Apps & Games

Astraware releases Solitaire Winter Edition

Winter has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere and the Holiday Season is upon us, so to celebrate Astraware has created a special version of their popular Astraware Solitaire game for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) smartphones and PDAs.

Solitaire Winter Edition

Astraware Solitaire Winter Edition includes a new icy colour theme and beautiful Winter/Holiday card backs created by Astraware artists Bryan King and Mike Hanson. It also includes all of the features of the standard edition – 12 of the most well-known and best-loved single player card games; easily customizable rules so you can play your way; a range of different colour themes, backgrounds and card backs; and unlockable rewards featuring the Golden Trophy Deck.

Astraware Solitaire Winter Edition is a FREE download for registered users of the standard edition of Astraware Solitaire or Astraware Solitaire Halloween Edition as registration codes work for all three versions. New users who purchase Astraware Solitaire Winter Edition will also be able to use their registration code in the standard version of the game. It’s available for Palm OS(R) 5 devices with hi-res screens, and for Windows Mobile(R) 2003, 2003SE, 5 & 6 Classic (Pocket PC), Professional (Phone Edition), and Standard (Smartphone) devices, priced $19.95.

Check out Atraware Solitaire Winter edition HERE.

Posted by: Matt

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‘GoodWin’ task switcher & launcher with finger friendly interface

VITO Technology have just released ‘GoodWin’, their task switcher and launcher for Windows Mobile devices. Take a look at their press release:

VITO GoodWin

GoodWin is a next generation Windows Mobile launcher and task switcher for Pocket PC. Slide the screen with finger to scroll the list of favorites and running programs, installed applications, and settings – all on one screen! Whenever you turn on your Pocket PC GoodWin displays all necessary information – new SMS, email, current time, missed calls and more…

Along with smooth design and animated menus goes the functionality of a launcher and task switcher making GoodWin irreplaceable. Just press the power button to see time, date, number of missed calls, SMS and e-mails without squinting your eyes. Slide the padlock to unlock the screen and launch applications/settings or switch between running programs.

GoodWin greatly simplifies management of all applications. You can run, uninstall, add or remove them from favorites, switch between running applications. Moreover, it provides instant access to battery charge and phone profiles displayed at the top of the screen. One tap – and you can set your phone to ring, vibration or silent mode.

Still using stylus? Well, forget it. You will need only fingers to manage your Windows Mobile device as long as you have GoodWin on it.

GoodWin is available for $ 19.95 at http://iwindowsmobile.com and http://vitotechnology.com.

Posted by: Mark

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SoliCall Technology Reduces Noise in VoIP Networks

SoliCall dropped me a line yesterday to tell me about their PBXMate software that aims to reduce noise and improve overall call quality on VoIP networks. The idea sounds interesting so here’s what they have to say about it:

SoliCall announced the release of its PBXMate, an innovative and breakthrough technology that will reduce background noise in VoIP networks supporting SIP.

When was the last time you were able to conduct a conference call without suffering from the annoying street noises, generated by at least one of the participants in that call? Or those low-quality incoming calls from cell phones?

And haven’t you ever caught yourself doing something else while you were talking on the phone? Typing away at the keyboard or performing some other mindless task? Now you can stop being troubled by these day-to-day scenarios.

SoliCall came up with the perfect solution. SoliCall’s PBXMate will help you cut down on having that extra noise transmitted during your business calls. SoliCall reduces background noise and improves voice clarity.

“This will mark the end of noisy business calls, and especially conference calls,” says Shlomi Simhi, Director of Marketing for SoliCall (Ltd.). “Our customers report on a dramatic improvement in voice quality and on a whole new conversation experience.”

