Friday, May 23, 2008

Ringo Review

The Ringo Ringtone Manager does exactly what the name implies: Manages the use of ringtones on your BlackBerry. Beyond simply setting tones for your calls, messages, and email, you also have full control over the volume of the tones and the vibration settings. It essentially replaces the profile manager on your BlackBerry with a slightly more intricate interface.

Read the full review.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

New Ringo SMS Alert Collection

We all love freebies. Well, this is at least something free for Ringo users...

Electric Pocket has issued a new collection of fun SMS alerts available to users of its Ringo ringtone manager for Palm OS, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices. This free collection of "blips and bloops" make great message alert sounds and increases the choices available from the "default" options that come with phones.

The purpose of Ringo is to make it really easy to change your ringtones on your smartphone:
1. Easily turn your favorite music and sound clips into ringtones & alerts.
2. Jazz up your phonebook by setting tones and pictures for friends & contacts.
3. Group business and personal contacts, then silence one group with a tap.


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RIM Execs on the Best BlackBerry Apps: Eight Downloads

BlackBerry users who want to get the most MP3-player-punch from their RIM devices are in luck, thanks to FlipSide.This recommendation came from Mr. BlackBerry himself, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, who has FlipSide installed on his BlackBerry Bold.The application plays MP3 files stored on your memory card and displays full-color album artwork along with each track, if available. Creating playlists is simple. You can even find out additional information about your tunes by accessing the program's FlipSide Extras option.

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Review of SplashNotes by SplashData

SplashNotes is a handy outliner for your Windows Mobile device, offering one of the better solutions for people who like, want and need to create lists on their phone that will also sync to a desktop client. If you like to create hierarchical To-Do lists or categorize your … whatever, Splash Notes will help you achieve.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Review: SplashData SplashMoney

Keeping track of my cashflow. That’s one of my biggest priorities in personal finance management. Whether your fortunes are big or small, keeping track of them ensures that you’ll see a problem long before it gets out of control. So how can you go about this without making it too troublesome that you give up after a while? That’s where SplashMoney by SplashData comes in.

For the full review, click here.

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Ringo - Not the Beatle, but just as tuneful

...you can personalise ringtones for friends and groups. This is something that I never quite got the hang of using my MDA. But using Ringo its a walk-in-the-park. So now, when my boss phones me I get the "Imperial March" from Star Wars playing and know not to answer! Ringo will play any mp3 file that is on your phone.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Top Symbian Software

HanDBase has been around for years on other platforms but has also become established on S60 as well. As with Handy Safe, there's a full PC client, which means that you can do all the tiresome importing, entry and editing of data on the desktop and then simply copy the database file onto your smartphone for use on the road. This being a generic database app, you can set things up in any way you like, with the usual text, numeric, currency, date and note fields, and it proves ideal for customer or parts databases, collections of books, CDs, etc, work records, company address books, and anything else for which there's a lot of data that you really don't want cluttering up your main contacts stores and other PIM files.

For the full article, click here.

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Bangkok Post reviews SplashMoney

In our modern economy, you create and reconcile monetary transactions many times a day when you charge your credit cards, make cash withdrawals with your ATM cards, write cheques, perform electronic fund transfers, or simply use cash to pay for groceries. Most people don't keep track of these transactions, however, if the piles of ATM slips near every machine are any indication.

On the other hand, there is a rare breed of person who takes note of every financial transaction they make. SplashMoney is designed specifically for them.

In a nutshell, SplashMoney helps you track expenditure and balance your accounts. It records every transaction you make, reminds you of future ones, reconciles bank statements, downloads account data from online banks (but US banks only), generates reports and plans budgets. It simply makes managing your transactions much easier.

By supporting unlimited number of current, savings, credit card and cash accounts, this software packs the capability to serve heavy users who want to track everything. Still, it's scalable enough to serve light users like me who normally only reconcile with ATM slips and credit card statements just once a month.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Morgan Slain interviewed on TechTalk radio program

Morgan Slain from SplashData joins Craig Peterson on the TechTalk radio program to discuss how they have become the leading provider of productivity software for smartphones. These include Palm OS/Treo, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian – as well as other Windows and Macintosh platforms. Their flagship product, SplashWallet, is a suite of applications that provides a complete solution for managing passwords, digital photos, financial accounts, lists, notes and more, and then synchronizing this information between a phone or PDA and a PC. They continue to sell the components of the SplashWallet suite individually as SplashID, SplashPhoto, SplashMoney and SplashShopper.

The interview also addresses the future of Google's Android mobile platform.

Listen to the interview here.

