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Mplayer CE is a homebrew media player for the Nintendo Wii. It was initially created as a fork of the Team Twiizers MPlayer port, combining elements of MPlayerWii, GeeXboX and other great homebrew contributions. It is built with devkitPPC development tools and libogc libraries, fully homebrew driven and not associated with Nintendo in any way.

Some of the current features includes DVD, SDHC, SMB, USB 2.0 storage device support, multiple media, subtitle, playlist and streaming formats, customization possibilities, etc.

Changes:

– FTP support added (thanks to hax)
– NTFS support added for USB and SD (thanks to Shareese)
– SMB speed improved
– Hopefully finally eradicated the freezing bug
– Fixed noise bug when loading another stream

🔗 http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/

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Still Alive to is a puzzle game inspired by Portal: The Flash Version which is a 2D renewal of Portal, developed by Valve Corporation.

Portal consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the character and other simple objects by using a Portal Gun. The unusual physics allowed by the portal gun are the emphasis of Portal.

Release notes:

Added:
– 2 player coop mode. Each player can shoot one portal and the 2nd player can join the game at any moment by pressing the home button
– You can download new maps directly onto the Wii (Thx Morukutsu)
– You can upload your created maps so that other people can play them.
– When watching a replay, pressing the (1) button allows you to take control of it
– Particles effect when exiting a portal

Corrected:
– Smoother infra red cursor. No more problems in the top left corner of the screen
– 60Hz users : The screen is no longer cut, you can see all of the game (Thx Morukutsu)
– Turrets : they stop aiming at you when they’re dead (red line)

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13528 for the news.

🔗 http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=158618

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

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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] Widgets get messed up when placed on two pages on different windows and switching between those pages.
– [Fixed] Unexpected end of File on SMS Widget for non VGA version. (and error on sms.js, line 40)
– [Fixed] Analog clock widget wont show the hour needle properly.
– [Fixed] RSS and Weather won’t work.
– [Fixed] On QVGA/WQVGA version WiFi widgets color was not correct.
– [Changed] Completely rewrote the fullscreen mode.
– [Changed] Now Network commands are executed on a different thread.
– [New] Now Bluetooth widget can be configured to make the device discoverable when bluetooth is turned on using the widget.

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

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“iNotify Tube” is a simple and no-fuss application to keep you informed of London Underground’s Tube status.

Features:

* Built-in notification functionality via Apple’s Push Notification;
* Ability to push out updates at a user-specified timing;
* Choose multiple tube stations to include in the notification alert;
* Notification occurs in the background (no need to have the application running or active);
* FREE!

🔗 http://appshopper.com/travel/inotify-tube

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Geek Hero Comic is a famous web comic strip by Salvatore Iovene. Now, you can carry his master pieces in your pocket!

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-Monopoly
-Clever Workaround
-Social Skills
-A Catastrophe
-Military Strategy
-HTTP what?
-Browser For The Better
-Productivity Today
-Life Under A Rock
-Team Building
-Technobabble Contest
-Competence
-Call For Responsibility
-Resource Optimization
-The Fourteenth Floor
-Boot Sequence Complete
-Seamless Mode
-Not The Future My Mother Warned Me About
-The HTTP Specification Is Dangerous
-Busylooping To Hypothermia
-Start Your Engines
-Dig That Security
-The Blue Screen Of Literalness
-Completely Unfair Scheduler
-Common Pitfalls: Initialize Your Variables
-Two Questions
-Points Of View

🔗 http://appshopper.com/books/vol-07-geek-hero-comic

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Geek Hero Comic is a famous web comic strip by Salvatore Iovene. Now, you can carry his master pieces in your pocket!

Quote:

– More Than Just A Warning
– Hacker’s Funeral
– Vladimir
– The Coffee Mug
– Project Managers Sugarcoat
– Pride Will Be Pride
– PM Caught Cheating
– The Truth About The Financial Crisis
– Old School Business And The GPL
– Working Together
– Ali Zee
– Open Source, On Paper
– Writing Secure Software
– The Reason Behind Most Of YOUR Bugs
– Email Client For Project Managers
– The Shortest Way To A Coder’s Heart
– Priorities
– Open Company
– Premature Optimization
– War
– Undeniable Logic
– The Scheme Is Revealed
– Child Prodigy
– Project Management Explained
– Coding School with Prof. Ross
– Just A Minor Glitch In The Code
– Too Humble Is Half Proud

🔗 http://appshopper.com/books/vol-06-geek-hero-comic

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Like all Yuzu Games productions, Foflash is a dangerously addictive puzzle game that let you play with your images while listening to your music. Foflash is the best companion while in the subway, bus or train or waiting in line or for a friend, etc.

With Foflash, gamers have to reconstruct an image as quickly as possible by immobilizing pieces moving and bouncing across the board whenever they reach their original spot. Foflash is a great shake and tape game.

Foflash needs a good shaking to start and break down the image in 16, 36 and 64 pieces depending on the difficulty level. After shaking, gamers need to immobilize the pieces that are floating and bouncing across the board whenever they glow and approach their original spot. Immobilizing pieces is achieved by tapping them. Wrongly immobilized pieces will start floating again after a few seconds and free the spot for the correct piece. By shaking the handset, you can change the direction of all pieces and redirect them in the general direction of the shake. For instance, a shake to the right will send all floating pieces to the right. Jokers are also available but will add penalty time.

🔗 http://appshopper.com/games/foflash

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Simian Speed Reader is a ebook reader based on the ideas of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. There are several good online versions of this presentation style, and iReadFast is pretty awesome if you have a Mac.

Releae notes:

Now you can add text files from Safari or any other app via the URL Handler simiansr:// check out the brand new site http://simianspeedreader.com/ for more info.

This app is free Until September 1st 2009

🔗 http://appshopper.com/books/simian-speed-reader

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Use your iPhone or iPod Touch to wirelessly control ReQuest media servers.

This application will ONLY work with ReQuest N, F, S, and iQ media servers running Serious Play Operating System 5.4+ or any V5 servers running 6.1+. Do not download this application if you do not own a ReQuest media server as it only provides features and control of ReQuest servers.

The ReQuest iPhone application provides simple control of multi-room media servers from ReQuest. With multiple audio outputs built into ReQuest servers, the application allows family members to listen to different songs, playlists, and radio stations in different rooms of the house simultaneously.

Features
– Quick “Play Now” button to play all songs from an artist, genre, album, or playlist
– Play Now and Add to Queue for creating your favorite jukebox playlist
– Control music selection and volume for every zone
– View metadata and cover art

Additional features for iQ
– control and view all rooms and what source is playing in each room
– manage music with source selection and volume control
– XM, Sirius, AM/FM stations and presets

Note: This version has limited control of streaming radio, finetune, and IR controlled devices connected into an iQ system.

Changes:

– fixed “Play Now” bug

🔗 http://appshopper.com/music/request

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Battery app helps you to monitor the current battery percentage on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Battery automatically determines your device type(iPhone or iPod Touch) and displays the time remaining of:
– talk time and internet on 2G
– internet on Wi-Fi
– video playback
– audio playback
– 3G network use

FREE FOR LIMITED TIME – For free promo codes please follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/serpensoft

🔗 http://appshopper.com/utilities/battery-2

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