Manage Your Shortcuts on Your Today Screen with AllMyShortcuts

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.inmobile-solutions.com/product.asp?IDProducto=31' target='_blank'>http://www.inmobile-solutions.com/p...p?IDProducto=31</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/ekkie_allmyshortcuts.gif" /><br /><br />There are quite a few products on the market that allow you to create your own shortcuts for display on the Today screen; however, AllMyShortcuts does bring one interesting twist to the party. You can use your own images as the shortcut icon. If you're interested, AllMyShortcuts can be obtained for $14.95 from <a href="http://www.inmobile-solutions.com">InMobile-Solutions</a>. Be sure to check out the 10-day trial first.

[KTamas]

iLauncher is cheaper and it can do way more things than this application...
Edit: and there is a free app which name i don't remember right now that can be used to launch calls as shortcuts.


(Disclaimer: I'm an SBSH fanboy)

[Menneisyys]

Edit: and there is a free app which name i don't remember right now that can be used to launch calls as shortcuts.


cLaunch; see my review here (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=366634).

[Menneisyys]

InMobile AllMyShortcuts (http://www.inmobile-solutions.com/Img/AllMy_Site.htm)

OK guys, here's my review (please see the above-linked review for explanation of the tests)

This is a plain launcher app – no metering capabilities.

Memory consumption:
dynamic: 80k (Today plug-in only)
static: 10k DLL + 16k HTML help in \Windows; ~1 Mbyte in \Program Files\inmobile\AllShortcuts\ (caution, \Program Files\inmobile\AllShortcuts\Icons\More Images\ has 222 image files – keeping them in RAM is not particularly advantageous for the health status of your Pocket PC (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36376), so, you may want to delete/relocate into a storage card the vast majority of them.)

Installation targets:
Can't be installed the non-DLL parts on a memory card. Then, it complains about it having been expired. I haven't tested installing it in the File Store because of the very high number of icons (it would have taken ages to install the app in a hyperslow-to-create-new-files flash ROM medium like the File Store). I bet it's getting its

The uninstaller is flaky too. It doesn't automatically stop the (active) plug-in DLL and it doesn't delete the home directory (which will have some additional files). This app certainly misses a custom uninstallation DLL...

VGA compliance: it displays icons double-pixeled in standard (SE) VGA mode:

http://www.winmobiletech.com/kuvat/AllMyShortcuts-SEPixelization.gif.png

What files can be added?:

You can add EXE files (the default). As far as adding settings shortcuts are concerned, you can only add some, pre-defined (see \Program Files\inmobile\AllShortcuts\TodayConfig.txt for the list) ones:

http://www.winmobiletech.com/kuvat/AllMyShortcuts-SettingsOnlyPredefined.gif.png

If you tried to add documents/CPL files to the applet, the file list is ordered by date, which makes it very hard to find anything (another very bad bug!):

http://www.winmobiletech.com/kuvat/AllMyShortcuts-AllFilesSortedByDate.gif.png

(Incidentally, the time it loads filelists from directories is much larger than with other apps. Another disadvantage.)

Finally, if you choose 'Shortcut's programs' (sic!) (to link .lnk files instead of .EXE's, which it should offer at the first place), the app just crashes:

http://www.winmobiletech.com/kuvat/AllMyShortcuts-Crash.gif.png

(Incidentally, the English of this application is certainly very bad. What is more, it not only has very bad English grammar, but also even spelling mistakes, also on their homepage. The former is acceptable from a non-English speaker; the latter isn't, especially if he/she is selling a commercial product.)

Does it offer anything at all?!:

The only unique feature of this app is the Phone Call feature:

http://www.winmobiletech.com/kuvat/AllMyShortcuts-PhoneCall.gif.png

It only works on Phone Edition (PE) devices – that is, it can't, for example, utilize bluetooth to initiate a call on a paired BT phone on a non-PE device (see for example 'Dial via Bluetooth' in Contacts). It wouldn't have been very hard to implement. This certainly hampers its usability.

Bottom line: is the price of this untested, incapable rubbish a joke??? Even the free cLaunch is orders of magnitude better/more reliable! AVOID IT AT ANY RATE!!!