Replacement file manager - x-plore

I've just installed x-plore from Lonely Cat Games.
This is a replacement file manager for symbian devices. Initial impressions seem good; I just used it to delete a load of files from a folder on my phone by simply dragging the stylus down the side of them to "tick" them all in one go. The font used is also very small which I like personally as you can fit a lot more on the screen.
The main view is a tree view, similar to Windows Explorer for instance, which makes it very easy to navigate around. You can do the usual file operations (move, copy, delete, open) and also some great sounding extra features I have yet to try, such as packing files into a .zip (or opening), viewing Word documents, viewing system folders on the phone (o/s dependant) and more. The featurelist from their site is as follows:

• View all drives / folders / files on phone in tree view *
• Integrated text and image viewer
• View file details
• Edit file attriutes (hidder, read-only, etc)
• Rename and delete files
• Create or edit text files
• Create folders
• Multi-selection
• Copy or move files and folders
• Send files by Bluetooth or Infrared
• Extract files from Zip, Rar, Jar archives
• Pack files to Zip archive
• View Word documents
• Hardware device info
• View processes and tasks **
• Built-in program update
• Viewing, saving files in Messaging folders
• Hex viewer and editor
• Search files
• Folder hotkeys

The full version is $9.50 which isn't bad (in the UK, that equates to under a fiver) so I'll continue to play around with it and update the trial once I'm happy.

HCH-72 Car holder installed

One of the reasons I went for the P1 over some of the other new SE Phones is that I can put TomTom on it. The next job of course was fitting the phone in the car!
I've had some "universal" windscreen mounts in the past, and they are okay but I decided I'd rather have the phone a bit closer to me due to the smaller screen. Also, I wanted to get away from cables draped all over the car interior.
So, I got the HCH-72 Car holder. This is designed specifically for the P1, and has a socket on the bottom to connect a car charger to.

Unfortunately the HCH-72 doesn't come supplied with any sort of mount apart from screw holes on the back, but there wasn't anywhere suitable on my dashboard to put it. I got a strip of aluminium, then cut/bent it as needed so that the HCH-72 now sits in the right place in the car. The bracket is screwed to the upper inside face of the instrument binnacle, so the screw holes won't be too visible when I eventually remove the bracket. It seems pretty sturdy although I have yet to road-test it! The next job is to route power to it neatly rather than having the charging cable stretching up to it...

New Icons

Our dev team recently purchase an massive library of Icons - I've taken a few choice ones onto my P1i to replace the standard Sony Ericsson icons, and some of the app ones (such as using a little car for TomTom etc!)