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BEIKS announces BlackBerry version of its talking phrase books for international travelers Monday, February 20 2006
The talking phrase books are compact electronic versions of the classic paperback phrase books widely used by international travelers and, commonly, by language students. With simple and intuitive interface, based on the BEIKS reference technology used in other language and reference solutions, the phrase book applications are optimized for easy one-hand operation and optimal performance.
Once fully installed, a phrase book does not require or utilize wireless connection, making it ideal companionship and learning guide, for example in the airplane to a foreign country.
BEIKS is the first company to introduce such phrase books to the BlackBerry community, as well as the first to enhance them with audio pronunciations by native language speakers (limited by device capabilities)
The initial release consists of phrase books translating from English to French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian.
The set is to be further expanded with natively localized versions for the German, French and Spanish users.
The phrase books are designed to work on any BlackBerry handheld running BlackBerry OS version 4.0 or higher. Voice pronunciations are optional component of the installation, which will only operate on devices equipped with hardware allowing this feature.
Those are all recent audio-enabled BlackBerry handhelds featuring ADPCM encoded audio playback:
- BlackBerry 7100 series
- BlackBerry 7105 series
- BlackBerry 7130 series
- BlackBerry 8700 series
Trial downloads are available at the BEIKS website at http://www.beiks.com. Products can be purchased and activated directly from the BlackBerry's built-in browser or via regular desktop browser.
Each pair of languages is priced at $19.95 and there are language bundles offering more languages at discounted price.
For a complete list of the BEIKS language and reference titles for BlackBerry visit http://blackberry.beiks.com.
About BEIKS LLC
BEIKS LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Windows CE®, Sharp Zaurus® and BlackBerry®. Founded in 1997, the company is best known for its BDicty Dictionary Reader, one of the most popular dictionaries for handheld devices on the market. BEIKS' product list now includes a growing catalog of over 250 titles across all major mobile platforms.
RIM and BlackBerry are registered trademarks of Research In Motion, Inc.
Other brands may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Source: BEIKS' press room
Spb Software House Releases Spb Diary 1.7 - Your Personal Organizer Thursday, February 2 2006
Spb Software House announces the release of Spb Diary 1.7. Spb Diary is a feature-rich Today plug-in for your Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes and Messages. It enhances Pocket Outlook by gathering all of your PIM information in one place. The new version introduces a bundle of new features like the Messages Tab, an auto-height adjustment feature, native birthdays support and integration with Spb Finance as well as improved speed, better usability in the Notes Tab and many other changes.
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It is the hundreds of small features and improvements that altogether make a product truly useful and this is what we set out to accomplish with Spb Diary 1.7. The main goal for this release was to make Spb Diary so easy and fast to use, that you can almost forget about it and concentrate on your business.
*"It is clear that Spb means business and this new release of Spb Diary puts them well ahead when compared to similar applications. The improvements - both in usability and in performance - make Diary a first class application that should be standard issue for all Windows Mobile device owners."
Here is the brief overview of new features and main changes introduced in Spb Diary 1.7:
- Messages Tab:
See your emails and SMSs, quickly preview them and perform the most frequent actions (reply, forward, delete, call) in one tap. This was the most frequently requested feature.
- Auto Height Adjustment:
This feature forces Spb Diary to extend automatically in order to fill unused Today screen space. Never spend time trying to best fit your Today plug-ins anymore! We think this feature will become a standard for PIM Today plug-ins.
- Notes Tab Improvements:
One tap edit and delete from note preview, converting notes to appointment, task or contact. If you use notes you will immediately feel the difference.
- Integration with Spb Finance:
Spb Finance users now can see scheduled transactions on the Calendar Tab.
- Speed Optimizations:
The performance of initial loading, changes handling and synchronization handling was vastly improved. Windows Mobile 5 users should notice the greatest speed improvements.
- Birthdays:
Now birthdays are anniversaries are shown in the Calendar Tab along with other events.
- Integration with Spb Weather:
Weather forecasts are now shown and updated even if the Spb Weather plug-in is not shown on the Today screen.
The full list of new features can be found at the Spb Diary release history page:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/history.html
You can find more information about Spb Diary 1.7 as well as download a free trial version and purchase it at Spb website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/
* The quote from Clinton Fitch Spb Diary 1.7 review; full review can be found at http://www.clintonfitch.com/reviews/spb/diary-1-7/default.asp
*** Pricing and Availability ***
You can download a free trial version that works for 15 days from the day of installation. The registered version costs $14.95. All owners of Spb Diary can upgrade for free of charge. It is recommended that you uninstall any previous version of Spb Diary before installing the new one.
*** Further Information and Downloads***
Further information regarding Spb Diary can be found on the Spb Software House website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/
Download the program here:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/diary/download.html
*** About Spb Software House ***
Spb Software House is a software development company, specializing mainly in Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs. Founded in 1999, the company offers advanced software solutions for use in a wide range of applications.
Source: Spb Software House
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Source: PDATopSoft.com
BEIKS updates all talking phrase books for Palm, adds new languages Wednesday, February 1 2006
The talking phrase books are compact electronic versions of the classic paperback phrase books widely used by international travelers and, commonly, by language students. BEIKS was the first company to introduce such phrase books to the Palm community of mobile users, as well as the first to enhance them with audio pronunciations by native language speakers.
Today's release brings the following key enhancements and changes:
The BEIKS Talking phrase books are now available in these configurations:
English,German, Spanish, French and Italian
to
English, French, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese (EU) and Russian
This feature is a response to direct customer demand for instant product feature activation, which is often critical (e.g. in the few minutes before the airplane takes off).
For a list of all BEIKS phrase books for Palm please go http://www.beiks.com/palm/phrasebook.
The upgrade is free to registered customers.
Depending on how they run the upgrade process they may have or have not to enter an unlocking code. Unlocking codes for each purchased phrase book are available at no additional cost upon logging in to the BEIKS' registered users page at the BEIKS web site http://www.beiks.com.
About BEIKS LLC
BEIKS LLC (http://www.beiks.com) is a privately-held company with headquarters in Dallas, TX. The company specializes in developing and distributing essential applications for mobile platforms such as Palm OS®, Windows CE®, Sharp Zaurus® and BlackBerry®. Founded in 1997, the company is best known for its BDicty Dictionary Reader, one of the most popular dictionaries for handheld devices on the market. BEIKS' product list now includes a growing catalog of over 250 titles across all major mobile platforms.
Palm and Palm Powered are a registered trademarks of Palm, Inc. Other brands may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Source: BEIKS' press room
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