pRSSreader is a useful application that allows you to read RSS and RDF (also known as Web Feeds or Web Syndication) feeds quickly and simply on your Windows Mobile device.

Some of pRSSreader's main features are:

• Support for RSS (0.90, 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0) and RDF (1.0)
• Incredibly small
• Support for multiple site reading
• Marking of unread items
• Properties of site
• Sequential reading of items
• Customizable appearance
• Import of OPML files
• Customizable location of cache
• Open news in an external browser
• Caching online content for offline browsing
• Caching images within feed items
• Editing feed name
• Hiding read items
• Sorting items

Popular RSS reader for PPC.

Download pRSSreader 1.4.2 in Softonic

Let's face it, navigating the Web on a Pocket PC using the default IE browser isn't a very pleasant experience. Its fiddly controls, unreliability and tardiness have led many to look for replacements.

To date, I've found Opera Mobile 8.65 to be the best of the bunch. However, this beta release of version 9.5 is even better, and shows that Opera has what it takes to conquer the PDA web browsing market. Opera Mobile 9.5 furthers the high standards set by the previous version, in terms of speed, features and easy-of-use.

The interface has been completely redesigned and is all the better for it. Don't get me wrong, it was good before, but now everything is so easy to reach and touch-friendly that it's almost as intuitive as browsing the Web on your PC.

What I liked about the user interface in Opera Mobile 9.5 is its no-nonsense approach. It's subtle and yet practical, to the extent that you don't really notice it's there, but when you need it it's very easy to do what you want. The stylish gray and black design keeps things as minimalistic as possible, while the large buttons make for easy access to common browser features, such as favorites, tabs, and the back and forward commands.

On the subject of features, the latest incarnation of Opera Mobile is stuffed with them - you can add multiple tabs, save pages for offline viewing, share content via SMS, MMS and email, organize your log-ins with the password manager, and access pages quicker with auto-fill addresses. Perhaps my favorite addition though is the new page zooming tool, which allows you to get a closer look at the page with a double-tap of the screen. Another double-tap will take you back to full-screen viewing again. It's one of those features that's so cool and yet so simple, you wonder why it wasn't done before.

You might be thinking that all these cool new goodies will slow the notoriously speedy Opera Mobile down - not so. Somehow the developer has managed to package everything into a browser that seems t run a fair deal quicker than version 8.65.

Because this is a first Beta release you can't expect it to be perfect and indeed it's not. Running Flash plug-ins and embedded streaming video is out of the question because ActiveX is disabled, there are some problems when you try to install it on portable storage, and the text wraps in overview mode.

I'm sure these bugs will be ironed out in time, and when they are I think we'll be talking about Opera Mobile as arguably the best way to browse the web on a Pocket PC.

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MobiBlogr is a free blog software for Windows Mobile. With MobiBlogr on your Windows Mobile mobile phone, you can blog at anytime and anywhere. EThis means you can enjoy all the freedom of blogging on the go.

Features:

• Standard blogging: publish post to web, edit/delete published post, get recent posts
• Photo blogging: edit and publish blog enclosing local photos
• Richtext editor supporting most of richtext tag
• Full HTML featured viewer
• File Upload, one-click photo upload to your online album
• Built-in gallery view for photo browsing and uploading
• Auto blog/upload newly captured photos

Download MobiBlogr 1.5.1 in Softonic

As is the case for many, not a day goes by when I don't do a Google search. As a result, I'm always looking at ways I can perform my daily ritual quicker and more easily.

I have Google desktop installed on my PC, and now I've put this Google Search plug-in on my Pocket PC. The add-on places a search bar on your Today screen, allowing you to query the search engine directly from there.

It's dead easy to use. You just type your query and hit the Enter button. Internet Explorer is then loaded displaying the search results page. There are a few options to tinker with, including a quick-link to the Google home page, a 'Change Location' setting, plus the ability to search for mobile-optimized results only.

I would've liked to have seen some more options and features bolted on, such as the ability to peruse other Google services, such as Images or News. But then, I guess the point of this one is to keep things as simple as possible.

While it lacks a little in functionality, Google Search offers one of the quickest ways to look things up on your mobile device.

