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Need to call someone special on Thanksgiving?

Jack Cook — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:24:29 +0000

This is a great opportunity to call your friends and relatives on Thanksgiving if you do’nt have nationwide dialing. Truphone just announced that for 12 hours on Thanksgiving 2009 all calls made on Truphone to mobile and landline phones in the United States will be free so that friends and family can call each other to catch up this holiday season.

From noon to midnight UTC, or 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Nov. 26, all calls made to U.S. landlines and mobiles using the Truphone application will be free from anywhere in the world. More information is available here: www.truphone.com/thanksgiving.

“Thanksgiving is a day when family and friends come together to celebrate and catch up across the U.S.”, said Geraldine Wilson, CEO of Truphone. “For those people who can’t get home for the holidays, often because distance is too much, a telephone call to let them know how they are is the next best thing. With this initiative, we are allowing people who can’t be together to catch up on this special day”.

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Download Windows Marketplace for your 6.0 and 6.1 Device

Jack Cook — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:54:54 +0000

If your phone is running Windows Mobile 6.0 or Windows Mobile 6.1 you can get Marketplace for your device by following the instructions here.

Of course, if you have a Windows phone running Windows Mobile 6.5, Marketplace is already installed on your phone and is located in your Start menu.

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GoNews Touch Updated and Better!

Jack Cook — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:06:23 +0000

SBSH announced today an important new update for its newsreader application, GoNews Touch for Windows Mobile Touch devices to version 1.2!

GoNews Touch 1.2 introduce a great list of new innovations and improvements, making it the most powerful, fastest and easiest to use newsreader application out there! Among the new innovations you will find: Full screen article reading for largest possible display while reading articles, online feed searching that will help you locate news feeds directly, popup touch menus for improved usability, multilingual support that brings localized GoNews Touch versions and much more!

GoNews Touch 1.2 Key Features

Full Screen Reading – Read articles with full screen display for maximum content display
Online Feed Searching – Search new feeds directly within GoNews Touch
Touch Popup Menus – Tap&Hold popup touch menus for great navigation improvement
Faster – Download news content updates faster than ever
Localized Versions – Localized interface now also available at: English, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Spanish
Lots of additional features and improvements were included with this new version, click here to read their development team release post for complete details.

Click the read more below to watch a short video

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This is too good to pass up!

Jack Cook — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:54:21 +0000

I’ve been using SoftMaker Office for years and have found it to be a “must have” program on my devices especially if you do a lot of writing and want (or need) the ability to use all of the formatting that is available in Word and not available in the mobile version.

This is just a quick reminder that Softmaker’s special sale for their office applications on Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) ends two days from now. They are offering TextMaker 2008, PlanMaker 2008, and SoftMaker Presentations 2008 for Windows Mobile for $9.99 each.

If you haven’t yet used Softmaker Office on your Windows Mobile device, then you may want to consider it … it has been an invaluable tool for me and now because of their price, it certainly is something you should consider. I am convinced that you will like it.

Check it out here!

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SBSH Facade 2 – an even better smartphone experience

Jack Cook — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:05:29 +0000

When I got my first smartphone I found it a very hard transition from a touch screen device. That is until I was led to use SBSH Facade. It totally changed my experience to one that was filled with productivity and ease of use. Now SBSH has improved upon the experience with their latest release of Facade and from what I can see, it is going to be terrific.

So what is Facade? It is a front-end interface that appears on your screen each time you power on your device. It has a simple tab-based design that gives you immediate access to all your important information at a glance.

According to the Press Release, SBSH Facade 2 provides you a new Home Panel with date and clock, alarms, profiles, pending counters, weather, appointments and tasks … and there is more like a custom home screen plug-in integration, with multiple plug-ins in a single Facade panel; Integration with all major PIMs; Category colors and icons; Easy skin packaging and installation and much more!

SBSH Facade 2 Highlights

Home Tab – Date and time, alarms, profiles, pending counters, appointments and tasks – all in one screen display!

