Apps & Games

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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Astraware releases Solitaire Halloween Edition

Astraware invites you to celebrate Halloween with a special spooky version of Astraware Solitaire.

Solitaire Halloween Edition

Astraware Solitaire – Halloween Edition includes all the features of the highly-acclaimed standard edition but with the addition of a brand new Halloween card back set and a more eerie default color scheme. Select your card back from a choice of werewolf, vampire, pumpkins, bats, mummy, witch, ghost, or spider!

Astraware Solitaire includes 12 of the most well-known and best-loved card games in one easy-to-use pack. Each game offers customizable gameplay so you can play to your favorite set of rules, along with easily changeable color themes, backgrounds, card backs and fronts. It’s available for smartphones and PDAs running Palm OS(R) or Windows Mobile(R) and is compatible with a wide range of devices across both platforms.

The Halloween Edition of Astraware Solitaire will be available for a limited time only with a special $5 discount off the regular price. Registration codes for the standard version will work in the Halloween edition and vice versa, so owners of Astraware Solitaire can download this special version for FREE!

To download a trial or to buy, visit http://www.astraware.com/solitairehe.

Posted by: Matt

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VITO AudioNotes updated to v 1.32

VITO Technology releases a new version of the bestselling program VITO AudioNotes – Windows Mobile mp3 and wav recorder. The new version loads much quicker. A new code for detecting calls makes it possible to record calls on most WM 5.0 & 6.0 Smartphones correctly. Quick Record that allows one button recording is now available for Smartphone users.

VITO AudioNotes

Now call auto record function works more precisely and identifies the contact name on most Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 devices correctly. So call records have the same name as corresponding contact.

VITO AudioNotes loads quicker than ever as contacts loading is not necessary anymore. Besides, the list of recordings is loaded simultaneously with other functions of the program.

Another important feature in the new version is when Calls auto record is ticked the program continues recording calls even after you exit AudioNotes.

In the new version Smartphone users can start recording with a single button press. All none HTC Smartphone users can assign recording to speed dial (Quick Record in Start). Lucky HTC Smartphone users can use this function either as speed dial or as Pocket PC users do (Menu>Recording>Quick Record) by assigning one of the available buttons.

VITO AudioNotes is available for $ 19.95 at http://vitotechnology.com. Updates are free for customers who purchased VITO AudioNotes within a year’s time.

VITO Technology Inc. is known for its high-tech products in the field of Windows Mobile and Symbian software, GPS navigation and custom projects. Introduced in the present article VITO AudioNotes is a Windows Mobile MP3 and WAV recorder for Pocket PC and Smartphones.

Posted by: Matt

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Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth 3D – Major update

OK, so this perhaps isn’t what we’d normally be talking about on Tracyandmatt, but I’ve used “Live Local” for quite a while, and I think this update is definately worth a mention.

While Live Local has been around a while, and even things like the ‘birds eye’ views are well known now, some features were missing from the 3D applet. Not anymore.

Microsoft have lined up all the bird eye view scenes into the 3D world. It’s not an easy thing to describe, so have a look at the screenshot to see just how good this is:

The white box contains the birds eye image data, but with the update, the 3D engine tints and zooms the standard aerial mapping/road map to line up with the higher quality box out. You still have all the functionality to zoom/tilt/pan, and can view the specific bird eye view from another angle (all automatically adjusting the surrounding areas to line up)

I’m still not explaining it very well, but go take a look at Windows Live Local, and install the Virtual Earth engine by selecting 3D in the top left corner. This also works in Firefox, as well as Internet Explorer.

Posted By: Mark

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iWindowsMobile.com presents FunContact and AstroNavigator II

VITO Technology is proud to present a brand-new web site with top quality software for your Windows Mobile Pocket PC. The six refined sparkling applets are just getting ready to show you the best of Windows Mobile. You’ll discover your Windows Mobile can do like iPhone and much more!

iWindowsMobile

Right now iWindowsMobile.com holds two applications to freshen up & upgrade your Pocket PC: FunContact and AstroNavigator II. AstroNavigator II has already become well known among Windows Mobile users for its finger friendly interface and fancy graphics with animated menus. Now they can have the same effects while managing contacts with FunContact.

FunContact is a Windows Mobile contact manager that brings iPhone experience to your Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Now you can scroll a contact list just with a flick of a finger. The animated menus and sparkling interface with big tap-ready buttons make contact managing a real fun!

Apart from its fancy finger-friendly interface FunContact provides quick access to the list of favorite contacts and to call history. Contacts can be sorted by first name, last name or company. The touch & feel principle of FunContact makes it a truly indispensable Windows Mobile contact manager!

You are very welcome to go to iWindowsMobile.com and download the applications to see for yourself the brand-new looks of Windows Mobile on your Pocket PC!

Posted by: Mark

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