Spb 5 Star Bundle 1.0 review (pocket pc)

The most powerful Today plug-in with tabs.

License: Trial OS: Windows Mobile PocketPC File size: 0K Developer: Spb Software House       Price: $37.00 User Rating:   Currently 0.00/5 1 2 3 4 5

Spb 5 Star Bundle 1.0 is other software developed by Spb Software House.
The most powerful Today plug-in with tabs. Close button that really closes. ZIP support in File Explorer. And many other features missing in official OS updates in one product.

Today Plug-In:
NEW! Alpha channel support for Today Plug-in icons
NEW! Icons for most popular standard programs
Icons in Tabs
Plug-ins support
Drag-and-drop support
Large and small icons
Wholly customizable look-and-feel
Backlight control
Battery and memory indicators
3 different storage card indicators
Soft-reset, theme change, and other actions
Custom icons
Full keyboard support
40+ different themes

Close Button that Really Closes
You can train your close (X) button to really close applications on tap, to minimize them on gesture, and to open a context menu on tap-and-hold.
The close button context menu contains the active application with the ability to switch between them and close them.
You can configure the contents of the X button context menu. You can add specific items, such as Soft-reset, Suspend, Volume and Backlight controls, etc.
Close icon for each application.
Now you can assign the close button context menu to a hardware key. It gives you a powerful customizable task manager.

File Explorer:

Find, use and enjoy the following new embedded features in the File Explorer.
ZIP support. You can now compress and decompress files, groups of files and folders.
File encryption support (using strong AES algorithm).
"Folder Up" button added.
Storage card format feature added.
You can now view and edit file and folder properties. Just tap-and hold on a desired object and select Properties from the context menu.

Pocket Internet Explorer:

In Pocket Internet Explorer you will now see a new button in the toolbar. This is the Pocket Plus button that enables many of originally missing features. Tap this button and you will find in the context menu:
New window support.
Open link in background.
Close window support. Selecting this item closes either the current window only, or all active windows.
The list of active windows with the ability to switch between them.
The Save As... feature allows you to save the document in a separate file.
The View Source feature allows you to view the source code of the document.
The Full Screen support allows you to see the document in the full screen mode, without toolbars.

Taskbar Battery Indicator:

An additional indicator is placed at the very top of the screen, in the taskbar. It is represented by a horizontal line, the design of which is provided by the chosen extended Pocket PC theme. Besides, you can select one of two available line width values.



Buttons:

After installing Spb Pocket Plus 3.0 you will find more than 40 additional commands that you can assign to hardware buttons in the Start->Settings->Personal->Buttons applet.

Here are few examples of additional commands provided by Spb Pocket Plus:
Switch Programs (Alt-Tab)
Backlight Loop
New Task, New Appointment, etc
Close Button Context Menu (task manager)
30+ other new commands...

Safe Mode:

Spb Pocket Plus 3.0 adds a safe mode feature to Pocket PC devices in order to help users in those situations when a device cannot be loaded normally due to a problem with software. Desktop PC users have the option to boot their OS in safe-mode when they are experiencing difficulties. Now, Pocket PC users also have this option.
All Today plug-ins are disable in safe mode.
All autorun application are disabled in safe mode.
All third-party services are disabled in safe mode.
Automatic recover to normal mode.

Spb Finance is a most comprehensive personal financial manager for Pocket PC. You may use Spb Finance as a stand alone expense tracker or as an automatically synchronizing pocket companion for the world's most popular personal finance management software: Microsoft Money or Intuit Quicken.
Spb Finance Entry

Spb Finance Entry allows you to enter transaction with just a few fingertip taps, without the need to even take the stylus out. User just need to select a payee using fast seach list and memorized transaction data will be automatically substituded to the proper fields. It's take just a few second to add new transaction with Spb Finance Entry.
Fast and simple in use
Designed for fingertip tap
Support quick search in lists
Has embedded calculator
Support skins
Powerful Register View

Customizable list of your transactions.

For each transaction you can see its date, payee, reference, category, cleared status and amount, and switch between full and brief views. There is an option to sort transactions by any field, both ascending and descending.
Categories/classes/memo/payee
One/two line modes
Search
Sort by date/category/payee/etc
Running balances
Account balance
Account selection
Reports

You can visualize your finance data using reports.
Net Worth
Account Balance
Profit and Loss statement
Income and Expence
Spending by Category
Transaction
Each report is fully customizable
Line, bar, pie charts and table view
Synchronization

With Spb Finance Money Edition and Quick Edition you would be able to seamlessly synchronize your financial data on Pocket PC with desktop financial programs (Microsoft Money and Quicken). The synchronization is done via ActiveSync, just like Contacts or Calendar Appointments.