SoliCall’s PBXMate can work with any VoIP Network that supports SIP and it runs on Linux & Windows. For more information, visit www.solicall.com

Posted by: Matt

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VITO RingtoneEditor updated to version 1.2

Our friends over at Vito Technology have just released a new update for their RingtoneEditor software. Here’s their press release:

VITO Technology releases a new version of VITO RingtoneEditor. VITO RingtoneEditor v1.2 allows you to choose more precisely the start and finish points of the ringtone. BlackJack and MotoQ users now can also enjoy making their own ringtones with RingtoneEditor.

VITO RingtoneEditor

In the new version of VITO RingtoneEditor creating ringtones is still as simple as listening to your favorite songs and selecting a part of it by setting the start and finish points. Only now it is much easier to set the exact start and finish positions for your ringtone.

After choosing the Start position for a ringtone RingtoneEditor starts replaying a short part of the song from this place and you can choose the exact moment for your ringtone to start. The same happens when you press Finish button.

The new version of VITO RingtoneEditor supports famous BlackJack and Moto Q including other devices with the same screen resolution. With VITO RingtoneEditor you can easily create as many ringtones as you wish from your favorite music. The slider showing the song progress has become more informative. When you start making ringtone the scroll box becomes highlighted. Now it is clearly seen what part of the song is chosen for the ringtone.

VITO RingtoneEditor is available for $ 9.95 at www.vitotechnology.com.

Posted by: Matt

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VITO Technology releases ZoomBoard

VITO Technology releases ZoomBoard, an onscreen keyboard with zoomed preview for comfortable and accurate typing.

VITO ZoomBoard

From VITO’s press release:

ZoomBoard allows quick and accurate typing on Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Typing with this keyboard is as easy as sliding finger across the screen. When you tap a key there appears a magnifying glass just above the keyboard with a zoomed image. The magnifying glass displays the zoomed letter under your finger and the nearest letters as well. This way you know where to slide your finger to type the proper letter. The key highlighted with red in the magnifying glass is ready to type. Slide over the necessary letter until it gets red and release finger to type this letter.

Whatever you type on your Pocket PC ZoomBoard will make this task easier as you can forget the stylus altogether. From now on you can type just by tapping and sliding. SMS chatting on your Pocket PC is going to be a real fun now that you type as quickly as your finger slides! Your typing will become more accurate as well. Tapped a wrong letter? Just slide your finger over the right letter and release it.

ZoomBoard is available for $ 9.95 at http://iwindowsmobile.com. There is also a full featured 14-day trial.

Posted by: Matt

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Astraware Classic Collection

Astraware is excited to announce a brand new games pack featuring 3 of their most-popular games.

Astraware Classic Collection

Following many customer requests, the Astraware Classic Collection brings together 3 family-friendly favorites featuring an award-winning Sudoku game, 8 classic boardgames, and 12 of the best-known card games, all in one super value pack for a very special price.

The Astraware Classic Collection includes Astraware Sudoku, Astraware Boardgames, and Astraware Solitaire and is available for Palm OS(R), and Windows Mobile(R) smartphones and PDAs. The collection is priced $39.95 – a saving of one third off the price of all 3 games bought separately and special pricing is also available to customers who already own one of the games.

For more information or to buy, visit the Astraware website at http://www.astraware.com/classic/.

Posted by: Matt

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Astraware releases Plantastic

Astraware and PalmStorm are excited to announce the release of Plantastic! for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile smartphones and PDAs.

Plantastic screenshot

Plantastic! is a fun combination of puzzle and strategy game where you create bouquets from groups of brightly coloured flowers to clear them from the play board and reach each level’s bloom target! Each game mode has a different planting pattern and blooms can only be placed near the player’s last bloom within the pattern shown. Blooms drop into the queue and you must plant them in the garden before the queue fills up.

Plantastic! begins as a simple fun game, but add the challenge of more complex flower arrangements, and a range of different bloom colours as you progress, and the challenge increases. Avoid the mushrooms that block your path, and stop Mr Mole from stealing your blooms by tapping him on the head, but make sure you don’t run out of time or flowers! Flower powerups like the super trowel and joker flowers will offer assistance to boost your points total.

