Sun October 24 2004
MobileRead Week in Review: 10/17 - 10/24 |
08:25 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review In case you've missed any MobileRead news from this week, here is our usual roundup: Book Reader Hardware Book Reader Software Emerging Technologies General Chat General Palm Discussion General PPC Discussion Plucker |
Fri October 22 2004
iRiver PMP: DivX movies in your hands |
03:13 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video iRiver has formally introduced its Linux-based Portable Media Player (PMP) family in the UK. The PMP-120 and PMP-140, each equipped with a 20GB and a 40GB 1.8in hard drive, respectively, provide MP3, ASF, WMA and WAV audio playback, along with MPEG 4, AVI, DivX and XviD video support. There's still photography storage and slide-show features, too, and the machines also provide an FM radio and voice recording facilities. Available now, the PMP-120 retails for around £400, the 40GB version for £450. Linux is the way to go! Read the full story at The Register. |
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Run your iPod for 22 hours |
02:15 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video We already reported that it was possible to replace your iPod battery by yourself. Not only is it cheaper than Apple's $100 battery-replacement program, but also does it allow you to pick a high-capacity battery which can double the life of an original iPod, granting an amazing 22 hours of continuous play! Wired tested a $40, high-capacity, 2,100 mAh replacement iPod battery from Newer Technology and confirms that Replacing the battery yourself is the way to go. It's half the price of getting someone else to do it, and very easy to do. |
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Medieval Folk Healer 1.1 Major Update |
05:09 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Medieval Folk Healer has undergone a major update with all new graphics and an all new interface! Medieval Folk Healer combines history and fiction to create a business game in the healing arts of yore. The full version costs only $9.95 and a trial version is available for download. More information can be found at the Trisystech website: www.trisystech.com. You can also see some more screenshots in this this thread. Thanks for JongJungBu for informing us. |
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Thu October 21 2004
Cash-cow Handango |
09:25 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge I read in a press release today that Handango has made into the Inc. 500 list:
You can read the rest here. Now this is slightly annoying to me. Remember the discussion on the ESD Monopoly? Well it appears nothing has really changed much since then. Handango makes it into some silly ranking list and can still celebrate its ESD margin of 40% or greater. |
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Astraware up-to-50%-discount offers |
09:16 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Astraware has lined up twelve of its latest titles and put discounts of up to 50% on each of them! ... these offers only run until the end of October. Bejeweled is still one of my favorite games out there. So if you haven't had a change to buy it yet, you can do it now! |
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TomeRaider 3 is Final now |
09:08 PM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management Last week we mentioned an available beta of TomeRaider 3. Now you can download the final version of this often underrated e-book reader software. I don't think much anything has changed from the last beta, so this here is new since TomeRaider 2: Categories/Filters for database queries, image support, accelerated full text searches, better and faster compression, full html support, DRM and encryption. TomeRaider is optimized for large text files and dictionary lookups. For instance, you could convert the Wikipedia database to a highly optimized, searchable .tr3 file. |
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Cybook E-Book Reader reviewed |
07:47 PM by Colin Dunstan in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices aRMiTaG3 has a cool illustrated hands-on review of the Cybook E-Book Reader (available at Bookeen). As sad as this sounds, but the Cybook is still not the perfect e-book reader we've been waiting for (disqualifies because of: lousy screen, outdated software, high price). And thus our search continues... |
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