There's so much to love about Formula 1 - the pulsating starts, the perilous overtaking maneuvers, the tactical pit stops, and of course the bikini-clad beauties at the start.

If you're a fan of the motorsport and want to follow the season's thrills and spills on your Pocket PC then you really shouldn't be without this little app. The program contains a wealth of information about the calendar, courses, tracks, drivers and teams.

The menu structure is clear and simple, and from the home screen you're given the option of choosing from the five aforementioned categories. The 'Championship' section provides a ranking of the top drivers for the season, which is updated as the season goes on.

The 'Calendar' menu gives you a run-down of the order and dates of the races, providing you with details of each course, such as the circuit length, web address, lap record etc., plus the facility for entering the final positions in the season's championship. You also get a basic illustrated map of the course.

Clicking the 'Drivers' menu option gives you a list of all this year's drivers and even test drivers, containing info on them about date of birth, nationality, height, weight, number of races/podium finishes etc. For some reason it doesn't show you how many Grand Prix wins they have, and it would've also been nice to see photographs of the drivers.

Likewise, the 'Cars' and 'Teams' section also doesn't have an option for viewing photos of the vehicles, which I found was a key omission.

Despite the lack of photography, F1 Season 2008 is chock-full of stats and makes for an ideal companion to the motorsport season.

Download F1 Season 2008 in Softonic

Let's face it, the built-in Calendar in Windows Mobile for Pocket PC isn't up to much. It's clunky and fiddly to operate and makes it difficult to quickly check the date and make appointments.

ThumbCal is designed to replace the default calendar on your handset with one that's easier to use. It's certainly a lot clearer, with big buttons as the dates that can be easily touched with a finger. If you run the app with its bundled skin you'll get a slick black interface with white numbers and grey highlights.

By clicking a date or tapping it with your fingers you can access a menu where you can select 'Today' to return to the current day on the calendar. You can choose 'New' to make an appointment for a particular date. Or at least, that's the theory. In practice, I couldn't get the feature to do anything, probably because this is an early alpha version.

Nevertheless it's good for checking dates in the future and goes up beyond the year 2100, so you can literally plan the rest of your life on it. As you flip through the years, the calendar scrolls upwards, which looks pretty cool. Again though, it's hit and miss as to whether this feature will work.

ThumbCal is a great looking, easy-access Pocket PC calendar app which is unfortunately let down by bugs and glitches.

Download ThumbCal 1.0.7 in Softonic

Pocket Informant replaces your built in Contacts / Calendar / Tasks applications with more powerful, yet simple, full featured versions along with cool additions in one fully integrated application. This means that it syncs with Outlook and ActiveSync, or third party Sync solutions.

Despite its robust features, Pocket Informant is very easy to use. Features are designed to be quickly accessible, without being in the way.

Pocket Informant can manage simple appointments and tasks and grow with your needs to handle even the most complex situations. Pocket Informant is designed as a turnkey solution - with no advanced setup or steep learning curve.

Download Pocket Informant 8.1 in Softonic

From the moment you launch Agenda One, you'll see why it's different. Powerful yet unbelievably easy to use. It's everything you need for keeping up with your busy life when you're on the go. It just works. For business, family, personal use, and everywhere in between, Agenda One delivers.

Agenda One is more than just about helping you manage your calendar, contacts and tasks. Keep up with your busy life no matter where you are. Effortlessly work with your calendar, stay in touch with your contacts, manage tasks, and find anything in an instant.

Easy to use!

Features are great. They're even better when they just work!

Agenda One is all about ease of use. Viewing, finding, creating, customizing, everything has been designed to work effortlessly.

The most complete solution

Calendar, Contacts, Tasks and Search views deliver you the details of your life in style. See everything at once. The month view with preview is outstanding.

Smart contact search

Simply start typing to find your contacts that match by name, number, city, state, zip code and more. It's not just smart, it's amazing.

Find it

Search finds all of your calendar, contact and task items with ease.

Time filtering

Let Agenda One know what you want to see and when you want to see it. Business related items can be automatically hidden on the weekend, or personal items hidden during your work day. Once you try it you'll be hooked.

Customize and Personalize

Managing your time is very personal. Customize Agenda One to meet your exact needs and create a look that matches your own personal style!

Create with your thumbs!

Agenda One's revolutionary new appointment and task editors let you create a new task or appointment in seconds using only the navigation pad. When you're on the go, Agenda One makes it easy to do just about anything.

Download Agenda One 2.1.8355 in Softonic

If, like me, you're forever forgetting people's birthdays and incurring disappointment from your friends and family who think you don't care about them then maybe it's time to change things.

