Wed December 29 2004
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07:23 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones We've received user submits on two new games available for Pocket PC. One of the games is Naval Ship Warfare, a classic Battleships clone with some extra options. You can play the classical five-ship version, or mix it up by adding an extra ship into your naval fleet, placing mines, and sending out airplanes. The other game is Mario Docker, an arcade Tetris clone, in which the protagonist, Mario the Port Docker, has to unload all the barges coming into port. Thanks to Ohayden and mariodocker.com for the news. |
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Tue December 28 2004
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03:04 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
- MorphGear is now free for non-commercial use. MorphGear can emulate the following systems on Pocket PC: o Nintendo GameBoy Advance (VGBA) You can download MorphGear from here. |
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10:25 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Your local sales rep with a projector hooked up to his or her laptop uses technology that creates the image by blocking light, which is very inefficient because it uses a very bright light bulb, and only a small portion of the light makes it to the image. (And you pay an arm and a leg to replace that little sucker also!) But the new method, being developed at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University, will steer laser light. A black and white prototype is already working. It will be practical for consumer color versions only after the price of blue lasers drops, which is expected to happen when the next generation of "Blu-ray" DVDs becomes mainstream in the consumer world. |
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Mon December 27 2004
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11:52 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise
# Default: Use the cached page/image if the Cache-Control or Expires header indicates that it hasn't expired yet. Otherwise, check with the web server if the cached copy is up-to-date using a Conditional GET request (see below). Sunrise 0.40 pre2 also contains some important bug fixes allowing you to run it on Windows 9x machines again. You can download the latest Sunrise by clicking here, or visit here first to see a list of all changes for 0.40 pre2. Sunrise is the only desktop component I know that respects Conditional GET requests, which can not only free up server resources but also reduces overall bandwidth consumption for the user. So what is a Considitional GET? The people who invented HTTP decided that a web client such as Internet Explorer or Sunrise should be able to ask a web server via a conditional GET if a web document has changed since the last time it looked at it. If nothing has changed, the server returns a simple 304 respond code which means as much as "Not Modified" and tells the client that it doesn't have to redownload the document. Let's hope that other downloaders like iSiloX will support this feature as well in future! |
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08:34 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...
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08:31 AM by Bob Russell in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...
Unlike the massive collection of copyright-free general literature at Project Gutenberg, the Project Wittenberg collection is focused on Christian religous writings and started off with the writings of Martin Luther. Not surprising as it seems to be a Lutheran effort. In their own words...
Can you imagine the wealth of resources online if more groups would form online libraries of their own favorite topics! |
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Sun December 26 2004
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04:07 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
This is a great deal considering that its Explorer 2003 is my favorite file manager for Pocket PC! |
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07:12 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Portable Audio/Video
Airport Express officially only supports streaming music from iTunes. With Slipstream you can now listen to your music in any file format from applications like RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. The program will be available in early 2005 for an introductory price of US $20. Let's hope someone will hack a similar tool for MS Windows and *nix users. I bought an Airport Express even with the original Monster cables, but so far haven't even tried to use audio streaming because I don't like to have to install iTunes. Note: This is not the first time someone tried to circumvent the limitations of the Airport Express. In August we reported how "DVD Jon" cracked the private keys that the device uses to protect music streams. |
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