- Spb Software House Releases Spb Insight - a Full-Text Pocket PC News Reader
- Skweezer Selected by Ask.com for New Ask Mobile Search
- Skweezer Selected by Bloglines to Improve Mobile Experience
- PlanMaker 2006 for Pocket PCs enters public beta test phase
- Spb Software House releases Spb Finance 2.6 with Microsoft Money 2007 synchronization support.
- SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows released
- New website for PDA Developers
- Spb Software House Releases Spb Diary 2.0
- Demand for Mobile Access to Social Networking Sites Growing
- Skweezer Nominated for Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine's Best Software Awards
Spb Software House Introduces New Graphics Concept of Spb UniThemes Wednesday, September 28 2005
Spb Software House, a leading Pocket PC software developer, introduces a new concept: Spb UniThemes. Every UniTheme is a complete set of skins for all skinnable standard as well as Spb's own Pocket PC applications, all designed in one style.
Pocket PC users can now have a consistent look and feel across all of their most used applications - from Windows Media Player to Spb Time and Spb Finance. Each UniTheme includes skins for all of the standard skinnable Pocket PC applications (the Today screen, Windows Media Player, Dialer, and Calculator) as well as skins for all of Spb's skinnable applications (Spb Pocket Plus, Spb Time, Spb Weather, Spb GPRS Monitor, Spb Finance, and Spb Full Screen Keyboard).
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"It is all about design. See how much effort device manufacturers and OEMs put into the design of a new system? But all their work seems to stop when it comes to the software they actually put on their devices. It 's something like designing a new beautiful, amazing car without paying any attention to the design of the cockpit or the interior. We took all the flexibility of the best parts of the mobile operating system and combined them into one package with Spb UniThemes - giving you unprecedented options for the interior of your Pocket PC", said Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, the CEO of Spb Software House in San Francisco.
Spb Software House offers a wide range of quality Pocket PC applications from system utilities to powerful personal finance managers and multimedia applications. Almost every Spb program is the #1 best seller in its corresponding Pocket PC category. Ten of world leading sales channel Handango's top 100 programs are products of Spb Software House. People who use different Spb products on their Pocket PC enjoy the close integration between these apps and between the apps and the system, but they also wanted to see "integration in design". Integration in design is something that will help users feel more comfortable, safe and confident when using their Pocket PCs. With UniThemes this integration has arrived.
Today Spb releases four different UniThemes with more to be released soon. Moreover, more than five professional full-time graphic designers in Spb Software House are constantly working on new UniThemes, which is why Spb can say that there will be a lot of new UniThemes in different styles and colors. The idea is that Pocket PC users will have a large collection of UniThemes to choose from to match their individual needs. Spb is planning to release more than 10 UniThemes before the end of this year.
*** Pricing and Availability ***
Spb UniThemes are available for free. The four existing UniThemes: Spb Black47, Spb Space, Spb Tech and Spb Tensor are available from Spb Software House website. More UniThemes will be available later this year.
*** Further Information and Downloads ***
Further information regarding Spb UniThemes can be found on the Spb website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes
Spb Black47 UniTheme preview:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes/black47/images/SpbBlack47.gif
Spb Tensor UniTheme preview:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes/tensor/images/SpbTensor.gif
Spb Space UniTheme preview:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes/space/images/SpbSpace.gif
Spb Tech UniTheme preview:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/unithemes/tech/images/SpbTech.gif
*** 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
Skweezer and WorldLingo Take Online Translation Mobile Monday, September 26 2005
Greenlight Wireless Corporation today announced that its Skweezer® service, which optimizes Web content for cell phones and PDA's, now provides an online translation service through its partner WorldLingo.
Skweezer's new translation feature is the latest innovation in this much-imitated service and will be the World's first free, globally accessible translation service for the mobile Web. The new component allows a user to translate any Web page into 13 possible languages including Japanese, Korean, and Russian. The addition of this new feature was prompted by a recent survey of Skweezer customers and wireless carriers working with Greenlight Wireless. Both groups, especially those representing countries in South America and Europe, described a need to regularly access content in a non-native language while away from their desktop computer.
