Hold+ is the ultimate companion to the PSP’s music player. It adds useful features and gives you TWICE the battery life when used properly.

It does the following when the Hold switch is enabled:
* Switches off the LCD screen and backlight.
* Underclocks the CPU to 60MHz
* The original screen brightness and clock speed are restored when the Hold switch is released.
* Prevents the PSP from going into suspend mode if you accidently push the power switch too far when turning off Hold mode.
* Allows complete operation of the PSP controls with the display turned off.
* Turns off LEDs in hold mode.
* While in hold mode, allows the use of Left, Right, LTrigger, RTrigger, Volume and Start buttons, if you hold the Select button first. Useful to skip songs, pause etc.

Additional Features:
* Enables the 5th brightness level on PSP Slim.
* Increases the vertical scrolling speed of Music player by around 50% (scroll 300 songs in 10 seconds).

Release notes:

This is a fix for people with broken Hold switches that keep randomly switching on and off while in Hold mode.

Now when the Hold switch is enabled, the PSP remains in hold mode permanently until the switch is fully pushed to the power off position. This will prevent a malfunctioning Hold switch from randomly interfering.

Removed Display Off mode (hold ANALOG UP while releasing Hold) since holding Select is sufficient for most users.

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/156391-release-hold-v4-0-ultimate-music-player-companion.html

Nati is working on Rad Racer 2600, which aims to become a 2D version of “Rad Racer”.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=148839

Animan updated his game Trashmania.

The local garbage plant has been shutdown after a series of unintentionally hilarious lawsuits. So, you go out to take care of it yourself. You are TRASHMAN.

Release notes:

Timer is fixed, name change, some bytes are saved, and a few minor things. Source code is now open to public. (Trashmania makes me think of TrackMania. Oh well, can’t get sued, right?)

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=148480

Harmonic tide clock / tide prediction for Android. Originally based on muTide, a Java ME derivative of XTide, aTides uses of the same ‘station.dat’ and ‘data.dat’ files as muTide. Updated files placed on the SD card will override the ones included.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/a-tides/

FacebookIM or short FIM is a facebook chat client for Windows Mobile.

Changes:

* fixed installer for wm 5

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480365

PowerOptions is a new software for HTC devices to easily soft reset, shut down, turn off backlight and put the device into standby mode all from one little application written in native C++.

Changes:

– fixed a problem where standby, dim light, screen off wouldn’t work under certain circumstances

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544475

iDialer is a finger-friendly dial pad for Windows Mobile PocketPC phones.

Changes:

Added D-Pad support and more intuitive design for switching dialer service.
Added better debugging for those still having trouble with Google Voice.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=429984

Fuel Blaster is a fuel tracking tool. You will need .NET CF v3.5 and SQL Server CE v3.5 to use this program.

Changes:

-Fix: Due to a bug in Visual Studio 2008 all Icon files were the same in the cab.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513116

Power Radio is a FM player with RDS decoding.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530721

FEWidgets Ultimate is a Today Plugin for Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 devices (WM 5 is not supported).

Quote:

Features:
– Haptic feedback. When clicking on widget buttons you’ll feel a small vibration.
– Multiple Layouts/Pages support (up to 4).
– Multiple Windows for each page with 0 loading time.
– Fullscreen Mode.
– Support for Landscape/Portrait modes.
– VGA/QVGA/WQVGA/WVGA support.
– Skinnable though XML files (or just modifying the images).
– Scriptable through javascript.
– Extensible though C++ plugins.
– Support for Acceleration/Light sensor on the engine. (not used right now by any Widget)

Implemented Widgets:
– Operator Name
– RSS Feed Reader
– Comming Appointments
– Tasks
– Contact widget
– Date widget
– Battery/Phone signal Strength indicator.
– S2P Player control.
– Analog Clock
– Diamond like Clock
– Background Image Changer
– Bluetooth State (Can turn on/off)
– Wi-Fi State (Can turn on/off)
– Quick Dial.
– Layout swapper.
– Locker (locks widget dragging)
– Calendar (when tapped will link to WindowsCalendar.lnk)
– Shortcuts Widget. This widget allows creating shortcuts to exe/lnk files. You can drop the widget as many times as you want.
– Missed Calls. Shows the number of missed calls. When double tapped will take you to the missed calls log.
– Unread SMS. Shows the number of unread SMSs.
– Unread Mail. Shows the number of unread Mail on all accounts.
– Sound Profile changer. Lets you switch between On/Vibrate/Off modes.
– Weather. Shows you the weather for today. Current temperature and forecasted Min/Max for today.
– SMS information. Once you drop this widget once, if you remove it, it’ll spawn automatically the next time you have an SMS message on the same possition you had placed it.
– Programs. Shows the contents of the Programs folder of the Start Menu on a kinetic scrolling list.

Changes:

– [Fixed] The application will complain about click.wav and won’t load.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544874