Category: Software

The official Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade for the HTC TyTN II has been leaked over at MoDaCo: in the next couple of days the file ‘RUU_Kaiser_HTC_WWE_3.28.405.0_radio_ sign_25.83.40.02_1.65.16.25_Ship.exe’ that you can find here will also become available via official channels! The update is for HTC TyTN II devices, and will be followed later by a AT&T branded update. The update adds Windows Mobile 6.1 with improvements such as the ‘Getting Started’ wizard, Threaded SMS and …

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Matthew Miller of ZDnet’s The Mobile Gadgeteer reviewed Opera 9.5 today. Overall he’s very impressed by the new web browser. Unfortunately, he neglects the fact that the browser is horribly lacking in support for hardware keyboard navigation. While this is something HTC Touch users surely won’t notice, you can imagine how annoying Opera will be on something like the Palm Treo. It looks like the latest version still has those cryptic mystery icons I mentioned …

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Another piece to my wish for a Killer GPS Navigation program has just appeared. Oops I’m Late has developed a little program called Calendar to Map which sounds like it takes the location information in your Calendar appointment and geocodes it using opengeocoding.org, geonames.org or Microsoft Live Search. This would be similar to the new “Show on Map” command in Live Search mobile version 3. Very nice work! Now we just need to be able …

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According to LiveSide.net: Live Search for Windows Mobile has just received an update, bringing out the features announced at CTIA last month. While it provides the standard mapping and local search that we’ve come to expect, it now adds the following: · Map a contact: For any people in your contacts list/address book, immediately view their address on a map and get directions there. · View Virtual Earth collections: View custom maps of locations and …

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While my next Tablet PC is currently on the FedEx vehicles, I’ve already got all the Windows Vista Tablet PC features enabled on my quad-core Workstation. Having a Wacom Graphics Tablet installed just happens to make all the handwriting recognition, panning, inking, visual cues, and pen flicks become available… and it certainly is great! Pen flicks are extremely cool. If you flick the pen across the screen you can customize these gestures to do certain …

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CellSpin offers software for your mobile device that lets you share photos, videos, blog posts, and audio with a variety of social websites such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, eBay, Live Spaces, and more. MMS and SMS support is available for all phones, while a special mobile application is available for a wide variety of supported phones which include Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian devices. Would this kind of software Make You Use Your Windows Mobile …

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