Here’s my video walk-through of an early Opera Mobile v9.5 Beta. There are some significant design flaws with this program, most notably the removal of the Windows Mobile bottom bar with softkey menus. This makes it impossible to use the browser with the highly efficient keyboard shortcuts found in the rest of Windows Mobile. Instead you have a series of “mystery meat” icons that require a stylus to actuate (and documentation to understand). So if …
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Buying Movie Tickets is Back!
Once upon a time, back when high speed wireless internet was about 14 Kbs on my CDPD PCMCIA card modem attached to my iPAQ H3600, there was a nice little mobile website called Moviefone that let us elite wireless internet users find and purchase movie tickets while out on a dinner date or strolling through Central Park. Soon Moviefone stopped allowing ticket purchases through their mobile site for no apparent reason, and we were stuck …
Continue readingThe First Screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Have Surfaced
PocketPT.net has posted the first screen shots of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. As covered by here are the highlights of what’s new in Windows Mobile 6.1: – Office Mobile now includes also One Note Mobile application – Internet Explorer now has function “Zoom Out” what enables page-overview mode and better overall navigation through web pages – Windows Mobile 6.1 still is based on Windows CE 5.2 so no upgrade to Windows CE 6.0 – SMS …
Continue readingShare TouchPal with your Pal
As a reminder, you have until February 1st, 2008 to get Cootek’s TouchPal v2.0 Professional for only $10.98 USD. And that includes two licenses! If you’re looking for a buddy to share it with, thus reducing the cost to $5.49, post a comment in the discussion link below. After February 1st, the price goes up to $19.99, but you still have until March 31st to find a buddy if you buy now. I have quickly …
Continue readingFlashlight Software Now Available for the iPhone
For years, Windows Mobile users have been installing various flashlight applications that make the screen turn completely white so that you can use it to light up a dark room and see where you’re going. Well, now this indispensable program is available for the Apple iPhone. Click here to check it out. It’s actually number 3 on the iPhone’s Top WebApps list. Originally published on Pocketnow on January 18, 2008. More Software articles from the …
Continue readingTouchPal v2.0 is Now Available
CooTek has recently released a new version of their amazing TouchPal software based keypad for Windows Mobile. There are also two versions now. The Standard version is still free, but the Professional version has some very nice new features including mis-typing correction, custom commands, sentences with variables, dynamic layout changes, emoticons, skins, and multiple languages support. The professional version costs only $10.98 until Feb 1, 2008 (includes 2 licenses) and will be $19.99 after that. …
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