Question of the Day:  What phobias do you have regarding your phone?

My HTC Touch Pro serves as an alarm clock, running SPB Time at 10:30 pm to tell my wife and I to go to bed after dosing on the couch.  It also wakes me up at 4 AM to start my consultant work.

Occasionally, and more times that I would like to admit, I find that a few minutes to 30 after the alarm goes off, I spring up to find that the Touch Pro is laying beside me.  Talk about your rude awakening.  Quickly I check to make sure that the screen is not smashed, or that the phone has not met with some other horrifying fate.

And there you have it – my phone phobia.  I’m afraid my phone will become an expensive pancake due to my inability to rise when the alarm sounds.  What are your phone phobias?  Hit the comments below and share them with us!

Today’s JAMM Store Deal of the Day is Omar Sharif Bridge II for Windows Mobile.  You can register Omar Sharif Bridge II for half the regular price, so be sure to check it out.

You can download a trial and/or register your copy here.

The programs details and specifications are below:

Omar Sharif Bridge II could be the perfect game. Its ease of play marks it out as a firm favourite for casual gamers, whilst the huge depth of strategy and vast intricacies involved allow it to be a game that can be studied by the most serious card student.

Bridge is played by four players who form two partnerships. Players within a partnership face each other across the bridge table. Traditionally, the players are referred to by the points of the compass – North, East, South and West. The two partnerships are North/South and East/West. Games are played to the best of three. The winner is said to have won the “rubber”. A game ends when one partnership scores 100 or more points below the line.

Featuring ACOL and Standard American bidding systems, Omar Sharif Bridge will challenge the most proficient player yet still allow the beginner to develop their game. Fantastic graphics and a strong and respected bridge engine allows players to become involved, stimulated and challenged with every deal.

Features:

• Endorsed by Omar Sharif.
• Supports ACOL and Standard American bidding systems.
• Supports 5 card majors, strong 2 clubs, weak 1NT, Jacoby Transfers and 2NT 11-12 points conventions.
• Uses the Rubber scoring system.
• Extensive score card information.
• Ability to locate deals matching many bidding criteria.
• Auto bidding.
• Auto card play.
• Full undo and redo of bids and cards played.
• High quality artificial intelligence engine from renowned Bridge expert.
• Extensive display and card play options.
• Omar Sharif Bridge is just one of our large collection of best of breed classic board, card and puzzle games available for a wide range of platforms.

Minimum Requirements:

• WM 5

Display Dimensions
240×240, 240×320, 240×400, 320×240, 320×320, 400×240, 480×480, 480×640, 480×800, 640×480, 800×480
Operating System
WM5, WM6, WM6.1, WM6.5

Here goes the brilliant minds behind JAMM coming up with a cool catch phrase for Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

We figured these where good enough to share will all our readers.

Apple has “there’s an app for that”

Android has “Droid does”

So what about Windows Phone?

Doug: “because we can…   windows phone 7…not dead yet…”

Chris:   “Windows Phone 7 Series – turning old and busted into new hotness…   Eh. Maybe not…”

Timothy: “Windows Phone 7 – as perfect as Windows 7 – the way mobility was meant to be”

Heather:   “WM7…just be happy its not WM Vista….“

Let us know which one you think is the best.

Have a better one?  Leave a comment below.

Textfree Unlimited is currently available for free.  This cool app for the iPhone or iPod Touch will allow you to send and receive all the SMS messages you want.  You even get a real phone number for free!  How is that for cool?  So, yes, now you don’t even need to have a phone service to partake in messaging.  All you need is a Wi-Fi connection and you are ready to chat with all your friends.  I previously was using the lite version which had a limitation of 15 messages a day.  So get this app while its free.  If you don’t want advertisements, $5.99 on the unlimited version gets them removed.  Service is excellent and messages arrive seconds after they are sent.  Happy texting!

For all you iPad lovers willing to deliver your preferred device in the work environment, FourthFrame Technologies has released version 1.0 of their Project Pad, a project management application taking full advantage of the new Apple device.

Project Pad landscape view

The new app is called Project Pad and is designed with both professionals and non-professionals in mind. It features preferences for portrait and landscape use, visual alerts for late tasks, timeline zoom in/out, and much more.
Most people manage projects at home, at work, or at school and Project Pad has been developed with both professionals and non-professionals in mind.

Here is the press release:

Ohio based FourthFrame Technologies today announces Project Pad 1.0, their new project management app for the revolutionary iPad device. Designed with both professionals and non-professionals in mind, Project Pad is easy and fun to use while leveraging the unique capabilities of iPad. Project Pad remains one of the 10 Top Business Apps in the App Store, featuring independent preferences for portrait and landscape use, visual alerts for late tasks, timeline zoom in/out, and so much more.

Dublin, Ohio - Apple’s red-hot iPad hit the 1 Million unit sales mark in its first month and it is clear from app sales that the device is hitting a sweet spot with business users. Word processing, number crunching, and presentation apps are among the hottest sellers. But one key business app category has remained notably vacant: Project Management. That vacancy began to be filled this week with the release of Project Pad 1.0 from FourthFrame Technologies.

Response from App Store customers has been overwhelming, catapulting Project Pad into the 10 Top Business Apps, the 10 Top Grossing Business Apps, and the Top 100 Overall Grossing Apps for iPad within its first few days. “The response has been incredible,” said Ty Jacobs, Principal and co-founder of FourthFrame. “Nearly every day we have people thanking us for delivering a real project management app for this exciting new platform, and congratulating us on being the first. That is a fantastic pay off for our hard work.”

Project Pad’s tag line is “Project Management Made Easy.” Jacobs, a veteran developer and project manager who has a passion for simplicity, usability, and enticing interfaces, designed Project Pad’s feature set and user interface with that goal in mind. “Any project manager will tell you that managing projects is a complex and challenging realm with notoriously confusing software,” said Jacobs, “and we were determined to make it easy and fun while leveraging the unique capabilities of iPad”. The initial reaction indicates that FourthFrame may have done just that.

For professionals, Project Management is a discipline that takes years to learn and the requisite tools can be daunting to use. But most people manage projects of one form or another whether at home, at work, or at school. So FourthFrame designed Project Pad with both professionals and non-professionals in mind. The rapid uptake and feedback indicates that both classes were quite eager for this niche to be filled.

Feature Highlights:

• Easy to use
• Touch-centric
• Projects, Tasks, Task Owners
• Task Successor/Predecessor links
• Table & Gantt views with 3-Position split
• Independent preferences for Portrait & Landscape
• Timeline zoom in/out
• Task indent/outdent (Parenting)
• Task Percent Done
• Visual Alerts for late tasks

Device Requirements:

• Compatible with iPad
• Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
• 2.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Project Pad 1.0 is $9.99 (USD) and available now worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Business category.

ProjectPad portrait view

You can download Project Pad directly from the App Store.

Via: FourthFrame