Developed by PalmStorm and published by Astraware, Plantastic! includes 5 different play modes across 3 levels of difficulty and hundreds of play levels. The game is designed for Palm OS(R) 5 and Windows Mobile(R) 2003, 2003SE, 5 and 6 devices with touchscreens, and is available from the Astraware website http://www.astraware.com/plantastic, priced $19.95.

Posted by: Matt

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HeroCraft presents Snow Lines

HeroCraft presents a wonderful puzzle Snow Lines for PDA & Smartphones.

This “bright as the glittering snow” and “bracing as a frosty winter morning” mega-popular logic game is ready to load you up with a heap of presents! Snow Lines has superb graphics, intellectual puzzles, a variety of game modes and enthralling game play.

HeroCraft Snow Lines

Can you imagine anything worse than a dull winter evening on your own? How much better would it be to spend your time in a crowded party with cheerful friends, where there is a lot of jokes and amusement? But have you ever tried to organize a feast yourself? In this case you know how complicated it can be. Snow Lines is not necessarily easier, but it’s a much more fascinating passtime! In this arcade logic game you should, with all your sharpness, gather together all who have a tedious time in solitude, into merry company.

Snow Lines is arguably the best Lines game yet. You are able to play against the clock or to set up dizzying records; achieve high scores; or try to overcome dozens of original levels. Several game modes give the opportunity to get the most amusement out of Snow Lines, and flexible rules help to find something new in this game time after time. Just load it up and you’ll be engrossed in a vortex of smiles, excitement and riddles which get evermore complicated as you play.

The detailed information about the game, including screenshots, trailers and links for demo versions is available on HeroCraft PDA official site.

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Posted by: Matt

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VITO AudioPlayer updated to version 1.16

VITO Technology releases a new version of VITO AudioPlayer. This easy-to-use Windows Mobile player runs swiftly and has the basic playback features.

VITO AudioPlayer

VITO AudioPlayer has become closer to you as now it can be set as a default player. Now it is easier to access the player and play your favorite music with VITO AudioPlayer. Another feature added is that instead of multiple taps for rewinding a song you can just press-and-hold the right or left arrow on joystick to rewind or fast forward the recording.

VITO AudioPlayer has become even more user-friendly as it now pauses during the phone call and continues playing after it’s over. Smart enough, isn’t it? Besides, while playing audio files it doesn’t interrupt when stumbling over files with not supported audio format.

VITO AudioPlayer is available for $9.95 at http://vitotechnology.com

Posted by: Matt

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EQO releases native WM verision their VoIP app.

EQO Communications recently announced the release of a native Windows Mobile beta version of its mobile VoIP, text and IM application. EQO (pronounced “echo”) is a free mobile application that lets users call anywhere in the world for rates as low as 1.2 p/minute and also features inexpensive international text messages and free access to popular instant messaging services, including MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. By developing a Windows Mobile native version of EQO, Windows Mobile smartphone users can enjoy a faster and more responsive mobile VoIP experience.

EQO is already available on hundreds of device models and as of today is available as a native client for Windows Mobile versions 2003 and higher. This makes EQO available to the millions of Windows Mobile smartphones that have shipped worldwide (9 million in 2006 alone) on popular devices such as the HTC Touch, Samsung Blackjack, Motorola Q,Palm 750w and HP iPAQ

By using EQO, Windows Mobile smartphone users can now save up to 95% on international calls to landlines and mobile phones, and save up to 70% on international text messages. In addition, calls and texts exchanged between EQO users are free. Once the EQO application is downloaded, users can automatically import all of their existing contacts into their EQO phonebook. With EQO’s presence feature, users are able to see which of their contacts are online and who is available for a call, to receive a text or have a chat using EQO’s free IM feature.

EQO is inviting all Windows Mobile enthusiasts to be part of the beta trial by signing up at www.EQO.com/windowsmobile .

Posted by: Matt

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