of chatting with your IM contacts on the bus then Slick provides a, well, slick, means of doing so.

Download Slick 0.43 in Softonic

CommMgrPro allows you to control your PDA Phone Edition with profiles automatically selected depending on your current location(Phone Cell / LAC) and current time. You can select manually profiles too if you want.

Download CommMgrPro 2.1.1 in Softonic

Now here's an interesting new idea for sending text messages that appears to want to fill a niche for people who hate predictive text but don't like taking ages clicking through different choices of letters to write each word. What TapTapSMS offers is something in between. When you upload the software the screen shows six large panels. Four of these contain six consecutive letters, one contains the letters y and z and four symbols and the last contains six other punctuation signs.

When you want to write a letter you click on the corresponding panel which then converts the six main panels so they each contain one of the letters from the first panel eg click on the 'a,b,c,d,e,f' panel and the letters are divided between each of the six panels. Then click the correct panel to write a letter and return to the original display to choose another. It takes some time but once your brain works out where all the letters are spread it is quick and easy. And it does relieve the stress of predictive text, if you hate that. However, if you choose the wrong first panel you then have to choose to write an incorrect letter to return to the first display so you can delete it. It's an interesting idea, whether it succeeds is another thing.

Download TapTapSMS 0.31 in Softonic

With this program, you can hide and unhide all your private messages (SMS, MMS, E-mail, etc.) which are stored in Messaging application.
You can hide your messages manually or smsOrganizer can hide the new messages on every incoming SMS! You can set a password for unhiding messages against unauthorized users.

Key features include:

• Hide and Unhide all your private messages (SMS, MMS, Email, etc.) within the Messaging application.
• Automatic Hide on every incoming SMS.
• Use a password to protect your private messages against unauthorized persons.

Hide your secret SMS messages with this handy tool!

Download smsOrganizer 2.71 in Softonic

I'm a big fan of the great outdoors and love to go off exploring hills, valleys and streams whenever I can. Unfortunately though, I have no sense of direction, which has led me into a few scrapes in my time.

Step forward Tracky, an application that allows you to plan out routes and track your current position through a highly visual interface. In order to use the program, you need to set your start and finish points, along with any places you want to visit in between.

Using GPS technology you can then take it out with you and get a portable view of your current course and baring at all times. The software downloads maps from Google Maps to provide you with a pretty detailed plan of where you are in the world. The amount of stats and options locked within Tracky are incredible, and you can access all sorts of information about your real-time altitude, speed and distance to the individual marker points.

All this is great and everything, but compared to many Sat Nav systems I've tried, it all seems remarkably fiddly to set up. The zoom control is a trifle cumbersome, GPS configuration can take some messing with, and there is a distinct lack of user help within the program itself.

Although Tracky can certainly help you find your way back down the mountain, the chances are you'll be stuck up there for a while figuring out how to use the darn thing.

Download Tracky 3.3.5 in Softonic

rue Connect (Smartphone & PocketPC magazine finalist 2006) provides the ability to directly control your mobile device using the PC mouse & keyboard.

Control is initiated by simply moving the mouse cursor off the PC monitor, onto the connected mobile device screen.

Once control has been initiated all aspects of the mobile device such as the home screen, menus and applications can be controlled using the PC mouse. The PC keyboard can be used to directly enter text onto the mobile device.

Download True Connect Pro 3.0 in Softonic

With this program, you can backup, restore and export all your messages (SMS, MMS, E-mail, etc.) which are stored in your Messaging application.

You can backup and/or export your messages manually or smsBackup can backup/export the new messages on every incoming SMS! This program exports the messages into text files. The folders used in your Messaging application will appear as directories. After exporting your important data you can easily zip, copy or whatever you want to do with your exported material.

You can use your Storage Card as output directory, so you will never loose your Messages again!

Download smsBackup 2.41 in Softonic

If you love to send lots of text messages but hate the fact that doing so means you get an enormous phone bill, then listen up. VoipSMS is a small, yet handy application that gives you the ability to use your VOIP account to send SMS messages, but maybe you guessed that from its name, right?

The software itself is compatible with IP telephony services offered by VoipBuster, VoipRaider and VoipStunt. Unfortunately there's no support for the most popular of the VOIP services, Skype though.

