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a bit off topic but lets share our today screens

ok so here is mine i have used. i will call this liverpool Champions league winners
1- date
2- weather panel
3- sbp gprs monitor
4- sbp pocket plus
5- spacer
6- today player
oh and i used CEcapture its free you should find it at www.limelink.com

Boring old today screen, fine-tuned for efficiency
Cool idea & nice today screen.
Mine's a totally different approach. I tried all kinds of backgrounds, but found that photo's make the text hard to read, so eventually I came back to the boring old default blue one... I expanded it to the top and bottom of the screen.
Wisbar
Pocketbreeze
Battery bar pro
Weatherpanel (in Pocketbreeze tab)
My Today screen is all about information. I want my appointments, tasks and mail notifications to be clearly readable, with important items highlighted, yet easy on the eyes - no fluorescent stuff for me. Notice the carefully chosen text colors and the everso subtle hint of font shading to make it stand out. 8) (ok I know, I'm so full of it... :roll: )
The icon console in the Wisbar top bar is my own design. I tried to make it as compact as possible, to allow for a lot of running program icons next to the start button.
There's four scrollable rows of program shortcuts in the Program bar.
Might experiment with skinning a little more, it's fun.

i like the wisbar plug-in do you know where i can get it for free :wink:

Wisbar
i too liked the wisbar one where can i find it !!!
or is there any one who would like to share it

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spread_smiles said:
i too liked the wisbar one where can i find it !!!
or is there any one who would like to share it
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Google for "Wisbar pda"
The 1st link will take you to it.. It's freeware
OK.. I will help you: http://www.pdagold.com/software/detail.asp?s=76
-N

dosent work
thanks for the link but it dosent work for WM2003
bad luck
it says invalid ppc program
got another or on which windows are you useing it !!

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spread_smiles said:
thanks for the link but it dosent work for WM2003
bad luck
it says invalid ppc program
got another or on which windows are you useing it !!
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Works fine on my WM2003

where do you go to change the settings ????????????/

does anyone have a good windows mobile 5 ppc theme? or at least close to one?

Try this, its already optimized for PocketPlus.

I'm bored, so might as well post my new creation as well.

Juni's SWDeluxe Skin Suite v3.0
Juni's modified Chromium

Quickie question, those that have the task bar skinned...what app are you using to skin the notfication button and signal strength? Haven't found anything that works on the XV6600.
I'll post my today screen when I get home:
Date
SPB PocketPlus with Weather tabbed
SPB Diary
Messages
SPB 'Sphere' theme

I like my Today with plain black background. It's easier for me to read !!

Big Calhoun said:
what app are you using to skin the notfication button and signal strength?
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It's Wisbar Advance 2. Skinning it yourself is not too difficult; I made my taskbar and taskbar icons with Photoshop. But there's plenty of cool skins available, like the ones from Juni.

I've found that with Wisbar Advance 2.0, my resources are very low and it slows down the entire ppc. Anybody else with this problem? I love the various looks I can make, but because of it being so memory intensive, I've opted, for now, to not run it.

I'm with rsbenedict on this one. I've tried wisbar a few times, but it always seems to slow my device to a crawl. Has it improved recently?

WISBAR has been improved, try it for me no slowdowns

Skinners are getting better and better. I personally like this one as it matches my unit casing.

Hey Nomadman, what app are you using to pick up the news story?
Q.

SPB Mobile Shell 2 versus HTC Home

Looking at the adverts for SPB Mobile Shell, it seems to me that it offers everything that HTC Home does, plus a cube-type interface.
Does anyone have any experience of this software? Do the benefits over HC Home justify the cost?

I use Mobile Shell 2...I like it for the flexibility of it.
I don't use the today plug in at all. I mainly use it for the dialer tab that I embed in Pocket Plus and I like the SPB contacts better than the standard contacts.
Plus there is the cool factor of it.
JIm

I really like the Mobile Shell 2. It goes smooth.
One disappointing thing is that it is still a shell. You always end up with window mobile apps. for doing your things. You need the stylus again.
Bacchusius

Bacchusius said:
I really like the Mobile Shell 2. It goes smooth.
One disappointing thing is that it is still a shell. You always end up with window mobile apps. for doing your things. You need the stylus again.
Bacchusius
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That's why I use Pocket Plus for my today screen. Give me a sec and I'll give you some screen shots.
Jim

Here's shots of my setup.

