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Mon February 07 2005

Game Flashback port for Pocket PC

04:33 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

For the fans of Flashback out there, Grégory Montoir (cyx) did it again and there is already an emulator in progress for Pocket PC users. Planned features include: VGA mode support, key remapping, levels password support, smartphone support

You'll need the original Flashback DOS files to use with this emulator. Check the original site for more details.

[via PocketMatrix]

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MagicButton 1.8 released

04:26 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

MagicButton, my favorite free task manager for Pocket PC, is available in a new version.

V1.8 adds full support for 2003SE devices with VGA screen and for Pocket PC phones.

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New iPod Accessory: Stereo Luggage

12:25 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

There are all kinds of interesting accessories for portable music devices. One that I've not come across before is stereo luggage. The luggage is Boom Bags and it can be used not only for great sound in your hotel room, but for presentations.

I don't know if I'd feel real comfortable settting my luggage on a board room conference table as a speaker when making a project or sales presentation, but I guess that's no big deal for some people. After all, "Boom Bag™ luggage features a built-in speaker system with an amplifier and subwoofer! ... Designed by experienced travelers, Boom Bags were created to be the highest quality luggage available!"

They may not sell very well, but I'll give them this - Boom Bags just might corner the market on luggage sound systems.

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Sun February 06 2005

Portable Media Player Offered by American Airlines

11:43 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

NY1 is reporting that American Airlines is now offering a portable entertainment system with daily papers, games, movies and music videos for $7.95 a flight charged to your credit card. Many commercial airliners have built-in entertainment systems, but this is a great solution for the many airplanes that are not equipped for multimedia.

It's not perfect... there's no online connection for web surfing or email, and no word about how fast the battery might run down. But even those of us with a PDA might want one for the newer content. They provide movies that have not yet made it to DVD. It's great to see portable devices with multimedia taking hold in more markets. It won't be long before such things are commonplace even to the non-geek!

Each new device or service like this reminds us that there's quite a battle going on for control of content and content delivery and content control (DRM). It may seem invisible to the general public, but a multimedia market paradigm is forming right before our eyes. Let's just hope that consumers are the winners when all the dust settles.

(Via www.gizmodo.com, a wonderful source of gadget and tech info.)

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Shape Shifter (a short review)

10:32 PM by Zire in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Name: Shape Shifter
Version: 1.0
URL: www.astraware.com

Ladies and Gentlemen, Children Of All Ages, Shape Shifter beckons you to a delightful convergence of action, intrigue and fun!

ShapeShifter has two fun-filled modes of play; Beat The Clock, where you fill a specified number of rows before time runs out; and Shape Speedster, where you clear a number of rows before the board fills up. As they are cleared, another row appears. If the rows reach the top of the board, then your game is over. Higher levels bring more and varied types and colours of shapes to create a greater challenge. Beat The Clock also includes special bonus levels to test your speed and dexterity.

ShapeShifter also features the same zingy sound effects as the PC version and has a carnival-style music soundtrack courtesy of Astraware’s Aurora Sound Engine.
Shape Shifter features:

* A massive array of colourful and bright shapes!
* Original musical score!
* 2 Game modes
* Selectable levels of difficulty, from level 1 to level 99!
* Bonus levels to test your wits and reflexes

Astraware has done it again with this awesome addition to their library. When I saw screenshots of this game initially I was a bit skeptical of how much fun it would be. All in all it turned out to be alot of fun. Easy at first and very hard as you progress through the levels. There are two modes. The first mode is called beat the clock which includes bonus rounds. I like this mode better then the second mode. The bonus rounds are cool but easy once you get the hang of it. The second mode, shape speedster is to try to make rows disappear. This is harder then it sounds. If the rows go past the top it's game over. I lose pretty fast here. My favorite thing in this game are the sounds and music. They are pretty loud even on the subway. Don't know why this game and Tip Top are the only Astraware games that I need to turn the sound on. The ghaphics are cool too but I think animating the shapes would be even cooler. If you want a great addition to your games library download this and have a great time.

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MobileRead Week in Review: 01/30 - 02/06

07:13 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Feast your eyes on some of the discussions from this week at MobileRead...

Avantgo
Avantgo 2005 is worth a CNET 8 out of 10

Current E-Books Trends
Diesel eBooks President on need for standards
E-books: with courage and patience, we are getting there

E-Book Webstores
eReader going down the drain?
Fictionwise with 100% discount on Pern Novel

General Chat
100 GMail invites one click away!
2005 State of the Union Address in Plucker format
PDAMill has birthday and shares the fun with us
PDA shipments drop for third year
PDAs lack growth, according to latest study
RIM outgrowing palmOne?

Other E-Book Resources
eLibPro 1.3 - Windows tool to organize your e-books

Palm
Chat with the Director of pa1mOne Mexico
FontSmoother 1.10 out!
palmOne's strong balance sheet
PalmSource acquires CMS - ready for Linux!
PalmSource still has money to spend
SDIO WLAN for Palm TE and T3 users?
Treo 650 with a high-speed EDGE
Tungsten T5 on sale for $353.99

Pocket PC
GSPlayer updated to 2.15
HP wants to be #1 in smartphone business
Lexisgoo English Dictionary 2.0 released
palmOne raises price on Treo 650
Pocket Mechanic contains malicious code - update!
Pocket Mechanic contains malicious code - update2
Watch Pocket PC Movies The Easy Way

Portable Audio/Video
Portable Multimedia Steals PDA Market

Smartphones
Symbian unveils powerful Symbian OS 9

Sunrise
Sunrise 0.41a released (maintenance release)


Sat February 05 2005

100 GMail invites one click away!

04:21 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

[EDIT: Make sure to last pages of this thread to find the latest still unused invites!]

If you haven't already heard about Gmail, it's a new search-based webmail

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eReader going down the drain?

01:34 PM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

Chris Meadows is not happy with eReader.com. He quotes a person saying that the internal search engine is not working properly. He points out how difficult it was to find the software download links and how slow customer services was in helping him out, plus their incompetence in updating the FAQ section.

Well, I am actually quite happy with eReader.com. My only concern is lack of recent updates of the reading software, especially for WM2003SE Pocket PC devices.

Did anyone else here on board experience trouble with eReader.com?

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