Skyfire - You need to try it
A month ago, Chris posted that Skyfire (was) Open to Everyone but it had a short window of opportunity but NOW it is open again for everyone. If you have not tried Skyfire yet, you need to do so. Simply put, it is an amazing experience. I was fortunate to get in on the early beta program in the beginning of the year and have been truly amazed with the experience. Now you too can try it because Skyfire is giving Windows Mobile smartphone users everywhere an opportunity to take the latest beta version and test it out.
Skyfire is free and it will allow you to experience the internet like you do on your PC. Imagine, you can have the same experience on your mobile phone that you have at home … how cool is that? It’s “The Web”, not some mobile web.
The 0.8 beta of Skyfire is now available for smartphones running Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 and you folks that run Symbian don’t worry, your version for Series 60 phones is coming very soon!
IE8: The Unboxing Video
The Techno Citric unboxes Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in its very first review. Watch as he puts new features like Accelerators, Web Slices and In Private Browsing through their paces.
Special thanks to Warner Crocker
SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PCs
SoftMaker has just released the final beta version of SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PCs.
It is now available for you as a free download. This new beta comes with several fixes and improvements, such as:
- All known problems related to entering accented characters on keyboard- based devices are fixed.
- The Backspace key now works on all systems.
- Message boxes that were wider than the Pocket PC display are now wrapped correctly.
- TextMaker, PlanMaker: Full-screen editing mode implemented
- SoftMaker Presentations: Inserting graphics does not causes crashes anymore.
- SoftMaker Presentations: Slide shows can now be run in a true full-screen mode.
Learn more: http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofp08_en.htm
Skype for Mass-Market Mobile Phones
Posted by Jack Cook on 04/25/08 in Software, The Internet
I use Skype all the time and find it very reliable in my day to day calls. Having it on my device will be a huge advantage for some of the calls I make. At this point in time, the devices that are supported are limited and one can only hope that Skype will make this beta version available for Windows Mobile devices soon.
Following recent moves to extend Skype conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step as it continues to merge its internet communications software with mobile phones. Today, the company released a beta version of Skype for your mobile, a mobile “thin“ client that works on about 50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
The beta version of Skype for your mobile is available worldwide with a feature set that includes chat, group chat, presence (seeing when your contacts are online), and receiving calls from Skype users, and through SkypeIn.* Additional features, which include the making of Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls from the mobile handsets, are initially supported in seven markets: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
ACT QUICK!! GottaBeMobile has 100 More EverNote Invites!!
I’m not sure if I got this out to you in time but here is an opportunity for you to get a copy of the Evernote beta if you act quickly The folks at GottaBeMobile had 100 EverNote beta invites that went very fast yesterday and now they have another 100 to give away! If you are one of the first 100 people to reply with your email address, they will get a beta invitation out to you asap.
Make sure you check out Warners InkShow for a nice overview if you want to know what Evernote is all about.
So check it out and reply too the post over here at GottaBeMobile!
UPDATE: Looks as if they are all gone …. check out Warners InkShow on the link above, so you can see what it was all about.