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Review: Franson GpsGate

Franson has created a site called gpsgate.com and it allows you to track your friends as well as view a history of your’s and their journey. Just sign up (for free) and setup your device connect to it (through another output) and you can see where your friends are in real time.

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Monday, May 12, 2008

ZDNET Mobile Software Monday: HanDBase 4.0

DDH Software has been selling its very popular HanDBase application now for 10 years and there are versions available for Windows Mobile, Palm, and S60 devices. This latest version, 4.0, has lots of new features, including new security features, sync improvements and improvements across all platforms.

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Monday, May 05, 2008

Review: HanDBase 4

HanDBase by DDH Software is a top-notch professional mobile database program which allows you to create and share your own custom databases. Since its release in 1997, HanDBase has been used to create databases for a variety of purposes (from Hospital Patient Medical Records to NFL Schedules), and the online gallery has accumulated over 2,000 user-generated databases available for download.

For the full review, click here.

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Geek Review: HanDBase Mobile Database Software

Are you a “List Maker”? Have you ever made a list of all your lists just to keep them all organized? If you have answered yes to any of the above questions and you happen to have a BlackBerry then this review of HanDBase is for you.

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

TalonPR's 10th Birthday

Have we mentioned that we just celebrated our 10th birthday last month? Actually, the company got its start on January 2, 1998 when the founding partner, John Dalkowitz, left our old company and started the PR agency we had been secretly developing. I joined the fun on April 1 of that year and, since John has been doing his own thing separate from Talon for many years now, we celebrate the birthday on April 1.

We've been focusing almost exclusively on public relations for mobile tech companies (mostly software developers) since 1999. It's been a wild ride, but great fun! Thanks to all of our clients and "strategic partners" who have been such a terrific family over this past decade! Here's to the next 10 years of success for all of us!

Kevin Doel

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Impressions: Flipside music player on Windows Mobile


Blackberry users have been enjoying the Flipside music player for a good little while now, but it’s time for the WM junkies to get in on the action! The great thing is they’ve adapted the interface for smartphone and touch-screen users, so both camps can get their flip on.

Read the full review here.

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A quick look at the FindMe Beta

FindMe from ElectricPocket is a relativly recent new beta application they have released a few weeks ago. FindMe utilises GPS or cell tower triangulation (or both) to update your location on Facebook via it's own little application.

FindMe doesn't quite broadcast your position; you bookmark locations and FindMe updates your position when your arrive or pass through one of these location. You also have the option to 'go dark' whereby FindMe stop reporting your status.

Read the full review.

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Workshop-Advanced-MP3-Tips

Say goodbye to anemic cell phone music players. It's taken a few years, but today's smartphones are at the point where you can use them as your only portable MP3 player.

Electric Pocket's FlipSide is featured in this article.

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SplashShopper - A Cool Mobile Tool for Busy Families

SplashShopper is a great application for managing to-do and shopping lists, from holiday gift lists to grocery shopping for family get-togethers to keeping track of DVD rentals. Every Sunday I make my menu plan for the week, and it just so happened that I needed to go grocery shopping today...

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Saturday, May 03, 2008

SplashID for Palm OS review

All things being equal, after doing extensive side by side comparisons with other sensitive information management products, SplashID (also available for Pocket PC) became my product of choice for quite a few reasons.

After using SplashID next to all of the competition, SplashID provided the same level of security you would expect for this kind of product, but came out WAY ahead when it came to the flexibility of its interface (both on the desktop and on the Palm), the attention to functionality allowing you to get to your information in the fewest clicks, and finally, it looks fantastic, and not at the expense of its functionality. Use this product during its nice long trial, and you will quickly feel that your information is not just secured, but much easier to get to than with any other method.

Read the full review.

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SplashTravel review (Spanish)

SplashTravel Pro le permite obtener actualización de toda la información de sus viajes en Smartphone Treo Palm OS o PDA de manera inalámbrica.

Read review here.

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DDH Software Announces New Mobile Database Design Contest

DDH Software is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its acclaimed HanDBase mobile database application. To mark the occasion, the company announces it is reviving its "HanDBase Applet of the Year" contest, seeking the most innovative uses for its popular HanDBase mobile database program for PDAs and smartphones.

The goal for this year's contest is to demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to develop a mobile solution for either work or personal use. The company will reward the Best Commercial Applet and Best Personal Applet with "HanDBase Runtime" licenses (a US $1,000.00 value) which will enable the winners to turn their entries into commercially-available standalone mobile applications.

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Friday, May 02, 2008

FlipSide MP3 Player for Windows Mobile released

Yet another MP3 playing program for Windows Mobile! This one has nice user interface with album cover (images embedded in MP3 files) support.

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