To assign VoipSMS to your account, you just enter a link on the login page to the relevant service provider, along with your username and password. Automatically, all mail sent from the app will be charged to this account, saving you precious cash.

Depending on the current payment plan you have for your mobile, VoipSMS could shave quite a bit off your bill.

Download VoipSMS 2.3.0 in Softonic

IRCopy is a free tool you can use to send and receive files to and from your Pocket PC using the device's infra-red port.

Simple to use, all you need to do is select a file from its interface, click Send and onb the other Pocket PC click Receive. The program will automatically start trnsferring the chosen file.

For IR transfers, it doesn't get much simpler than this.

Download IRCopy 1.5 in Softonic

The Windows Mobile OS is pretty good, but in my opinion it's not a patch on Windows XP. If you yearn for a more user-friendly operating system with improved functionality then look no further than My Mobiler.

The application makes using your mobile a darn-sight easier, allowing you to move files via drag-and-drop, control the system with a keyboard and mouse, copy documents from the Windows clipboard and capture your mobile screen with a built-in screenshot function.

In order to get the program to communicate with your desktop PC you'll need to install and ActiveSync. An icon will appear on your desktop to launch the free program, from where you can remotely control your mobile.

As soon as you start using your Pocket PC in this way, you'll notice how much easier everything is when dragging and dropping files, and using the keyboard and the mouse to control your device. The connection works very well and we didn't notice any significant delay between performing an action on the PC and it appearing on the mobile display.

It's a shame this kind of functionality isn't available as default in Windows Mobile soyou can use it on the move because My Mobiler demonstrates how much easier the native Windows system is to operate.

Download My Mobiler 1.23 in Softonic

VITO Remote is a universal remote control software for your Smartphone. With VITO Remote, you can use your Smartphone as an all-in one IR remote console to operate TV, VCR, DVD, karaoke, home theater and anything else including garage gates and video cameras. VITO Remote is easy to program and use.

Every single button can be programmed to perform a certain action when pressed like your TV, DVD and other remote controls. To learn a signal from original remote control, just send it from the remote control by pressing a correspondging button to your VITO Remote in the Learning mode. VITO Remote will record all acquired commands and store them separately for every piece of your electronics.

Download VITO Remote for Smartphone WM5 1.3 in Softonic

SMS messages are a big part of life for many of us and rarely a day goes by without me sending or receiving a text message.

The SMS handling facilities within Windows Mobile 6 are fine for the casual texter, but if you're a power user who yearns for more functionality then you might want to try installing SMS Tweaker on your Pocket PC.

This simple application is designed to ramp up your SMS manager adding powerful new features such as the ability to view message threads. This means that instead of having to wade through all of your recent messages, you can choose to view only those from a particular contact, giving you the ability to quickly recount the conversation.

Other highlights of SMS Tweaker are customizable backgrounds for your texts (although generally these are pretty hideous unless you're a five-year-old), plus the ability to change the language of notifications and alter the font size. It's a very simple program and all of the available options are clearly accessible from the tabs on the interface.

A great way of improving your text life.

Download SMS Tweaker 1.0 in Softonic

With IPSMS simply type the message, select recipients from your contact list and choose which IP telephone services you want to use to send the message. You can use, for example, SMS77, SMSBug, VoipBuster, 12voip, dialnow, justvoip, nonoh, among others. In order to send the message, you must have an account with and have previously logged into the IP telephone service you want to use.

But once you have these things, the software means you can continue to send supercheap text messages without having to use your PC. The developer recognises there are several current bugs so rest assured they are being worked on. They include: 'First name, Last name' view is sorted by Last name, program crashes on invalid XML phonebook file, history of sent SMS not saved. If you can live with these get messaging, otherwise check the website and wait a while.

Send super-cheap texts but the service is still being developed

Download IPSMS 0.7.3 in Softonic

Bluetooth is arguably the easiest way of sharing data between different mobile devices. It's free, it's simple and it's quick.

However, it's not completely without its annoyances and one of the things that frustrates me the most about the transfer protocol is that when you send a file or document from one device to another, the file always ends up in the same folder on the receiving device.

