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MMORPG news: new WM title Mavec seeking content creators;TibaME is compatible with WM

Mavec
As can be seen in THIS MoDaCo thread, there’s a brand new Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) title out there, Mavec. It’s quite a barebones game; you may still find it interesting, particularly if you would like to take part in content / mission creation.
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The game is accessible for download HERE.
Registering is pretty easy: just fill in your info in the first and then, the second dialog like in HERE and HERE. Interestingly, while the game is stated to be free, THIS web page speaks of some monthly cost.
Verdict
There still isn’t much to do in the game and there are few people playing it. Its forum is also pretty deserted. Also, the client is pretty much unreliable: on my VGA x51v, it was VERY slow (and used the CPU at 100%) and, on my VGA HTC Universal, it crashed upon entering the game (as of the current, tested version 5). However, you may still want to give it a try – hopefully, it behaves better on lower-resolution Pocket PC’s / MS Smartphones. Yes, the game is compatible with the latter platform too.
TibaME
If you’ve been a "dumbphone" or a Symbian user, you most probably have heard of TibaME, a highly popular MMORPG game for both MIDlet-enabled Java and Symbian platforms. (It has just been featured HERE at AAS; the comments of the article are worth checking out).
As I haven’t discussed the game in the MIDlet Bible, I’ve given it a try. I’ve tested the current 1.51 Basic version accessible for direct download HERE - note that there may be better-behaving, non-basic versions; I haven’t tested them all. If you have the time, you may want to test them too – see THIS for a complete list of supported handset, some having more advanced versions.
(QVGA screenshot; the same on a 176*220 Smartphone is HERE)
Should you still not have an account, the game, as with Mavec, also allows for creating the account in-game as can be seen in HERE.
Compatibility
I had no problems running it on 176*220 MS Smartphones and QVGA Pocket PC’s / Smartphones. The game is runnable in Landscape mode. Please DO consult the MIDlet Bible (or, if you don’t want to be overwhelmed with information, “only” the “1.2.1 Installing a MIDlet Manager” section of my Opera Mini 4 tutorial) for more information on getting and installing Jbed. After installing Jbed, just click the above-linked JAR file and, as with Opera Mini 4, it’ll be deployed under Jbed. (This is all old hat and already known for you if you did install Opera Mini 4, the, in my opinion, currently the most useful and efficient Web browser for Windows Mobile.)
On VGA devices under Jbed (the most recommended MIDlet Manager), it refuses to run. I’ve also tested it under Jblend (because it allows for setting the RAM size); while the game started under it, it wasn’t able to use Net connections as can also be seen in HERE. Furthermore, as opposed to Jbed, only the numeric keys were usable on built-in (or external) thumbboards, making input pretty complicated. All in all, the game isn’t usable on VGA devices at all: neither under Jbed nor under Jblend.
Verdict
If you’re a fan of the game (or, just looking for a MMORPG client), make sure you give it a try.

please please you must tell me how to get tibiame to work on the SP5 i have a i-mate SP5 intent midlet preinstalled but i just cant get tibia to work . i use to be a symbian fan but wanted to try the windows mobile seen as it looks wow . i have been playing tibia for close to 2 years now and it will be a pity if it dont want to work on this phone . opera mini works , on problem on my phone but its just tibia . if you can help me me ill be in your dept *hope*
btw i did try install jbed but it said something about not having permission
please . . . . . . .

