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Be a (HTC) Hero — Android-ilize your Windows Mobile Phone with PointSense

PointSense Suite V2 by BlueOcean | HTC Sense UI clone HTC has been knocking the socks off of the Windows Mobile universe for a while now with increasingly beautiful and functional UI (user interface) designs for their Windows Mobile phones. Now they have done it again with the release of the HTC Hero and the very spiffy Sense UI design. The only problem is, the Hero is an Android phone, and Sense UI (for the moment) is only on Android as well. Not to be out-modded, the Windows Mobile user-developer communities dove in headfirst in various attempts to clone, or at least nearly match, the Sense interface. Of the many themes and mods that surfaced, the PointSense Suite, built on the very slick and finger-friendly Pointui Home 2 interface, stands out as one of the best.

Video, screenshots and installation tips below.

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Posterous Digest – Add Items to Evernote With Your Voice, and more

40techposterous It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:

 

Windows Phones Coming October 6 – Microsoft reveals some news on Windows Mobile phones that are coming on October 6, including a revamp of Windows Mobile.

Add Items to Evernote With Your Voice – using ReQall via your telelphone, iPhone, or Blackberry, you can send information to Evernote by speaking.

 

If any of those headlines interest you, check out the 40Tech Posterous site.


Google Voice – 5 Changes Needed for Perfection

Google Voice Google Voice offers many great features, such as transcription, call filtering and free U.S. calls.  Voice is not perfect, though.  In fact, there are a few aspects of the service that are downright disappointing.  Fortunately, Google does have time to work out the kinks, as Voice only has limited availability at the present time.  In the meantime, here are five improvements that Google Voice needs to make before going mainstream. 

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How to Secure Evernote on a Shared Computer

This article has been updated in a newer post, How to Password-Protect Evernote, which shows an easier way to open an encrypted version of Evernote with a simple desktop shortcut.

Secure Evernote with True Crypt Do you want to keep your Evernote data secure on a less-than-private computer?  Right now there is no "built in" way to secure your Evernote data, aside from using your operating system’s user account features to set Evernote to be available only to certain user accounts on a machine.  Fortunately, there are third party solutions which are even more secure.  One such solution is to pair Everote with a third party program like TrueCrypt, so that your Evernote data is encrypted and protected from prying eyes.

 

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Screw You iPhone! Stop Stealing All Our (Windows Mobile) Apps…

Screaming Kid, Broken IphoneIn the beginning of August, Microsoft released a detailed case study intended to help developers actually port their iPhone apps over to the Windows Mobile platform, a move that has many Windows Mobile customers, myself included, a bit giddy with hope. We have been turning various shades of green over the past two years, watching those fancy iPhone types with their super-slick apps and their great (by comparison) user interface; not to mention the low prices that they pay for the software. In fact, it has been driving us crazy for some time now that, due to the overwhelming popularity of the iPhone, every new and cool or old and still awesome service out there has bent its mind to the task of creating an iPhone app — leaving Windows Mobile on the backburner, or in the dust completely, regardless of the much larger size of the Windows Mobile user-base.

This new announcement provides some small amount of hope that the Windows Mobile App store (Windows Marketplace for Mobile) will bring with it some of the better iPhone apps when it launches this fall. To that end, I have made up a short list of iPhone apps that I have always wanted to see properly ported to the Windows Mobile platform. Some are already there, in some semblance or other, but could use a better design and more robust functionality. Check them out below:

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