Free Utilities

FeedMe: RSS Reader, Photostream and Podcast aggregator

FeedMe, a free lightweight RSS reader for Windows Mobile has just been released. FeedMe supports both Pro and Standard versions. The discovery  capability using keyword subscription in addition to RSS subscription is a nice touch as well as the Flickr and Zoomr photostream subscription to view photos as a slide show.
Complete features:

Supports RSS, [...]

FeedMe, a free lightweight RSS reader for Windows Mobile has just been released. FeedMe supports both Pro and Standard versions. The discovery  capability using keyword subscription in addition to RSS subscription is a nice touch as well as the Flickr and Zoomr photostream subscription to view photos as a slide show.

Complete features:

• Supports RSS, RDF, and Atom feed formats
• View feed content in full HTML fidelity with pictures
• Supports MP3/WMA podcasts (Also supports streaming WMA)
• Download Manager: Allows you to view the progress of current downloading podcasts
• Downloaded Podcast channel allows you to view all your downloaded podcasts easily
• Today folder, Watch folder (find content with certain keywords)
• Cache all the content for seamless reading experience
• Play all downloaded podcasts in a playlist in Downloaded Podcast channel
• Pick a feed from an OPML file (You can open the OPML file from local device or from a URL)
• Options to automatically download latest episodes of a podcast and purge old files
• Config file auto-save and auto-recovering

Download HERE!  (.NET Compact Frameworks 3.5 required)   [Thanks R.W.for sending in!]

Index Your Gmail for Easy Search Media with Xoopit

As all the Web-based email solutions give user a very generous amount of space and search capability, we are getting lazy to organize and clean up our inbox often. As a result, searching things that we sent/received while ago might become a daunting task.

Desperate problem calls for drastic solutions. And rest assured, you might [...]

As all the Web-based email solutions give user a very generous amount of space and search capability, we are getting lazy to organize and clean up our inbox often. As a result, searching things that we sent/received while ago might become a daunting task.

Desperate problem calls for drastic solutions. And rest assured, you might not to do the dirty work. Xoopit is an index service that work with Firefox as an extension. After a quick install and restart Firefox. Xoopit takes a moment to index your Gmail accounts and will appear with a non obtrusive way on a small bar on top of your Gmail inbox.

From now on, click Xoopit bar to look for what you need (documents, photos, Video, etc..). You will find it. You can further refine your search if needed as described in this screencast  or once you find the media, you can post to Facebook or popular blogs directly.

As always, the great solution has also its drawback, in order for Xoopit to help you, you need to provide your Gmail login credential.  Now you know it, weight your options!. All things considered, I hope the active developers at Gmail will incorporate theses useful features in their Labs soon!

Qik Windows Mobile Client Updated

Qik, 0.2.44 for Windows Mobile non-touch smartphones has just been released. You can go too d.qik.com or starting Qik, which will then prompt you to upgrade. Key features included in this release:
Send a live video message to your Contacts: This feature enables you to send video messages to your contacts directly [...]

Qik, 0.2.44 for Windows Mobile non-touch smartphones has just been released. You can go too d.qik.com or starting Qik, which will then prompt you to upgrade. Key features included in this release:

Send a live video message to your Contacts:
This feature enables you to send video messages to your contacts directly from the Contacts application on your phone. To do this, go to Contacts on your phone and then press Menu and select "Send Qik video message". This will then start Qik, start streaming live and send an SMS to the selected contact with the link to the video. Then once you stop the client, the Qik client exits and returns you back to the Contacts application. The person receiving the SMS can click the link in the SMS to view the video from their browser.

Enhanced sharing:
Now you can share your videos directly from the phone by going to Options > Share.
- SMS: SMS the link of the video to your friends & family.
- Email: Share the link of the video over Email.
- Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.: Share the video with your community on any social network, blog that you have configured on qik.com.

Upload existing videos:
Have videos that you have taken from your camera application on your phone and have no easy way share them online? Well, now you can not only upload these videos easily using Qik but easily share them easily using our enhanced sharing capabilities. To use this feature simply start Qik and then:
- Press Menu > Upload.
- Go to the folder where the videos are located and select the video(s) you’d like to upload.
Done! Your videos will be uploaded to your profile page on qik.com and shared with the the networks that you have configured to automatically send your Qik videos to.

Support for more languages:
With this version, Qik now also supports French, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.

Quality improvement:
This release contains a number of quality improvements including the ability to stream at a much higher frame rate even in low light conditions.

Coming soon: Similar capabilities for the touch-enabled Windows Mobile.

