App Stores are like buses, none for ages then two come along together, this time its from O2 the network operator who have announced O2 Litmus in a beta flavour for now. James Parton, head of O2 Litmus said “What you see here is the culmination of a long journey during which we have spent a lot of time talking to O2 customers, application developers and industry expert types to ensure O2 Litmus is not just another ‘me too’ offering, but something truly unique and valuable.” You can visit the app store here. or read on for more info.
Spb Software, the world’s leading Windows Mobile software developer announces the start of Spb Holiday Sale 2008, which will run from December 16th until December 30th at the developer’s official website. For the first time ever, Spb launches a major sale campaign, offering a 30% discount across its entire product line: from usability applications to platform enhancements, from advanced business applications to games.
Palm have launched an official on-device application store for both Windows Mobile and Palm OS powered handsets. Palm have called on PocketGear, an app distributor which has rounded up around 50,000 smartphone applications since launching in June of 2008, to power the boutique. It’s a bit strange to see a handset manufacturer so openly sharing their application store’s spotlight with a third party, but it ensures that Palm’s got a full catalog on day one. At launch, over 1,500 developers have already submitted their virtual goods to the Software Store. You can download either version from this link.
via Crunchgear
If you are looking for an HD Video Editor and Effects package then look no further.
Northampton December 9th 2008– proDAD GmbH leading software developer for creative video editing, have announced the latest addition to its popular Adorage Effects Package – Adorage Effects Package 10 – Full HD Video Effects Generation. Adorage Effects Package 10 includes hundreds of video effects and transitions from previous Adorage Effects Packages, now in Full HD resolution.
Adorage Effects Packages are a low cost way for video editors to add a wide range of high quality effects and transitions to their video productions. Adorage has been extremely popular among hobbyist video editors for many years due its ease of use and low cost, and is now enjoying popularity within the professional video editing community for the same reasons. Adorage Effects Package 10 now includes plug-in support for Adobe® Premier/Pro/Elements, AVID® Liquid, Canopus® Edius, Sony® Vegas/Vegas Pro, and ULead® Mediastudio NLE applications (previous Effects Packages required separate purchase of Adorage All-Plug-in Collection at a cost of $29, now included with Effects Package 10).
it’s 10 years since the first Adorage effect package was published and today, the Adorage range includes more than 10,000 effect presets. Now the 10th Adorage effects package is out – with more than 700 effects in up-to-date HD quality. The best Adorage package ever, with the ultimate technology for all HD enthusiasts – and SD film-makers too.
This package offers you a range of amazing effects for your video productions. And these are the themes:
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Love and weddings
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Family memories
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Holiday, travel and landscapes
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Parties and events
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Sports
Plus a vast range of effects for universal use:
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Magic particle effects
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Decorative frames
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Atmospheric shapes and colours
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Decorative zoom, scaling and rotation effects
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Brilliant opening/closing effects for introductions or film endings
The best Adorage effects ever – only on Adorage Volume 10
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Multicore support for superfast rendering
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Quick & easy selection of effects
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Improved handling
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New video filter plug-ins for a wider range of uses
Why not head over to their site to find out more about what this new package has to offer.
Posted by: John
If your a Windows Mobile user and use Windows Media Center with Vista you should take a look at The Digital Lifestyle’s video of the Sideshow gadget in action. Ian has put together a great video which looks at some of the features of the gadget including Now Playing, browsing the guide data, playing music and selecting pictures. We have the video after the break and if you into Media Center you should sign up at The Digital Lifestyle as it is a fantastic resource for all things Media Center and Windows Home Server.
The guys over at SymbianWorld have discovered Wordmobi, a WordPress client for your S60 device which is a freeware application that works on all the latest S60 devices. Using Wordmobi you can write and edit posts, edit and write comments and create new categories. It works with wordpress.com blogs as well as with self hosted blogs using wordpress.org. So you can manage your whole blog on the go. Here you can download Wordmobi. However, first you need to download and install Python for S60.
via SymbianWorld
Mozilla’s Christian Sejersen let slip this little nugget of information on his blog stating that, “In Q3 2008 Symbian had 49.8% of the total smartphone sales (and 57% in Q2) according to Gartner compared to 11.1% for Windows Mobile and 7.2% for Linux. “So in order for Mozilla to be relevant in the smartphone space we need to have a presence on the Symbian platform.” This could mean that the release of the Firefox for Mobile browser, dubbed ‘Fennec’ could happen on multiple handsets, rather than just a slow, and staggered roll out.
Orange today announced the launch of a Technocentre in Britain, designed to help develop new and exciting “twenty-first” century services for its customers in the UK and across the Orange footprint. The Technocentre represents a significant investment in the UK and will open on January 5th 2009. It will expand on the work of other Technocentre facilities around the world and will see UK and Group developers working on products and services for more than 170 million France Telecom customers, including 115 under the Orange brand. The new facility will also work on projects that are specifically aligned to UK customer needs.
Microsoft have started to produce how to videos for Windows Mobile which is definitely a good thing and they have set up their very own YouTube channel. There are only a few videos there at the moment but it is good to see some love being shown in the Windows Mobile direction. You can check out the channel here.
via wmpoweruser
As you probably know, we have looked at the HTC S740 a few times already with a video demonstration and a written review already on site. However, the units that we’ve looked at up to now have been prototypes and demo devices, several of you have asked for a proper retail unboxing video.
The HTC S740
So that’s exactly what we have here. I just got my hands on the full retail unit and have a short unboxing video for you. In this video I don’t go in to a lot of detail about the S740 itself. If you want to see more of the handset itself please have a look at the other video demonstration or the written HTC S740 review.
HTC S740 Specification:
- Windows Mobile® 6.1 Standard
- 116.3 mm (L) X 43.4 mm (W) X 16.3 mm (T)
- 140g with battery
- Qualcomm® MSM7225™, 528MHz
- RAM: 256MB SDRAM
- ROM: 256MB
- 2.4 inch TFT-LCD and QVGA resolution screen
- HSDPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz for Europe.
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
- 802.11 b/g WiFi
- Bluetooth® 2.0
- 3.2 megapixel colour camera with fixed focus
- 1000 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion polymer battery
- Battery Standby: Up to 280 hours
- Battery Talk Time: Up to 380 minutes
- HTC ExtUSB™
- GPS / AGPS
- microSD
Posted by: Matt
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