SmartMonitor Homescreen Plug-in

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.smartphinger.co.uk/SmartMonitor/' target='_blank'>http://www.smartphinger.co.uk/SmartMonitor/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"What does SmartMonitor do? This plug-in displays text representing different parameters of your phone such as battery life, temperature, storage space and available memory. You can also add icons representing any of these things as you see fit. The plug-in is extremely configurable in that it allows you to place as many or as few bits on information on the screen, wherever you want with just a minor tweak of the XML file."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Skunkchild001.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />I'm always looking for a new way to enhance the home screen on my Smartphone, and this looks like a good solution!

[Mike Temporale]

"displays text representing different parameters of your phone such as battery life, temperature, storage space...

Temperature sounds like a lot of fun!! :D

[encece]

It would be better if it were actually accurate....well, in terms of ambient temp. This actually measures battery temp which is a bit higher.

I'm requesting a temperature offset tag for the plugin to bring it a bit closer to actual-outside-the-battery-temperature! :D

Great plugin... I LOVE PLUGINS!

MSMobiles even stuck my personal homescreen screenshot on his frontpage! (Lucky me!) :D

The other shown on the screenshot above is the Biorythm plugin by the same author.

[popabawa]

This look nice :)

Is there an RSS plug-in for the Smartphone homepage?

I'm thinking something like the Egress RSS reader plugin for Pocket PC.

[Beowulf]

Does software like this put additional drain on the battery?

[Jason Dunn]

Does software like this put additional drain on the battery?

Unless it's using up CPU cycles to read/write data, probably not...

[drfonz]

Hi guys!

I never thought people would be talking about something I made @ Thoughts! :)

Anyway, the battery consumption is negligible, unless you misuse the Auto Refresh feature. Worst case scenario, the plugin repaints itself every second, which could cost you dear. Having said that I've never tried myself, so i can't really give you numbers ...

And by the way, encece's requests (plus a few other things :)) have been put to good use in the latest version...

Cheers!
Dr Fonz