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In this, the Internet age, we now have a wealth of resources available to help us get through our day-to-lives. The problem, of course, is that it's all scattered around the Net and we need to take measures to bring everything together.

There are plenty of portals and online services that help you to do this, and Viigo offers an interesting solution for Pocket PC users, providing a gateway to news websites and some of the most popular content on the network.

With Viigo, you can subscribe to all kinds of RSS news channels, with previews of all the articles, allowing you to download all of the articles that interest you and view them whenever you want on your mobile screen.

Although it doesn't offer much in the way of exclusive content, Viigo offers a dead simple way of accessing a wide range of information from one place. For instance, you can subscribe to local events where you live, get local weather forecasts, check the latest sports results, or search the Internet. The fact you can subscribe to RSS feeds means that you can stay on top of your life from wherever you go using your Windows Mobile Pocket PC.

Ultimately Viigo offers a one-stop solution for checking certain kinds of information that you need on a daily basis.

Download Viigo 2.3.35 in Softonic

Spb GPRS Monitor is a complete solution for measuring the amounts of data transfers via your GPRS, CDMA or GSM network connection and calculating network usage costs. Spb GPRS Monitor monitors all data transfers you perform and calculates the cost of your GPRS usage taking into account your service plan details: inclusive data amount, data block size, etc.

Features of Spb GPRS Monitor include:

• Taskbar icon that shows GPRS connection speed and other indicators
• Pop-up window that shows all GPRS information
• Warning notifications on daily/monthly traffic limits
• Detailed connection usage and cost charts
• Detailed text reports of your connection usage and cost
• DExport to CSV for use with Microsoft Excel and Access
• Detailed text reports of your connection usage and cost
• 440+ pre-defined service plans
• Today plug-in that shows GPRS speed and other statistics
• Skin format interface

Download Spb GPRS Monitor 2.5.1 in Softonic

Speed up your browsing by saving pages to your fast-accessing hard drive, rather than relying on the vagaries of your Internet connection. You can schedule WebCopier to copy websites while you're away or sleeping, and view the pages at your leisure. You can copy or print whole sites or sections, your saved pages can then be copied onto disks and CD-Rs, so you can take your Web-snapshot with you.

Download WebCopier 4.5 in Softonic

Shipped on millions of devices from the major mobile phone manufacturers and operators worldwide, the award-winning Opera Mobile™ browser lets you surf the full Web on your mobile phone. And when we say "the full Web," we really mean the full Web. Equipped with Opera's Small-Screen Rendering™ technology, the Opera Mobile™ browser lets you access any site on the Internet, just like you do on your computer. Opera 8.5 Pocket PC beta version is based on the same core as the Opera 8.5 desktop browser and brings the full internet to mobile Pocket PCs. The version is available for both WM 2003 and WM 5.0.

Features of Opera include:

• Open URL with auto-complete
• Zoom
• Download
• Multiple Windows
• Navigation and history
• Bookmarks
• Landscape/Portrait Mode
• Full screen/ Fit to screen
• Pop-up handler
• Pad-lock icon on secure sites
• User preferences
• Context menu

Download Opera for Windows Mobile 5 8.65 b in Softonic

Shipped on millions of devices from the major mobile phone manufacturers and operators worldwide, the award-winning Opera Mobile™ browser lets you surf the full Web on your mobile phone. And when we say "the full Web," we really mean the full Web. Equipped with Opera's Small-Screen Rendering™ technology, the Opera Mobile™ browser lets you access any site on the Internet, just like you do on your computer. Opera 8.5 Pocket PC beta version is based on the same core as the Opera 8.5 desktop browser and brings the full internet to mobile Pocket PCs. The version is available for both WM 2003 and WM 5.0.

Features of Opera include:

• Open URL with auto-complete
• Zoom
• Download
• Multiple Windows
• Navigation and history
• Bookmarks
• Landscape/Portrait Mode
• Full screen/ Fit to screen
• Pop-up handler
• Pad-lock icon on secure sites
• User preferences
• Context menu

Download Opera for Windows Mobile 2003 8.65 in Softonic

You’d have to have been living under a rock not to have noticed that Firefox from Mozilla has become a popular choice for web professionals and causal users who have become sick of the flaws and security holes in Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer. Minimo is the Pocket PC version of Firefox, shrunken down to match your device but still loaded with power and features lacking from Pocket IE.

