11:10 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

We are looking for two extra editors to enlarge our MR Team.

Requirements: dedication, ability to post regularly, excellent English writing and reading skills, ability to get into the MR spirit when posting your finds.

Send your applications to the MR Team.

09:50 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Picard has just released the first release candiate of BetaPlayer 0.096 "unstable". The Intel 2700G plugin is now part of the main core, no additional plugin is required here anymore.

You can download it from here.

06:51 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

This is great news for all WiFi warriors among us! Wireless-expert SyChip today announced its WLAN 6100EWB Embedded Module providing IEEE 802.11g connectivity for handheld mobile devices including smart phones, feature phones, PDAs, gaming devices and media players.

According to SyChip, the WLAN 6100EB Embedded Module supports various operation systems, including Nucleus, REX, Palm, Linux, and Windows Mobile. It is optimized for handhelds through advanced power save functions (with an ultra low power sleep mode), security features (in compliance with IEEE 802.11i), and Quality of Service (QoS) traffic prioritization features critical for VoIP and multimedia applications. Its small form factor-the module takes up an area of 90 square millimeters and a height of only 0.9 mm, making it one of the smallest, complete WiFi solutions available today.

Now can anyone tell us how long it takes to integrate this kind of chip and to deliver it to the PDA retail market?

06:22 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Handango is being more generous this week by offering Passwords Plus by DataViz for free. Passwords Plus allows you to store your PINs, usernames, credit card numbers, web logins and more securely on your PalmOS device. Use Passwords Plus on your PC , Mac, Palm OS or Pocket PC handheld and don't let your secure personal information fall into the wrong hands.

Note that this free PalmOS offer also includes the desktop component (a USD $29.99 value).

06:14 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

This week's Handango freebie is SplashPhoto for Pocket PC. SlashPhoto offers is a smple, fast, high quality image viewer, with and includes a desktop catalog system for further image editing. BargainPDA has reviewed Slashphoto.

While not my favorite (I prefer Resco Photo Viewer), you surely cannot beat FREE! (with a USD $29.95 value).

05:58 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Does this mark the upcoming end of the Palm platform? The folks at 1src.com decided to move away from being a Palm-dedicated forum to a "all-tech" place for basically everything tech-related such as Audio/Video, Cellphones, Digital Cameras, Gaming, Gadgets & Gizmos, Non-Palm OS PDAs, PCs/Laptops, Tech Web.

Good luck guys! I hope you are not trying to cover too much ground.

05:46 AM by Colin Dunstan in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices

FlatLrf is a free Java application which allows you to recursively download Internet webpages to your Sony Librie e-book reader. Very nice!

At one time the Sony Librie e-book reader only allowed you to read a limited choice of commercial e-books available only to the Japanese market. Then in November txt2lrf came out, the first hack attempt by 'scythic' to convert your own text files to the Librie's LRF format. It was followed by MakeLFR and finally Sony's own official add-on tools allowing you to save your own reading material to the Librie.

FlatLrf is yet another valuable tool that should have been released by Sony the very first day it put the Librie on the market!

10:50 AM by Bob Russell in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Ever feel like paper and pencil is better than screen and stylus, but that it doesn't live up to geek status? Well, now you can get the best of both worlds with the Hipster PDA. It's simply a stack of low-tech index cards, but just for fun the author discusses settings and preferences, David Allen's Getting Things Done and gives tips on how to organize your Hipster PDA.

Technology is amazing, but good 'ole paper is pretty amazing too!

[Edit: See also this article from the USC Faculty Forum Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device; trade-name: "BOOK" ]