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Essential pocket pc (PPC) programs

I've been using my Ipaq 4355 almost every day this school year (which means around September) on average about 3-4 hours a day. I've tried quite a bit of programs all of a wide spread of time because I don't like having too many loaded onto the memory (idk why, im just like that), and over that time I've kept some programs that I now feel that I could never go with out.

Adobe Reader
I get several emails a week that come with pdf's and it always helps to be able to read and look at them over and over again on the road. Adobe's mobile reader is amazingly easy to install (it's a cab that you can even install directly from the pda itself so if you have wifi and you are some how reading this, go ahead, go over to Adobe's website and download it).

MultiIE
I actually have only been using this for a couple weeks and so far I think its definitely essential. It helps to be able to open more than one IE at a time in the pda and it also solved my huge problem that I had before which was that every time I used my directional pad to scroll, it would scroll one page at a time instead of say one line at a time which makes it easier to read.

Weatherpanel
It's always nice to be able to have a weather program on your pda and this one is a great one. It's simple and yet has plenty of features. There are ways to customize what is shown on the main page also.

Magic Button
Nifty little app that makes it easy to close the programs completely, instead of just 'hiding' them like Windows Mobile does by default. It also shows icons for all the running programs in the top start bar so that you can easily switch between programs.

As you can see I don't have very many programs loaded onto my PDA and yet I use it all the time. I cannot praise it enough, I use it for everything; calendar, to-do list, instant messaging, wifi browsing, emailing on the go, taking notes, checking weather, listening to music, and I even wrote an essay on it once during my free periods and then went to my school's library and emailed it to myself then went on one of the computers and printed it off.

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