http://www.wizcode.com/ Wizcode | News en admin@wizcode.com Copyright 2009 2009-06-05T09:24:00-08:00 Copyright 2009admin@wizcode.comnoWizcode | News http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_storage_tools_review_smartphone_and_pocketpc_magazine http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_storage_tools_review_smartphone_and_pocketpc_magazine/#When:09:24:00Z Nate-Adcock has performed a detailed review and tests of Wizcode Storage Tools - ScanDisk Mobile, Undelete Mobile and Defragment Mobile on SmartPhone and PocketPC Magazine's web site.  "If you change the data on your cards frequently as I do, you will eventually find that file system access (even via file explorer for example) becomes slower as an ever larger number of directories and files are populated. Cards are also prone to becoming corrupted from the frequent moving around from device-to-device (digital camera, PDA, computer). This is usually perceived as a hang of file listings and missing/corrupt data or unusable space (i.e. space shows as available, but unable to write anything to it). I have yet to find a tool that reliably fixes these problems, but it would be nice to have one on the device itself. Mounting storage media in Windows is often problematic all on it's own. Whenever you move data around on a disk, you risk possibly corrupting it." "The Undelete product worked as advertised. You can reliably restore deleted files using this tool." "Finally tested the latest versions and confirmed that the scanner and defrag utilities are fully functional. I was able to defrag one of my cards that was heavily reported to be fragmented successfully. I recommend these products and commend the vendor for being very responsive to these tests and quickly developing a patch to fix any issues. However, you should always download a trial of any mobile software and test it with your device to be sure it will work for you." Read the full review.   Products, Reviews 2009-06-05T09:24:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/review_of_wizcode_undelete_mobile http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/review_of_wizcode_undelete_mobile/#When:14:25:00Z sammy has published a nice review of Wizcode Undelete Mobile on BrightHub. "It's easy to panic when you accidentally delete one or more of your important office documents or your personal identification information from the storage card on your Windows Mobile Smartphone. When you realize the seriousness of the blunder that has been accidentally committed, you're more than likely bound to panic. You might think about taking the services of a data recovery professional, but that's bound to burn a large hole in your pockets (larger thani you might magine). This is where Wizcode Undelete Mobile comes into the picture."  Read the full review of Wizcode Undelete Mobile. Products, Reviews 2009-06-03T14:25:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_releases_defragment_mobile_for_microsoft_pocket_pcs http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_releases_defragment_mobile_for_microsoft_pocket_pcs/#When:14:41:00Z April 3rd, 2009 - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices, announced today the official release of Defragment Mobile - the world's most efficient and powerful Windows Mobile storage card defragmenter and file system optimizer, now featuring Wizcode's FlashBoost® flash memory optimization technology and Wizcode's DirBoost® folder sorting. Defragment Mobile is Wizcode's second generation storage card defragmenter based on several Wizcode projects - Evolution, Phoenix, and FATFS. The product is unique because it adds specific flash memory optimization (FlashBoost®) during the defragmentation process that aligns files with flash media block boundaries. Defragment Mobile also features folder sorting (DirBoost®) that will put in alphabetical order folder contents and will greatly speed up 3rd party applications, processing a large number of files. Wizcode Defragment Mobile features: Removes file system fragmentation Automatically defragments storage cards when the device is rebooted Integrated error checking code to prevent defragmentation disasters Sorts directory contents alphabetically for improved performance (DirBoost®) FlashBoost® feature to align files with physical flash card blocks RAM defragmentation resulting in application-wide improvements in memory footprint Supports command line parameters Supports all FAT file systems  Announcements, Products 2009-04-03T14:41:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_scandisk_mobile_officially_released http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_scandisk_mobile_officially_released/#When:11:53:00Z March 19th, 2009 - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices, announced today the official release of ScanDisk Mobile - storage card health monitoring and error repair software for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. ScanDisk Mobile is a new product based on several Wizcode projects - Evolution, Phoenix, and FATFS. Storage cards are susceptible to errors. Over time, clusters can become corrupted, part of files can become lost, and a range of other errors can occur. Using Wizcode ScanDisk Mobile to find and repair and file system problems may save you from a whole lot of lost data in the long run.  File system errors are the number one reason for data corruption and loss of important files and data on your Windows Mobile device. Every time a program locks up or you soft reset your Windows Mobile device because an application stopped responding, there is a risk of introducing errors on your storage card. If the mobile device is interrupted while writing information on the storage card, the resulting data is often incomplete. Most often this happens because the operating system is not able to update the FAT tables or the file chains because of the lock up/soft reset. No matter what the potential cause may be, it is quite possible that lost clusters and/or chains are on your storage card. A lost cluster or chain is data that is “lost” and cannot be accessed through the file system. This can also cause random lock-ups or application errors.  If ScanDisk is not performed on a regular basis your device may become sluggish in performance. ScanDisk is one of the essential tools used to maintain performance and error-free file management.  Announcements, Products 2009-03-19T11:53:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_releases_undelete_for_windows_mobile http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_releases_undelete_for_windows_mobile/#When:15:07:00Z March 12th, 2009 - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices, announced today the official release of it's new data recovery application for Windows Mobile - Wizcode Undelete Mobile. Undelete Mobile is the first in it's class data recovery product for Pocket PCs that can recover deleted files and data from storage cards. Undelete Mobile understands the internals of the file system used to store files on a storage card (the FAT file system), and uses this knowledge to locate the storage card space that was occupied by a deleted file and restore the file data. Wizcode Undelete Mobile can recover deleted files from any storage card visible by the mobile device host OS when files were: Deleted without using recycle bin*.Removed by virus attack, malware, power failure or system crash.Removed when recycle bin has been emptied.