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Hey, did you know that I have spotted another ultraportable which is going to be released soon? You are not surprised at all? Well, this time you should! In fact this new little jewel is different from other ultraportables I have reviewed, because it is a crossover among different things, without speaking about its small dimensions. But let’s see its most important features:

• 163 x 67 x 24.5-mm, 387-grams, shaped into a brick like structure.
• 4-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen.
• 1GHz VIA C7M ULV processor.
• 4GB of DDR2 memory.
• Dual boot between Windows XP and Linux Qplus.
• Cellphone capability.
• 1.3-inch 60GB hard disk or 4GB SSD.
• 802.11b/g WiFi, Blueooth 2.0.
• 5 megapixel camera.
• mobile television and external GPS add-on

So, this little baby is many things in one. Luckily for us its price is not that expensive since it is not the sum of all the devices it embodies! In fact it will cost around $500 and will be released in July. I like its design and despite the fact that it is a little too bulky and too brick-like, I think that will meet many people’s favours. My only doubt is when devices like that have lots of features coming from different devices, they end up doing almost nothing at their best. Let’s hope this device will be an exception!

If you own one of the gorgeous Treo 600 or 650 you know that, with the release of the super gorgeous Treo 700w, many new, exciting features are available to the lucky owners of this new model. Two of the most wanted ones are, without any doubt, SMS response and Voicemail pad (VMP). I have to confess you that, when the Treo 700w hit the market, as a proud owner of a Treo 650, I was quite envious of these two features which missed in my Palm device. Things were going to change anyway. As a matter of fact a not-very-famous company (which is strongly committed to develop Palm software) called Ludos released a nice piece of software called LudosW. Let’s see its most important features:

• SMS response (Yeah!): When you can not take a phone call, LudosW will send a customised SMS to the caller, signaling you are buys or in a meeting. This feature is completely customizable and it lets you send different messages to different numbers, automatically substitute personalized information-first name, last name, or even company from your Contacts. Of course it also sends automatic SMS.
• Voicemail Pad (again, Yeah!):Why should you remember all those annoying voicemail key presses, when LudosW can do it for you? This feature gives you the chance to automatically enter the password for you when you pop up VMP. It can change the buttons to suit your needs and comes with presets for the major carriers built-in.

If you want to download it click here.

At work as well as at home you spend a lot of time on your computer, but what happen when you are away from it and you want to keep your stuff off indiscreet eyes? One solution is to turn the pc off. The other solution, which could be called a “geeky solution” is to use a small program called Blue Lock. I have to admit that the guy who made it is a genius, really! As a matter of fact he had the bright idea to link your machine to your bluetooth equipped phone. When you go away from your desk you take your phone with you. You pc don’t smell the bluetooth radio signal in the air anymore, and automatically turn itself off. From the Blue Lock website: “Blue Lock is an application that locks your Windows PC if a particular Bluetooth device is not detected. For example, if you register your Bluetooth mobile phone with the program but then move away from your desk, the program will detect your phone is out of range and automatically lock your system, requiring the password to be entered to reactivate the system. Full Delphi source code is provided.” Now, isn’t this the smartest idea you have ever heard about? Download it now for free!

The iPhone Dev Team has hit the web hard again! As a matter of fact they have just released the new 1.1.1 Jailbreak version for iPhone that, as usual, lets you free your brand new iPhone to install tons of free third party applications. The hack just works for iPhone and is not meant for iPhones with modified basebands. As far as iPod is concerned, the Dev Team is working hard to release a hack as soon as possible. If you want to download the hack, click here or here. Inside the zip file you will find:

• Instruction to downgrade to 1.0.2.
• Get your iPhone ready for the new Jailbreak.
• Instruction how to update your iPhone.
• Instruction how to force v1.1.1 to mount read-write.
• Instruction how to install SSH and BSD world.
• Instruction how to clean up
• etc.

As usual I recommend to be very careful when performing such an update since it invalidates your warranty.

Well, I didn’t know that but, a few weeks ago Apple released the SDK (Software Development Kit) for its iPhone. Now, just in case you don’t know what a SDK is, you have to know that, if you are a programmer and want to create a software or a game for the iPhone you need this SDK. So, with more than 100,000 downloads of this pack we should expect tons of applications and games for the iPhone in the near future! And in fact it is going to be like this. As a matter of fact it looks like even big game companies such as: Namco and PopCap downloaded this kit because they are thinking to bring to the iPhone nice old games such as: Pac-man, Galaga, Bejeweled, Zuma and Peggle via AppStore. I like games, of course, but I am more interested in what some companies stated namely they are developing applications for TypePad and other interesting applications wireless-related. Stay tuned for more details!

How many times have you wished to recover that SMS you deleted from your phone? A lot of times I bet, but…How many times have you wished to recover those deleted SMS from your girlfriend’s phone? Let’s be straight about it. This could be a forbidden dream of yours. I think once in your life (but for many people could even be once a week!) you have wished to read SMS from your girlfriend’s phone but, you know, she is smarter than you and she never forgets to delete them. Well, today you can be the smartest guy around thanks to Cell Phone SIM Card Spy. Just put a SIM card into it and start reading all the erased data right away! Here are its most important features. Continue reading »

Have you ever wished to chat on your nice Zire 72, TX handheld, Palm Treo and all those devices Palm powered? If your reply is “Yes”, then I have got the right software for you. Mundu is a nice software that lets you do what till some time ago was unthinkable: chat online with your friends on a palm handheld! This nice, wonderful but rather unknown piece of software is quite rich of features:

• Compatible with Yahoo, AIM, MSN and ICQ.
• Independent Mundu Messaging Service.
• Wizard procedure to connect your device to the Internet.
• Cross Conferencing to chat with people having different Messaging Services.
• Background mode to continue working on your device while chatting at the same time.
• Emoticons.
• Rich text to customize the font and the color of your writing.
• Status (online, busy, offline, invisible etc.).

I have this software on my Treo 650 and I have to tell you that I like it a lot. It is very light and fast and require no knowledge to make it work. It is ideal if you want to stay in touch with your friends and family while on the go! If you want to know more about it click here.

If you have already read my previous post about Palm dictionaries you should know that I like carrying some of them in my Treo 650. English language is not my mother-tongue and sometimes when I find a new word I don’t know the meaning of, I am compelled to use the dictionary. But why carry a big, bulky paper dictionary when instead I can have all that I need of in my device? Today I want to speak of another good Palm application I bought some months ago. Its name is MSDict and lets you have some of the most famous dictionaries in your Palm powered device. I personally have the excellent Oxford English Dictionary (English-English) which, useless to say, it is a must if you are learning English language. Let’s see some of its features:

• Over 240,000 Words and Phrases
• Over 365,000 alternative and opposite words
• Word pronunciations
• Thesaurus
• History of words

The application itself that makes the dictionary work has some interesting features too namely:

• Random word (to play with different new English words)
• Word of the day
• Wordbook (to put new words in a list for fast retrieving)
• Qwerty keyboard
• Different split modes (that let you manage the screen of your device in different ways e.g. the upper part for English words while the lower part for their meanings)
• Appendixes list
• Previous and next word button
• Add/view note
• Quick dynamic search of words while you type
• Hyperlinks between different words

Among the dictionaries and applications for MSDict you can choose in the website you can also find: Collin dictionary, Cambridge dictionary, Office suite and System Diet. If you want to know more click here.