Best Birthday allows you to do just that by providing you with a handy tool for keeping a record of when people's special days are. It does this by plundering your Outlook and mobile Contacts, and organizing them in such a way that you will always know when to start buying cards or presents.

What I like most about Best Birthday is the way in which you can quickly sort your contacts based on a variety of factors, such as by name, date or number of days left until their birthday. I always keep it set on the latter filter, so I know exactly who it is I should be thinking of buying for next. There's also an option to 'split' the contacts, either by birth month or zodiac sign, a neat little way of packaging different people together.

Amongst the options, you can tick a box to display anniversaries as well as birthdays, and there's even a feature for composing message templates for quick sending when it comes to someone's big day. Perhaps the inclusion of a 'Notes' section would've also been useful for recording gift ideas for each contact in advance.

The inclusion of a Today screen plug-in for your Pocket PC is great because it allows you to view and edit upcoming birthday events without having to manually launch the program.

If you're looking for a way of ensuring you never forget a birthday, Best Birthday certainly beats the old-fashioned pen and paper recording method.

Download Best Birthday 1.00 in Softonic

Don't get me wrong, I think the Pocket PC platform is awesome but, like many people, I find it a little cumbersome sometimes and the fact that I have to tap tiny icons with pixel precision can sometimes end up getting me down.

Pointui Home is designed to change all that, skinning the Windows Mobile interface to make it easy to control the basic functions of your device without having to so much as look at your stylus. i.e. by clicking directly with your fingers.

In order to achieve this Pointui uses a kind of 'shuffle' system as adopted by the HTC device, and not too dissimilar to the iPhone. It means that you can navigate your operating system using finger swipes, making the whole process of using your handheld much more intuitive and more enjoyable, to boot.

From the main program window you can make calls, access email and text messaging, and manage and control the functions of the media player. Certain elements of Windows Mobile have been completely reskinned, including the phone app, which gives a more of an iPhone feel to the call log. Other tools such as calendar and tasks haven't been reskinned but they are now easier to access.

What's more, the system settings are now right at your fingertips, rather than buried below a series of menus on your Pocket PC.

If you're fed up of the somewhat cumbersome Windows Mobile environment and stylus-based interface, Pointui offers a very interesting alternative that lets your fingers do the talking.

Download Pointui Home 1.51a in Softonic

When I was younger (in fact, it still applies now) I always wanted to have James Bond's Miss Moneypenny as my secretary. As I grow older, I realise this is becoming less and less likely to happen. However, I've just stumbled across a mobile app that will give me almost the next best thing.

Agendus is an excllent personal information manager designed to make you more you a more productive human being through your Pocket PC. The application combines the different standard applications such as address book, notepad, tasks and email, and supports data synchronization with Microsoft Outlook.

It's incredible to be able to manage and access so much information from one place, and it surprises me that Microsoft couldn't have come up with its own Agendus when it developed the Windows Mobile OS. The program centralises a huge range of tasks, including managing contacts, appointments, tasks, notes, SMS and emails.

There's a whole bunch of stuff you can do with this information using Agendus, such as displaying data in daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly views, grouping, editing and deleting. A powerful built-in full-text search ensures that whatever you need is always close at hand. Everything is very simple to synchronise too, using ActiveSync.

Thanks to an intuitive centralised interface and some slick integration with Outlook, this really is a product you can't afford to be without if you have a busy personal or professional life.

Download Agendus Professional Edition 2.21 in Softonic

Spb Diary is a feature-rich Today plug-in for your Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes and Messages. It enhances Pocket Outlook by gathering all of your PIM information in one place. With Spb Diary, the Today screen will soon become your favorite since you will need to leave it less and less.

Spb Time's features include:

• Today plug-in
• Slideshow in screensaver
• Skins
• Analog clock
• Digital clock with calendar
• World clock with zoom
• Stopwatch with lap times export
• Multiple timers and stopwatches
• Fullscreen view for clocks
• Toolbar designed for finger taps
• Tap-and-drag to set an alarm

Download Spb Time 2.2.2 in Softonic

Award winning Today plug-in with tabs that replaces your built-in Calendar, Tasks and Mail on your Today screen, offering a much more powerful solution.