Custom Plugins – Host any custom home screen plugin within Facade panels

Appointments and Tasks – Powerful combined display including both appointments and tasks in a single section

PIM Integration – Special integration with all major PIMs: SBSH Calendar, Pocket Outlook, Pocket Informant, AgendaOne and Agendus

Category Icons and Colors – Use category icons and colors as part of your agenda display! Includes automatic use of SBSH Calendar category icons and configuration

Monthly Calendar – Monthly calendar tab shows the days of each month within a Facade tab

More Weather – Integration with SBSH PocketWeather revamped, including new forecast weather buttons and current temperature

Skin Packages – Designers can now create installable layout packages, simplifying skin installation to a single file

MRU Buttons – Most recently used button shortcuts now available

Windows Mobile 6.5 – Fully compatible with Windows Mobile 5 through 6.5 devices

Users who registered Facade 1.x before July 1st 2009 are entitled to upgrade to the new version for only $7.95.

Pricing and Availability
Facade 2 costs $14.95
Facade 2 can be purchased using the SBSH Online Store using the following URL:
https://www.mobihand.com/cart1.asp?posid=362&pid=7010

Check out more about SBSH Facade here: http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows_mobile_smartphone/facade and look at all the screenshots … very impressive!

You can read the FULL Press Release here: http://www.sbsh.net/press/128/Facade_2

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Robbie Bach Introduces Windows Phone

Jack Cook — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:41 +0000

Here is a video shown during Robbie Bach’s opening remarks at the Microsoft E&D Open House, 2009

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Samsung Omnia Language packs. Do they really exist ?

Jack Cook — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:05 +0000

In an article on MobilityMinded, Mark Briggeman talked about an interesting discussion took place a few days ago in the Windows Mobile Forums where a user of the first Samsung Omnia (SGH-i900) asked if it was possible to change the language of his phone.

When ever a user asks if they can change the language, I always reply that you cannot but little did I know that there seems to be a way to do that with the Omnia. It appears as if Samsung has overcome this and is offering Language Packs for several languages.

Mark points out that that the new Omnia 2 already has all the Language Packs in ROM. You can change your language to: French, Italian, German, Russian, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Polish and Swedish. I sure hope this becomes a standard for all devices!

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SCOTTEVEST Closeout SALE

Jack Cook — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:05:42 +0000

It is Fall and the weather is changing to cool nights and the occasional cool day as well here in Maine. Just in case you have never purchased a SeV product before, I thought I would pass on to all of you that there is a SeV 40% Off Secret Sale and Closeouts currently going on. The sale ends on Monday, September 28 and the closeout will end once inventory is gone. This is an opportunity to get a Travel Vest for a really great price!

CLOSEOUTS

Enjoy HUGE savings on our remaining stock of our Men’s Travel Vests and Women’s Travel Vests. All of the items are on Closeout for only $40 each!!! (The Travel Vests were originally $100). Because of the huge savings, All Sale Are Final—No Returns or Exchanges. The Travel Vests are the older version, with 2-way main zippers and no clear touch pockets. Click to see a video about the differences between them and our current Travel Vests.

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Microsoft Reader Updated

Jack Cook — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:24:37 +0000

There is a NEW version of Microsoft Reader for Windows Mobile that was just updated this week. For those that have had activation issues in the past, it has been fixed and from my usage over the past week, all is working perfectly. Microsoft Reader is for Touchscreen devices (hopefully a smartphone version will follow).

For those of you that have not used Microsoft Reader before you might ask: “What can Microsoft Reader do for you?” Well here are some of the features that make Microsoft Reader unique.

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Sound ID Announces the Sound ID 400 Bluetooth Headset

Jack Cook — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:31:19 +0000

BRINGING NEW FUNCTIONALITY TO THE BLUETOOTH CATEGORY

Sound ID will be offering a NEW bluetooth headset that will have PersonalSound custom hearing modes to boost your listening power and Environmental Mode to amplify sound between calls. In addition, it will be compatible with the new Sound ID CompanionLink Remote Microphone.

