Kreepy Individual Pocket PC Media Manager v1.3
Kevin C. Kurtz 12/21/07 Updated: 12/25/07Free Download KIMediaManager
Please send me an email telling me what you think! Kevin@KreepyIndividual.comNOW WITH SHUFFLE AND MUTE CONTROLS! Fully Configurable through options menu to use whatever hotkeys your Media App Uses!
This is basically a remote control for your computer's media player software. Your run this simple program on your Pocket PC and you are able to switch songs, pause/play, and stop music from anywhere in the world through SMS. You of course must be running a program on the computer as well. Both programs are included, the PC part uses AIM to recieve SMS messages so you will have to sign up for a screen name for your media manager at AIM.com, but that is a quick and simple process and then everything goes smoothly. It sucks very little battery life and you don't need wireless or an internet plan, it also allows your computer to run the software from behind a firewall. The other programs that do this require you be outside your firewall running a server program and that your Pocket PC be connected to the internet which sucks battery life like no other. You do have to watch out for sending too many messages or AIM will ignore them for a second. And be patient! One button per couple of seconds PLEASE!
This is What the PC program looks like.
and this is what the Pocket PC Program will look like on your cell phone.
Requirements:
1) You must have internet access on your PC with Media Player software (Windows Media Player is prefered)
2) Must sign up for or already have an AIM ScreenName (will sign you off if you use your main one, sign up for a new one! they are free)
3) Must have a text messaging plan on your Windows Mobile Phone (Pocket PC) otherwise this will get expensive FAST!
4) Must have Windows Mobile 5/6 with the .NET compact framwork v2.0 with SP2 installed (mine came with this installed, if not you can download the file from Microsoft and install it on your PC and Phone, it takes up about 5mb on your phone so it's not a big deal)
5) Must have patience, it sometimes takes 2 seconds to get the message to the computer. Don't hit the button 500 times, just wait a second.
Please Post in the Forums if you have any issues with this software, I will offer as much help as I can, I created this because I was too lazy to get up and change my song from across the room and I wanted to learn how to program for the Pocket PC. I learned a lot and would be glad to share my experience if anyone needs help doing anything on their own. This software is offered with no guarantee and I (Kevin C. Kurtz) am not responsible for anything that goes wrong. Read the Readme.txt file and use at your own risk.