Last one...

sorry to ask but what is the difference between the pocket shell and pocket plus. they both look the same to me.

naveen said:
sorry to ask but what is the difference between the pocket shell and pocket plus. they both look the same to me.
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Pocket Shell
- Limited Tab customization
*Tab thumb sizes are fixed
*Tabs only support Today Plugins
*Only 1 plugin per tab (if I remember it right)
- Comes with built-in extra plugins
*Dialer Plugin (like HTC Home favorites, but better as you can click-and-hold to select SMS instead of just calling, pictures are bigger and prettier)
*Time Plugin (only to show alarm clocks from the WM6 OEM clock settings)
*Shortcut Plugin (for favorite apps)
-HTC Cube alike thingy... ya... like the HTC Cube
Pocket Plus
- Very extensive tab customization support
*tabs can have multiple plugin and shortcuts
- No built-in plugins like in SPB Shell
- Adds touch-flo like feature
- Adds features to File Exploer
- Adds battery meter slim bar on top
I personally dont even use tabs. I use SPB Pocket Suite for the Dialer plugin (takes less space than SPB Shell's dialer) and SPB Diary under it and WeatherPanel for the weather (a lot better than SPB Weather).

what's the best rss feed app and news.thanks

I Used to have HTC home and played with it constantly trying to get it just right. Then I tried SPB Mobile Shell, with SPB Time, SPB Weather, SPB Diary & SPB Pocket Plus. You don't necessarily need all of them. Just play around until you find which best suits you.
They appear to be much more stable and flexible than HTC Home.
My only annoyance is that I have to go back to the Today screen occasionally.

I personally dont even use tabs. I use SPB Pocket Suite for the Dialer plugin (takes less space than SPB Shell's dialer) and SPB Diary under it and WeatherPanel for the weather (a lot better than SPB Weather).
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What's SPB Pocket Suite like? Is their a need for it if you already have Mobile Shell?

Newb-Tech-Realtor said:
Here's shots of my setup.
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Wow, a truly awesome set of screen shots!
Just to get this straight, are you using Pocket Plus AND Mobile Shell?
If so, how did you go about configuring your device? i.e. Did you load Pocket Plus first and then Mobile Suite, or vice versa?
Looking forward to emulating your screen shots.

Hissing Syd said:
Wow, a truly awesome set of screen shots!
Just to get this straight, are you using Pocket Plus AND Mobile Shell?
If so, how did you go about configuring your device? i.e. Did you load Pocket Plus first and then Mobile Suite, or vice versa?
Looking forward to emulating your screen shots.
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I have both MS 2 and Pocket Plus loaded.
I am using TNT Lite for my ROM.
I also have loaded:
SBSH PocketWeather 2
SPB Phone Suite
IM +
Pocket Informant
SplashID
Resco Explorer
SKTools
Pocket Digital Clock
MobiReader
And some other programs.
I install Pocket Plus and MS 2 last.
I also use the silver icon packs from the SPB forums.
With MemMaid, I have the devide optimized for speed.
Typically I have between 13-17mb of RAM.
Been running like this for about a week now...no hard resets, no hanging boot screens, no frozen screens....been running perfect.
I'm at work right now on a 24 hour shift, so I will upload the icon packs when I get home tomorrow afternoon and post some more on it.
Thanks for the compliment; glad you like it.
Jim

hi,
how do you embed mobile shell into pocket plus tab?

ruffiQ said:
hi,
how do you embed mobile shell into pocket plus tab?
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Long press the tab you want to have MS2 and then you will see a drop down menu, hit plug ins and look for the "Home Tab". That should be your MS Home Tab.

alkizmo said:
Pocket Shell
*Dialer Plugin (like HTC Home favorites, but better as you can click-and-hold to select SMS instead of just calling, pictures are bigger and prettier)
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If you press and hold your favorite contact in HTC Home, it brings up the full contact details which you have to option to call/sms

Do u know how to put 1 tab that shows calendar only, another tab to show just tasks.. just like in pointui.

tjlabais said:
If you press and hold your favorite contact in HTC Home, it brings up the full contact details which you have to option to call/sms
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I know, but I often try to dial while driving or walking in a crowded place or in a shaky subway, and I wont manage to tap & hold 50% of the time, resulting in calling the person instead of opening the contact details, or calling the wrong person or simply NOTHING to happen, etc etc
IN OTHER WORDS : I can't use the D-Pad to click&hold to open the contact details. I need to be able to use the D-Pad
Also I like to have a big clock at the same time as my contacts. With HTC Home, it's one or the other
I changed my plugins from what I said before.
1- Digital Clock plugin
2- SPB Pocket Plus (only 1 tab makes it without tabs, and in that tab is shortcuts for "SPB Diary Contact" You need SPB Diary)
3 - SPB Diary with tabs, one tab is WeatherPanel

Newb-Tech-Realtor said:
Here's shots of my setup.
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Hey Guy,
What kind of today plugin you use? SPB Mobile Shell 2?
I don't think so.
Or you change something such as the skin.
Could you please tell me where could I find that software of skin?
Jacky Wang

thank you very much

Make your HD completely finger-friendly!

