06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Ok kids, time for the weekly roundup of what we've covered this week:

Announcements
A Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Browsers
Minimo for Nokia 770

Current E-Books Trends
Google Print becomes Google Book Search

E-Book Webstores
eReader's Best Sellers of 2005

eReader
eReader promo code to 29th Nov

General Chat
Harvard class available to the world as Podcast
Microsoft launches Live Search mobile (beta)
Reminder: RSS feeds for PalmGear and PocketGear
The Black Friday (after Thanksgiving) ads leaked online
Yahoo! Mobile synchronizes your mobile contacts

Link Swap
Your favorite web sites...

Other E-Book Resources
"Motion Mountain" - free physics e-textbook
Free e-book: God's Debris
UPenn's Online Books Page

Other Gadgets
Nokia 770 not making it into Asia Pacific region
Nokia 770 pre-orders delayed to 2006
T-Mobile Sidekick rumored product roadmap leak

Other Readers
New version 2.4.1 of Microsoft Reader released

Palm
Another Palm convert... maybe
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars for Palm OS
Custom Treo 650 ROM - step-by-step guide
Next-gen Treo rumors: more details
PalmAddicts all over the world
PalmAddicts Podcast #23 out
PalmFocus adds new forum categories
Palm investment shark shows its teeth
Palm is cheap, says investor

Pocket PC
Dell Axim X51v VGA system update
Minimo CE 0.011 released
NetFront 3.3 Technical Preview 1.02 available
PDAMill releases Anthelion 2, VGA-compatible
Resco Explorer 2005 5.30 introduces Recycle Bin
Simple 2-D game creation software
TCPMP 0.71 important bugfix release

Portable Audio/Video
PDA-friendly list of streaming radio sites
Read RSS feeds on your iPod

09:29 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

From the University of Pennsylvania library, there is an Online Books Page which seems to be a listing of all online books in English that are freely available.

A quick browse shows that Gutenberg books are also linked to, so this might be considered a links-only superset of Gutenberg. Looks like a great source.

Update: This was discovered previously by Francesco more than a year ago! Still, it's worth bringing it back to our attention now.

09:22 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

Useful if you're already looking for a christmas gift for your handheld-powered parents is eReader's Best of 2005 list which includes titles such as K. Follett's Whiteout and T.L Friedman's The World Is Flat (my personal two recommendations).

Related: eReader promo code to 29th Nov.

[via PalmAddicts]

08:56 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

If you're a Cingular and T-Mobile subscriber, you can now use Yahoo! Mobile to save and synchronize phone contacts with your personal Yahoo! Address Book.

[via LifeHacker]

08:35 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Engadget just got a sneak peek at T-Mobile's supposed Sidekick roadmap for the next two years. Assuming it's not a fake (like we've never seen any before thanks to the people who have too much time), T-Mobile will

• introduce a music-centric Sidekick III in April '06
• support UMA technology in September '06
• introduce Sidekick III limited editions in October '06
• introduce the code-named "Sidekick NG" with support for music, video and UMA in June '07
• introduce something RAZR-style-like.

08:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

How does one empty a bottle as rapidly as possible? What are the highest force and power in nature? How does one connect water pipes to a turning wheel? What are the dangers of a can of beans? What is the single page of unsolved problems in fundamental physics? Christoph Schiller answers these questions in Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics, a free 1250-pages physics e-textbook. All he asks in return is your feedback e-mailed back to him. For more details and download instruction checkout his site.

[via Boing Boing]

08:06 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Although ACCESS must've been quite busy these days restructuring PalmSource and forming new alliances, it's nice to see that they're still updating the Pocket PC browser Netfront. Menneisyys had a closer look on the latest build and his findings are generally favorable.

To this download the preview version click here.

05:36 PM by cbarnett in E-Book Software | Reading and Management

eReader have just released their current promotional discount code which gives a 10% discount on each book purchased which costs more than $3, and is valid until the 29th of November.

The code is seeker.