If I would make a list of the PC software that have been most useful to me, TeamViewer would come up somewhere on top of that list. Hearing that there is now a TeamViewer app for Android makes me really curious about it: sharing your phone’s screen and commands sounds quite amazing, although I’ve been asking myself: how useful can this be?

But TeamViewer for Android does not only stick to connecting Android users. You can now use your phone to gain access to a desktop PC almost instantly. Start browsing through files, install programs and help your friends out, just through a few touches on your display.

Here’s everything that you can do with the Android TeamViewer app:

• Both spontaneous support for friends & family and access to unattended computers (Windows, Mac, Linux) are possible – also during a telephone call
• Conveniently control remote computers using the multi-touch gestures: left click, right click, drag & drop, scroll wheel, zoom
• Complete keyboard control incl. special keys such as Ctrl, Alt, Windows®
• Meets highest security standards: 256 Bit AES Session Encoding, 1024 Bit RSA Key Exchange
• Effortlessly access computers behind firewalls and proxy servers
• Automatic quality adjustment
• Remotely reboot the computer
• Overview of friends and computers that are online – via the integrated computer list
• Tablet ready
• Is available for Android 1.6 and higher

It’s not a requirement but it is recommended that you use TeamViewer on phones with a larger display and a bigger resolution, else it will become really difficult to navigate on a PC. Have you tested Android TeamViewer yet? We’d like to hear your opinions!

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SPB Mobile Shell is, literally, one of the most popular Windows Mobile applications ever created. This is first of all due to SPB Team inspiration to have focused on enhancing Windows Mobile UI with big and good looking buttons and much more accessible functions. SPB Mobile Shell is a great piece of software designed to fully replace your phone’s interface with a new fancy look accompanied by great graphic effects. As the name suggests, this program is a “shell” for your device, providing it a new graphic environment, highly attractive and customizable. If you got tired of your HTC boring menus, Mobile Shell is the program you need. Stay in touch with the program’s updates: a new version of Mobile Shell is expected to be launched soon: SPB Mobile Shell 5 (see the video).

Features list:

• Widgets: Photo contacts, picture frame, media player, Weather, Internet search, Facebook and Twitter status, Wireless switches, Phone profile, Appointments and tasks
• Contacts: Widget-based photo contacts, Facebook integration, Photo call log, Smart contact search, 3D favorite contacts carousel, Ringtone management, Category filter
• Launcher: Pinned shortcuts, 3D email and SMS viewer, Recently used programs, Finger friendly task manager, 3×3 phone style menu
• Tools: Weather forecasts, Current weather, Agenda view, World time, Wireless switches, Profiles, Internet search, Facebook and Twitter status
• User Interface: 3D carousel with special effects, Make your own Home screen using widgets, Adaptive skins, Change background, Customize your menu, Change widget skins, Choose Professional or Lifestyle Home screen

Check out the video demo for Mobile Shell 5 or buy this software for you HTC here.

SPB Backup is, in my opinion, the best backup application for Windows Mobile. Forget about losing your precious data on your touchphone, SPB Backup saves it for you, FAST and EASY. This tool is just so great that you should definitely get it, it’ll save your time in various situations when you must re-customize your device; I’m talking here about hard resets, ROM upgrades, unexpected device crash or freezing. When events like these occur, you must spend quite a while to make your device as you like it and to restore your data. SPB Backup is a brilliant software that can backup all this data, in one single, incredibly small executable file.

Some advantages of using SPB Backup:

• the backup process is easy and higly customizable, and takes just a few minutes (if storage card is not selected)
• the restoring process is also fast
• the backup file is optimally compressed and is generally small in size
• you can restore your backup file in ROM upgrade mode, and even on other device
• you can schedule a backup with your own rules

Program Features

• Backup file compression
• Backup file encryption
• Storage card backup
• Full and custom backups
• Automatic scheduled backups
• Automatic deleting of old backups
• Automatic reboot with SIM card pin code entering
• Can be restored after ROM upgrade (ROM upgrade mode)
• Can be restored on another device (device upgrade mode)
• Self-extracting executable backup files
• Selectable items to restore
• Separate text message (SMS) restoring
• The backup file can be explored with the desktop unpack tool
• Automatic copying backup files to the desktop
• Starting backup from desktop
• Restoring backup from desktop
• View the backup file content with the unpack tool

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JSPA Program Manager is a light freeware  program that allows you to easily manage the shortcut files in your Windows Mobile 6/6.5 start menu. The application has several useful options: Navigate, Move, Copy, Rename, Delete, Create New Folder and Create New Shortcut.

