Judie Hughes Reviews MemMaid at Clinton Fitch.

Posted by: dgoldring on Apr 30 2007 - 784 views

One of my favorite sites on which to read reviews (aside from JAMM, of course) is Clinton Fitch.  One of my favorite reviewers around is Judie Hughes from Gear Diary.  So, today, I got a chocolate in my Peanut Butter surprise when Judie showed up as a guest reviewer at Clinton Fitch.  Judie reviewed Dinarsoft’s fantastic utility program, MemMaid, which has long been a staple on my device.  Judie writes:

MemMaid can be as simple or as complicated as the user needs it to be: those that simply want to clean up stray data trash can use it for that purpose, while more confident users can use the program to dive deeply into their Pocket PC’s system. As I mentioned before, the program’s Clean Up utility is worth the price on its own, but the extra tweaking power afforded by the other options makes MemMaid a great tool for anyone that wants more control over their Pocket PC’s memory, processes, and storage functions. This is one of the first programs that I load on every Windows Mobile device I own, and I consider it to be a "must have". 

Read Judie’s full review and learn more than you ever needed to know about this fantastic program at Clinton Fitch.  Then, check out MemMaid, find it here at the JAMM store.

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We Just Picked A Winner…

Posted by: dgoldring on Apr 30 2007 - 789 views

One of my favorite things to do here at JAMM, aside from reviewing the latest cool gadgets, is picking contest winners.  I love seeing the looks on people’s faces when their names are listed here and they get a free copy of some amazing program…er…OK…well, I guess I don’t actually see anyone’s faces.  In fact, I don’t even live in the same country as a lot of our readers.  But as I type this, I am imagining shiny happy people jumping all around…

So, today, I have the happy task of selecting five winners of Mastersoft Sudoku.  A fantastic Sudoku game which I plan to review later this summer.  And the winners are…oh, excuse me, I forgot that I am not supposed to say winners.  There are no losers here.  Everyone who participated is a winner.  However, five of you lucky winners will go home with Sudoku, while the rest of you lucky winners will go home…alone.  And those going home with Sudoku are:

KWS, Technogeek, Melvyn, SinisterJunkie, Rhonda

Those of you whose names I just mentioned (we’ll call you winners), watch for an email from Just Another Mobile Monday coming soon.  The rest of you, we’ll have plenty more contests from Mastersoft coming up over the summer.  Thanks to Mastersoft for sponsoring this contest, and to everyone who participated.  Stay tuned tomorrow as we will be unveiling yet another brand new contest here at JAMM.

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Quick Look: Webis Pocket Informant Calendar

Posted by: Brandon Steili on Apr 30 2007 - 1,620 views

How do you review a program that has 86 pages worth of instruction manual? How do you look at program so powerful that you know you can never possibly have a use for all the commands? Easy … you don’t. Frankly, I’m not even going to try showing you or telling you everything you can do with PI Calendar. 

PI Calendar if anything is a stunningly beautiful application. From the very first pda I purchased I wanted something more colorful than the built in application. When I moved to a PPC 2003 device, I shortly after found Pocket Informant. I’ve been using it ever since.

 

Pocket Informant is by far one of the most powerful applications for managing PIM data on the market. But what if you don’t really need all that power, or find yourself a little overwhelmed by everything Pocket Informant can do? What if you just want a good looking calendar that adds a bit more functionality than the built-in application? Well, then PI Calendar just might be what you’re looking for.

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AT&T 8525 Firmware Available via BGR

Posted by: Brandon Steili on Apr 30 2007 - 3,246 views

According to the folks at BGR the long awaited update for the 8525 is now online (legally).

This ROM updates the phone to allow Push-To-Talk, Cingular Video, Blackberry Connect, and many bug fixes. It’s available as a free download, and takes about 25 minutes to install. As with any firmware upgrade, make sure to have constant power to the device, so you don’t brick the phone, and have everything backed up.

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Link to AT&T 8525 Firmware Available : The Boy Genius Report

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In Honor of those we’ve lost … no matter where they are from

Posted by: Brandon Steili on Apr 30 2007 - 694 views

Originally this day of silence was for the ones who fell at Virgina Tech. But everyday people are lost throughout the world in senseless acts of violence.

This day is a symbol of support to all the victims in our world!

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Review: Logitech FreePulse Headphones — Taking Bluetooth Where It Has Never Gone Before.

Posted by: dgoldring on Apr 28 2007 - 12,474 views

I remember when the USB cable was first invented.  Until then, peripherals used a wide variety of connections, with little interoperability.  The keyboard plugged into the keyboard slot.  Printer into a parallel printer slot, other peripherals into a serial slot…or maybe even something else entirely.  When USB came onto the scene, it sounded like a snake oil salesman.  You want something that can plug into all of your peripherals with just one cable?  Buy this and you’ll see.  We did buy into the USB cable, and far from a snake oil salesman, it delivered everything it promised and more.  Today, the USB cable has revolutionized the industry and few of us would consider connecting devices and peripherals with anything else.  It made the industry as well as our lives easier and more flexible. 

So, what does this all have to do with a pair of headphones?  Nothing really…and everything when those headphones connect via Bluetooth.  In my opinion, Bluetooth is the next USB.  It is the most underutilized development in the mobile industry today.  Although it has been available for years, it was almost exclusively used for nothing more than wirelessly  connecting cell phones to earpieces.  Only recently has its true power begun to be realized.  Only now are companies developing Bluetooth stereo headphones and other cutting edge peripherals which rely on this technology to connect to your device without wires (even the USB variety).  As each new Bluetooth protocol becomes available, the power of this technology to create bigger, faster, stronger, and more useful connections becomes more apparent.  In years to come, everything will become dependent on the increasingly more stable Bluetooth connections.  Eventually, just as we do with the USB cable today, we will look back and wonder how anyone connected anything together without Bluetooth.  What appears top be the promise of a snake oil salesman today, will prove to be a revolutionary development in years to come.  For this reason, I am always eager to review the latest developments in Bluetooth connectivity.

One of my biggest frustrations in this area is that devices have not nearly kept pace with the development of peripherals.  As stereo Bluetooth headphones become more readily available, I have noticed that most of the popular media players (iPod, Zune, Sansa, Creative Zen) do not typically offer Bluetooth connectivity.  A Bluetooth peripheral is useless if you have nothing to connect it to.  One solution to this problem is offered by Logitech with their FreePulse headphones which include a Bluetooth receiver.  This receiver promises to turn any device with a 3.5 mm headphone or audio out jack into a Bluetooth capable device.  A lofty promise.  Snake oil if it fails…the promise of a new tomorrow if it succeeds. 

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