FIGURE A


Title, author, and copyright information is available quickly and easily. Roll over picture for a larger image.

A WebRing has been setup to support this electronic book format. BSQUARE has even been nice enough to pass along a few optional samples to help you get started with bREADY as well as to try out your software right away; a nice touch. Check out Figure B for one example (also, be sure to check out the toolbar in the figure).

FIGURE B


bREADY's toolbar houses many of the program's powerful functions. Roll over picture for a larger image.

For almost any time where portable document viewing is needed, you may well find that bREADY has you covered.

Grundle Software's CoverMe!
After using this small program for about two weeks, I must say that I'm happy to see such a utility released. I like having remnants of past operations erased frequently, not only because of the registry enlarging that occurs, but also because I simply like having clean and well trimmed storage on my handheld.

For Windows CE newcomers, you will be surprised to find that Pocket Internet Explorer doesn't provide a means of easily emptying the Pocket Internet Explorer's history log. CoverMe! is a simple, but useful, utility that eliminates Pocket Internet Explorer history entries, recent document lists (such as the one contained in the Start menu), the Windows Run dialog box entries, and also your Favorites folder. If you're familiar with TweakUI's Paranoia tab on Windows, you'll get a good picture of what CoverMe! does.

Any combination of the four logs I mentioned above can be cleaned at once and it's a simple matter of placing a checkmark in the appropriate check space and selecting OK at the top of the dialog box. A brief description of each item is provided in the empty text space to the right when you select the name at the left, as illustrated in Figure C.

FIGURE C


CoverMe! uses only one dialog box to operate the program. Roll over picture for a larger image.

This utility also comes at a price identical to that of Grundle's SpaceHogCE -- just $13. Grundle Software regularly adds requested features to update releases of the software, as well as fixing bugs and has been very good at providing helpful and reliable software and this product is no exception. Try it for yourself!

BSQUARE bFind
And, now once again, we're back to BSQUARE. Be there or BSQUARE.

At the time of purchase, I was speaking to a BSQUARE customer representative about the software that I was about to purchase. I was about to buy the BSQUARE bUSEFUL pack. He had commented that one utility in the pack he thought everyone should have was bFIND, a piece of software missing from most handhelds. With this utility, you now have the ability to search documents and databases, as well as file names for the desired text. You can setup certain parameters to restrict a search and to limit it to just one folder, as you can see in Figure D.

FIGURE D


You can see the several text boxes for search criteria. Roll over picture for a larger image.

This utility is especially useful in that when you're not using it at the moment, you can simply minimize it to a system tray icon that can be quickly recalled to perform another search. This is much quicker than having to restart the application from the desktop and you can even create shortcuts to the results to make future access to the located files seamless and painless.