The user interface is simple, based on a split-screen design: in the left side you have the “Source” and in the right side you have the “Destination”. For instance, if you want to move a program shortcut to a specific folder in your start menu, just tick the checkbox of the respective shortcut in the left side, tick the checkbox of the target folder in the left side and then select the desired action. This couldn’t be easier.

You may wonder what use would have such an application, and my answer is that this little tool is not only very useful, but a must-have program. As you install programs on your touchphone, your start menu will become saturated of shortcuts, will have scrolling lags and it will be more difficult for you to identify a program. JSPA Program Manager helps you easily clean that mess and arrange the start menu in your own way.

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Pocket Mechanic is definitely the leading windows mobile maintenance application. This is a brilliant app that I’m recommending to any HTC user who loves to keep their machine mean and clean. Pocket Mechanic offers a variety of rare professional tools mainly designed for cleaning your device in small details. With it you can format your storage card, defragment it, you can find large files, search and delete duplicate files and notifications, free ram, defragment bad sectors, relocate files, perform a card benchmark and do many other things.

Program abilities:

• Optimize your device for peak performance
• Detect and repair common problems
• Relocate data and installed applications to storage cards
• Increase free memory
• Format, defragment, scan and repair storage cards

Program features:

• Outlook maintenance – clean and repair issues
• Cleanup and repair notification queue problems
• Defragment entire volumes or individual files
• Defragment and optimize the application heap (RAM)
• Scan flash cards for errors and repair them
• Find the largest files on your device
• Find the largest folders on your device
• Find and optionally fix invalid shortcuts
• Clean up notification queue duplicates
• View the contents of the Windows CE database volumes
• Relocate installed applications and data
• Completely uninstall installed applications
• Analyze the storage card slack space
• Logical and low-level storage card format
• Registry cleanup

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Showcase Task Manager is a popular mobile task managing software, entirely free, with a cool finger-friendly interface, which lets you easily manage your running applications by closing and switching between them using on-screen finger gestures (or swipes) . This application can replace ( if set) the default task manager, so you will have a  different behaviour on the X/OK button from the top-right corner of the screen. Let’s say that this behaviour is simply better than the default behaviour.

Though it still lacks some tiny features ( like transparent/semitransparent backgrounds), I do like this application and I’m using it for 3 main reasons: it’s light, it consumes a very small amount of RAM and the finger gestures are very comfortable. Also, you should know that the default task manager of your device ( HTC Task Manager) is in fact an application that eats lots of system resources. This is why many ROM cookers prefer to take it out and replace it with other task managers. For my device I have chosen to flash a ROM without HTC Task Manager or any other task manager and simply install Showcase Task Manager.

Please note that this software is only compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 devices.

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Advanced Configuration Tool 3.3 is the ultimate tweaking program for htc phones and other windows mobile devices. It has such many great features that is hard even to count them ( currently, in the last version there are at least 200 tweaks available, according to the producer’s specifications). This means that Advanced Configuration Tool 3.3 offers the possibility to change lots of options that cannot be changed with the windows mobile’s default settings system.

The tweaks available in the program are very well structured in 31 main categories ( a category contains up to 10 or more tweaks inside). Among the categories we find useful to mention here: the user interface, performances, power management, data connections, locations manager, camera, splash screen. I must also mention that Avanced Config has even more options available in it’s menu. These options regard things like key mapping, file associations, cleartype, comm manager or Smart Touch.

To conclude, this app is definitely a must-have; I’m using it for more than two years and always did it’s job flawlessly.

Advanced Config’s 3.3 main features
• Extensible tweak list (more than 200 tweaks)
• Multi-devices support
• Multi-languages support
• Customize key mapping
• Customize file associations
• Custumize ClearType settings
• Customize connection settings
• Customize HTC Comm Manager
• Customize HTC TouchFLO 3D
• Import/export settings using provisioning XML
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Last year ESET turned their face to the Windows Mobile operating system and released a beta antivirus program, named Eset Mobile Antivirus. By now we couldn’t really test if this program is good or not, as it’s difficult to even find a virus that specifically targets windows mobile. There’s not much to be said about the program’s appearance, as the user interface is designed in a straight-forward manner: no fancy buttons or progress bars, no visual effects, just basic menus and simple default windows. We let you decide if this program is really efficient or not. Note that you can test it for free for  30 days.

According to producer’s specs, Eset Mobile Antivirus ensures:

• Pro-active protection – it detects and deletes both known malware and   unclassified malware
• Minimum impact on system resources – less de 1 MB of RAM needed during the scanning process
• High-speed scanning – by using Streamline technology in searching multiple files with increased speeds
• SMS anti-spam – filters undesired sms messages in a dedicated spam folder
• CAB files scanning – can scan a cab file at different levels
• Intuitive user interface

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