09:12 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Note: We received a note today by Dell's legal department demanding Mobileread remove all references related to their sales techniques. The note suggested that this post contained proprietary Dell business information and violated the company's trade secret rights and copyrights. Although we strongely believe that we didn't reveal any secret knowledge and only made information available found elsewhere on the Web, we decided to remove this content until further investigation.

We're a small site that heavily depends on user support, and we realize that this was a popular post. Thanks for your understanding while we address this issue.

If you think you always get the best deals online you are very mistaken. I stumbled over a Slickdeals post today where a user describes how you can convince any Dell representative to give you 20-30% discounts off from the best prices you find on the Web. Some folks who already had the knowledge are not be too amused about this news spreading the Net because it could quickly force to Dell to change its sales tactics.

06:49 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book Formats | Other formats

I'm always happy to see more options for document format conversion. Today PDA24/7 is reporting about Makedoc, an online document conversion utility. It converts your text files to palmdoc (pdb) files.

[Edit] And some more conversion utilities are available here.

Proceed with caution, of course, as you would with any unknown source of software that you run. This might be a mainstream software provider, but I'm not personally familiar with them.

06:38 AM by TadW in Archive | Mobile Sites

Brand New Dad is an online community, resource center and search engine for new and expectant fathers. They now have mobile version which includes access to a database of over 5,000 baby names, a pregnancy glossary and due date calculator.

06:34 AM by Bob Russell in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Antoine at Mobile Ministry Magazine has announced availability of the next issue. Issue 2 of Mobile Ministry Magazine is available here:
http://www.antoinerjwright.com/MMM/mmm_Issue2.pdf

And don't forget to check out the Mobile Ministry Magazine website:
http://mobileministrymagazine.blogspot.com/

04:41 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | iSilo/X

Hardly a month passes without the release of a new iSilo and iSiloX beta. The highlights for V4.28 beta 1:

iSilo 4.28 beta 1:

• Added handling of minimum line height.
• On supported devices, disable automatic turning off of backlight when in autoscroll mode.
• Increased default maximum settings size limit from 100KB to 250KB.
• Added Full Screen command to "iSilo for Windows Mobile Smartphone".
• Addressing of miscellaneous issues.

iSiloX 4.28 beta 1:

• Added support for interpretation of percentage line height styles.
• Added support for GZIP compressed content in iSiloX Clipper.
• Addressing of miscellaneous issues.

If you are new to iSilo make sure to visit this thread for more information.

11:18 PM by pruss in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

My smooth (antialiased) font utility for Palm OS has been updated. Version 1.47 adds:

• Better Blazer tweak.
• Added FontList.html with previews of all Fonts4OS5/FontSubst fonts.
• Added three cool Larabie fonts.
• Improvements to registration method.
• Check for Fonts4OS5/FontSubst/FontHackV when setting global font.

I actually have permission from Ray Larabie to include any typodermic.com or LarabieFonts.com fonts, so if you know any that you would really like included, let me know.

Download from here:
http://www.zlthemes.com/ProductDetailListing.php?PID=79
http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?xyz=90288

05:54 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Marcelo is showing off with a screenshot of Doom running on the Maemo platform. The interesting bit is that this port is not only supposed to look good, but also to play well and fast on the actual Nokia device.

Someone else posted a video to demonstrate how playable Doom already is.

You can check out this Wiki for more on game development with the Nokia 770.

05:26 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

If you are a Web developer and interested in how to redirect mobile browsers to a mobile-friendly part of your Website, have a look at this redirection script. It's written in PHP and uses the browser's user-agent to identify mobile devices. Readme.txt included.

Thanks to Erica for submitting the tip!