Wed January 05 2005
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09:36 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise
Unless new serious issues show up, we should be able to expect a final 0.40 release soon (at least if you believe that Laurens' to-do list for 0.40 is empty now). If you are new to Sunrise, click here to find out more about its top-notch features for website offline conversion. |
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09:30 AM by Gatton in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...
Not sure if they only offer novellas for free or if they mix it up with some novels or short stories. Anyone remember from last year? |
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08:25 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
New in V2.01 is the new channel wizard, caching of web pages for later display using PocketIE, support for downloading enclosures (Podcasting), a configurable item sort, and configurable item retention. Looks like the market for mobile RSS clients is heating up. There are at least three good choices for PocketPC available now: Egress, PocketRSS and Newsbreak. Egress is available for $12 (was previously available for $10). |
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08:09 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Mickey: 20% smaller than a 1"-harddrive, expected to make its debut in the second half of 2005 at a mere 14 grams and in an embedded-only design. Capacities between 8GB and 10GB. Slim: a 1.8"-harddrive, also expected to make its entrance in the latter half of the year with 30-40GB of capacity for the one-disk version (and up to 80GB for the two-disk version). In the separate announcement today Hitachi added the Deskstar 7K500 to its product line -- the world's highest capacity 3.5-inch SATA hard drive at 500 GB! [via Golem.de] |
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05:37 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones We were just contacted through e-mail and phone by a Microsoft representative to remove the material regarding Windows Mobile 2005 (Magneto). We honor their (actually very polite) request and removed all sensitive information from this post. Don't be upset! It'll take only a few more months before we can enjoy the first new devices running Windows Mobile 2005! In the meantime, feel free to browse our community for more news and interesting articles on mobile content and gadgets. |
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05:25 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
+optional software volume handling |
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05:14 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge We're almost stifling a yawn this time around, but here is yet another prediction for 2005, and unlike some others one that is well worth a read. Jeff from Writing On Your Palm writes that Windows Mobile 2005 (aka Magneto) will be better than 2003SE, but not enough better to really matter. Ultra-portable computers (UPS) such as the OQO will remain niche products. RIM will expand its smartphone market presence with the Blackberry device. PalmOne will remain profitable and focus on the consumer (not geek!) user. The HP iPAQ will be slowly discontinued in favor of upcoming UPS devices. Geeks will enjoy upcoming portable video recorders (PVR). The first PalmOS Cobalt-based smartphone will be released in 1Q'05 by Samsung. There will be a rebirth of PalmOS in the "feature phone" (less powerful than smartphone) world. There will be no PalmOS on Linux before 2006. Tapwave will continue to challenge the game console market. I agree with Jeff up to the point of where he predicts that WM 2005 wouldn't be a big deal. Unlike the current version (WM2003SE), which is still based on Windows CE 4.2, WM 2005 will be based on Windows CE 5.0. Because of this change, Magneto will include: I am sure the Direct3D Mobile feature alone would be worth a switch to Pocket PC for a lot of game freaks out there. |
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Tue January 04 2005
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01:32 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...
Simply find a book, note it's ID number, then subscribe to the RSS feed like this: http://www.mobdex.com/rss?book=116&id=russ The ID can be anything, but because I'm not checking for duplicates or want to deal with a registration process, it's better to use something unique like your email or something secret yet unique. This RSS will return the first "page" of text in that book to your RSS aggregator. If the first few pages are gobbledygook (as Project Gutenberg books sometimes are) or you want to go back a few "pages", simply reset the counter (which increments +1 "page" per day you've checked the site) by appending a "page" parameter like "&page=12". And if you're a speed reader and want the pages to be updated more frequently, add an "interval" parameter in minutes. This would produce another page for my aggregator every couple of hours: http://www.mobdex.com/rss?book=116&id=russ&interval=120 And what is Mobdex? |
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