WorldLingo was chosen to provide Skweezer's translation component after extensive in-house testing found their solution to be the most accurate and the easiest to integrate of those tested. "WorldLingo is the best of breed when it comes to real-time online translation,” said Kevin Perkins, CEO of Greenlight Wireless. “They have a proven track record, providing translation for companies such as Microsoft and AT&T, as well as a desire to innovate that fits well with Greenlight Wireless' company culture.”
“Skweezer is a leader in wireless technology, and their focus on innovation is highlighted by the fact that they are providing the first translation feature for web browsing,” said Martin Pratt, WorldLingo CEO. “By providing Web translations on mobile phones, people are not restricted by the need to access computers, which can be difficult in some countries.”
Skweezer is a free Web portal/browsing service that optimizes Web pages, searches, and e-mail for use on PDA's and cell phones. Mobile Internet users access Skweezer by visiting www.skweezer.net, then use the portal as a "wireless gateway" to browse and search the Web. Skweezer compresses and reformats content being downloaded, so that it loads faster, looks better, and is easier to navigate. Skweezer includes an e-mail client, RSS reader, address book, site directory, and other useful features designed specifically for the mobile environment. Skweezer is also completely platform independent and can be accessed from Pocket PC, Palm, MS Smartphone, XHTML-based cell phone, and WebTV devices.
About WorldLingo:
WorldLingo is a leading innovator and provider of translation and localization services and technology. WorldLingo continues to advance Internet translation with new technologies and features designed to provide a seamless experience for consumers. Headquartered in Nevada, WorldLingo has a rich history of innovation and today performs thousands of translations every day for business, governments and organizations around the globe.
On the Net: WorldLingo site: www.worldlingo.com
About Greenlight Wireless:
Greenlight Wireless is a leading innovator of wireless technologies, providing ASP and server-component solutions for enterprise-level businesses and wireless carriers. Greenlight Wireless' consumer-oriented Skweezer service optimizes Web content for handheld devices and other hardware platforms, providing a richer browsing experience and adding value to dial-up and wireless data offerings.
On the Net: Greenlight Wireless site: www.greenlightwireless.net
Source: Greenlight Wireless Corporation
Spb Software House Releases Spb Full Screen Keyboard 3.0 Thursday, September 22 2005
Spb Software House, a leading Pocket PC software developer, releases Spb Full Screen Keyboard 3.0, a powerful way to enter text quickly and easily on your Pocket PC.
More than 75% of the time spent developing this major new version was dedicated to one single goal - making this input tool more usable. The new misprint correction feature combined with the new smart self-learning algorithm and the ergonomic keyboard layout dramatically reduce the number of misprints. This was approved by long-term usability testing. Among other new features there are: native VGA skins, portrait layout, square screen device support, improved skin format, and Windows Mobile 5.0 support.
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CNET's Roget Hibbert had this to say about the previous version of the product: "If you'd prefer not to learn a new keyboard layout, Spb Full Screen Keyboard may be the best bet. The application does what its name implies, covering the whole screen of your Pocket PC and letting you type with your thumbs, rather than a character at a time with your stylus."
Spb has done extensive usability testing to understand what should be improved to make entering text even simpler. It turned out that the leading causes of misprints, when typing with thumbs, were users' individual typing manner and device-specific screen press handling. These problems were overcome by some innovations. With the growing amount of entered texts the program gets used to user's typing manner, gathers statistics, and compensates accordingly.
Another feature to fight text input mistakes is automatic correction. When an unknown word is encountered, the program analyzes the probability of this word being misspelled and substitutes it with the closest one from the dictionary using the statistics gathered during the whole period of using the application.
