THIS is gonna get posted everywhere...
if you can't follow the link, it says this...
"Give Skyfire to your friends Announcement started 18th August 2008 and ends 30th August 2008
On the eve of the Olympics, we added Silverlight support to Skyfire, meaning that Skyfire users can watch any ofthe 2200+ hours of Olympics coverage provided by NBC on their mobile phones. To celebrate Michael Phelps’s monumental accomplishment of winning 8 Gold metals in a single Olympic games, today we have released a special code “Michael8” which will give new users access to Skyfire and the games (and the full PC web).
Spread the code “Michael8” to your friends and let them part take in these historic games on the go."
so whats the password?
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I couldn't post games-related news lately because I've been VERY busy with the initial Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s Annual Best Software Awards nominations, recategorization and the complete redesign of the Communication, Emulators, Multimedia and System main categories. Some of the preliminary results can be seen HERE; note that as we're still urging developers to enter their product info in the PPCMag Encyclopedia of Software databases, some of the brand new categories are still empty. Developers, please PLEASE enter your titles into the Encyclopedia of Software & Accessories so that we can easily nominate it for the Awards (if it’s worthful enough)! Right now, we have to track down each and every developer, which can be particularly complicated with freeware / public domain authors, particularly if they have gone out of business for years (see for example YameCE). For example, last year it took us weeks to, finally, find the contact address of the authors of PocketGBA and Qmail, two excellent, free programs for Windows Mobile. Now, if ANYONE knows n0p’s contact address, please let us know – via his ICQ handle, I, so far, haven’t been able to contact him.
(Yes, this work is MUCH harder than many people would imagine, particularly when you need to review hundreds of different programs - just as I've done with the brand new Emulators categories in the last month - so that you have a clear picture of what should be nominated and what not. Now that I have some free time, I list what has happened in the last month. And, of course, finding and contacting the original developers, in cases, isn't easy either.)
AximSite reviewer Bryan Eley (breley) has just published a really decent review of Mobisation's new platformer game, Boneyboy. As the game has also been highly recommended by both me and Allen Gall (and I've also picked it for the initial Awards 2007 nomination), it's certainly worth a read - and the trial version giving a test ride.
MoreGames Entertainment, the developer of Orions: Legend of Wizards and Enslave, have just released another HIGHLY recommended title, Azgard Defence. Related reviews are HERE and HERE. The second review is HIGHLY recommended: it's been published by the same author, Doug Goldring, as the previous, highly recommended Orions review.
There was another eagerly waited-for release this month: that of PDAmill Game Studios' Rats!!. See for example THIS PocketGamer.org thread for more info. David, owner of PocketGamer.org, has also been promising a review of the title - make sure you keep an eye on his excellent site!
And yes, another PDAmill Game Studios release: Maggot Attack Pinball. Another cool pinball game, worth a test ride (albeit I haven't personally tested it myself as yet so I can't comment on the feedback at the related PG.org thread).
Speaking of forthcoming pinball games, the well-known developer of one of the best text-based adventure games (Fade), Fade-Team, still has no news on their forthcoming(?) Bump Revenge - except for a year-old screenshot. Unfortunately, the same stands for their other, promised title, Keeperbane. And, as far as still-not-released, highly anticipated titles are concerned, the release date of Bonanza Interactive's Prehistoric: Road to Hollywood has still been pushed back - again.
Larry Bank of HanaHo Games (see his blog HERE) wasn't lazy either. He both released Space Invaders Trilogy (see THIS for the PPC and THIS for the Smartphone version) and, even more importantly, a brand new version, 0.24, of his kick-butt multiplatform emulator SmartGear, which is one of the best desktop / handheld gaming console emulators for both the Pocket PC and the Smartphone. Make sure you check it out - or, wait for my thorough review and comparison to the previous version reviewed in several of my emulation-related articles. It's available HERE for download.
IonFX (developers of some 3D hardware accelerated titles like GeoRallyEX) have announced another 3D acceleration-enabled game, Project Outlands. Related PG thread HERE.
C2Matrix has released Fire Hawk, a vertical scroller shooter. Haven't tested it yet so I don't know how it compares to for example SkyForce Reloaded, currently the BEST top-down scroller (if you don't take into account the emulated CPS-2 titles like 1944 - The Loop Masteror 19XX - The War Against Destiny, that is)
Another 3D gaming news is SkyZone Entertainment porting the well-known multiplatform (PC, XBOX 360 and Mac - the latter by no one else than Aspyr Media!) Prey (which is based on the Doom3 engine) to mobile devices. See the related PG thread HERE.
If you like Tetraedge's adventure titles, make sure you check out their latest title, Secrets of da Vinci.
In case you haven't noticed, I've published several kick-butt mostly game emulation-related articles last month (and will also publish some in the near future!). Many of them have been frontpaged by industry-leader PocketGamer.org and Michu, author of the most widely known Emupage, has also made all (!) these reviews sticky in the AximSite Emulators forum, showing these emulator roundups are of indeed exceptional quality and thoroughness. Make sure you read them if you are into gaming on Windows Mobile!
Hey everyone.
Incase any of you don't know, my name is Laos101, and I'm one of the news writers at Pocket PC Geeks, one of the fellow sites along with XDA that go really in depth with pocket pcs, and other mobile devices.
Anyways, a few weeks ago, I had a thought, and really wondered why it hadn't been done before. Why hadn't there been any really user-based Pocket PC Podcasts out there?
Sure, there's engadget, TWiT, and others. But they don't see our side. There's an entire world of windows mobile that often gets shrouded away. So this does its best to bring forth the world of mobile devices from this view. We discuss all thing Android, Iphone, and of course, Windows Mobile / Windows Phone.