I've made some efforts to completely replace all the standard Windows Mobile applications on my Touch HD with finger-friendly ones that offer fluid scrolling.
Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2XlNNt3vE
Newest video with WAD themes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iV3wNMqcj8
You can also continue using TouchFlo3D together with all the other finger-friendly apps in the package!
Use SSMaPa to make them default: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407777
You can make even better skins with Wisbar Advance Desktop.
Other than Winterface, it completely replaces the today screen, offers the (imo) beautiful iPhone-like launch animation and is completely customizable.
It produces less battery drain and is more stable than Winterface.
As it completely replaces the today screen, you can embed any shortcuts, today plugins, all kinds of status icons (e.g. RSS, weather, tasks, wifi...) and you can choose whether to display the taskbar and/or bottom bar or hide them.
There are some beautiful WAD skins in this forum, but I chose to make one myself because I wanted to have the launch animations.
You have to put some effort into it but Wisbar Advance Desktop is really great and better than Winterface, in my opinion, which produced crashes and did only sit on top of the today screen instead of replacing it.
Well, back to my package. I thought I'd share it with you:
You can download the whole package with instructions (includes shareware) from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/189790264/Touch_HD_UI_Package.zip
Additional application you might like:
FingerMenu: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459125
Package will be updated from time to time.
Update:
- tutorial for making apps default (Explorer, Player, Calendar etc.)
- added Kinoma FreePlay (great media player)
- updated some of the applications

maati said:
I've made some efforts to completely replace all the standard Windows Mobile applications on my Touch HD with finger-friendly ones that offer fluid scrolling.
Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2XlNNt3vE
Thought I'd share the package.
You can download the whole package with instructions (includes shareware) from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/186097310/Touch_HD_UI_Package.zip
Additional application you might like:
FingerMenu: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459125
Package will be updated from time to time.
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Finger friendly but not user friendly
In fact ,I don't like iphone style, just like the shourtcut on desktop

Why? It makes my Touch HD a lot easier to use! So yes, it's user friendly.

Nice ! Will be sure to test it.
If someone wants a user-friendly phone, please go buy iphone instead. The reason I bought HD was of its hardware / screen and the unlimited possibilities to change everything / code without owning a stupid mac.
Thanks again for this awesome package.

zerokewl said:
Nice ! Will be sure to test it.
If someone wants a user-friendly phone, please go buy iphone instead. The reason I bought HD was of its hardware / screen and the unlimited possibilities to change everything / code without owning a stupid mac.
Thanks again for this awesome package.
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It's not the reason to do not transform the HTC in a finger friendly phone with hardware and screen that roxxxx

it's really awesome, seen on your HD. But on mine i've never seen something more unstable than Vito apps: it's a continuous crash, it runs in full screen, it takes control of the device and overrides everyting. it's a pity, since winterface has really a good look. But i have bought a wm device to HAVE control, and with winterface i feel i have an iphone in my hands

Looks really good!!

Did you add this for chat?

nice work maati might give it a try just to see what it's like....

You can also watch the video.
I will probably add Throttlelauncher and FingerMenu to the next version (ThrottleLauncher has just been updated for WVGA).
Perhaps I can also find some easy to use IM application (does Pigeon still crash?).

That's a really nice idea and an interesting set of applications. Thanks for sharing those - there are some (like TaskFacade) that I wasn't aware of before.

How do you assign TaskFacade to a button?

How on earth do you install these themes for Winterface?
There is no Skin or Theme icon in Winterface and I can't find anywhere on the net how to install a skin.
Can someone please help?

sosojerk said:
How on earth do you install these themes for Winterface?
There is no Skin or Theme icon in Winterface and I can't find anywhere on the net how to install a skin.
Can someone please help?
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check out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455254

xb00t said:
How do you assign TaskFacade to a button?
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MagicMobile, given in the pack...

Sounds good unable to download from rapidshare can anyone help or is there another link? thanks.

Great inspiration thanx
Questions
- How do i edit the icons in Winterface? or is there a place i can download differet icon.bmp ?
I have tryid in Adobe Photoshop, but when i save it and copy it to the phoen, the icons is scratched over with colored lines?
Regards Michael

I am at work and I cannot download from rapidshare, so out of curiosity, what application is included for emails?