• View up to 30 days of appointments and tasks on your Today screen
• Choose your own layout, fonts & colors - even your category and status icons
• Integrates seamlessly with Agenda Fusion, Pocket Informant, and the default PIM
• Manage your tasks with virtually unlimited grouping and sorting capabilities
• Define smart filters to filter your display by many categories together
• Download many free skins from our skins pageto give your Pocket PC a great new look
• Edit tasks and appointments with one tap
• View your task and appointment notes with scrolling pop-up windows
• Jump ahead to any day or week with the calendar pop-up window
• Install additional plug-ins to add new tabs with new capabilities to PocketBreeze
• Enable/disable and re-order your PocketBreeze tabs as you wish
• A year’s worth of your contacts’ birthdays and anniversaries with flashing reminders...and more

The Calendar Tab

• View your appointments and tasks in a single, tabbed display
• Include up to 30 days of your upcoming agenda
• View category, status, and note icons with each item
• View appointment and task notes in a scrolling pop-up window
• Complete tasks from the Today screen
• Pop-up calendar window let’s you jump ahead to any day or week
• Filter the Calendar display by category
• Define special fonts and colors to items according to their status
• Choose layouts, fonts, and colors for appointments & tasks
• Optionally display icons on the left of appointments/tasks
• View daily snap overview using large popup timelines

The Tasks Tab

• Manage your tasks from the Today screen
• Sort tasks by: Category, Due Date, Start Date, Importance, Completion status, Sensitivity, Subject
• Filter tasks by Category
• View task counter for each category grouping
• Define different text colors according to task status
• Mark your tasks complete from the Today screen

The Special Events Tab

• View your contact's birthdays and anniversaries - automatically loaded from your contacts database
• Define up to two additional categories to include in this tab
• Choose the the text color for those additional categories
• Special Events tab icon flashes as a reminder when a special event is near - you define how many days

General Features

• Switch and scroll PocketBreeze tabs using your Pocket PC D-Pad
• PocketBreeze include enhanced integration with the default PIM, Pocket Informant and Agenda Fusion. Allowing you to open appointments/tasks with your favorite PIM
• Fully skinable display, can easily be customized
• PocketBreeze is using a special half-transparency level skinning mechanism which results great look with your Today themes

PocketBreeze tabs

• Enable/disable PocketBreeze tabs to add more power or enjoy faster performance
• Re-order the tabs order to create the look you wish
• Install additional tabs for PocketBreeze
• ContactBreeze - the first tab released for PocketBreeze bring your contacts to your today screen with special searching capabilities and thumbs interface to find your contacts without your stylus.

Download PocketBreeze 5.4.1 in Softonic

Spb Diary is a feature-rich Today plug-in for your Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes and Messages. It enhances Pocket Outlook by gathering all of your PIM information in one place. With Spb Diary, the Today screen will soon become your favorite since you will need to leave it less and less.

Key features include:

• Today plugin for PIM data with tabs
• Calendar tab
• Tasks tab
• Contacts tab with photos
• Notes tab — notes and documents
• Messaging tab — emails & SMS
• Custom tab
• One-hand navigation

Download Spb Diary 2.5.8 in Softonic

The Pocket PC makes for the perfect way to tell the time when you're out on the road with it.

But why settle for looking at the rather bland default date and time display? Today's Time offers a neat alternative, providing a skin-based analog and digital clock for your Pocket PC. After a simple installation, you can access the program options through the Today screen settings menu.

There are a bevy of options here to tweak virtually every aspect of the clock. The Analog clock menu gives you the ability to change the view and the clock face style, and customize the colors of the hands on the clock. Likewise, with the Digital clock settings menu you can choose from a range of clock face styles, change the color and add a blink time separator.

Today's Time also comes with a date display and a battery indicator, which are neatly displayed next to or above the clock on your Today screen. The inclusion of a calendar mode somewhere would've been a nice touch, but I guess you can't have everything.

As a means of adding a clearer, more attractive clock to your PPC, Today's Time makes for a pretty decent solution.

Download Today's Time 1.3 in Softonic

PocketMirror Professional is advanced Outlook synchronization software built around the way you use Outlook—and how you've wished you could use your Pocket PC.

Life is busy. You don’t need technology slowing you down. So, why let ActiveSync software organize your Outlook information on your Pocket PC in a way that makes your data harder to find? Now you have a choice.

PocketMirror Professional for Windows Mobile is the only Outlook synchronization software that does both of the following:

• Synchronize multiple Outlook Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks folders with the corresponding Pocket Outlook applications on the handheld
• Synchronize Outlook folders and categories on your PC with corresponding categories on your Windows Mobile handheld or smartphone

Meaning, PocketMirror Professional for Windows Mobile is built around the way you have already organized your important information in Outlook on your desktop. Items in multiple folders on the desktop get transferred to the handheld in tact and into folder-like categories, not just dispersed among the items' assigned categories.

