10:21 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

WorldNetCE is the free Pocket PC version of WordNet, one of the best English dictionaries which was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory of the Princeton University. Changelog for V2.7:

• Updated to the WordNet 2.1 database standards
• Added a scrabble allowed words search
• Fixed the spacing issue in hyperlinked results
• Fixed a problem with 'Back' on the anagram screen
• Replaced the 'sounds like' engine and gave it controllable levels of sensitivity
• Added some nice new colours

Instruction how to download and install WorldNetCE you can find on the WorldNetCE homepage.

04:35 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Mike just posted on his second day at the PalmSource DevCon summit last week (his first day posted here). Looks like he met a couple of nice and interesting people, including our dear editor Bob

Boy, how much I would have wanted to be there! Well, there's always a next year!

04:28 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Fictionwise offers a storewide 25% discount on all "MultiFormat" and "Secure" titles through June 2 (i.e. tomorrow). Furthermore, they've launched a special Thanks a Million contest: buy an e-book between now and June 2, and you will automatically be entered into a contest to win $500 in Micropay dollars, plus five additional second prizes for $100 in Micropay.

Did you know Fictionwise has sold its one millionth e-books? I guess I am not the only person who is reading e-books!

[via PalmAddicts and cebooks]

04:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Looking to get your fingers in shape for the summer? How about playing a good game on your Palm? Sammy has started an interesting thread asking PalmAddicts what's the best Palm game they've ever played.

My choice: SpaceTrader (which is also available free for Pocket PC).

Update: Coincidentally, Mike from PDA247 reviewed SpaceTrader today!

04:03 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

ePrice posted some close-ups of the forthcoming HTC Universal which looks like it could become the new superhero Pocket PC. These Taiwanese definitely got handheld making down to a fine art. The HTC Universal has Windows Mobile 5.0, an Intel Xscale 520 MHz CPU, UMTS/ WCDMA, VGA resolution, 96 MB (ROM) + 128 MB (RAM), SD/MMC and WiFi.

Thanks to jkOnTheRun for discovering those pictures!

03:28 AM by TadW in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Resco has silently updated its two top products for Pocket PC, Resco Photo Viewer V5.32 and Resco Explorer 2003 V5.15 on Handango. No changelog available yet.

01:14 AM by hacker in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

This has been quietly discussed on some ebook lists in the last few days, but I guess I'll stick my neck out and try to expose it, make it public.. or at least find out some more detail about the site to bring some justice to the people who are getting screwed by them.

I'm hoping others here can help me find some detail about the site, because sites like this (if it truly is fraudulent) give all of us a bad name.

This ebook store has some very suspiscious content on it. Look what the following searches bring up:

For Dummys ebooks
Harry Potter ebooks
Stephen King ebooks

..and thousands of others. Their legal page is a bit... suspiscious sounding too. The wording and grammar on the site are very inconsistent, and some of the phrases strike me as warning signs:

There's also no mention of what format your "ebooks" will arrive in after you "become a member". Are they Adobe PDF? eReader? Microsoft .LIT? Their FAQ goes into a brief explanation of a couple common formats, but it doesn't actually say which books are provided in which format. Just more fishy things to add to this pond.

Poke around on the site for a bit and see what I mean. It looks professional, but... it just doesn't "feel" right. I'm beginning to wonder if the site exists solely to phish credit card numbers and account information away from everyone who tries to sign up.

I've emailed quite a few of the publishers and copyright holders of material listed on the site to try to get some answers, but haven't heard anything back from any of them yet.

Anyone else getting a bad vibe about this site?

05:19 PM by Antoine of MMM in E-Book General | News

Wrote this at BargainPDA and I think that it fits some of what has already been said in this section of MR:

http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2537

I don't know about many people, but when I got my first PDA (back in August of 2000); I decided to run with the paperless lifestyle mantra. And for the most part, it worked quite well. That is, until it came to books. For one reason or another, finding a good book was a lot harder than it should have been. And those prices...well, let's just say that it is better to just write the book yourself sometimes. And me being the avid writer that I am (at least in poetry), I decided that it would be a great idea if I could take my poetry books and then create ebooks out of them and then be able to give them away at my leisure.