*Files deleted with a file shredder like the one featured in Virtual Explorer cannot be recovered. The application could not be easier to use - all that should be done to recover deleted data is just to start Undelete Mobile, select the storage card where the deleted files are, and choose the files to recover.  Undelete Mobile is the first application built upon the recently announced frameworks developed by Wizcode - Evolution, Phoenix, and FATFS.  Announcements, Products 2009-03-12T15:07:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_wins_the_8th_annual_best_software_awards_twice http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_wins_the_8th_annual_best_software_awards_twice/#When:15:20:01Z October 2nd, 2008 - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices received the highest recognition today by winning two of the prestigious 8th annual Best Software Awards of SmartPhone and PocketPC Magazine. Wizcode received awards for Best Multifunctional Maintanance Tools with Pocket Mechanic Professional and Best Overclocking / Speed Boosting application with Pocket Hack Master. "The annual Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards helps users select software that best suits their Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone needs by honoring companies that produce outstanding software. The awards process is a huge 6-month undertaking involving the experts of the Windows Mobile community starting with over 15,000 Pocket PC and Smartphone products."From the Publisher of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine, Hal Goldstein   Announcements, Products 2008-10-12T15:20:01-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_releases_phoenix_and_fatfs_libraries http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_releases_phoenix_and_fatfs_libraries/#When:14:23:00Z October 1st, 2008 - - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices announced today the official release of two new C++ libraries - the Phoenix Data Recovery for Windows Mobile library  and the FATFS API library. The FATFS library provides application developers with a set of robust and highly efficient code for low-level access to storage cards on Pocket PC devices allowing managment of the FAT file system, the FAT tables, internal file system structures, and sector-level access. Phoenix is a C++ framework that can be used for building advanced data recovery applications for Windows Mobile Devices. Features include ScanDisk (FAT file system error recovery), File Undelete (recovering deleted files and folders from FAT formatted storage cards), Unformat (zero-assumption based data recovery of more than 100 file formats that can recover data even from formatted media), and Media Surface Data Recovery (bad sector/cluster recovery). Both libraries are based on Wizcode's extensive depth of knowledge and expertise in low-level FAT access and data recovery and company's leadership in this specific area. Wizcode is also proud to announce a new product line based on the new libraries and its Evolution Framework:Wizcode Scan Disk Mobile - check Pocket PC storage cards for problems and automatically fix them. Recover bad sectors from defective media.Wizcode Undelete Mobile - recover accidentally deleted files from storage card for Pocket PCs. Wizcode Unformat Mobile - recover photos and images, documents and emails, files and data from severely damaged or formatted storage cards.Wizcode Data Recovery Mobile - the Swiss Army knife of storage card recovery for Windows Mobile Devices.Beta testing timelines for each product will be announced shortly.We are posting some preliminary screenshots of the upocoming products below:  Announcements, Projects 2008-10-01T14:23:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/product_updates_and_a_promo_offer_from_wizcode http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/product_updates_and_a_promo_offer_from_wizcode/#When:12:12:01Z September 26th, 2008 - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices announced today updates to three of it's bestselling products: Pocket Mechanic Professional, Pocket Hack Master, and Virtual Explorer all nominated at the Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2008 by the Pocket PC Magazine Board of Expert. Pocket Mechanic Professional - powerful maintenance kit for Windows Mobile devices has been updated to v2.96. The full change log can be found here. Pocket Hack Master - the advanced CPU scaling and battery optimizer utility for Windows Mobile devices, and winner of the SmartPhone and Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2007 has been updated to v4.35. The full change log can be found here . Virtual Explorer - Windows Mobile file explorer and registry editor with ZIP, strong encryption, secure file shredder and recycle bin has been updated to v1.51. The full change log can be found here. Wizcode is also happy to offer an exclusive 30% promo offer for all updated products to all site members. To access the special offer log in to your account and click on the special offers link. Announcements 2008-09-26T12:12:01-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/wizcode_nominated_at_the_smartphone_and_pocketpc_magazine_awards_2008 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/wizcode_nominated_at_the_smartphone_and_pocketpc_magazine_awards_2008/#When:12:27:00Z September 1st, 2008 - Wizcode LLC (http://www.wizcode.com), the leading publisher of software for mobile devices has been nominated 3 times at the 8th annual Best Software Awards of SmartPhone and PocketPC Magazine. Wizcode's Virtual Explorer, Pocket Hack Master and Pocket Mechanic Professional have been regularly among the top rated and most popular applications for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. This year, the Pocket PC Magazine Board of Expert judges nominated them at the Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards 2008. "The annual Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine Best Software Awards helps users select software that best suits their Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone needs by honoring companies that produce outstanding software. The awards process is a huge 6-month undertaking involving the experts of the Windows Mobile community starting with over 15,000 Pocket PC and Smartphone products."From the Publisher of Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine, Hal Goldstein    Announcements, Products 2008-09-01T12:27:00-08:00 http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughs/comments/virtual_explorer_reviewed_on_my_today_screen http://www.wizcode.com/wizthoughts/virtual_explorer_reviewed_on_my_today_screen/#When:12:51:00Z March 29th, 2008 - Tariq Bamadhaj published an in-depth review of the new Virtual Explorer on My Today Screen, make sure to check it out: "When it comes to file explorer, I prefer to go with something more robust than the generic File Explorer that I (and you) got with Windows Mobile. And thankfully, there are a lot of such applications out there, be it commercial or free software. One such application is Wizcode’s Virtual Explorer that was recently upgraded to 1.30 recently..." Read the full story here. Announcements, Products, Reviews 2008-03-29T12:51:00-08:00 nonadult