Grumps decided to write this application to perform the customising for you. All you need is to extract those files into the following folders.

The Clocks are stored in ….\ManilaCustomiser\Clocks
The Icons are stored in ….\ManilaCustomiser\Icons
The Sliders are stores in ….\ManilaCustomiser\Sliders
The TopCurtains are stores in ….\ManilaCustomiser\TopCurtains
The BottomCurtains are stores in ….\ManilaCustomiser\BottomCurtains

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437420

Enter SecondToday.

Here’s how I customised my soft keys to launch SecondToday instead of Phone. I already have a hard key for phone.

1. First install SecondToday
2. Fire up your registry editor and go to “\HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila”
3. Change the value of “HomeLSKPath” to the EXACT location of SecondToday.exe, e.g, “\Programs Files\SecondToday\SecondToday.exe” or “\storage Card\Programs Files\SecondToday\SecondToday.exe”
4. Change the value of “HomeLSKText” to “SecondToday” or whatever text that you want to replace “Phone”
5. Soft reset your phone

6. After soft reset, it should show on the LEFT softkey “SecondToday”
7. Click on the LEFT soft key “SecondToday”, SecondToday will be launched.
8. Select the plugins you will like to be displayed and click ok.
9. Now, you are done. To return to Touch Flo, just click on the Home hard key.

To add Secondtoday to the Exclusive List
1. Go to Task Manager, Tap and HOLD onto SecondToday in the Task Manager
2. Select the option “Add Exclusive” on the popup menu.

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401907

Do you ever notice you keep getting missed calls too ? It’s either the tight fitting case decided to touch Ignore on the screen while you are pulling out your phone or you just can’t pick up the phone on time.

Try calling yourself. You will notice that your phone light up with incoming call displayed but the ringtone and vibration kicks in after 1-2s. By that time, the other party has already been waiting for 3-4s ?

Taking the time to take the phone from your pocket or case, it’s a good 5-6s. This lag comes from the Touch Flo skin for Phone. I disabled the Touch Flo skin, when I call my phone, it rings without lag.

Disable it by using the Advanced Configuration Tool, Under Phone, change “Phone Skin” to disabled

As for the case problem, you need answerkey disabler http://code.google.com/p/answerkeysdisabler/
this will lock your screen when there’s an incoming call, so you can use your hard keys to answer the phone.

For e.g, I can configure in such a way that when I turn my Touch Pro facing down, it will turn the screen off.

The possibilities are endless ! You can configure to perform the actions for any programs that is active on screen.

Program author’s description:

Gyrator is a c# based program which will automatically rotate the screen in your device, so that it is always in the correct orientation for the way you are holding it

Gyrator will enable your device to:

• Automatically rotate the screen orientation to match that of the device
• Automatically lock your device, or turn off the screen when the device is placed in a certain orientation
• React to the stylus being inserted and removed from the device
• Notify you when an event has ocurred by means of vibration or audiable alert.

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427805

What you need to do:

1. Install NetCF3.5 on your ppc.
2. Open a registry editor, I use Reso Regsitry Editor
3. Goto HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETCompactFramework (this is usually the first entry
4. When you open this you’ll see all the .NET installed version change the DWORD value of 2.0.7045.00 from 1 to 0
5. Chang ethe DWORD value of 3.5.7283.00 from 0 to 1.
6. Reboot
7.Viola! you have a faster PPC

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=373721

Make a copy of the /Windows/AudioPara3.csv to your folder for backup

Unzip  the AudioPara3_lighter_boost.zip or AudioPara3_full_boost.zip and move the extracted AudioPara3.csv to /Windows/.

As it’s a system folder, you may need to use Total Commander or Resco Explorer to execute that action.

Reset your phone for it to take effect.

Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428170

Version 3.3

• Fixed crash of the file browser on Samsung Omnia i900/Player Addict
• Fixed restoration of TouchFLO 3D settings
• Added support for non-standard TouchFLO 3D tabs
• Added dddd-mmm-yyyy date format in TouchFLO 3D settings
• Added HTC Task Manager tweaks
• Added custom values for font sizes

Download it at Touchxperience

You can change the Battery Icons, this hack will present your battery level in percentage rather than bars in the default.

The .cab installation didn’t work for me, I downloaded and replaced thephcanOverbmp.dll and import the FInix VGA Battery and Network Icons.reg manually.

When I first power on my HTC Touch Pro, I went through the start up wizard, it prompt me to set a phone lock pin and a timeout for activating the lock. I decided to go with 15mins, since I can change it later.

I decided to configure an Exchange profile on my Touch Pro for my office emails, since I have a Mobile Broadband plan with a 50GB data limit.

After the first day, I got pretty pissed off by the 15mins timeout. I tried changing it but it didn’t allow me to do that. I checked around and realise it’s actually a security policy which is pushed down by my corporate Exchange Server.

Firstly the 15mins timeout is too short, you don’t look at your phone every 10mins to see if you have any new SMS, missed calls or emails. So everytime when I wanted to make a call, reply a SMS, I have to enter my pin to unlock it.

Yes, I believe we should have security controls in place, it’s always a balance of Security and Usability. I am a working in the IT Security line , but it’s too frustrating.

I searched around and I found this workaround. I very surprised the hack published in a Microsoft blog ! Here’s the screen shot of the utility and you can download it here.

Finally, I didn’t disable the phone lock feature, I left it enabled as I did in all my previous phones. I just change the timeout to a more reasonable duration.

As you can see, you can disable the phone lock or modify the timeout duration. It actually modifies the value of several registry keys.

• Enable/Disable the Exchange security policy – HKLM\Security\Policies\00001023: 0 = Enabled; 1 = Disabled
• Inactivity time
  • HKLM\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\AE\{50C13377-C66D-400C-889E-C316FC4AB374}\AEFrequencyType: 0 = No inactivity time; 1 = Activity time enable
  • HKLM\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\AE\{50C13377-C66D-400C-889E-C316FC4AB374}\AEFrequencyValue: number of minutes before timeout

Remember, the security policy is there for a reason. You won’t want your phone to be picked up by somebody with malicous intent.

I just need a VM for testing and evaluating certain software or platforms but I don’t like re-building it when the licenses expires.

Especially when trial software always expires in like 15 or 30 days ? 7 for a particular secure os and 15 for a particular secure platform.

Here’s what I found @ http://sanbarrow.com/.

I will need to add the following lines to my xxx.vmx, so everytime the VM boots up, it resets it’s date and time to my liking.

rtc.startTime = 1089395200
tools.syncTime = false
time.synchronize.continue = false
time.synchronize.restore = false
time.synchronize.resume.disk = false
time.synchronize.resume.memory = false
time.synchronize.shrink = false

Figuring the value for rtc clock ? A small application is available for download at the same site to calculate that value from dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss.