DroppeddBoxx for Windows Mobile

Over the weekend we reported that DroppeddBoxx, a new Dropbox client for Windows Mobile was now available.  At the time, there was a catch as the program hadn’t yet made it live on the US version of Windows Mobile Marketplace.  The workaround was to download while using the Australian locale.  We’re happy to report that the US version of Marketplace now has DroppeddBoxx available.  You can find it here.

Open standards are what people had in mind when developing HTML 5.  Up until now, the lack of a open standard for video provided quite the hurdle for widespread acceptance and adoption of the new content delivery protocol.  Google is now providing as an open technology the VPP8 WebM codec acquired when Google bought out On2 Technologies back in August of 2009.  This codec was also used by Adobe Flash for streaming video.  Previously, H.264 was proposed for HTML 5.  However the downside is that encoding such video required royalties and payments of some type to ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group as well as the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group.  With the power of HTML 5, codecs would come with the web browser thereby creating the ability to have a plugin-free, feature rich, multimedia web experience. 

Apple is a major proponent to HTML 5 as it’s Safari web browser is HTML 5 draft compliant (with H.264).  Even Microsoft is planning HTML 5 adoption with Internet Explorer 9.  So what’s in store for us, the consumers?  With Google’s contribution, we’ll be able to produce as well as enjoy more content without the need to cough up more money.  Currently, both Mozilla and Opera are already offering nightly builds of their browser that support the new proposed codec, WebM.

Source: SD Times, Issue No. 248

SplashData and Iambic are announcing that Agendus for iPhone has just received a bit of a makeover.  The updated version 2.2 boasts a more intuitive user interface, making it easier to get to and see appointments and tasks.  Check out the press release below for more information:

Agendus for iPhone Now Makes it Easier to Organize Life

SAN JOSE, CA – Iambic, Inc., a pioneer in the development of mobile productivity software, has released an update to the version of its Agendus personal information manager (PIM) for iPhone and iPod touch users. The new version of Agendus offers significant interface updates designed to help users better manage their time and to-do list each day.

Agendus, an award-winning calendaring and time management solution popular on all major smartphone platforms, integrates a user’s Calendar, Contacts and Task List into one application. Building on its record of helping people juggle both their work and personal lives, Agendus 2.2 has added features designed to make it easier to see what’s most pressing and important on the user’s daily agenda.

Agendus for iPhone now enables users to assign icons to Events and Tasks making it easier to identify them. Also, Agendus offers users the ability to go to today’s events or scheduled tasks by a simple shake of the device when in any Calendar view.

Agendus further provides users with the option to auto-adjust their Day view to the current time, providing only the upcoming scheduled events. Likewise, the List View now auto-adjusts to the current date so scheduled future events are brought to the top of the screen.

This update to Agendus builds on the complete redesign of the app in the recently launched Agendus 2.0, which included an entirely new user interface featuring new graphics, easier navigation throughout the app, improved layout of preferences and an overall visual facelift.  This version also introduced new Calendar Views, a Birthday View and Push Notifications for event alerts.

Agendus is available in the iTunes App Store for US$7.99. For more information, visit Iambic’s website is www.iambic.com.

About Agendus

Agendus integrates a user’s Calendar, Contacts and Task List into one application on their iPhone or iPod touch. Contacts are automatically populated in Agendus, because it seamlessly accesses the native contacts database, enhancing and extending the built-in iPhone Contacts App. Agendus also offers a full-featured Task Management solution, allowing users to get things done quickly and efficiently when on-the-go.

About iambic, Inc:

iambic, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative productivity-enhancing software applications for smartphones, PDAs and Windows-based personal computers. The company has developed an extensive portfolio of products for popular platforms (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile), that includes Agendus, the award-winning, fully-integrated, personal information manager (PIM), Agendus Mail, Health & Diet Manager, Propel, SnappySeeker (formerly GoogHelper), Tipper, TripTracker, Vehicle Manager, and YourCall. Founded in 1994, iambic was acquired by SplashData in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. More information is available at www.iambic.com.

Bento, a very popular personal database from FileMaker for Mac, is now coming to your iPad!  For only $4.99, you can manage contacts, track projects, plan events, and more using your iPad.  What’s more, you’ll be able to use it standalone or synchronize it with your Bento 3 for Mac creating a very streamlined solution!  With Bento, you don’t have to be a database administrator to understand it.  Bento makes it easy with 25 pre-designed, ready-to-use templates which you can easily customize to organize virtually any type of information you have.

So what can you use a database for?  You can use them for tracking:

• Classes
• Inventory
• Contacts
• Projects
• Events
• Recipes
• Event Planning
• Student List
• Home Inventory
• And much much more!

You can easily get in touch with the details using various gestures.

A quick tap lets you watch videos, view photos, and send emails. Even browse web links in Safari without leaving Bento.

Sky’s the limit with what you can do with a database.  With Bento, you’ll be sorting and filing away at your own database in no time.  Check out the official FileMaker website for more information including a short video on using Bento, of you can purchase the app for a mere $4.99 from the Apple App Store.

For the better part of the life of my laptop, I’ve had an issue with it.  My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A205 running Vista.  Upon waking the laptop from sleep, the fan runs at high speed.  The only way to stop it from doing this is to completely shut down the computer and start it.  The fan runs at normal speed, varying as it should according to CPU load.  Let the laptop go to sleep, wake, and bam – we are back at full speed for the fan speed.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be causing this?  I’ve tried some troubleshooting but have not had any real success…