UTILITY: SOTI Pocket Controller v.4.09 extends support for Smartphones
Posted by Carlo Guerrero - on Tuesday, 18.05.04 - 01:07:57 CET under 01 - General News - Viewed 8091x Not Tagged
One
of the more robust display utilities that allow a user to include a Pocket PC,
Handheld PC or a Smartphone as a viewable window on the desktop PC is probably
SOTI's Pocket Controller software available in both Professional and Enterprise
versions.
Pocket Controller adds a multitude of features over the basic viewing
capability. Included with this are the basic utilities such as copying and
pasting to and from a clipboard, capturing screen shots as well as recording the
whole session in video.
Controlling the attached mobile device using the PC, is fairly responsive. Other
essential features such as exploring the device and accessing the running
programs list are just a few of the wonderful features of Pocket Controller from
SOTI.
Feature Summary:
View and control your Pocket PC/Smartphone from your desktop, using your desktop screen, keyboard and mouse. Enter data at high speed using your desktop keyboard
Enlarge or shrink the Pocket PC/Smartphone screen to suit your taste
Create recordings suitable for software training or demonstrations
Use the Remote DOS Box tool to remotely execute DOS commands
View your Pocket PC in a skin. Skins for most Pocket PCs are available
Full Screen Background Mode, allows users to use solid color or HTML backgrounds, ideal for presentations
Wysiwyg printing, print screens in 1X, 2X, 3X, landscape, or in a skin
Capture Pocket PC/Smartphone screens and save them to disk
Save Pocket PC/Smartphone screen to desktop computer clipboard
Integrated Clipboard,
transfer data between Pocket PC/Smartphone clipboard and the desktop clipboard.
Automatically Synchronize desktop and mobile device clipboards.
Explore Tool, allows file transfer with ActiveSync or TCP/IP connection
Macro Recording/Playback, record keystrokes and mouse events to a macro file that
can be played back. Macro files are text files that can be edited and customized.
View Pocket PC/Smartphone screen is portrait or landscape modes
Activate/Stop applications and processes, view detailed process information (i.e. DLLs loaded, threads information etc.).
View Pocket PC/Smartphone utilization and system information, from your desktop computer
Can be configured to automatically start/stop when you dock/un-dock your Pocket PC
Full keyboard support, including support for hardware "Application Buttons"
Online documentation
Connect via ActiveSync or Wired/Wireless TCP/IP
Configure multiple Connection profiles, multiple TCP/IP addresses, control multiple Pocket PC/Smartphone devices simultaneously by running multiple instances of Pocket Controller
Support for English, English(UK), French, German, German(Swiss), Portuguese(Brazil), Spanish(International), Spanish(Latin American), Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Italian keyboards.
(For Pocket PC) Pocket Controller is compatible with
Nyditot Virtual Display version 2.0 and later
6 months of free upgrades and 1 year of free technical support
Skin packs are also available and can be downloaded from SOTI's
download page. The skin pack includes images for most popular
Pocket PCs and Smartphones. These are nice touches for product demos
or seminars.
Pocket Controller Pro is available for
US$ 26.99 and
Pocket Controller Enterprise is available for US$ $109.99 USD (4-Device
License).
I tried this on my ETEN P300 and it did not work. It only captures the first screen. When ever you tap on something, it just blinks and I end up getting stuck on the first screen.
One
of the more robust display utilities that allow a user to include a Pocket PC,
Handheld PC or a Smartphone as a viewable window on the desktop PC is probably
SOTI's Pocket Controller software available in both Professional and Enterprise
versions.
