If you are a Mac user and want your Motorola Q to look like a Mac powered device instead of the Windows Mobile that it is, check out the home screens designed by Ray at KoolDezine.com. He has several Mac ones to choose from. In addition to the Mac one he has a fairly large selection of general ones to choose from. I downloaded several of them.

The best part is that they are free, but he does ask for donations if you like them and use them, which I am going to do since I am using one his cool looking Yankees one, which is in his fairly extensive "Sports" section. And most of them also use only standard plugins so you do not need any additional software for them. They are a cinch to install, just unzip them and copy the XML and JPG file to the 'Application Data/Home' directory through ActiveSync. Once the files are copied just go into "Settings" and the "Home Screen" option. You also need the "Color Scheme" and "Background Image" to be set to "Default" so the settings in the XML file are used.

PTab Spreadsheets is designed for Windows NT/2000, Pocket PC Smartphones, handhelds, and the new Motorola Q.

Some handheld devices unfortunately can only open, and not edit Excel documents. This is where PTab comes into play. PTab can open, edit and create .XLS documents, with most of the functionality that Microsoft's Excel has. It is a little scaled back, but it does the trick.

Z4Soft is offering this tool as a free download for 15 days of full functionality. From there, you have option of switching to a fully functional version if you are satisfied with it for $30 (Windows Mobile) or $15 for a desktop version.

Thanks to a commenter (Thanks, Hoby!) on my Downloaders Anonymous introduction, who pointed me in the direction of QUsers.com I noticed that the application I reported about a couple days ago has been officially released.

It is priced right for the small single purpose application that it is. The price for the registration of the application is just $4.95 and if you check out the QUsers.com site you can get a special code for a discount off that already low price. I will be registering as I have already used the application in actual use to find something after the wife was already asleep. It came in handy, and since I have done the same with the backlight of my iPod already, the brighter, more focused light of the flash of the camera on the phone will be handy.

[Via QUsers]

Hi my name is Mike, and I am a downloader. ("Hi Mike.") Here is my story of how I fell off the wagon.

So it was time for a cell phone upgrade to a new phone, and I stopped in over the weekend with all intentions of picking up the XV6700 Windows Mobile 5.0 device. I had one for some time as a development unit from a client I was developing a mobile application for. My co-worker who had recommended these phones to our client did the dog fooding thing and got himself one. Al though recently he picked up a new razor to use as his phone, he still has the XV6700 for data use and getting his email. While waiting to be helped I checked out the Motorola Q again, and decided on that form factor instead of the XV6700. I soon had my contacts copied over to a new Motorola Q and I was off with my new enabler phone.

So the first application I downloaded was SplashBlog, which is one I had played with, and setup an account with, while I had the demo XV6700. I went to the the site on the phone, found the CAB for the Smart Phone edition, downloaded it , and installed it. It is a great application and it installed just as quickly as when I installed it on the previous device. I soon logged into my SplashBlog account and got my previous account all set up on the phone. This was all done by the time I got across the street to the plaza where I dropped the wife off to go shopping as I went to the toy cell phone store.

Later on that night I followed some of the download links on the phone and downloaded one of my other addictions, a Sudoku game, as well as a couple others Sunday I VPNed to my work computer and installed the Wireless Sync software to get my work email. I also got some of my numerous personal emails setup.

Now, readers, let me know what your must-have Smart Phone applications (or games) are in the comments.