Pocket PC News
LocateCaller2 will show the area an incoming call originated from based on the area code. It currently works for US and Canada numbers.
Changes:
* Fix caller info for call waiting
* Don’t show in running programs after reboot
* Code cleanup
* Feature freeze for 2.0 release
* Will go Gold if no bugs are found
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=482872
FacebookIM is a simple Facebook chat client for WM6.
Changes:
* fixed chat box scroll issue
* reduced memory usage
* fixed apptodate support
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480365
W.V.D. Web Video Downloader is the first software for Pocket PC that can stream or download online videos from web sites like YouTube. W.V.D. supports most popular online web sites and many adults sites. To stream videos, you need an external video player that support standard formats like (flv, mp4 ,…).
Changes:
-Add new websites
-Fix websites errors
-Add Video format description in searchForm
-Add custom scrollbar
-Optimize the scrolling
-Optimize the thumbnail loading
-Add “waiting form” for searching and extracting video.
-Fix download when resume
-Save download queue when exit
-Change “AddDownload” Form
-Add previous and next page in bottom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427702
nueNoBar disables the bottom bar on the today screen, giving you more space on the today screen. The softkeys are still functional in this mode.
nueNoBar is WM 5, 6 and 6.1 compatible, and should run on WM 6.1 builds 20000+ as well.
Release notes:
NueNoBar2 is updated, should work with all versions of WM now, and it has some mechanisms to try to be intelligent with new versions of WM.
If you don’t know what this is, it removes the bottom menu bar on the today screen so you have more space for your today screen items.
It doesn’t work with manila (manila makes its own bar).
Discussion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=488674
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/post/2009/03/02/nueNoBar2.aspx
Chess Training Tools is a collection of chess training tools. It includes a chess visualization trainer that teaches chess visualization by drilling you on the color of a particular square, and also on your ability to tell if two squares are the same color, if two (or three) squares are on the same diagonal, if two squares are a knight move apart, or if two squares are two knight moves apart. It includes a weak chess program (called Vince) that lets you lag the display by several ply, hide all pieces or all pawns, and block out quadrants of the board. Furthermore, it includes an opening memorization trainer. The Palm & Pocket PC versions are missing the mate, opening trainer, and Vince.
http://chesstraining.sourceforge.net/
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.
Release notes:
As we turned to a 6 months release cycle, here is our newest and best ScummVM version for you!
A couple of new engines were added, and besides 2 Humongous Entertainment titles, we now support The 7th Guest and Bud Tucker in Double Trouble.
Among other notable things there is a completely new vector-based GUI, which is a merged work of our last year GSoC student Vicent Marti, as well as a General Main Menu which adds a common save/load interface to most of our engines, adding the much awaited Return to Launcher feature along the way. It was the work of another successful student, Chris Page.
A complete list of new games and features can be found in the release notes, and the latest ScummVM version itself (available for a large number of platforms as usual) is located at the downloads page.
Let’s play!
Changes:
New Games:
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
– Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge.
– Added support for Lost in Time.
– Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
– Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
– Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I must Scream.
– Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.
General:
– Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
– Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the release notes).
– Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC’08 task),
– Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled on Mac OS X).
AGOS:
– Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and Simon the Sorcerer 1.
– Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
Queen:
– Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit too low.)
SCUMM:
– Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
– Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in e.g. COMI.
– Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
– Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).
http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Simple call log application.
Changes:
– slightly faster for restricted call log summary
– added minimum time for each call (ie: any call < 60 secs shall count as 60 secs).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487181
Here is a notification utility smartWatchM for Sony Ericsoon BT watch (MBW-150). It supports all main features of Sony Ericsson phones and it even has some extra functions.
It’s developed for Smartphones/Windows Mobile Standard but works on all WM 5/6 devices (with MS BT stack).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=362218
“Flushing Memory” is a simple SMS manager that stores every message in the file “sms.txt” stored on the root of your smartphone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487353