Freeware - For your Windows Mobile-based phone or PDA
(WM 5.0 - 6.1 and higher)

I develop applications for Windows Mobile using Visual Studio 2008. I usually use Visual Basic as it's easy and quick to put together, although I am working on becoming familiar with Visual C#. I test my applications on an HP iPAQ x2790 and an XDA Ignito/HTC Touch Diamond, which each have different screen resolutions and operating system versions.

All software you see on this site is provided 'as is' and comes with no warranty or guarantee. Although everything on this site been tested as thoroughly as I can manage and has been virus-checked at multiple stages of development, I accept no responsibility for anything which occurs as a result of your downloading this software and you do so at your own risk.

Completed projects

ST Phaser

When the marketing team behind the eleventh Star Trek movie released a free 'Phaser' application into the Apple iStore, I had a look around to see if they had released a version for Windows Mobile. They hadn't, and neither had anyone else.

Having just obtained a free (yes, legal!) copy of Visual Studio 2008 courtesy of Microsoft Dreamspark, I decided that this would be a good project to start out with. It took me three days and quite a bit of reading to get it working, but I feel that it was worth it in the end.

Plans for version 2:
- Make sounds work from an expansion card as well as main memory
- Upgrade the graphics to look more 3D
- Add a 'series switch' so that the user can cycle through the different 'generations' of looks and sounds.

Download STPhaser.cab (443 KB)

Projects 'In Progress'

ST Quiz Assistant

This will refer to a text file or database to display random questions/answers from whichever series is selected by the user. The idea behind this is that when members of my local Star Trek group are waiting in queues at conventions, or are in the car on trips to London and so on - we can have a quiz 'on the go' without worrying whether the person asking the questions has remembered the answers correctly.

ST Tricorder

Another 'toy', much like ST Phaser. This will replicate the look and feel of a Next Generation era Starfleet tricorder. There is already a tricorder application available as Freeware, however it looks very different to what we know from the shows and each 'button' has only one effect (for example, a person scan always brings up the same Romulan). In addition to looking more keeping with the series, my version will randomly select from a number of options for each 'button' pressed.

Hockey Fight

Taken from a suggestion on the web-forum for the Manchester Phoenix Ice Hockey Club, this will hopefully be my first web-update application. The user will be able to choose two players from the British Elite League, and display details for those players side by side for comparison. The user would hit 'update' once a week in order to update the information for each player. Additional functionality might include options to call up the current top goal scorer, player with the most penalty minutes, and so on.