The first thing to note about Minimo is a slight installation issue we suffered. If you’ve already installed a previous version of the browser on your device, it’s important that you uninstall it and perform a soft-reset before attempting to upgrade. After installation, we’d recommend another soft-reset before running the program as this usually irons out any creases in the installation process. It isn’t right that we should still have to be installing programs in this way on Pocket PCs but that’s really more of an issue with the way their systems are designed.

When you finally get around to launching Minimo, you see an attractive splash screen and then in a couple of seconds, the browser window appears and immediately starts loading your start page – just like in Firefox. Items such as the start page, bookmarks image loading and so on can be accessed and adjusted through the preferences menu. In terms of speed, Minimo is at least as fast as Pocket Internet Explorer, and makes for a comfortable and quick browsing experience.

Minimo’s main boasts of improvement over Pocket IE are increased security, tabbed browsing and support for RSS feeds. All of these features will be well known to anyone familiar with Firefox, RSS support in particular being a welcome addition to the Pocket PC’s browsing options. The program also features Small Screen Rendering (SSR) and ‘Single Column’ formatting, both options designed to optimise websites for viewing on a small-screened device. While these functions are highly effective on some sites, making it easier to read news reports, we found it pretty difficult to make sure that SSR would stay off when we turned it off. The SSR engine itself doesn’t seem to be quite as advanced as that of Opera, but perhaps this is to be expected given that Opera have been working on small screen rendering for a lot longer than Mozilla.

As with almost every other aspect of their Pocket PC operating system, Microsoft left itself wide open to competition in the browser category. Opera for Pocket PC is a sturdy choice and is currently ready to go. It is Minimo, however, which promises the most in terms of a true alternative to IE – even if it is still at an early stage in its development.

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Webby provides a powerful desktop-style browsing experience on the Pocket Pc platform. Besides tabbed browsing Webby automatically provides the ability to scale web pages using the two top microbrowsers, Skeezer.net and Google Mobile.

Unique features:

• Tabbed Browsing (Multiple Seperate Browser Windows)
• Superior High Speed Web Page Rendering (Microbrowsers)
• Uses Google Mobile or Skweezer.net formatting automatically
• Support for multiple resolutions, including Landscape Mode
• Fast Scrolling!
• "View Source" option
• "View in Pocket IE" option
• Optionally deletes temporary files on exit to save memory
• Full screen browsing! (ie No address bar by default)
• Handy "Copy Address To Clipboard" function for easy integration with rss readers
• "Quick Link" builder that helps stylus users quickly enter web addresses

Download Webby Mobile 2.6 in Softonic

AvantGo is a revolutionary application in the new world of PDA devices with one goal: to keep you up to date with your favourite topics of interest. Just install AvantGo, fill out a couple of forms and prepare yourself to receive any type of information you want from the Internet on your PDA.

The main function of AvantGo is to download pages specialised in Sports, Science, Technology, Business but you can also receive any other favourite topics each time you sync your PocketPC. Keep up to date with AvantGo.

Download AvantGo 6.0.327 in Softonic

NetFront for Pocket PC is a sophisticated Web browser based on the NetFront, which has been installed on many PDAs, mobile phones, and home information appliances. The latest version of NetFront supports Pocket PC2003/2003SE.

NetFront supports Flash(R) and JavaTM, and provides unique functions, such as the Multi-Window, for viewing Web contents. Thus it enables you to enjoy a PC-like Web browsing experience on the Pocket PC.

Some of NetFront features include:

• Supports Pocket PC2003 and 2003SE
• Supports Flash
• Supports JavaTM - NetFront is compliant with J2METM CDC and handles "JV-Lite2 CE Edition," a Java running environment of ACCESS that supports CDC HI.
• Rapid-RenderTM - Speeds up displaying the Web page by displaying the HTML text and the hyperlinks first, and then displaying images and tables.
• Smart-Fit RenderingTM - for easy view, this function fits the Web page to the size of the PDA screen. This function also enables you to browse general Web pages without using the horizontal scroll bar.
• Muli-Window Browsing

Download NetFront 3.3 in Softonic

SplashBlog lets you instantly publish photos from your Pocket PC to an online photo blog to share with others. SplashBlog includes everything you need to share your photos, including software for your smartphone and a free online photoblog account at splashblog.com. Just install the free software on your smartphone, create your free splashblog.com account and start photoblogging!