New skin format supported by Full Screen Keyboard is significantly optimized in loading time and file size. The default keyboard layout is re-designed in order to make typing more comfortable. Users with VGA screens will enjoy the native VGA skins. Portrait mode and square screens are supported too. These and other features will make you enjoy using this software.
*** Pricing and Availability ***
Spb Full Screen Keyboard 3.0 is currently available in English, German and French languages. Italian, Spanish, and Russian versions will be announced later. A free 15-day trial can be downloaded, or Spb Full Screen Keyboard can be purchased for $9.95 USD, from www.spbsoftwarehouse.com. Owners of Spb Full Screen Keyboard 2.x can upgrade their version for $4.95 USD. Further details about the upgrade process are available at the Spb Software House website.
*** Further Information and Downloads ***
Further information regarding Full Screen Keyboard can be found on the Spb website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/
What's new in Spb Full Screen Keyboard 3.0:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/history.html
More skins for free download:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/skins.html
Upgrade from Spb Full Screen Keyboard 2.x:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/upgrade.php
Features demonstrated through screenshots:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/screenshots.html
A free 15-day trial can be downloaded from:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/fsk/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
‘Armadillo Cowboy Club’ Arcade Game Allows users to Test Skills with Slingshots and Lassos Thursday, September 22 2005
‘Armadillo Cowboy Club’ Arcade Game Allows users to Test Skills with Slingshots and Lassos
Meet the armadillos - Wyatt Dirt, Doc and Dilly, the Sheriff - Sam the Rattler, along with the Villains - "The filthy coyotes"
POINT ROBERTS, WA, Delta, B.C. Sept 22, 2005 - Wild Heart Ranch, Inc. (www.WildHeartRanch.com), a content driven children’s toy and publishing company continues to offer non-violent entertainment with the free, online ‘Armadillo Cowboy Club’ arcade game. The online game is based on an original story about three Armadillo Deputy Heroes that capture criminal coyotes with slingshots, firing bees, and fast flying lassos. You have 60 seconds to hit 5 coyotes!
The ‘Armadillo Cowboy Club’ arcade game provides a great outlet for online entertainment and a glimpse into the romanticized “wild west”. The game takes you into desert scenes, an old fashioned street shoot out and a saloon fight. The cast of characters includes armadillos - Wyatt Dirt, Doc and Dilly, the Sheriff - Sam the Rattler, along with the Villains - "The filthy coyotes".
Play the Armadillo game:
http://www.wildheartranch.com/kidsclub/armadillo.html
Armadillo Links and Websites: http://www.WildHeartRanch.com/kidsclub/kc_games.asp
Story excerpt: Everything in Coyote Canyon is dusty, dirty and & slow. Nothing looks new, just weathered with layers of dirt and dust. But none is dustier, dirtier or more mean looking than the local sheriff, "Sam the Rattler". He has folks shivering at the sound of his tail as it rat-a-tat-tats all over town. No one really knows what is in the end of his tail. Some say it is a bank robber with a bag full of gold coins that was just too stubborn to be digested. But even Sam didn’t know his tail was a lot more special than just having a rascally robber rattling around.
Sam’s tale is as interesting as his tail, as to how he got to be named Sheriff. Sam used to be just an ordinary big, nasty rattlesnake living in the desert on the outskirts of town. He minded his own business and ate the odd neighbor, just like any other snake. He had no dream of being a sheriff or running a town. He dreamt of eating everyone in town, but that’s about as far as it went. I guess that sheriff’s badge had other plans, because it seemed to be waiting for him in Coyote Canyon as he slithered around in the hot sand. It must have been his voracious appetite for villains that led him to his destiny. Or maybe it was his tail that made him shake, rattle and roll his way to fame.
Read the full story of the ARMADILLO COWBOYS: http://www.wildheartranch.com/kidsclub/kc_armadilloClubStory.asp
Play other free games and interactive content:
http://www.WildHeartRanch.com/kidsclub/kc_games.asp
The revised site has a toys & books section as well as a kid’s club that includes a new feature, “Endangered Animal News”. The site is designed to entertain, educate and inspire kids of all ages.