You can create, edit and delete the automatically synchronized following items:
Categories
Classes
Payees
Transactions
Accounts
Budgets (Money Edition only)
Currencies (Money Edition only)
Memorized Transactions (Quick Edition only)
Budgets (Quick Edition only)


For your convenience, not-yet-synchronized transactions are shown in bold on Pocket PC.
Import/Export

The import/export feature allows you to handle QIF files understood by Quicken, Microsoft Money and other desktop finance managers.
Export to Excel
Export to CSV
Import from MS Pocket Money
QIF Import/Export
Program independent QIF format
Export filters
Backup/Restore
Many Other Features

Spb Finance has many other useful and important features:
Advanced today plug-in
Scheduled transactions
Multiple currencies support
Budgets
Strong secure password protection
Backup
Transactions highlight color
Inventory
And many other

Spb Weather is a powerful weather Today plug-in. You can customize weather views, skins and even weather forecast data sources. Spb Pocket Plus users can save space on their Today screens running Spb Weather in a form of a separate tab Spb Diary 1.7 users can view weather forecast on Calendar Plug-In even when Spb Weather Today Plug-In is off.
Spb Weather Features:
NEW! Windows Mobile 5.0 compatibility
NEW! ClearType support in Today Plug-In
NEW! Establishing connection on demand
NEW! Integration with Spb Diary 1.7 even when Spb Weather Today Plug-In is off
NEW! Refreshing the data from detailed weather dialog
Easy customizable interface
Integration with Spb Diary 1.5 and higher
Integration with Pocket Plus version 2.5 and higher
Professional skins
Easy configuration from context menu
Optimized traffic (400 bytes for 5 day forecast via Gismeteo)
Custom weather source support
Custom city support
VGA display support

NEW! Integration with Spb Diary 1.7
Spb Diary 1.7 users can view weather forecast on Calendar Plug-In even when Spb Weather Today Plug-In is off.
Weather data can be refreshed:
Automatically
After docking the device
Manually: Just tap on the status string at the bottom of the weather dialog

Integration with Spb Pocket Plus

Users of Spb Pocket Plus version 2.5 and higher will be agreeably surprised that Spb Weather is another Spb product that supports a Today plug-in compatible with Pocket Plus - the world's most popular Today plug-in with tabs. From now on Spb Weather and other Spb products that support their own Today plug-ins can be integrated in a form of separate tabs of Spb Pocket Plus. The Today screen will no longer be overcrowded. Now you can open Spb Weather and other plug-ins only when necessary.

Spb Weather tab acts like any other tab of Pocket Plus. It can be renamed and moved, it can contain other icons, etc.

Skins

The design of weather icons in Spb Weather is set by means of skins. Spb Software House provides five skins in the default Spb Weather package. More skins can be permanently downloaded from Spb:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/weather/skins.html


You can see the skins for Spb Weather from Spb UniThemes:
Spb Arctic Blue
Spb Black 47
Spb Silver
Spb Space
Spb Tensor
Spb xAqua

VGA Display of Spb Weather

Spb Weather has a full VGA support.
Here you can see the VGA display of Spb Weather with different skins:





Custom View Modes

Spb Weather provides user with 10 possible view modes.
4 days
5 days
7 days
Multiline
Header as tabs
Header with selected city only
No header

Context Menu

Tap-and-hold on Spb Weather to get a powefull context menu that allows you easily:
Change the view style
Change the header style
Change a skin
Change the current city
Instantly refresh weather data
Open Spb Weather options

Detailed Weather Popup

To get the detailed forecast for one day, just tap on this day in the view. You will get the desired information in a compact nice popup window.
Movable popup window
Detailed forecasts for 3-4 days
Different forecasts for different parts of the day.
Easy navigation

Many other features

Spb Weather has many other features and options:
10 professional skins
Custom cities
Traffic statistics
Favorite city list
Custom measurement unit settings
Flexible synchronization options
Customizable sources templates (advanced users)
Custom skins (advanced users)

Requirements:

• contact
• register
• why register?
• sitemap
• submit