TodayWarrior Description This is a plug-in for the good old Today Screen that allows us to do the most habitual tasks when we are working with the PDA like Wifi managenet including scanning networks, bluetooth, backlight, CPU usage, battery including consumption, remain, time remaining, etc. It is designed to take as low real state of the Today Screen as possible while having all the important functions included. Supports QVGA, VGA, WVGA and SE_VGA/OZ_VGA It haven't been updated since WM2003, but it is still usefull. Soon I plan to update it to give the program backlight support for more devices!. ENERGY MANAGEMENT: This line can be selected from Options panel Access to the Power panel of control panel tapping on battery icon. Current power percentage of the battery. Current elapsed time from the last full charge of the battery. It can also show that we are charging or operating with external power. Tapping this field shows Total time from last charge, including Stand By time Holding this field we can select to reset Elapsed time. Useful on battery change. Remaining Time with the current consumption rate: An estimate of how long the PocketPC will last at the current discharge rate. It can indicate also, the remaining time to reach 100 % of charge or that the battery is fully charged. Tapping cyclically Remaining time field the display change to Battery Volts, current (mA), power consumption (mW) and battery Temperature in ºC and ºF. This data is only available in some PPCs : Power off button. Reset Button: Will display a message for confirmation. Does Registry and database flush before resseting. Icon Always ON: Touching this icon changes it to a green color. In this state the PPC will not turn off although we have it set in the energy options. Useful when scanning networks or downloading files. It is deactivated manually or automatically on having charged the battery or if the remaining battery level is lower than 25 %. Icon Memory: It starts memory control panel. Icon Today: It starts today element control panel. Backlight slider: it allows us to change the screen brightness when we are using the PPC with batteries. Turning the backlight off is prevented. The maximum value is user-selectable from options panel Taping in the slider the cursor goes there directly. Holding on the slider goes to Bright control panel. In the options panel there is an option to Turn Off the PDA when the battery lever goes down to 4% in order to protect the battery from running down. WIFI MANAGEMENT: This line can be selected from Options panel Icon of WIFI Card ON/OFF: Grayed: without card or not recognized by TodayWarrior. Blue: WIFI On. Optionally can be deactivated for PocketPCs with their own mechanism to do so. Shows current connection speed of WIFI card when connected. Icon of Activate/ deactivate the Network Scanner. When green it scans every two seconds. When red, it store the latest scanned networks. When yellow, the card is associated to an AP. Information about available networks: In scan mode shows SSID, Rx level with a color bar and digits, radio channel used and if WEP security is enabled (W), Open (O) or Ad-Hoc(A). If several networks were received, two arrows appear in order to change the network displayed (rotational). Normally the most powerful network is selected. In stand-by mode, if the NIC is associated to an AP, shows the information. With WIFI Off, shows a CPU usage graph. Tapping this field starts WifiKnife and tries to connect to any available network. Is a network is shown during scan, WifiKnife will try to connect only to that network. Extended information of the connected network and Internet access testing. It is necesary to have WifiKnife. installed. Automatic association with available networks and internet access test. It is necesary to have WifiKnife. installed. TodayWarrior plays a sound when a new network is found and maintains the lost networks for 30 seconds after they disappear. Bluetooth monitor icon and On/Off control. Access Icon to WZC (Wireless zero configuration) to connect to the available networks. Holding this Icon we can activate/deactivate WZC. It will be necessary to do a soft reset. Red: WZC deactivated Green: WZC activated. OPTIONS: It is selectable to show energy bar, WIFI bar or both. Select it from Control panel-today-TodayWarrior-options: It is possible to select the maximum bright level for the bright slider. This is useful for machines like Acer, HP4150 and others. On also applies to Backlight avoid turn off of the backlight when the always on (On) icon is pressed (green mode) Slider modifies also AC Backlight allows simultaneous change of Backlight bright for Battery and AC modes in PPC that have this option. Disable WIFI On/Off Control is useful for machinas that has yet their own WIFI On/Off button. If enabled (checked) on the Dell Aximn X50 takes the same function that the hardware WIFI On/Off button. Turn off at 5% battery is an option to Turn Off the PDA when the battery lever goes down to 4% in order to protect the battery from running down. DOWNLOAD TodayWarrior for free.

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