There are three unique features worth noting:
1)    PersonalSound, which consists of three listening modes tuned to the most common hearing preferences to further enhance speech clarity without raising the volume. This feature is only found on Sound ID products – no other Bluetooth headsets offer this capability.
2)    The Sound ID 400 is the only headset to deliver Environmental Mode, a feature that enables users to hear equally out of both ears in-between calls. When the Environmental Mode is activated, the hearing ability is enhanced and soft sounds can be heard while wearing the headset – allowing clear conversations “On” and “Off” the phone.
3)    Additionally, the headset is the only one of its kind to be compatible with the optional Sound ID CompanionLink Remote Microphone – creating a Personal Sound System. The CompanionLink is a small clip-on device, a mere two-inches in size, that syncs with the Sound ID 400 and can be worn by a conversation partner or placed near a sound source to pick up audio at its origin for a richer sound experience. This device can greatly enhance the clarity of speech in many communication situations, such as: (1) a distant talker, e.g. a lecturer; (2) a very noisy environment, e.g. a restaurant; or, (3) a talker whose speech is received as faint due to his or her physical location with respect to the listener, e.g. a passenger sitting in the back of the car.

The Sound ID 400 also offers NoiseNavigation, which uses multiple microphones and special DSP algorithms to remove background noise and elevate speech. The goal is to improve speech understanding in noisy situations. Finally, Sound ID 400 can connect with two devices simultaneously – enabling users to answer calls from two phones from the convenience of one headset. It is designed with a Black Velvet soft-touch finish.

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Resco Bubbles and Snake updated

Jack Cook — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:40:38 +0000

RESCO has a couple of updates for two great games and NOW the Samsung Omnia II is fully supported!

Resco announced today the release of Resco Bubbles v1.40 and Resco Snake v1.10, updated games for accelerometer equipped devices.

Whats new:

both games now fully support Samsung Omnia II device

minor bugs fixed

Product pages:

Resco Bubbles

Resco Snake

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Removing Application Lock on Windows Mobile Standard Devices

Jack Cook — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:43:04 +0000

The other day I posted a piece on Application Lock … What is it? and today we have a followup. We need to look at how to remove it from our devices so that we can install any application and make more customizations to our devices. In fact, for most of us it is a process that might be confusing but Mike Temporale from Mobile Jaw has come to the rescue. Mike has gone ahead and built an agent that will automatically disable Application Lock on Windows Mobile Standard devices during the agent install.

Simply download MobileJaw-ClearSecurity-MobiControl and run it on your device. After the install is complete, open the Start menu / Settings / Remove Programs and be sure to uninstall SOTI MobiControl from your device. If you leave this agent on your device it will have an inverse effect on your battery life as the agent will continually try and connect back to the device management server. I used a non-routable internal IP Address (192.168.1.128). So there’s no worry about it actually connecting back to some backend server and uploading all your data.

Check out Mike’s article here … you will be glad you did! Thanks Mike!

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TomTom GO 950 Live, GO 750 Live and GO 550 Live screenshots of userinterface!

Jack Cook — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:05:53 +0000

The folks at MobilityMinded have a post up showing the new features and screens for the upcoming TomTom x50 series. Well worth the read and a slew of screenshots to check out the interface!

Check it out here at MobilityMinded

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Application Lock … What is it?

Jack Cook — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:29:24 +0000

Mike Temporale from Mobile Jaw had a very short but extremely important piece up today on Understanding Application Lock on Windows Mobile Standard Devices. If you own a Windows Mobile Standard device then you might want to check it out.

There’s more differences between Windows Mobile Standard and Professional than the touch capability of the screen. Application security is one of the major differences. When you install software on Professional based devices, the most you are asked is if you trust this unsigned application. If you say yes, then that application has full access to the device and any API’s that it would like to interact with. That’s not the case with Windows Mobile Standard based devices.

Read the full article with some great links here at Mobile Jaw

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In 5 weeks …..

Jack Cook — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:56:21 +0000

… we will finally get to see and enjoy the latest Windows Mobile devices and I expect we will be quite happy with the options available to us.

The following was from the Windows Mobile Blog

In just five weeks, you’ll have a bunch of new Windows phones to choose from. But before we show you some of the cool, new phones that will be coming out, I want to explain how we’re trying to make phones even better with Windows.

When we started work on Windows phones, we met with people all over the world who were likely to buy a smartphone and talked with them about what’s important to them in their phone. Looking at the U.S. market, for example, we found that about 15 million people in the next year will buy a new smartphone.

Of the people we talked to, 74% listed productivity as the top feature they value in their smartphone. We took this feedback to heart, making the user interface more touch friendly and improving notifications and updates from e-mail, text and calendar items. We also included the latest Internet Explorer Mobile browser and added free services like My Phone to help protect data in the event of a lost phone and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for access to a wide variety of applications for direct download.

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