Features of SplashBlog:

• Capture an image on your Pocket PC
• Edit the details and publish to your online photoblog
• Subscribe to others' blogs and view comments in the gallery
• Add photos from an external memory card

Your photos are synchronized with the photoblog server, where they can be viewed in any web browser on a PC. In addition, handheld users can subscribe to your photoblog and view your photos on their handheld with SplashBlog.

Download SplashBlog 2.0.1 in Softonic

Almost everyone knows that the MSN Search site doesn’t have an optimised version for PDA devices. With the new Pocket MSN Search application, you can search all web resources via the MSN search engine with your favorite Windows Mobile device.

Just type your keyword, optionally select some options and click 'Search' from main menu. The application has localization for English and Polish language. All URL addresses are opening in default web browser with Skweezer.net service to optimize selected pages for PDA devices.

Download Pocket MSN Search 1.0 in Softonic

PocketGoogle is a small application for PDA devices with Windows Mobile OS. It’s replacing functionality of Google.com available for PDA in stripped visual form here www.google.com/pda and allows you search the Web from standalone application. You can go to the selected URL, in this case original page content is converted to PDA version.

PocketGoogle using Google API and to properly working you should obtain free Google Search API Key from http://www.google.com/apis site.

Download Pocket Google 1.0 in Softonic

Plusmo lets you do cool stuff from your mobile phone. For example, you can locate the nearest Starbucks, find cheap gas nearby, read your friend's MySpace blog, read movie reviews, check out neat photos, download popular blogs like Engadget, or keep track of the top iTunes hits all from your cell phone or PDA. Plusmo offers a great mobile experience because personalized content from websites is downladed to your device in advance and browsing is local and fast.

Plusmo makes the mobile web so much better... give it a try today!

Download Plusmo 1.32 in Softonic

Macromedia Flash Player is an Internet Explorer plug-in that will enable your device to play all types of FLASH files. In this way, you will be able to view graphic animations and compositions created with a Macromedia standard.

Play Macromedia Flash movies from your PPC.

Download Macromedia Flash Player 7.0 in Softonic

Looking for the best way to acquire, access, share and play rich and up-to-date media on your mobile device? Look no further, you’ve found NOMAD Media Hub.

NOMAD Media Hub (NMH) will satisfy all your needs for rich Entertainment & Information content, empowering you to create, share and personalize your own mobile media channels. NMH is entirely multimedia-enabled allowing multiple channel subscription, customization, playback and support for rich mobile contents such as Podcasts, Videocasts, Image and Text feeds.

Powered by RSS, NMH lets you grab, monitor, program your favourite online content and “Hubcast it” directly to your mobile companion: keeping you informed and entertained anywhere you go, no matter where you are.

This version of NOMAD Media Hub, includes your personalized My NOMAD Channel Manager, plus an entire pre-packaged Interest Channel line-up available on a fully customizable subscription mode.

Go, Play, Enjoy NOMAD Media Hub.

Download NOMAD Media Hub 0.95 in Softonic

Inheriting all the features from its successful predecessor, the Pocket PC version of Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor has been developed with every care to make it simply efficient and effective!

The Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor for Pocket PC allows you to monitor GPRS Internet data usage both graphically and numerically on The Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor for Pocket PC allows you to monitor GPRS Internet data usage both graphically and numerically on your Pocket PC Phone, thereby giving you more control on your mobile phone bill.

Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor for Pocket PC Written in native C code, the Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor for Pocket PC is less than 100KB in size and is especially designed to consume minimum system resources.

The key features of the program include:

• Monitor multiple connections simultaneously
• Today plug-in with GPRS traffic display
• Friendly interface design, detailed usage statistics at a glance
• Connection status and IP address display
• Multilanguage support - English, French and German

Monitor your internet traffic with this handy utility.

Download Smartphone GPRS Traffic Monitor for PPC 1.1 in Softonic