Welcome to this week's software roundup! I hope all of you had a nice Thanksgiving. One of the things that I'm thankful for is all the software that is out there for us to load up on our Palm smartphones. Let's take a look at a few new and updated apps today while we sit back and try to digest all that turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, sweet potato casserole, rolls, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
Ever wondered why your Centro's / Treo's clock becomes inaccurate after a few resets or battery changes? Palm is to blame - but be sure that they saved a few cents by excluding certain key components.
Tamoggemon Software, steps in where Palm left off: our highly customized snooping algorithm makes sure that your smartphones clock is as accurate as the clocks on other (cheaper) phones.
As we use a local algorithm rather than relying on external time servers, TimeDrift can be used abroad without any roaming charges for data (which can be extremely expensive).
Keep your clock accurate - get TimeDrift!
Features:
- Fire and forget solution - no "maintenance" required
- Highly reliable - maximal drift of 30 secs/reset
- Small - less than 50KB of memory usage
- Works independant of network - no network charges
Minimum Requirements:
- Palm Centro/Treo 680/Treo 700p/Treo 755p
Dunno if my experience is typical, but the time on my Centro is quite often wrong and I have to manually set it - so this app might be just what I need!
Get TimeDrift here for $9.95!
Budget & Buy v4.0
Using Budget & Buy, by ieosoft, you can make a list of things you want to buy and calculate what you can actually afford. Cut out those that you don't really need or things that can wait. A pre-defined list of category including things "A Must", "Can Wait", "Under consideration" and "Don't need it". By using this program, you'll be surprised how much you have saved by the end of the month/year.
Features:
- Export data to your pc via memopad
- A pre-defined list of category including things "A Must", "Can Wait", "Under consideration" and "Don't need it".
- Budget your spending on the go
Minimum Requirements:
- Requires Palm OS 3.5 and 200KB of Available RAM
Guys, are you like me - your lady just can't quite seem to trim all those things she "needs" and wants? LoL, grab Budget & Buy and tell her the program is suggesting she cuts back! * ducks and apologizes to the ladies * I'm only joking!!
Get Budget & Buy here for $5.99! Surely that fits your budget!
Virtual Finance v1.0
Virtual Finance, by Handcase is software for organizing and calculating (automatic calculation) costs, revenues and investments. You organize your expenses, revenues and investments for items and modes, mark time and date to be advised of payment, receipt or investment to be made or redeemed. Also has ratings tool where you define what you did or should do about their personal financial activities, professional or your company (useful for micro and small enterprises as a complement mobile) and notes.
Features:
- automatic calculation
- three management types - expenses, revenues and investments
Minimum Requirements:
Get Virtual Finance here for $11.00!
High & Low v1.0
High & Low, by Handcase, is a card game you play against the dealer, card by card. To beat the dealer, you must have a card less than, equal to or greater than that of the dealer - depending on what setting you've chosen. The game has 3 levels and 2 game modes (amateur and expert). You can combine a level with a mode of play, that is, you have various combinations of play, making it a difficult game and always interesting. High-quality graphics makes for an addictive game because beating the dealer is always a challenge. In English. For Palm colored. Free only for users of the games of Handcase the GameScore to you organize all your moves for any type of game, our game, console, arcade, pc or web.
Features:
- 3 levels
- 2 game modes
- Free only for users of the games of Handcase the GameScore to you organize all your moves for any type of game, our game, console, arcade, pc or web.
Minimum Requirements:
Get High & Low here for $7.00!
Palm OS Updated:
*NEW* DVD Catalyst 3.7 : Faster DVD & Video conversions for any device
A3VS has updated its DVD Catalyst to version 3.7!
*NEW* DVD Catalyst 3.7 : Faster DVD & Video conversions for any device.
Watch movies & TV shows anytime, anywhere
Features:
- Convert TV & Movie DVDs as well as video files to play on video devices such as iPhone, iPod, PocketPC, Smartphone, PSP, XBOX, Zen, Zune etc.
- Works with multi-angle DVDs
- Offers scene-selection as well as scene-based file splitting
- Include subtitles, manually or automatically
- Can include Closed Captions
- Automatically remove black bars to play full-screen on your player
- Freely adjustable quality, audio, video, framerate, brightness, contrast, volume
- Easy to use, simple 1-click interface. select your device, insert dvd, click go
- All the options you want, and more. 0-click fully automatic mode, monitor folders, drag&drop, auto-detect/eject DVDs etc
- Transparent batching. Convert multiple DVDs and/or video files with a single click.
- Multi-device. Add different devices to a profile, and everything will be converted for all devices
- Unrestricted 7-day trial. No limitations.
- Detailed 80 page manual included
- NEW: Faster DVD conversions.
I've heard nothing but good things about this program!
Get it here for $17.95!
Master Kick
INDUSTRY Entertainment has updated its Master Kick to version 1.5!
Once, there was a table-soccer, now we have Master Kick!
Master Kick arises in glory of the best arcade version of table soccer seen till now! It's not just a game with stunning graphics of various playfields and players, weather visual effects, or live cheering. Master kick gives you the full atmosphere of soccer match combined with foosball skill. Highly sophisticated AI plus numerous formations selection, playing in a league or quick match will not fail any soccer fan expectations. Great dynamic music and sound powered by MODULA Audio Engine and fullscreen support enlarge the overall game experience. Master Kick is available for all the latest PalmOS devices. One thing is for certain, Master Kick tried once, will become your favorite addiction!
