Getting the Most Out of Your Touch?

[ndwolfe81]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to the PPC and windows mobile.

What are the best apps for the Touch?

I don't understand how you get them on your touch. Do you download them to your computer and then transfer them to your touch? Do you download them straight to your touch using the net?

How is everyone getting the really cool home pages?

Do you have to go manually in the operating system and change everything to get these changes to happen?

Any help would be great.

[Jeratain]

Originally Posted by ndwolfe81

What are the best apps for the Touch?

It's all relative to what sort of use you're trying to get out of it. I think that Microsoft Voice Command is one of the best things to install on the device since it saves you a lot of trouble from having to press buttons and type names. Opera Mini 4 is a great browser if you want the full internet in your hands. The rest is really all relative to what you need. I'd recommend downloading a better keyboard to make typing easier. My favorites are SPB Fullscreen and TouchPal. For other suggestions, browse the forums to get ideas.

Originally Posted by ndwolfe81

I don't understand how you get them on your touch. Do you download them to your computer and then transfer them to your touch? Do you download them straight to your touch using the net?

First: if you have Windows Vista, sync your device using Windows Mobile Device Center (you have to download it); if XP then you're using ActiveSync.

You can use these sync tools to add software to your device when it's connected to your PC. Alternatively, you can browse to a site via your mobile device, and download directly to your device and install from there. In order to do the latter, you'll need to download .CAB files, which are what is used to install directly onto the PPC.

Originally Posted by ndwolfe81

How is everyone getting the really cool home pages?

Do you have to go manually in the operating system and change everything to get these changes to happen?

There are some tweaking tools you can download; others go into the registry manually and do some hacks. In order to do these things, you'll definitely want to search the forums to see how it's done so you don't mess up your device.

Try HHC to tweak the HTC Home stuff. There's also many threads about how to tweak the Touch Cube.

Just browse around and you'll find answers

Hope that helps!