05:22 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

From all of us at MobileRead, we wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! Even if you aren't from the US, we hope you have a reason to celebrate these days with your friends and family.

We'd also like to say thank you to our ever-growing family of loyal MobileRead readers. The fact is, we have a great time with this site, but it wouldn't mean a thing without all of you. We truly appreciate your interest.

05:13 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Lance of PalmFocus has redesigned the PF forums which now include categories from business to education to real estate.

I encourage everyone to provide ways they use their device in these different areas. You might mention the software you use, or you might mention a feature you found that really helps in some way. If you have something that does not fit in any of the areas, feel free to suggest a new area or put your item in the "other" area.

Sounds like a wonderful idea. Make sure to pay them a visit!

04:42 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Tune in to PalmAddicts' latest Podcast #23, covering Moto Gadgets, the top 5 most influential Palm devices, and a review of the game EDGE.

More over at PalmAddicts.

04:32 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

For a brief, shining moment, Sagio Investments was a star among Palm fans. Not only did the company based in Geneva, Switzerland illustrate why Palm is still a promising stock company, but also did they reveal some interesting details on Palm's Treo pipeline for next year. But the bitter truth is Sagio is just another financial shark leaving tooth marks everywhere they pass. Their 12-pages Palm report has been pulled from their website. Instead, they unconvincingly claim that there's "absolutely no link between this [pulled] report and our 13G filing [link] of yesterday or any current position." Furthermore:

We did not authorize any distribution or use of this report on other websites than our own. We will be tracking and taking legal action against any unauthorized reproduction of our content that may have been done in the last days... In order to avoid any improper use or distribution by third parties of this internal report, we will remove it from our website. We regret to see that once again small investors will be deprived of access to proper independent information, thus perpetrating the misinformation and inefficiency that too often characterizes today's financial markets.

It's written all over their face that someone at Sagio screwed up badly by publishing the report and now they're trying to blame us and the Internet community for their failures. How sad is that?

03:41 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Doug Turner released a new binaries of Minimo CE, the trimmed-down Pocket PC version of the Mozilla browser.

Major items addressed:

• Find-on-page toolbar.
• URL bar shortcuts (sb: , rss: )
• Disk Cache and Prefetching Option
• Fixed GMail loading issues.
• File picker widget working

Also fixed:

• 314880 Using a static build of XPCOM.
• 283134 invalid charactar symbol before and after a selection.
• 315976 Fixed crash when hitting enter when address field is empty
• 309674 Checkbox ticks are white with black background
• 309665 The arrows don't display on the scrollbars correctly
• 307816 Fixed Crash on input forms.
• 316783 SSR Mode doesn't preserve form selection boxes
• 314552 Minimo Minimizes before Dialogs are displayed.

Installer download
Cab File download

11:28 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

Free software is now available for reading RSS feeds on your iPod.

iFeedPod 1.09

"Download your favourite RSS and Atom feeds to your iPod. Read them anywhere.

A small and simple utility for downloading RSS feeds to your iPod. Requires Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger or now OSX 10.3.9 Panther. Requires an iPod, iPod mini or iPod Nano with Notes facility."

If only I had an iPod and a Mac to try this with...

11:09 PM by cbarnett in E-Book Software | Reading and Management

Microsoft have released a new version (v2.4.1) of Microsoft Reader, and it is available for download now.

From the download page:

November 23, 2005 - Attention Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone Edition Customers: Please note that we have recently posted an update of the Pocket PC/Pocket PC Phone Edition version of Microsoft Reader. This update addresses activation problems experienced by the users of some Phone Edition devices. In addition we have made it easier to use Microsoft Reader with device storage cards. Thank you for your continued support.

The main new features include:
- Pan and zoom capabilities for embedded graphics
- Screen rotation capability between portrait and landscape modes for more natural, comfortable reading (Windows Mobile 2003 and above)

02:30 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

It took hardly a week for Picard to release another update of TCPMP. It's a maintenance release with the following fixes:

• yuv blitting fix (intel 2700g, sonyhhe affected)
• ogg icecast fix
• avi opendl mode out of sync fix
• large jpeg file support
• song title updated with audio streaming fix
• portrait pre-rotate disabled for coverart and podcasts
• WinCE: http async mode (connection loss should not freeze the player)
• WinCE: http avi playback fix
• WinCE: http streaming emulate wmp10 identification (for ORB server)
• WinCE: http site parsing and listing fixes
• WinCE: file association IE auto-download flag only for playlists
• WinCE: options/audio menu disappearing fix
• WinCE: raw framebuffer mode only for WM2003SE and later
• PalmOS: screen blanking audio pause fix
• PalmOS: pre-rotate portrait movies advanced option

Remember the AAC plugin is not included anymore but you can still download it from here.