Master Kick is also available for iPhone / iPod Touch, Windows Mobile devices and Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
Features:
- Great atmosphere
- Addictive gameplay
- Amazing visual effects
- Six playfields / Six teams
- Vivid sound fx and music
- Action replays
- Now in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Danish, Hungarian, Polish and Serbian
- Available for iPhone / iPod Touch, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Asus EEE PC
Foosball players, this game is designed just for you! All the action but less wrist strain and pain! Man, do I ever remember how sore my wrists got when I'd "try" to play this game!
Get it here for $19.95!
Cookiz
Shsh Software has updated its Cookiz to version 3.00!
Cookiz - A puzzle with 63 levels in which you are challenged with clearing an array of 5×5 squares filled with 6 types of objects including square and round cookies filled with green and red jam. You clear the cookies by matching pairs of similar objects based on various rules of logic.
Features:
- Clear the matrix by merging cookies of similar color and shape.
- 63 stages of increasing challenge level.
- Hours of fun and mental excersize.
Minimum Requirements:
Get Cookiz here for $14.95!
Pocket DVD Wizard
The Coding Workshop Limited has updated its Pocket DVD Wizard to version 5.3.
Convert your DVDs and video files so you can watch them any of the following devices:
- Palm OS device
- Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)
- Apple iPod Video & iPhone
- Microsoft Zune
- Blackberry devices
- Windows Mobile Pocket PC
- Portable Media Center
- Gizmondo
- Windows Smartphone
- Windows CE device
- Archos Media Player
- Cell/Mobile Phones
- Creative Zen Vision, Vision:W and Vision:M
- Epson P-2000 / P-4000
- Disney MixMax & Nick Npower Fusion
- Kodak picture frames
- and more....
The new Pocket DVD Wizard v5 is even faster than before with superb high-quality output - tried and tested support for more devices than ever and of course, the fantastic, easy to use Wizard interface. The price for the Pocket DVD Wizard has remained as low as ever - just $ 24.95 (no discount codes required!)
DVD conversion process
All the conversion and file handling is done using the speed and power of your main Windows PC giving both fantastic still frames and fast action video quality, while saving you time and money. The software is designed to be very easy to use and requires no additional 'playback' software to be purchased for your Pocket PC or other handheld device.
The Pocket DVD Wizard software uses advanced compression techniques to fit a whole DVD on a memory card the size of a postage stamp. You can then play back the resulting movie file using the standard Windows Media Player already installed on your Pocket PC.
No more 'black bars'
The Pocket DVD Wizard gives you the choice when converting wide screen video. You can choose to retain the original format, and have 'black bars' on the top and bottom of the video output, or use 'pan and scan' to remove the bars and use the full screen area on your Pocket PC.
Target your memory card size
From 128mb through to 1Gb , you can select your target card size.
The Pocket DVD Wizard is not restricted to fixed memory card sizes, you specify the memory card size you have (or how much space you want to use) and the software makes the adjustments needed to give you the best conversion possible, whilst targeting your specified output size.
Specify start and stop times
If you have a clip you want to convert, you can do just that. Specify the start and stop times and the Pocket DVD Wizard will create a video file from that part of your DVD or video file.
High quality conversion
The quality of the conversion is very high in all modes, but it can be set to three different levels, depending on how much time you have to convert the file.
You can also select a 'switch off pc' option, to turn the pc off when the conversion has finished.
All versions of Windows supported
The latest version of the Pocket DVD Wizard runs on any desktop or laptop pc capable of playing DVD videos. If you can put a DVD in your CD/DVD drive (it does not have to be a DVD writer) and Windows can play the DVD, the Pocket DVD Wizard should work perfectly for you.
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP and Windows NT / 2000 are all supported.
More than just a DVD conversion tool
You can also convert MPEG, AVI and WMV files!
All the popular DVD editing functions, such as targeting specific output file sizes, start and stop 'crop' points and removal of the wide screen black bars are supported for video file conversions in the current version of the Pocket DVD Wizard.
Forget expensive, and bulky portable DVD players, if you already have a Pocket PC you can keep the kids (and the adults!) quiet for hours.
Features:
- The Pocket DVD Wizard is very, very easy to use with its simple step by step interface!
- You can fit multiple standard DVDs on just a single memory card.
- Superior video quality with WMV, AVI and MP4 output now supported.
- More input formats supported, if you have a file type not listed, give it a try anyway, it will probably work!
- You only need one piece of software, the Pocket DVD Wizard supports multiple output devices.
- No need to buy any additional playback software.?
- Support for both included media players (eg Windows Media Player for Pocket PC) and external players (eg MMPlayer)
- 'Black bars' on the top and bottom of the picture can be removed
- You can record multiple episodes to separate files without additional user interaction (and its easy to do!).
- You can specify start and stop points to record just part of the dvd.
- You can enhance the video brightness for small device screens.
- You can select high quality, balanced output or high speed - you make the choice.
- You can select alternate languages and subtitles.
- Landscape 'Full Screen' playback on all devices, including the Pocket PC!
- Free trial version is available - try before you buy.
Get it here for $18.95!
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