06:40 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Phone Uploader is a free service which allows you to send ringtones, wallpapers, Java applets and other stuff to your cell phone - for free. All you have to do is upload your file to Phone Uploader, which then in turn sends an SMS to your cell phone with the appropriate download URL.

Digging a little further, I found out that the SMS includes a jump code to this page. If you type in any number, you can download anything others have uploaded before. Keep this in mind when you upload your personal pics of your girlfriend next time.

06:13 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Well, it's not about what you think. Windows in your pocket is a massive step-by-step tutorial from Tom's Hardware explaining how to take a standard Windows XP and shrink it down to fit on your USB flash drive. You'll end up with a complete, bootable Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. I know what Linux fans might be thinking... "Knoppix does that" - but think about how cool it is to plug your USB drive in a random computer and generate blue screens everywhere.

06:01 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Welcome to another digest entry of MobileRead, where we transform the profound into the bite-sized.

Current E-Books Trends
Harry Potter comes to your iTunes
Illinois library to offer free ebooks, audiobooks with a catch

E-Book Webstores
This week's eReader 10% discount

General Chat
Do students benefit from whiz-bang gadgetry?
Symbian sympathizer now believes in Linux

iSilo/X
iSilo and iSiloX/C 4.28 released

Other E-Book Resources
Ancestor is Scott Sigler's new podcast novel
Blackmask goes mobile

Other Gadgets
Newspaper delivered to your PSP in Norway

Other Readers
New version of µbook released - 0.9e
Palm OS Beta Testers required for NewsRaider

Palm
Japanese firm to acquire PalmSource
New podcasts coming... 247 Chat Show
Palm, Inc responds to purchase of PalmSource
PalmAddict forum contest
Palm releases SD Card compatibility list
PalmSource sale won't kill Palm OS
Vote for MobileRead in Reader Awards poll
What sealed Palm's software fate?

Pocket PC
HTC Universal early in-depth review
iTunes phone crippled to 100 songs
Pocket G2 - Gnutella P2P client for Pocket PC

Portable Audio/Video
NerdTV now officially on the air
Rumor: iPod mini with flash and color screen

Smartphones
Chinese release Linux Smartphone
Crossing the Digital Divide: Mobile phones for learning

05:57 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

If you're one of the millions of Scott Sigler's EarthCore fans, you'll be delighted to hear that his second pocast, Ancestor, is coming out today. To sign up for it, for free as usual, copy and paste the following link to your favorite podcast application:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ancestor

05:29 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Considering that nowadays most students use laptops to write their papers, and use Google to find the content of their papers, it's seems an important question to ask: Do students really need all that technology? Quoting AP:

"The biggest problem that students have is that technology often ends up being a distraction," says Robin Raskin, the founder and former editor of FamilyPC magazine. "In an information society the smart person will be the one who can shut out all the distractions."

Raskin cites an example of a student who searches the Web for information on the French Revolution — and comes up with french toast, french music or french kissing. "A child can spend half the night searching for an answer to one question," Raskin said.

If you are or were a parent, how much of today's technology would you make available to your kids going to high-school?

05:05 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Feeling like to be a lucky winner these days? Then go to PalmAddict's forums, participate and win! The contest will run for a month, and for all the goodies you can win check out Sammy's official announcement.

04:41 AM by Laurens in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

The Register - What sealed Palm's software fate?:

So, PalmOS ends up in the hands of an Japanese mobile browser company that almost no one has ever heard of. It's a sad sign that expectations for PalmOS software have been so low, for so long, that PalmSource stock leapt 70 per cent on the news.

This editiorial may be too negative and sometimes downright cynical, but the author does point out one possibility that most of us haven't thought about yet:

as critics have pointed out, it really bought PalmSource for its Chinese Linux presence - in which case $324 million looks like a bargain.

08:34 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

We are honored be able to report that MobileRead is included in the Palm Addicts 2005 Reader Awards voting for Best Palm / PDA news site, Best Palm Blog, and Best Palm forum resource.

If you enjoy MobileRead, please consider casting your vote for us here!