Retail Store Locater: http://www.wildheartranch.com/shop.htm
About Wild Heart Ranch: www.WildHeartRanch.com, www.ISeaHorses.com, www.CollectiblePlush.com, www.PlushCollectible.com, www.FavoritePetStories.com
I Sea Horses™ is a registered trademark and property of Wild Heart Ranch Inc.
Wild Heart Ranch, Inc. is a publishing, entertainment and toy company that creates and licenses non-violent toys and products based on original ideas, stories and characters. The 'Lucky Stars Collection', 'No More Night Mares', 'Armadillo Cowboy Club’, 'I Sea Horses', ‘Desert of Lop’, & ‘Favorite Pet Stories’ brands, characters, logos, stories, web sites, video games, patents and trademarks, are all properties of Wild Heart Ranch, Inc.
WHR is a member of: Toy Industry Association, ASTRA, Women in Toys
For more information contact
Toll Free: 1.888.889.9213
kim@wildheartranch.com
Source: Wild Heart Ranch
BEIKS Releases English-Hebrew Dictionary for RIM BlackBerry Devices Wednesday, September 14 2005
DALLAS (September 12, 2005) - - BEIKS LLC, the world leader in reference and language titles for mobile devices, announces the launch of its English-Hebrew Dictionary for RIM BlackBerry devices. BEIKS is the first company to enable the display and use of languages not natively supported by BlackBerries such as those based on Hebrew, Greek or Cyrillic.
The company was also the first to deliver full offline solutions for language, medical, law, business and other reference dictionaries for BlackBerry devices.
The comprehensive English to Hebrew Dictionary for BlackBerry, which features 27,000 unique English terms, is designed for the needs of English-speaking professionals challenged with communicating in colloquial Hebrew when access to a desktop translator or reference guide is either not accessible or convenient.
Based on the mobile industry standard BEIKS Dictionary Reader, the BEIKS English to Hebrew Dictionary is specially optimized for one-hand operation, minimal memory requirements and optimal access speed. Once installed the dictionary does NOT require or utilize network connection.
The BEIKS reference solutions are designed to work on the newer generation of J2ME Blackberry devices running OS 4.0 and higher. BEIKS' proprietary database format especially developed for BlackBerry devices allows all reference data to be highly compressed, making the most of RIM J2ME extensions and resulting in faster searches and less memory requirements. Other versions of the BEIKS Dictionary Reader series are available for Palm OS, Pocket PC and Linux devices, with promises for Symbian series support early next year.
The English-Hebrew dictionary retails for $19.95 and can be purchased at the BEIKS website, along with other language dictionaries.
Source: Beiks' press release page
Exclusive offer - Ancient Evil Friday, September 9 2005
Exclusive offer:
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http://www.pdatopsoft.com/software/item.php?pid=7080
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*until september, 17
Source: PdaTopSoft.com
LodeRunners Pack 1.51 - save 30% Wednesday, September 7 2005
LodeRunners Pack 1.51 by Ballshooter Games
http://www.pdatopsoft.com/software/item.php?pid=2977
LodeRunner is really simple and addictive - you help the bounty hunter collect all the treasures, while avoiding (and preferably destroying) the evil guards who are trained to kill.
http://www.pdatopsoft.com/images/screenshots/img107252792056640800.gif
LoadRunner comes packed with 50 amazing and challenging levels and many artifacts:
* Shovel - dig away in any direction!
* Puncher - these walls won't stop you!
* Step-ladder - get ready to climb!
Plus, there is a fully featured soundtrack for Lode Runner that will make your gaming experience that much richer.
X-MAS LodeRunner is a real Christmas tale!
It comes packed with 40 snowy levels that makes your gaming like in Christmas Fairyland where you are to guess many riddles. You will see a lot of X-MAS backgrounds and hear several original soundtracks.
Make a present to yourself -- buy them together, we guarantee you much more pleasure!
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