Twitter on Excel Spreadsheet

We understand that Twitter is addictive, but being stuck all day at work, sometime it could be problematic to leave your Twitter browser or a Twitter client app opened. SpreadTweet is a new Adobe air Twitter client that has the exact look of MS spreadsheet 2007, 2003 or Office OSX.

Tweet away! and still make [...]

We understand that Twitter is addictive, but being stuck all day at work, sometime it could be problematic to leave your Twitter browser or a Twitter client app opened. SpreadTweet is a new Adobe air Twitter client that has the exact look of MS spreadsheet 2007, 2003 or Office OSX.

Tweet away! and still make you look like a good corporate citizen!

SpreadTweet    [via DownloadSquad]

Pandora for BlackBerry Available

Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your BlackBerry. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and more music like it.
Already a Pandora user? Even easier. Just sign [...]

Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your BlackBerry. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and more music like it.

Already a Pandora user? Even easier. Just sign in. Pandora on BlackBerry is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. Enjoy all your existing stations - and create new ones right from your BlackBerry.

Visit www.pandora.com from you mobile browser to download Pandora now.

Cooliris goes V1.10: 3D Photo Wall from your Hard Drive

Cooliris, the visual add-on to your Firefox browser that display the 3D image wall. It has decided to go beyond the browser. Today Cooliris has a major launch , the new version includes:

The ability to browse photos from your hard drive
Brand new Facebook support - the 3D wall for all Facebook images [...]

Cooliris, the visual add-on to your Firefox browser that display the 3D image wall. It has decided to go beyond the browser. Today Cooliris has a major launch , the new version includes:

• The ability to browse photos from your hard drive
• Brand new Facebook support - the 3D wall for all Facebook images
  with tags, titles, etc.
• More relevant information in the wall: Related videos on YouTube,
  Product descriptions in shopping, shutter and aperture in Picasa, etc.

Cooliris is also excited to announce that they’ve crossed 12M downloads of Cooliris, and that they have recently taken in more than $15M in Series B funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, DAG Ventures, The Westly Group, and T Mobile Venture Fund.

Read more HERE!

Twikini: Twitter client app for Windows Mobile

Twitter offers SMS method for mobile user, but who would want to deal with expensive cost of SMS that wireless operators are gouging their customers. Therefore, the most effective way is to install a Twitter client app such the latest Twikini from TrinketSoftware. Twikini conveniently updates your favorite feeds in [...]

Twitter offers SMS method for mobile user, but who would want to deal with expensive cost of SMS that wireless operators are gouging their customers. Therefore, the most effective way is to install a Twitter client app such the latest Twikini from TrinketSoftware.
Twikini conveniently updates your favorite feeds in the background, and leverages the camera, GPS, media, touch screen, keyboard, graphics and storage capabilities of your device.

Main Features

• FAST! Unlike other Twitter apps for Windows® Mobile, Twikini is written entirely in native C++ code for maximum performance and the fastest load time possible.

• Simple, uncluttered, and customizable user interface. Choose from a variety of themes for the best reading experience.

• Post tweets using a full screen editor. Optionally, set your location (either manually or using GPS) along with your status updates.

• Twitpic integration to post photos with your status updates. Select existing photos or click new ones from your device’s camera.

• Read status updates just like browsing a web page. Quickly reply, retweet, favorite, or email other people’s tweets. 

• Windows Media Player integration. Automatically tweet the song and artist you’re listening to.

• Single download that is compatible with all Windows® Mobile devices - both touch and non-touch.

Twikini supports WM 5 and later. Twikini is currently in Beta and available for download HERE!  A YouTube demo video is available HERE!  [Courtesy of FreewarePocketPC]

Web-based screencast capturing with ScreenCastle

Recording a sequence of actions from your computer screen and publish it as a video or screencast is a very good way to convey a tutorial. However, this might require additional software installed. But lately, I have seen a couple of Java-based (Web app) that start providing this same capability.  Webware introduces ScreenCastle, which [...]

Recording a sequence of actions from your computer screen and publish it as a video or screencast is a very good way to convey a tutorial. However, this might require additional software installed. But lately, I have seen a couple of Java-based (Web app) that start providing this same capability.  Webware introduces ScreenCastle, which is the latest one to date.

You can first go to   ScreenCastle.com, hit the big red button to start. The site lets you resize the frame from which the capture will take place, and option to capture audio. After that you can minimize your browser to capture whatever found in the capture frame. You can drag the frame by dragging the blackbar to a different location but not resizing it. From that, you can start & pause and finish the capture.

Upon completion, the video will be uploaded to the site ScreenCastle, where you can get link, embedded code, etc…

I have tried the capture successfully, however, the site seems to take a long time to render the video. I borrow the video that Webware captured to give you  some idea.