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hey guys its brand a minimun from pocket now calm and this is a look at flipper which is a new program from mobile source software they are the makers of G scroll mobile remote and some other smallish utilities for windows mobile that are inexpensive but pretty useful and innovative so this latest one called flipper places a tab across the right side of your screen at all times although you could have it on auto hide and when it does is it gives you access to some pieces of information whatever screen you're in so if I tap on the green tab I will get the weather for my area if I tap on the black tab I'll get a list of people that I want to call on a regular basis this is configurable so I can have multiple pictures here people that I call often if I go to the red tab this is just a task manager programs that I've opened right now and to get back into a program you can tap on that particular icon or you can terminate it down here with these soft keys the button below here the kind of teal button is a quick launch tab that I've configured with these three programs programs that i use on a regular basis and down here on the bottom is the time and the date in very large huge letters for those of you that don't like to have the time up here this may be a good way to sort of organize it in this area now you may be wondering doesn't it cover up things on the screen to have this overlay on at all times and it does actually but in most cases it doesn't really matter because it covers up the scroll bar in most programs and because there's kinetic scrolling and windows mobile now and in previous windows mobile devices you really don't need access to the scroll bar as much as used to before when there wasn't kinetic scrolling so let's go through some of the settings for this program so we're going to flipper and flipper settings we can turn on animations and I'll show you what those look like I have that turned off because slows things down a little bit you can have it kind of peel out like that let's go back into the settings we can have it on auto hide so that it doesn't show up on the screen unless you assign a hardware button to it and i'll show you how that works so it goes off the screen and what i want to bring it up quickly I tap on a hardware button that I have assigned to it and here it is it comes up right on the screen let's see what else we have we can have the tab be on the right side of the screen or on the left side I think it makes more sense on the right because of the scroll bar issue we just talked about you can change the tab size and over to the right this is where you can figure all of the different tabs so if you tap on quick lunch and click options you can determine what programs are in that quick launch and you can change the color of each tab so right now whether it's kind of a dark green we can just flick through and say let's make it a kind of bright green and if you click options on whether you can add your city in their speed dialer will let you add in people that you want to call task manager not too many settings there a quick launch we can just like that one we can add our frequently used programs datetime not many settings here you can change the the time zone and that's pretty much it and we can add additional modules say if you want to have two quick launchers or one whether for one city maybe keep the tab at the top and then put another tab at the bottom for weather in your hometown for example and of course you can move these around and organize them sort of the way you want so overall a pretty neat way to bring forth things that you do on a regular basis that you want to make a little bit quicker the program is five dollars which is pretty good price for a simple utility like this we'll post a link on pocketnow.com on how to get it we've heard from the developer that they're going to be releasing an SDK so that you can design your own flipper panels perhaps you want one for your next appointment or that integrates with tasks or something like that there's really a lot of possibilities so opposed to link on how to get that that's it for now