Step forward moBlue, a free Pocket PC application that lets you set the folder in which you want your Bluetooth transfers to be saved. The program is dead simple to operate and you can select the incoming folder simply by clicking on an icon and browsing to the directory. The program also lets you apply filters, so, for instance, you can set all of your incoming image files to be sent to your My Pictures folder.

There are a few other settings, such as the ability to turn Bluetooth on or off through moBlue, although there's very little in the way of advanced options.

If you want a quick way of changing the folder to save incoming Bluetooth transfers to, moBlue does an adequate job.

Download moBlue 2.1 in Softonic

I used to love watching those old James Bond films and checking out all the cool stealth equipment he used. The great thing is that, with today's technology these kind of gizmos are now in existence.

Take, for instance, HushSMS, an application that allows you to send stealth messages from your Pocket PC. In essence, this means you can send texts to another cellphone without the recipient ever getting knowledge of it. This is useful, for example, if you need to ensure that a certain phone is in use and that you can send information to it.

It's simple enough to use. You type the number of your recipient at the top or open their details from your contact book. Beware though, because for some reason you need to have the international access code in front for it to work. Once you've done that you need to choose the message mode. You can plump for a 'class 0' message, which is a Flash SMS, a simple PING to check the recipient's phone is on, or a normal SMS message.

Then it's just a case of entering your message and sending it. Be sure to check the box to request confirmation if you so desire. The great thing about the program is that the recipient won't know who has sent them the message and will instead just get something like 'Network Message' in the From field.

This makes it great for pinging another phone, but I can't help thinking there are more sinister things you can do using HushSMS.

Download HushSMS 0.3 in Softonic

One of the annoying things about the messaging application in Windows Mobile is that it's a lot more difficult to insert phone numbers from your contacts into your messages than many other mobile operating systems.

Insert Contacts basically does what it says on the tin, enabling you to access your contacts and add any number to the text message that you're currently composing, making it easier to share contacts with other people.

The program's user interface is rather crude in terms of its visuals, but nevertheless, it's highly functional and inserting a contact is simply a matter of clicking the insert menu, looking up that particular contact, before choosing the number you want to add to the message based on those stored for that contact.

That's about it really, there isn't much in the way of any other added options (such as editing contacts, grouping contact numbers, etc.) like you'd find in some other SMS management tools.

However, for the task of inserting contact numbers into your message, Insert Contacts is an effective, no-frills solution.

Download Insert Contacts 1.01 in Softonic

There are times when you need to get a text message out to lots of people at once, and it can be oh-so irritating having to type the details several times and send it to umpteen different numbers.

MoblMsg is designed to alleviate the problem, allowing you to create groups from your Windows Mobile contacts in order to send the same message to all of the contacts you've defined in this group.

The program is installed very quickly through your desktop PC via ActiveSync and leaves a very small footprint, so it won't put any kind of strain on your device's resources. The user interface is a little ugly though, and the buttons are clunky and irregular in size. Nevertheless it's still pretty simple to create new groups and add recipients to these groups in the main window, using the arrow buttons. There are no options for editing contacts within the program, which I felt was a bit of a shame.

Once the groups are connected you can write a message and send it to everyone in the group with the click of a button. The program stores all of your sent messages so you can go back at any time and check what you've written and when.

There are definitely better designed groups SMS tools out there, but nevertheless MoblMsg does provide a simple and functional way of creating group messaging lists.

Download MoblMsg 1.0 in Softonic

4Talk is the easy way to turn your Pocket PC into a two way communication device suitable for short range transmissions. Pair two or more Pocket PC's to create a mini walkie talkie network, or use it in conjunction with your PC to create a continuous surveillance or baby monitoring device. 4Talk can be used on any local area network using direct cable, Wi-Fi or even Bluetooth, although the later is obviously very short range. As long as your network is configured and your device has an IP address you can use 4Talk.

Features of 4Talk include:

• Get both PC and PPC versions
• 16 independent channels
• Emergency channel
• Microphone Lock Facility
• Instantly see who?s online and what channel
• Full Duplex Mode (for headsets)
• Custom Key Configuration
• Variable Sound Quality
• Morse / Beep button
• Signal Strength Meter

Download 4Talk 1.4 in Softonic