We have a wide variety of guests but are always looking for more people to join us. Right now our guest list comprises of only CDMA Windows Mobile users, Im trying to expand it to both GSM and other mobile devices to give a very dynamic experience and such.
If interested, the show is every wednesday at 9PM EDT (That's 6pm PDT and 5-6 AM Europe, sorry folks, right now you'll need to listen via recording rather live) we run live for about an hour and change, and its always a good listen
This will be our second show, but the difference is that it will be live (The first one was recorded due to technical difficulties) and it will also be on a weekly schedule like this as it works best for most of our guests already.
We discuss a lot of things, mostly whatever we find on the ppcg site that comes in news-wise and whatever else we see on the other sites.
If you're interested in coming on, all you need is a microphone, skype, and to PM me.
I welcome anybody to come on ustream on wednesday and join the fun!
Here is the ustream link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ppcgp
See you there!
Laos101.
P.S. Here is our first show, its in a temporary MP3, as future versions will be recorded to Ustream
We're LIVE NOW! Be sure to come on by! We've got some great guests (Mighty Mike, Cornelius) and more should be on later!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ppcgp
We're about to discuss AT&T and their rebounding ad!
I'm listening to it right now! Please put it on itunes and zune eventually.
We will
Will you also have a regular mp3 download and rss feed?
RSS feed is up, check often for MP3s and such
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PPCGPodcasts
We'll be up again tommorow! Be sure to come on down!
9pm EDT, 8pm CDT
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ppcgp
Hey!
If you're a regular fan, or just interested in our brand new weekly audio podcast, the PPCGP, be sure to come on down to Ustream now! We're airing live this very moment.
It's an auidio only stream, so skyfire may be able to take it, otherwise just head on your nearest PC and get listening!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ppcgp.
Wanted to make sure everyone knew about two contests happening right now at Widgetbox - a RT contest on Twitter, and a mobile app development contest. More details below - check it out.
Widgetbox has just launched a mobile app builder that creates mobile web apps for Android and iPhone - really fun to play with.
Make an HTML5 Mobile App for iPhone & Android in Minutes - Widgetbox
Widgetbox’s 5,000th Mobile App Giveaway
Recently we’ve found it hard to contain our excitement over how many mobile web apps have been created since we launched Widgetbox Mobile™.
To celebrate the enthusiasm over our mobile web apps, we’re giving away a VIP set of prizes! Create the 5,000th mobile web app and you’ll win the Grand prize which includes a $299 Apple Gift Card, a premium Diamond subscription to Widgetbox Mobile™, and a personal consultation with the Widgetbox design staff to help you get the most out of your mobile app.
And because we know timing is a hard thing to master—we’re giving you a second shot to win a great set of prizes if you fall short of making app number 5,000! Simply make a mobile web app between now and the creation of the 5,000th mobile web app and you’ll automatically be entered for a chance to win the runner-up prize in our giveaway.
Make a Widgetbox mobile web app and get two chances to win!
Widgetbox Mobile™ Twitter Giveaway
To celebrate the recent launch of Widgetbox Mobile™ and to show our appreciation to our fans, we’re having a 5-day Twitter giveaway! Everyday at 5pm (PST) we’ll choose a winner to receive a $50 iTunes gift card. The best part about the giveaway—all you need to do is retweet the official contest tweet each day for a chance to win.
RT widgetbox: Twitter contest for #widgetboxmobile. RT for chance to win $50 iTunes card! Winner chosen at 5pm everyday Mobile apps, web widgets, and rich media ads
Hi everyone. If you like football check this out:
market.android.com/details?id=quintoStdio.app.euro2012kit
Euro 2012 Guide is a free application created for all football fans out there. Get the vibe of the 14th UEFA European Championship with this amazing app.
Find out about the 16 teams which will clash for the European title, learn about the stadiums, get the rosters of the teams, group information and standings. Find out about interesting facts & figures from past competitions and get the latest RSS sports news!!
The Euro 2012 Guide data can be easily synchronized, so you can get the latest standings during the competition. The application can be stored on an SD card as well.
If you want to know how many days are left until the kick-off you can download the Euro2012 Countdown widget application for free here:
market.android.com/details?id=quinto.widget.Euro2012Countdown
For ideas on improving the app and comments, please email us! We will be glad to get back to you.
8feed Tech News (Search 8feed on Google Play Store)
8feed Tech News is an RSS Reader for many technology feed sources in one place and it is an HTML5 based application written with Mobility5 HTML5-CSS3 Mobile Application Framework.
There are nearly 40 technology news sources that you can enable or disable withing source settings, and you can see all feeds inside one main screen or you can go into feed details.
You can;
Save any feed as a favorite item to make it available for later reading,
Directly go to the feed's original link,
Share feed short descriptions and link with any application.
Here are the sources available right now:
9 to 5 Google
9 to 5 Mac
Android Central
Android Community
Android Headlines
Android Police
Android Spin
Boy Genius Report
CNet
Connectedly
CrackBerry
Electronista
Engadget
Extreme Tech
Geek.com
Gizmodo
iMore
Into Mobile
Mobile Burn
Mobile Nations
Phone Arena
Phone Dog
Phones Review
Pocket Lint
Pocketnow
Slash Gear
Stuff
Talk Android
Tech Crunch
Tech Radar
Techno Buffalo
The Droid Goblin
The Next Web
The Verge
Think Geek
Tom's Hardware
Ubergizmo
Venture Beat
Windows Central