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 realize 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 excellent personal information manager designed to make you more you a more productive human being through your Palm. 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's certainly much more efficient than the Palm operating system. The program centralizes 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 synchronize too, using ActiveSync.

Thanks to an intuitive centralized 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 Standard Edition 13.06 in Softonic

Up-to-date PDAs has powerful processors has dozens megabytes of memory. However, there is no handy method of entering texts on such computers. Yes, you can type several words using graffiti, but what would you do if you need to type a whole page?

The keys on a system virtual keyboard are too small, and drawing thousands of squiggles with the help of graffiti is very tiresome. Furthermore, you have to constantly correct errors! You certainly wanted to write something voluminous on your Palm Handheld, but you always were confused by typesetting difficulties. Quite often, when you travel, you want to write an e-mail to your old friend, or to exchange a few words with a colleague by SMS'. But when traveling by train or by bus, using of graffiti becomes problematic.

However, there is a way of typing other than graffiti. You can type faster and more accurately with the help of the truly innovative onscreen keyboard. This keyboard has large keys and QWERTY layout - is there anything more you would need for text typing? Its interface looks quite uncustomary, but you'll not need to learn how to use it. All keys are located at their usual places, though they have original form and are displaced vertically. You will quickly adapt to these distinctions, and will be able to type text almost as easily, as when using an external keyboard. You will be convinced of it!

Key features of Mini-Keyboard include:

• You can use the keyboard in built-in applications (Memos, Calendar, Tasks, Mail, SMS etc.), as well as in 3rd party applications
• You can operate with one or two hands, using stylus, fingernail or even finger!
• For better typing experience, visual and audio feedback is developed
• If your device supports landscape mode, you can type text on a full-size standard keyboard (see the screenshot)
• National keyboard layouts allow you to type in many European languages (including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish)

Download Mini-Keyboard 1.3.1 in Softonic

MobiSystems® PhotoAlbum allows you to categorize and view the photo image files on your mobile device in the same way you're already familiar with from your desktop PC. Just like the "My Pictures" folder in Windows XP, MobiSystems® PhotoAlbum allows you to create virtual albums in which to categorize your photos. Then you can view each photo individually, or create a slideshow of all of the photos in any album!

The HotSync conduit for Windows allows you to transfer the images to your desktop computer or upload desktop bitmaps to the handheld.

Features of PhotoAlbum 3 include:

• Three different preview modes
• Context menus for easy access to frequently used operations
• Ability to browse the directory structure of your PDA and memory card as if you are working in Windows Explorer
• With the ability to categorize your image collection you can access your digital images quickly, just the way you want.
• Share your images with your friends and family through beaming or Bluetooth, as SMS messages or email attachments.
• Work directly with JPEG image files from both the main memory or memory card.
• Support for bitmap files on your handheld.
• Convert formats, export and import images to memory cards with ease.
• With the new Browse form each operation takes a few taps of the stylus.
• Image compression for the MobiSystems Paint native format.

A great way of managing your images.

Download MobiSystems PhotoAlbum 3.90.46 in Softonic

Let's face it, text messaging can get a bit boring after a while. If you want to liven up your SMS life then PictureSMS provides the perfect solution. One of the best things the program does is to allow you to add photos to your messaging contacts, meaning that your friends' and family's mugshots will brighten up your Treo's SMS centre.

Another neat function is the ability to set any MP3 audio file as your incoming message tone, helping you to impress/annoy fellow passengers when a new SMS comes in on the bus. You can also use the app to block messages from a certain number or schedule a message to be sent at a certain time - features that you don't see in many PDAs. All in all PictureSMS is a great way to spruce up your texting.

Download PictureSMS 1.16 in Softonic

Phone Technician is an application for the Treo 600/650 which allows you to take control of many aspects of your handheld's functions. Whether you're interested in ringtones, screensavers, alarms or battery tools, Phone Technician comes packed with features that you're guaranteed to find useful!

Take control of your ringtone and SMS tone!

• Use MP3s, Wav, Ogg, Midi or polyphonic tones as your ringtone

• Choose repeat time, vibrate, LED, and more

• Set volume to increase with each ring

• Set first x rings to be silent (e.g. vibrate only)

Screen Control - Save precious battery Power

• Turn the screen on and off normally during a call

• Set the screen to turn off automatically during the call if you don't press any buttons

• Allows you to check voicemail or use a VRU and save battery!

Alarms Off During Calls

• Turn alarms off automatically when you are on a call

• Any alarms that were silenced will go off normally at the end of the call

Easy Conference

• Setting up 3-way conference calls is a breeze

• Just select the two numbers you want to call and press 'Start Conference'

• After your first party is connected, you'll see a button to call the second

• When the second party is connected, just press conference

..and much more!

Download Phone Technician 4.15 in Softonic

I don't know about you, but the pressure to reply quickly to every text message I receive can sometimes overcome me. I know some people who get angry with me if I don't get back to them within 2 minutes of sending their message, and this drives me crazy. Step forward SMS Machine, a wonderful application that can respond to messages and calls automatically.

The program runs transparently on your device, intercepting any calls or messages you receive and sending the perpetrator a predefined SMS message. This makes it ideal for letting people know when you're unavailable because you're in a meeting, a library or a cinema, without disturbing the people around you.

The great thing about this program is that it's so customisable thanks to it's rule-based method of operation. Hence, you can set it to allow calls from certain numbers, schedule messages by time and date, and filter numbers that should be watched out for.

If you hate having to interrupt your activities dealing with incoming calls or messages, SMS Machine provides the perfect way to delay the need to respond.

Download SMS Machine 1.03 in Softonic

Just because the Apple iPhone does something in a certain way, it doesn't mean that it's the perfect way of doing it and that everyone else should copy it.

Hang on, actually it does. Treobble is the latest in a growing number of programs designed to replicate the iPhone's intertia contact scrolling feature, this time for Treo devices, allowing you to peruse your address book simply by touching and sliding your finger up and down the screen.

For instance, you can view all data from a particular contact, initiate a call, send an SMS message or an email, all without having to use the pointer.