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Combine Various Mobile Apps Into One Snac

mushipkw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:39:03 +0000

Are you tired of all the talk of “apps” (applications) for your mobile device to do everything from tracking ball games to keeping up with Facebook friends? Wish you could get some of that fun stuff on your more conventional, not-so-smart phone?

There’s an alternative to apps called “Snacs.” These are free, instantly accessible programs that run on the phone that’s already in your pocket if you’re a customer of Sprint, T-Mobile or AT&T and have upgraded (but who hasn’t?) in the past couple of years to a so-called “feature phone.”

(Snacs also run on a bunch of smartphones, including BlackBerrys and Androids, but not in closed-system iPhones, unless you “jailbreak” it.)

By definition, a feature phone has a decent amount of memory and a nicer, more readable screen. Some displays are as big and touch-friendly as a fancy smart phone’s. But feature phones cost a whole lot less (some are even free) and only require only a $5- to $10-a-month data plan to bring home the Snacs.

Developed by mobile communications veteran Mark Caron, a New Jersey guy, co-founder and head of marketing of the former Omnipoint Communications (swallowed by T-Mobile) and CEO of MobileSpring/Ztango (a ringtones pioneer now part of Real Networks), Snac is moving out of the beta-test phase and ready for mainstream feasting.

Snac scoops up and presents a bunch of the apps “that people actually use on a regular basis – offering them access to things like news and weather, Twitter and Facebook, Google Calender and MySpace,” Caron told me.

“You hear about the iPhone having 140,000 apps . . . but when push comes to shove, most people only really use three or four regularly,” the developer said. “And Snac serves them to you faster, with fewer clicks and much less taxing of the phone system or your data plan.”

Snac offers up its treats as an array of icons on a home page that looks similar to an iPhone dashboard. But look closer and you’ll see that the Snacs are not static symbols but mini-billboards, regularly updating the local temperature, game scores, stock prices, news headlines and such.

Click or tap (if you have a touch screen) on one and the Snac opens to reveal more info. To read the full story at a news site, tap again at the bottom of the screen.

“The request comes up instantly because our service is always streaming in the background and caching to the phone, storing its updates to the phone’s memory,” said Caron. “Apple won’t let you do that kind of multitasking on the iPhones.” Nor will the iPad, which has been a source of much grieving since its recent introduction.

At the moment, Snac supports about 300 models, including non-smart phones that run Java programming language and smart phones that run Windows Mobile, the BlackBerry OS and Symbian phones, with a version two OS coming out shortly.

BRINGING IN BREW, TOO? If negotiations go as hoped, Snac also will pop up this year on phones that run Qualcomm’s BREW MP cellphone operating system, likewise designed to bring smartphone functionality to lower-priced phones.

And a good thing, too.

Verizon uses a version of BREW on feature phones. AT&T has said it will adopt Brew MP for all its new, quick-messaging phones (those with hard or virtual QWERTY keyboards), with first models coming out this summer. Both Samsung and LG have announced plans to make Brew MP phones.

Go direct and load your phone with just the sites you want (including virtually every RSS feed) by visiting the Mysnacs Web site. Some heavier Snacs like Facebook will also need to be configured on the PC with passwords.

30 Top Windows Mobile Applications

mushipkw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:50:06 +0000

HoneyTechBlog has published a list of 30 top applications for Windows Mobiles. The list covers applications for features such as networking, themes, tools for tweak, music players, newsreaders, Internet browser, document manager and much more. The list covers the following applications:

Facebook
TwitToday
Net Compact Framework
Viigo
Google Maps Mobile
SRS WOW HD Audio
Clean RAM
iFONZ 2
Dashwire
DivX Mobile Player
S2P (Slide To Play)
Opera Mobile
Skyfire
Wolf’s Translator
EverNote
HD Tweak & Diamond Tweak
Adobe Reader
Macromedia Flash Player
Pocket UNO
MSN Direct
Scrub
Skype
Youtube Player
Google Sync
iDialer
Smart Touch
AIM Mobile Beta
Nitrogen Music Player
Finger Suite
TreeSize Mobile

These applications are sure to give your windows mobile a new life.

For a detailed description & download link Visit HoneyTechBlog

TProfiler – Switch Sound Profiles According To Time

mushipkw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:01:57 +0000

TProfiler is a small utility to change sound system of your windows mobile device according to the time and date. This is very useful at times i.e. I set my phone to vibrate at prayer times, during meetings. You can set your phone to Vibrate, Sound On or Sound Off. It has the ability to add upto 4 schedules. It has very small memory footprint too.

Get it at XDA

KeePass Password Manager For Windows Mobile Devices

mushipkw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:18:10 +0000

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the features page.

KeePassPPC is available as PocketPC 2003(SE) (ARMV4), Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC & Phone Edition (ARMV4I) as well as Windows Mobile 6 / 6.1 Classic & Professional (ARMV4I) MFC C++ application.
It is compiled with Visual Studio 2008 (Standard or higher) using the original KeePass V1.16 source.
All encryption classes were taken as is from the KeePass – The Open-Source Password Safe Windows PC application from Dominik Reichl.

This version should run on all PocketPC 2003 (SE), Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC & PhoneEdition and Windows Mobile 6 / 6.1 Classic & Professional based platforms.
PocketPC 2002 and Smartphone devices are not and can not be supported!

!!! KeePassPPC is not usable with Windows Mobile 6.5 devices at the moment !!!

Get Keepass Here

Wake Up and Shut Down Your PC From Your Windows Mobile Phone

mushipkw — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:22:21 +0000

Wake & Shake is a little utility for waking up, shutting down, rebooting or Logging off from the PC’s on your network via you windows mobile device.

Requirements:

Wifi active on wm and connected on same local network as PC’s
Wake-On-Lan must be enabled on PC’s
Allow http traffic on Port 7777
Obtain MAC Address for all PC’s you wish to ‘control’
Currently only built for WVGA devices

Installation:

Install cab on device
Install the service via the msi installer on any PC’s you wish to ‘control’
Edit the WakeAndShakeConfig.xml on the device – enter your PC’s IP addresses (or host name) and their corresponding MAC addresses in the xml file, there are three dummy entries in there presently.

More Here