Finger friendly MP3 player for Windows Mobile

Windows Media Player that comes with Windows Mobile is mostly stylus friendly. This is a major drawback and makes one wonder why Microsoft wouldn’t improve the default media player for Windows Mobile finger friendly.

Fortunately, there are friendly people who provide free finger friendly MP3 players for Windows Mobile enabled handsets :-)

S2P (Slide2Play) MP3 Player for WM

An amazingly simple and stylus free MP3 player for Windows Mobile. Closely resembles iPhone’s audio player. Though it is memory hungry, its smooth performance will satisfy you completely.

Features

• Large buttons
• Smooth sliding interface
• Simple to use
• Handles Album Art

S2P is a very nice stylus free MP3 player for windows mobile. Installation is simple, just transfer the CAB file via ActivSync and install it on the mobile.

Please leave your comments if you know a better stylus free audio players for WM.

Source: http://s2p.en.softonic.com/pocketpc and http://forum.xda-developers.com/

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Finger friendly keyboards for Windows Mobile

Default keyboard that comes with Windows Mobile is mostly basic and requires stylus for effective use. This is a major drawback and makes one wonder why Microsoft wouldn’t improve the default keyboard for Windows Mobile.

Fortunately, there are friendly people who provide free finger friendly keyboards for Windows Mobile enabled handsets.

PocketCM keyboard for WM

It offers a visible feedback of the key currently pressed, you can exactly feel that your finger is on the keyboard and you can easily see what key is pressed.

• It can be used with fingers
• It can suggest word based on letter position
• It triggers the key when you remove your finger from the screen, not when you press it. This will avoid typos
• It can be customized
• It's a standard Windows Mobile SIP, so to use it you have to select it as the input method, therefore it can be used in (almost) any application
• Customizable skin and layout
• Accent recognition and suggestion
• There is an active forum where you can discuss your problems with PocketCM keyboard (if any)

Visual feedback and smart suggestion by PocketCM

Here is a video from PocketCM.com

Installing PocketCM 

Download the PocketCM CAB from here, copy the CAB to your device via ActiveSync, Run the CAB on your mobile and reset your device. Then open keyboard, change keyboard (little arrow) to PCM Keyboard –that’s it :-)

TouchPal Keyboard for WM

TouchPal Keyboard from CooTek is an innovative software keyboard powered by T+ input technology, which significantly improves the inputting experience on touch screen handheld devices. It supports a lot of features and some of the free features present in Free edition are listed below.

• Predictive & Precise Input
• "Flow" your keyboard! "Flow" your keyboard!
• In-place case switching
• Display word candidate inline
• Word association
• Landscape mode
• Multi-language support
• Highly Customizable
• For questions, there is a forum

TouchPal Pro supports more amazing features.

Here is an official video from Cootek.com

Installing TouchPal

Download the TouchPal CAB from here, copy the CAB to your device via ActiveSync, Run the CAB on your mobile and reset your device. Then open keyboard, change keyboard (little arrow) to TouchPal Keyboard –that’s it :-)

PocketCM and TouchPal soft Keyboards are really capable and could make your stylus a history!

Please leave your comments if you know a better stylus free keyboards for WM.

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Free 3D modeling tool - Google StetchUp

Google has just released SketchUp release 7 which lets you create 3D models very easily in just a few minutes.

Advantages are:

• Intuitive and easy to learn - Thanks to the dozens of online videos and help center that give step by step instructions on how to use SketchUp features.
  
• Extremely agile in rendering objects
• Get models online for free at Google 3D warehouse
• Share your 3D models with the world

3D objects can be created, modified, integrated with Google Earth etc. A lot more features are supported by Google SketchUp and if you are hungry for more, then it is better to check out their licensed version Google SketchUp Pro 7.

Please look at the comparison between the free and the paid version here.

Here is a SketchUp intro video by Google

Thanks to Google SketchUp team, Now anyone can do 3D modeling without any technical knowledge!

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How to search better with yahoo! Glue

Yahoo! recently added an intelligent "glue" feature to their search pages. The idea is that you can find relevant web pages, images, videos, blogs (and a lot more) related to your search terms on a single page

Glue topic pages help you get to all the information you want with just one click.

Let's say you want to know quick facts about Henry Ford. Traditionally, you would fire up your search engine with the keywords to find relevant Wikipedia pages (obviously), Images, videos etc. All these would definitely take a few minutes of your time.

But, now with Yahoo! Glue, it is just a matter of getting all the information in a single search with a click of button. This is kinda neat!

Google is yet to offer such features.

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DimDim - Cheaper alternative to WebEx

If you are looking for a free (or cheap) alternative to WebEx, you may want to look at DimDim.

Dimdim is an easy and affordable open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with audio/visual streaming and chat, with absolutely no download required to host or attend meetings.

DimDim company has just released the latest and the better version 4.5 to the general public with some cool features like SynchroLive Co-Browsing, Recording and playback of meetings, Share Mac & PC Desktops etc

DimDim comes with three flavors,

• DimDim Free (up to 20 attendees)
  
• DimDim Pro (up to 100 attendees)
  
• DimDim Enterprise (up to 1000 attendees)

Key features of DimDim:

• It’s Easy, Open & Affordable
• No Install to Host/Join meetings
• Easy Share Screens & Webpages
• Audio & Video Conferencing
• Present PowerPoint and PDFs
• Private & Public Chat
• Whiteboard & Annotations
• Record and Playback Meetings
• Open Source and open APIs

I have presonally used DimDim Free to provide technology presentations to a small group of people scattered across the globe and the performance was really good. I have also used WebEx extensively in the past and felt that DimDim was more intuitive and easy.

DimDim is highly recommended to have an easy, effortless web meetings at a cost less than a third what you would pay for WebEx or similar conferencing product.

DimDim is getting a lot of attention due to its good performance and now it has even made it to the Top 100 Products of 2008 by ReadWriteWeb.

Please check DimDim pricing information at http://www.dimdim.com/products/dimdim_editions.html

To know more, Please visit www.dimdim.com

DimDim 4.5 Intro Video:

For more, Please check out DimDim Channel at http://in.youtube.com/MeetFreely

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