HIS CURRENT SETUP :
- user interface: Vito Winterface
- contacts: iContact
- music: PocketPlayer and S2P
- videos: HTC Album (hardware accelerated for .mp4 video!) and CorePlayer
- music recognition: Shazam Music ID
- photos: HTC Album
- calendar: ThumbCal
- file manager: Resco Explorer und Totalcommander
- messenger: Palringo
- translator: w0lf's Translator
- HD as WiFi-router: WMWiFiRouter
- alarm clock: G-Alarm
- stopwatch: G-Watch
- function plotter/calculator/equation solver: RealCalculator
- WVGA to VGA: WVGAFix3
- weather: Viigo and iAltWeather
- backup: SPB Backup 2
- navigation: Navigon MN7 with WVGA patch
- display rotation: Flip-IT
- task switcher: TaskFacade (Dynamo 3)

Thanks
I was kind of hoping for a good finger friendly email application. Something like Vito SMS Chat but for emails.

[APP] TouchFlow Detacher

TouchFlo Detacher is yet another way to simultaneously have TouchFlo 3D and the regular Today screen. Previous excellent solutions include SecondToday and ManilaControl.
Description
So what makes it different? Well, this app is actually very similar to MastSogo's ManilaControl. The main difference is that the author plans to actively develop it for a while, whereas ManilaControl has been a bit frozen in development for a few months. It is also open source, licensed under the Ms-RL. The program is on CodePlex, so download speeds should be much better than the average rapidshare link. Finally, it is in English and not Spanish. Other than that, it's just another solution for the same problem!
See it in action on the YouTubes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk0xWm8PMGQ
Download the CAB and source code here: http://www.codeplex.com/TFDetacher
Installation
As explained on CodePlex...
1. Install the CAB
2. Run the configuration app
3. Enable all the standard Today Items you want to use
4. Do not re-enable TouchFlo 3D in the Today items (if you do, it will undo all your other Today plugins)
Requirements
Windows Mobile 6.1
.Net Compact Framework 2.0
A device that runs TouchFlo3D / Manila
Current features
- Free up your Today screen by hosting Manila outside of the Today screen! TouchFlo Detacher can launch/show/hide/close Manila independent of any other Today screen settings. Now you can have your TouchFlo cake and eat it too! The most obvious use is to assign a soft key to toggle between seeing TouchFlo and seeing the regular Today screen.
- Service runs as a background application (in your StartUp folder) for maximum speed when toggling Manila modes.
- NO ANNOYING SPLASH SCREEN when application launches.
- Service is 100% idle when not receiving messages or controlling TouchFlo, so no CPU is wasted! (Just a tiny bit of RAM)
- Configuration application allows modifying manila.exe location, manila window class, and more, so that this utility can (presumably) be used with other manila versions (such as TouchFlo 2D). This is untested. Out of the box, it supports TouchFlo 3D in its default configuration as seen on the Diamond/Pro/HD.
- Configuration application can clean out the ManilaActivateToday.exe from the notification queue. (That app can interefere with TouchFlo Detacher's operation.)
- Shortcuts to start/show Manila, hide Manila, and close Manila. These can be assigned to hardware buttons (if your device has them) or virtual hardware buttons through the use of 3rd party applications such as AE Button Plus.
- Configuration application can customize the softkeys in both Today and TouchFlo's Home tab. You can use it to not only assign TouchFlo Detacher operations (show/hide/close), but any other application on your device.

I want only to say many thanks for that cab it works very good on my Touch HD ... Great App cardefbel

THE best piece of software I've downloaded. Used it on both Touch Diamond and Touch HD and love it!
Perfect - thanks

Thanks for this awesome app....

Would I be correct in thinking that with your app I can go all out on WAD2 or something and still be able to switch back and forth between WAD2 and Touchflo without all the hassle?

Thanks. Downloaded, installed, and be able to switch between TF3D and my old style today with Spb Diary.

jacklam said:
Would I be correct in thinking that with your app I can go all out on WAD2 or something and still be able to switch back and forth between WAD2 and Touchflo without all the hassle?
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This is not my application, but I realy love it and would share it with y'all.

Is it also possible to have TF3D together with SPB today screen combined whit SPB mobile shell?