Download PocketMirror Professional 2.2.4 in Softonic

In this modern world it seems like we have less and less time for ourselves, with so much to do. As a result, it's important to be able to take control of your tasks and appointments to ensure that they don't weigh too heavy on your mind.

MyPIM is designed to help make it easier for you to manage your business and personal dates, giving you the ability to view them all on screen. The main program window displays all the events on your agenda and you can flick through these by date and time and even by year. For me, the main interface is a little ugly though, and if you have lots of appointments up on screen at the same time it can be a little cluttered and difficult to read.

However, in its favour, MyPIM does have a lot of neat features that can really help you get on top of your forthcoming events. You can filter tasks, arrange them into categories and set up different alarms. One of my favourite things about the software is the way it lets you create your own task categories and assign customized icons to them.

While not as well-designed as some of the personal information managers I've seen, MyPIM certainly has some innovative features for managing your time more effectively.

Download MyPIM 1.0 in Softonic

All of us hate paying bills but unfortunately until the day that utility companies make everything free they're a necessary evil. Parting with money is always going to be painful, but you can take the sting out of it a bit by installing a billing management program.

Bill Buddy lets you take care of your outgoings using your Pocket PC, providing you with a simple database for logging due billings. As long as you have the .Net Compact Framework installed, the program is a breeze to set up. The interface is basic but practical, displaying all the outstanding bills for a particular month, along with their due date.

You can add a new bill entry very simply, just by clicking 'New' and entering the date you received the demand and the date it's due, selecting the month, day and year from a drop-down menu or calendar display.

Once you've entered data you can quickly view it in list format to clearly see what you've still got left to pay each month. To edit an entry or mark it as paid you need to select it from the list and choose 'Modify' from the 'Options' menu. Call me lazy, but I would've liked one-click access to the entry, but I guess you can't have everything.

If you're looking for a simple but effective way of managing your bills on the go, Bill Buddy does the job with no frills.

Download Bill Buddy Smartphone 1.0 in Softonic

ActiveSync acts as the gateway between your Microsoft Windows-powered PC and Windows Mobile powered device, to transfer Microsoft Outlook information, Microsoft Office documents, pictures, music, videos and applications to and from your device. In addition to synchronizing with a desktop PC, ActiveSync can synchronize directly with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 so that you can keep your e-mail, calendar data, tasks and contact information updated wirelessly when you’re away from your desktop or tablet PC.

Changes in ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2 help improve issues related to setup, partnerships, and connectivity with the PC and Microsoft Exchange. In addition, it includes a troubleshooter utility that scans your computer and device to identify problems and offers information and corrective actions to solve them.

ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2 supports synchronization with a desktop or tablet PC via USB cable, Bluetooth, or infrared connection.

• Faster file transfer speed and photo sync via Microsoft Outlook is now available for Windows Mobile 5.0 powered devices.
• Customers using Microsoft Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 with devices running the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0 will benefit from the following feature enhancements included in ActiveSync 4.5: Direct Push Technology, local device wipe, and certificate powered authentication to Microsoft Exchange.
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2000 is not supported by ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2. If a customer wishes to take full advantage of ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2, then it is recommended that users upgrade to Microsoft Outlook 2003.
• Conversion of database files for use on a mobile device is not supported by ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2. On previous versions, this feature was limited to devices running Windows Mobile software for Pocket PC 2003 and earlier.
• Conversion of font files for use on a mobile device is not supported by ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2. On previous versions, this feature was limited to devices running Windows Mobile software for Pocket PC 2003 and earlier.

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TodayAgenda displays appointments and tasks on your today screen up to 30 days in advance. It replaces the default Outlook plugin with a lot more features, meaning you never need to miss an important meeting or a date again.

Functions:

• View appointments (including location) up to 30 days in advance
• View tasks (include status) up to 30 days in advance
• View current day and time
• Open tasks and appointments from your today screen
• "Complete" tasks via context menu on your today screen
• Create new appointments and tasks via context menu on your today screen
• Delete appointments and tasks
• Open calendar, task list and time/alarm settings (tap and tap'n'hold on the TodayAgenda icon or clock)
• Anniversary function: for all day, free, yearly appointments without end date the years since the beginning are displayed
• Collapse/expand days and task list (double click onto day/task header)

Download TodayAgenda 1.1.3249 in Softonic

For those with limited needs, OggSync basic will provide the Google Calendar user with full two way synchronization with no 3rd party involved! Direct form Google to your phone!

