Xperiancer

Before I even got my hands on Xperia, I had downloaded tons of windows mobile games and applications to test out on the device. No surprise when most of the games did not run or caused problems or ran in VGA leaving part of the screen showing the previous window (usually the Games Folder or the Today Panel or something like that) which obviously didn’t sit well with the gaming experience. But with time, things are starting to brighten up as more apps and games are beginning to support the WVGA resolution as well as those games that still run in VGA but in full-screen (i.e. part of the screen is black). So… here is Part 1 of a series – that goes through the games that I have successfully run on the device. Please note that though there are games such as Syberia, Tomb Raider, and Return to Mysterious Island that run without any lags or killing the mobile performance, I won’t be mentioning these games as they only work in VGA resolution (non-Full screen).   The Gameloft Collection

When I had purchased my Xperia... I was excited to get it and work with the powerful Word, PowerPoint, and Excel on it. But as it turns out... Office Mobile isn't as great as you'd expect it to be. Word Mobile is more like a version of the Windows WordPad and PowerPoint Mobile is only a presentation viewer. Good at what they are meant to do on the device, yet the lack of features in Office Mobile was a total let-down. Then… i came across SoftMaker Office for Pocket PCs. Bundled with three software; PlanMaker (an alternative to Excel), Presentations (an alternative to PowerPoint), and TextMaker (an alternative to Word), this suite has everything to offer that Office Mobile had missing. I won’t go into details on what the features are but below are screenshots of each program from the official site . TextMaker 2008. PlanMaker 2008. Presentations 2008. Bravo SoftMaker! FYI – at my end, each program took approx. 5-10 seconds to load up ready for you to work on.

If you, like me, loved the old classics such as Broken Sword 1 & 2 , Monkey Island 1, 2 & The Curse of Monkey Island , and Sam & Max - Hit the Road then you are in luck. ScummVM is working on Xperia X1 and games are playable with perfect performance. You can even take advantage of the keyboard where ever possible. The downside – ScummVM runs in 640x480 (in full-screen, i.e. part of the screen is black) To download visit the ScummVM download section and grab the Windows CE ARM Package. Extract the files and put them into your desired location on the device. (I put mine on the Memory Card) After the files are copied, execute ScummVM. It will load up with a tiny resolution. Hit the Options button and in the Graphics tab check the ‘Fullscreen mode’ checkbox. Also set Graphics Mode to 2x from the drop-down. Hit on OK to exit. You will need to restart ScummVM for the changes to apply. The problem now is that the screen-clicks are off and the app is loaded away from the

I know this isn’t really Xperia related, but while searching for online music stores, looking at Zune Marketplace, I found out about the Zune Software. Although i have only used it for like and hour or so, it is AWESOME! Fast, simple, and an eye-candy! (I’m definite that it is written in WPF). BRAVO Microsoft! To get your hands on this A+++ software, visit: http://www.zune.net/en-us/software/download/default.htm Enjoy the screenshots…   Now if only Zune Marketplace or some other store like Rhapsody would just allow subscriptions from around the world including, of course, Pakistan.

Hi. Though I initially wanted to do a video showcasing the power and high speed of the device – after applying a few simple tweaks to it, but unfortunately having been unable to get my hands on a video recorder, i thought I’d start off this blog with screenshots from the device instead. Hopefully I will be able to record a video of the device and showcase the fast performance of the device soon. (It is by far the best and fastest Windows Mobile device ever!) Enjoy these screenshots… 1. The Today Panel/Screen - With SPB Pocket Plus, Inesoft Today, Spb Time, Flash Themes, Pocket Digital Clock Today items enabled.     2. The 9 Panels active on the device - First is the default today panel (pictured above), the next two are the Sony Ericsson Panels – though i barely use these two, next is the SPB Panel, then the Media Panel, the Radio Panel, TF3D Panel (thanks to XDA Developers for making this possible), the Windows Live Panel, and finally the Facebook Panel.     3. The T