Hi Guys,
i add a screenshoot just to share with you the result of this great app.
i have one question, maybe someone of you have the same problem.
i am running the "non TF3D" screen with Resco today plugin and launcher.....if i try to put a background (via setting Today, use picture as background...) no matter which kind of picture i choose, they are opaque.
cant figure out a solution.
thanks and Ciao!

that app is very great. but i got ine problem that the home icon button dont's work, it just has the force feedback.

giangishanghai said:
Hi Guys,
i add a screenshoot just to share with you the result of this great app.
i have one question, maybe someone of you have the same problem.
i am running the "non TF3D" screen with Resco today plugin and launcher.....if i try to put a background (via setting Today, use picture as background...) no matter which kind of picture i choose, they are opaque.
cant figure out a solution.
thanks and Ciao!
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hey guy,
can you share with us how you achieve your today screen as you attached?
it is nice.

Sounds great, will keep an eye on this one!

giangishanghai said:
Hi Guys,
i add a screenshoot just to share with you the result of this great app.
i have one question, maybe someone of you have the same problem.
i am running the "non TF3D" screen with Resco today plugin and launcher.....if i try to put a background (via setting Today, use picture as background...) no matter which kind of picture i choose, they are opaque.
cant figure out a solution.
thanks and Ciao!
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Look at the this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468215&highlight=today+background+transparent
It solves your problem.

cardefbel said:
Look at the this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468215&highlight=today+background+transparent
It solves your problem.
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Thanks cardefbel !!!
i can tell that this is the best suggestion i have never got in this forum.
you have got the point at the first shot!!!!!! and i have my second today with a brilliant background.
of course thanks to chaosdefinesorder that playing with the device have found out the problem.
for those are asking about my second today:
Resco today plugin
Resco explorer 2008
that's it.
ciao!

Looks great!
I have tried WAD2 and Spb Mobile Shell and I like many of the things that those things bring that TF3D doesn't. I like them both, but I have not been able to break away from the TF3D which is one of the major factors I purchased the phone. Now I can have my cake and eat it too. We'll give it a shot! Thanks.
Update - I loaded it and it seems to work great. I loaded back my Spb Mobile Shell and seems to be working nicely between. It did take a few tweaks, but it is running fine. One thing however is that when I am back in TF3D my hard home key doesn't work to bring me back to the TF3D home. Any ideas?

Thanks for the program cardefbel but I am having a problem with it....notice that if I'm using the SPB screen it won't go back to TF3D after 15mins.....if I want my TF3D i need to reboot it.....but if I on the TF3D I can swap to SPB anytime.....

absolutely excellent, having my appointments on the screen with a 1 button press to TF3D is awesome

WingZer0n said:
Thanks for the program cardefbel but I am having a problem with it....notice that if I'm using the SPB screen it won't go back to TF3D after 15mins.....if I want my TF3D i need to reboot it.....but if I on the TF3D I can swap to SPB anytime.....
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Are you using SPB mobile shell or SPB pocket plus. I tried to reproduce it with SPB mobile shell, but the switching to TF3D worked for me after 15 mins.
BTW, it's not a program I wrote, found it on the net and realy liked it.

I have a problem with WEATHER page
I have started the program
il works perfectly BUT
if i go in the weather page, under TF3D, he changes automatically to today.
Any idea ????

mikeputich said:
One thing however is that when I am back in TF3D my hard home key doesn't work to bring me back to the TF3D home. Any ideas?
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Same issue here .. If anyone has a key..
I prefer to have this button for TF3D Home instead of going back to Today

Is 6.5 worth the Hard Reset?

Hi:
I have finally configured my TP2 on WinMo 6.1 with everything that makes me happy (MTP which allows the old style Today Screen on a TF3D Tab, SPB Pocket Plus and SPB Diary abd STQ stock ticker on that tab, among other things).
Is it worthwhile for me to install 6.5 and erase everything? Will I be gaining performance, or any other plusses?
Thanks
Steve

yes. WM6.5 is nice. WM6.5.1 is even better.
The official roms will be plain WM6.5 with the start icon at the top. WM6.5.1 uses the new interface and is a joy.
WM6.5 is a good mix between WM6.1 and WM6.5.1. I like the latest though. I have pictures of my Fuze rom in my pics which depicts the new style.

I've flashed the official German Vario V 6.5 upgrade and am happy with it - the Rhodium was barely usable before as it kept choking on lots of apps. Now it appears stable (keep fingers crossed) apart from HomeScreen ++ which prevented in- and outgoing calls.
Robert

Does it show tasks on the Home screen? Soes it have a today screen that I could show SPB Diary or SPB Pocket Plus?

I may not have found out the full potential, but it's just showing the next 5 appointments using the dumbed-down HTC-Calendar that is also used on the calendar tab. If you tap one of the appointments, it takes you to WM's appointment view where you can edit etc. it - but you can't move "back" to the full WM calendar.
In my opinion you'll have to use MTP again.
Robert

and.... where do you find the 6.5.1?