08:42 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

If you are looking for a decent e-mail client replacement, you should visit Handango, who is giving out WebIS Mail 2.06 - from the makers of Pocket Informant - for free this week!

Once you sign up with Handango, you should receive your registration code within 5 minutes of making the free order.

Edit: A beta of a VGA-compatible version (2.1) is available here.

08:31 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

On behalf of the staff of Mobileread, I would like to thank everybody for browing our web site, for your contributions, and for the feedback and suggestions you have provided us throughout this year.

I would also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank our editors for their tiredless work: Bob, Sunshine, Jess, Zire71man, Morpheus, Craig, Thierry, Ignatz - I could not have done this without you! I hope everyone will join me in a big 'thank you' for all their amazing help!

A Blessed Merry Christmas and a Happy (and Healthy) New Year to everyone.

Alex

07:10 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Jonathan Aquino has extracted the program comments and ratings from the site to give a glimpse at the best of the software available.

Check it out at Johathan Aquino's Mental Garden.

Note also that Palm has more software available, and bragging rights...

FreewarePalm lists 6277 freeware programs
FreewarePPC lists 1025 freeware programs
That's about 6 times as much software for PalmOS than PPC!

(via Palm Addict)

07:08 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Jonathan Aquino has extracted the program comments and ratings from the site to give a glimpse at the best of the software available.

Check it out at Johathan Aquino's Mental Garden.

Note also that Palm has more software available, and bragging rights...

FreewarePalm lists 6277 freeware programs
FreewarePPC lists 1025 freeware programs
That's about 6 times as much software for PalmOS than PPC!

(via Palm Addict)

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

Neil Brown wrote an in-depth review of Pocket Informant 5, (in my opinion) the best PIM software for Pocket PC. His conclusion:

As usual, I am not going to mince my words- download this application now. HP made an excellent decision by including this in the iPAQ 4700 ROM, and, if you place any reliance on the PocketOutlook tools, I am certain that you will obtain benefit from PocketInformant. The sheer number of options available is overwhelming, and many of these are incredibly useful- for me, the crunch test was whether I would become more organised through using this software, and, yes I did. I found the PocketOutlook method positively clunky after experiencing the interface of PI, and the ability to see appointment details in month view is invaluable. Overall, I am full of praise for this application- it does everything that it says it will, and more besides. I urge you to download the trial- but do be prepared to purchase the full version as a result. Highly recommended.

06:49 PM by Francesco in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Today I discovered this wonderful site for geeks. I mean, IF a geek ever comes to MobileRead.

The name is Hack a Day and you can find it here:
http://www.hackaday.com/

What's in there? Well, mostly tips to modify the inteded behaviour of your electronic devices, a.k.a. hacks.
Also you might find how to build your own (monster) gadgets, or news about hacks done by experts that might one day benefit you.

A few examples are:
- get your sprint treo 650 to work on verizon (http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000493023729/)
- make your own dance dance revolution mat (http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000910023874/)
- project nitro, using your nintendo ds over the web (http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000533024456/)

And a special (but not so impressive, though) hack for our admin, and some of the people who has yielded to the temptations of the dark side:
- enable dell x50 series pocket pc secret software (http://handhelds.hackaday.com/entry/1234000540023314/)

Sorry for the lousy formatting. But... I just don't feel like doing it right!

Be sure to check the index to find hacks related to your most beloved device.

12:31 PM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News

Cambridge (UK)-based Plastic Logic is to work with US firm E Ink to produce what could be the nearest computing has yet got to electronic paper.

Plastic Logic has demonstrated a screen that can bend to a radius of 5mm, a format that would enable its use in mobile displays that scroll out like a roll-top desk - if the flexing can be done repeatedly.

It has also signed a deal with Siemens to develop flexible screens for mobiles. It is expected that the Siemens deal will involve OLED or LCD rather than E-Ink screens, which have only four greyscale levels. The company says it will be able to offer 100dpi resolution E-Ink screens in 2005 and up to 150dpi the following year, when A4 (21x29.7cm) screens will also be available.

Click here to read the official press release.

[via Personal Computer World]

12:11 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video

PodReader is an open-source OS X application that takes electronic texts and "intelligently" parses them into a series of text blocks that can be read on Apple's iPod.

Still in the early stages of development, it is planned to rapidly mature into an application tailored for PDA-type functionality to include reading of various types of electronic media. Ports to Linux and Win32 are planned.

You can download the application from here. Related to PodReader are two articles (here and here) which explain how to build an e-book reader for iPod.