So I am going underway for 4 months and need some app ideas

[ojthejuice]

I'm looking for someone to help me with a app that's like torrent-fu for windows mobile. This will be my first windows mobile app so i need a mentor. can anyone help

[Unit ZER0]

Perhaps a working thermal sensor, somehow hacking the functions of the IR port, so that it acts like one of those thermometers you can point at an object, and tell how hot or cool it is.

[dwizzy130]

Originally Posted by Unit ZER0

Perhaps a working thermal sensor, somehow hacking the functions of the IR port, so that it acts like one of those thermometers you can point at an object, and tell how hot or cool it is.

IR ports are pretty much a thing of the past. I haven't seen one since the HTC Titan/Kaiser days, at least not on HTC devices.


dwizzy130

[dishe]

You guys are all recommending pretty difficult stuff... Most of those are hacks/tweaks, not apps. CDMA/GSM at the same time? Come on- how is that an "app"?!

OP, I've got something simple that I've been looking for, but just don't have to time/patience to code...
A music player with a text search.
Think about it- I was playing with GrooveFish/Nanogroove, and I realized that it was easier to find music by typing in keywords to the search (artist name or title, etc) than it was to scroll around and find specific music in WMP or other popular music players.

I'm picturing it using some kind of real time SQL query, similar to the way you can start typing letters when your outlook inbox is open, and the list will narrow down as you type.

Windows Media Player supports something like this, however you have to put what category you wish to search it first (artist, album, genre, etc). When I'm in the car, I don't want to look at the screen much, but it would be cool to start typing an artist, and then select which songs to add to the current playlist from the results.

Shouldn't be too hard, right?

[frmariam]

@dishe

Perhaps that could be added to Nitrogen which is a pretty cool/lite OSS music player (the player could also use some other fixes... original dev is gone for some months now).





@Jmz

Rather than starting anew how about giving some old OSS apps a much needed boost?

These are some of the apps I'd most like to see revived (in order of preference). Pick one and I'm a happy camper

GSFinder+
*The best free file manager imho (at least the one from todamitsu... although in need of an update). His sources seem to be lost but there is a SourceForge page for a branch (I believe it shares most of the code). Help make Resco Explorer a thing of the past!
*What I'd love to see:

1- Finger friendly toolbar (like Resco)
2- Old toolbar view (like the todamitsu's version... I know this is like old WinMo apps used to be but the extra toolbar is really useful)
3- Checkboxes to select multiple files (like Resco)
4- Improve zip/lha functions (select files with checkboxes, open as a folder... fix issues and translate messages)
5- "Open with" menu (set list of possible apps to open a certain file type... like XP/Vista/7...)
6- Fix/add auto update view (like when screen rotates the explorer updates the display)
7- Fix large icons view (sometimes it will show only 2 columns in landscape)
8- Use system/cache icons in GSFinder (where possible)
9- Fix drive folder size displayed under "Properties"
10- Fix stupid read-only issues (like you can't even change the properties even if the files aren't in the ROM)
11- Change default language (seriously... the english mui file isn't always applied when system language isn't japanese... my system is not English so I had to rename it to match my system mui in order to understand the text...)
12- Add 7zip support (there's a 7zip WinCE version)
13- Bluetooth options (like receive here, send by bt...)
14- ROM files "replacement" (like Resco... move non ROM file to the desired folder on boot)
15- Recycle bin (like Resco)
16- Other stuff you find as an improvement/fix

*The "maintainers" only update the bare minimum to keep it running and don't seem quite keen on fixing these (or at least they had a hard time understanding my mail...) which is a shame since it's such a cool file manager. You could then commit the changes back to the project page (or create a new one if you branch it). Some of these shouldn't take much (stuff up until point 11 seem reasonable... while others may be more of a daydream).



TCPMP

*Maybe more complex (still the best free Media Player). A new build arose based on milesmowbray sources and adding sources from some plugins (flv, subtitles, onvp6).
*Any of the following would be really cool:

1- Work a bit on the subtitle plugin (Sourceforge project seems dead... separate plugin code from core components to make it a real plugin... add more video modes: Direct Draw and Intel XScale would be the most wanted... currently only works in GDI afaik... commit source changes).
2- Join forces with bimbam69 (I think he'd welcome the help) and split the burden on updating components and fixing stuff
3- Help with the new GUI (many things to do... maybe with different 3 views adapted to media type: music, video, images... Nitrogen has a great lite C/C++ skinned interface so its source may be useful...).





Wisbar

*In times long gone the source was released (in the time of WinMo 2002/2003). Many branches appeared but all died out (only Wisbar Advanced remains afaik). I found some sources @ pudn.com (very, very old... don't know if there's anything useful in them though...but if so...).
*Would be cool if you could:

1- Update the taskbar skinner (something like IcBar for the current WinMo builds... nothing like this exist for free).
2- Update Task manager and battery info (only if needed... I'd rather use an external "X" button task manager like the one from HTC or WkTask).


I don't really know how much time you want to dedicate to this or how experienced you are (so sorry if these seem just plain unrealistic). I really believe OSS is the best choice in the long run and these particular projects are/could be awesome. These are my suggestions (I think these would be very appreciated by the community).