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Napster Now Available on Web-Enabled Phones

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The pioneer of digital music, today announced subscribers can now access their account at m.napster.com from most web-enabled phones, regardless of carrier. Subscribers can now browse, search, preview and use account credits to download tracks “over the air” from Napster’s library of more than nine million songs. Napster customers currently receive five MP3s and unlimited … Read more

Windows Mobile 6.5 and Marketplace Available Oct 6

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Microsoft has just sent out an official press release announcing the availability of Windows Mobile 6.5 (even their press release uses the word Mobile and not just Windows phone so I will too:)) and that will also be the opening of Marketplace. From their release (in part and with my highlights): Microsoft Corp. today announced … Read more

Collapse Chaos In The Wild

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jmckeejr is normally known for his Chrome line of slick Touch Pro ROMs and in his search for the latest and greatest apps he came across a game called Collapse Chaos from the Topaz ROM. Thankfully, he’s extracted the files and cabbed them up for us and they resize perfectly for the Fuze and presumably … Read more

Sprint’s Touch Pro 2 Coming Sept. 8

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The floodgates are getting ready to open with the second US carrier to have the Touch Pro 2 and it’s just over a week away. The pricing is exactly in line with TMo at $350 with a two year contract and after rebates, but I’d bet we’ll see discounts online like we saw from TMo … Read more

Read Speed

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Who would have thunk it? I’m can actually read faster, thus reading more, saving time, and being more productive. So good to me. Where do I sign up? Well, werD (pronouced weird?) over at xda-developers has created WordStreamer, a speed reading tool. Here’s what he has to say: “WordStreamer (aka MiniMuncher) is a speed reading … Read more

ThrottleLauncher Re-Written and Released

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ThrottleLauncher is a UI created by APBilbo of XDA and he’s now re-written the application and released it. There’s some great stuff here like multiple pages you can define and custom widgets including an RSS feed and FaceBook. Since the UI is fully customizable you can make it your own including skinning it. From the … Read more

The Lost iPhone Ad

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origins81 posted this on XDA and I really can’t help but to share it. Watch it while sitting on the floor so you can’t fall off your chair laughing. Oh and there’s one bit of foul language so if you’re not supposed to hear those words don’t play this clip:

BubbleWrap…the Game

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You know that bubble wrap stuff that comes in all of your packaging that you love to pop (but don’t understand why it’s so much fun)? Well Herm made it into a game! Here’s what it is. You race to pop as many of the bubbles as possible against a clock and as you pop … Read more

New Google Maps “Favorite Places” v3.2.1

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Below is a list of new features, changes, and fixed issues for Google Maps for mobile available in version 3.2.1 for Symbian Series 60 and Windows Mobile devices.

New features

  • Places of interest: Selectable icons and labels on the map allow you to choose prominent businesses or places of interest in order to see business info, reviews, photos, Wikipedia articles, and a lot of other local information. To select an icon or label, use the 5-way pad or joystick to pan it to the center of the screen or tap it on touchscreen phones. Learn more about these icons and labels already available on maps.google.com.
  • Favorite Places (English only): Explore the favorite places of local experts from cities around the world. Find out where they like to go, and why, from their own perspectives. From the Maps main menu, go to ‘Layers’ > ‘More Layers’ > ‘Favorite places.’ You can also see these on your computer by going tohttp://google.com/favoriteplaces.

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Ready To Unlock and Flash?

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I think the community is split into two groups – those of you that are running cooked ROMs and those of you that want to:) I recently joined the rank of flashers and I’m absolutely kicking myself for waiting so long since the benefits are so high. There’s speed, stability a more personalized feel to … Read more

Best Instant Messaging Client?

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Which instant messaging (IM) client is the best? I have seen this question asked so many times in the forums and being a heavy user of instant messaging on my phone I decided to do a review of all the IM clients that I know.  I am only going to review the ones that are free (Sorry IM+) and ones that do not use text messages (Sorry OZ). This review is mostly for AIM, Gtalk and Facebook since those are the ones that I use the most.  Here is a list of the ones that are included in this review: Beejive IM, Palringo, Nimbuzz, Talkonaut, Ebuddy and Fring. All IM clients are latest versions as of 8/25/09.

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