New Software Repository

Trawling the web for old legacy software has certainly kept me
occupied for the last few weeks. It seems that some software titles
are just dead and buried and will probably never see the light of day
again.

To make things easier for any new HPC owners that land on this blog, I
thought I would put together a little repository of some of the best
and most useful (and often hard to find) applications for the
platform.

They are either freeware or trial versions, so I should not be
stepping on any toes by putting them up here. Needless to say, if you
need to get some of the software registered, then you should try the
official sources first, but if the software has been abandoned by it's
writers then you might need to be a little more (ahem) creative!

I have included nPOPuk, which is still supported by it's developers
and seems to be the only email client worth installing. Many of the
other clients do not support SSL, which means you cannot use it with
modern email servers like GMail etc. Best of all, it's free!

There is also Opera Mobile 8.65 (trial) but make sure you install
Redgear first. Redgear allows you to run software designed for later
Windows CE devices on the Jornada.

Opera is probably your best option for web browsing, but to be honest;
that ain't saying much. Web browsing on the J720 is painful at best:
there doesn't seem to be enough memory, modern website security seems
to always fail, and the machine has locked up completely on me on
numerous occasions while trying to browse. However, a computer needs
web capability doesn't it? Well this is as good as it gets.

Resco did some pretty decent software back in the day, and here we
have two fine examples. The first is Resco File Explorer which is much
easier to use than the built-in explorer, has loads of functions, and
has an FTP plug-in. The FTP plug-in has proven to be very useful, but
more on that in a future post. There is the also excellent Total
Commander for the same sort of thing, but I just prefer Resco's app.

The second Resco app is Photo Viewer, which allows basic conversion
and editing of photos as well as viewing. Not only that, but it has a
screen capture function which is useful for me when posting screencaps
here.

Resco Explorer has a registry editor plug-in, but I prefer this one:
PHM Registry Editor. This is useful for tweaking the system, but more
on that later as well.

CE Agenda, is a very nice PIM application, but so far, I have had
little success syncing my google calendar items, so it's not very
useful to me at the moment.

Finally, FrotzCE is for playing Infocom style text adventures and I've
had lots of fun with this already. Great on a device with a keyboard
like this. Takes me back to yesteryear.

Well that's all for now. Hope this has been useful.

Sent from my HP Jornada 720