OggSync 2.0 FreeWare provides the following features:

• Full 2 way sync from your phone to one of your Google calendars
• Supports Google Hosted Domains
• No 3rd party involvement, keep things simple with just your phone and Google Calendar
• Full support for repeating events, and changes to those repeating events
• Uses over the air or cradled connections so you can always be up to date
• Compatible with Outlook and ActiveSync

A great solution to what was a very annoying gap in the PPC's functionality!

Download OggSync 3.21 in Softonic

SBSH ContactBreeze is an additional contacts tab for PocketBreeze which allows you to view and search your contacts directly from your Today screen!

Features of the add-on include:

• View all your contacts on your Today screen!
• Search your contacts using sequence or initial search!
• Easily switch to full screen mode to search for contacts "on the fly" without using your stylus!
• Browse through your contacts using the Pocket PC D-Pad!
• Open and edit your contacts in your favorite PIM: Pocket Informant, Agenda Fusion, or Pocket Outlook!
• Contacts are dynamically loaded - PPC memory is only used while viewing the contacts, and then immediately released!

Additional Contacts Tab

• ContactBreeze is an amazing new way to view your contacts at a glance on your Today screen

• ContactBreeze is the first plug-in designed to work inside PocketBreeze

• ContactBreeze adds a new tab on the PocketBreeze Tabs Toolbar, alongside your Calendar, Tasks, and Special Events, giving you quick access and special searching capabilities contacts from your Today screen

• Search your contacts one of two ways using the "ABC" search bar in ContactBreeze

Search Methods

• ContactBreeze offers two searching methods and gives you the ability to quickly toggle between them using the search toggle method button (right next to the main Contacts button).

• Initials Search - The traditional search method for contacts used by most PIMs in the market. Tap the "ABC" search bar at the bottom of the ContactBreeze display to view contacts starting with a specific letter. Tapping the button "ABC" once will show all contacts starting with an A. Tapping it again will show all contacts starting with the letter B, and so on.

• Sequence Search - This is a dynamic search method, used on most cell phones. Each time you press one of the letter buttons ContactBreeze will show all contacts including that letter. As you tap more letter keys, ContactBreeze will show contacts containing that sequence of letters. If you have about 500 contacts, three taps will usually reduce the list showing on the page to three or four. The selected sequence of letters is highlighted on the contact name. Most users prefer this method after trying it the first time.

Full Screen Searching

• Tapping the ContactBreeze icon brings up the full screen mode, allowing you to search for contacts without using your stylus. The ContactBreeze icon was also designed large enough to press without a stylus.

• Using the large keyboard you can search for contacts using your selected search method. While working in full mode the D-Pad can browse through your contacts list. Pressing the Action button - the center of your D-Pad - opens the contact detail window, a pop-up window similar to the PocketBreeze Notes pop-up. This shows all available phone numbers and e-mail addresses for that contact. Pressing it again closes the contact detail window. This allows you to navigate for contacts without using your stylus!

Download SBSH ContactBreeze 2.1.01 in Softonic

I don't know about you but I've realised in the past few weeks that if I don't get myself organised I just end up wasting my day getting dressed, looking for my keys, brushing my teeth and making a sandwich, by which stage it's time to go to bed. I've tried a number of planners, calendars, diaries etc but still I'm a mess. Let me tell you, I am now ready to get serious, which is why I'm glad to have found myTime Easy.

The software allows you to plan all activities in your life - work, rest and play - displaying all in a presentable calendar form. Highlight your precious time of the day in white and edit all entries adding as much or little extra information as you wish. You can also export data as XML and Excel onto your PC meaning that finally you might get some control of your life. However, what I can't find are the alarms I need to remind me when something important is happening. Without alarms, I'm afraid I have little chance of doing anything.

Very usable organiser with colour coding and calendar entries

Download myTime Easy 1.0.1 in Softonic

Using the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol, RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization of e-mail, calendar, contacts and attachments. Designed to replace the built-in wireless capabilities of ActiveSync, RoadSync offers the same synchronization options plus Exchange Server 2003 SP2 features like: Direct Push, Remote Wipe, Global Address List Lookup and IT Policy Enforcement.

Similar to the Messaging Security and Feature Pack (MSFP) for Windows Mobile 5, RoadSync now adds support to Windows Mobile 2003 SE devices such as the popular HP iPAQ 6515, Samsung i830 and Audiovox 5600.

As the first and only independent software vendor to license the Exchange ActiveSync protocol, DataViz is committed to extending this technology to reach Windows Mobile 2003 SE devices, thus providing businesses and professionals the ability to further maximize their Exchange Server investments without having to purchase new devices.

Download RoadSync 2.007 in Softonic