SoL
You forgat to include Shadow of Legend to your listing..
The best and the most promising yet to be released MMORPG that has just gone into open beta phase.. It is a must try if you are into gaming on WM devices!!

cool ,
ill try that to
but if possible
tibiame
please please

sol
have you tried tibiame ?
its a nice game not the game play but the idea of you playing with people from all over the world and live time chat
its quite a boring game but the community feel about the game is what i like

Yea, I`ve tried TibiaME, it is nice, but SoL has far far better graphics and has all the things you mentioned about Tibia, well.. its better then tibia

im new to WM as you could of guessed but still
if any1 can help me to get tibiame work
.
if this was a symbian post i would help in a flash (0_o)

malcohol said:
im new to WM as you could of guessed but still
if any1 can help me to get tibiame work
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this is day 4 of me using WM so sorry for the being a bit stupid

malcohol said:
please please you must tell me how to get tibiame to work on the SP5 i have a i-mate SP5 intent midlet preinstalled but i just cant get tibia to work . i use to be a symbian fan but wanted to try the windows mobile seen as it looks wow . i have been playing tibia for close to 2 years now and it will be a pity if it dont want to work on this phone . opera mini works , on problem on my phone but its just tibia . if you can help me me ill be in your dept *hope*
btw i did try install jbed but it said something about not having permission
please . . . . . . .
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Please always read the articles / tutorials I link from my articles - I link to my older articles in order to avoid having to repeat all the step-by-step tutorials over and over again, in my newer, related articles.
You'll need Jbed linked from the Opera Mini 4 review & tutorial.

Shamanix said:
You forgat to include Shadow of Legend to your listing..
The best and the most promising yet to be released MMORPG that has just gone into open beta phase.. It is a must try if you are into gaming on WM devices!!
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I've already published several articles on Shadow of Legend (and also have been a betatester); this is why I haven't elaborated on it in this very article.

i did read them but now im even more confused lol
jbed doesnt want to install

this is wat my phone says wen trying to install emulators
installation was unsuccessfull
the program or setting cannot be installed because it does not have sufficient system permissions
im lost

i have searched for answers on this issue but all i get is search the forum it has been discuss already .
i dont know if those posters got cn answer but i dont know wat to search .
is there anyone who can point me in the correct direction
please dont say search the forum i have done that
i dont know what to search
please people

what a great helpfull forum this is
thanks to ALL for your help
yeah delete my user name if you want

btw SoL is 0.5 now. just hope it works on my phone this time. got tiba working with only jbed but not tao intent. can't seem to find softkeys to input text into the game since i'm using an elf.

malcohol said:
what a great helpfull forum this is
thanks to ALL for your help
yeah delete my user name if you want
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Don't get offended if you don't receive an answer in an hour - it shows
1. people knowing the answer are away or
2. it'd require too much writing to explain everything already been elaborated on in some articles (for example, those of mine).
All in all, please make sure you devote some time to reading my articles. You won't find a better source of better-gathered, WM-related information anywhere, I think.
It takes some time to get up to speed with Windows Mobile but, in the end, you'll succeed.

wwteo said:
btw SoL is 0.5 now. just hope it works on my phone this time. got tiba working with only jbed but not tao intent. can't seem to find softkeys to input text into the game since i'm using an elf.
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The softkey support in TAO intent sucks - this is why I don't recommend it for gaming at all. (See my MIDlet Bible.)

Menneisyys said:
The softkey support in TAO intent sucks - this is why I don't recommend it for gaming at all. (See my MIDlet Bible.)
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ok. managed to get tibiaME to work with softkeys (javamagic) + jbed.
this looks more like an alpha/shareware product.can't see the bottom text since it was made into full screen.
theres no sound and exploration is severely restricted. you can't do anything beyond 2 islands and a few caves/crates.
sounds like SoL is still better at the moment even at beta as it seems like the full product at a zero price. chinese beat germans this time. sorry.

Skyfire Download for everyone !!!

I just got it and it works !!!
get it here : http://get.skyfire.com/
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not working yet for OMNIA
Hi,
unfortunately not working on OMNIA screen
only supporting 240,320,480,640

Working well in the UK on my hermes. No need for fake American phone numbers.
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No sound on videos. Anyone else have this issue, or is it just me?

I am sure it is a good browser. The thing that just bothers me, is, that everything is rendered at the SKYFIRE servers - now, for getting the web content including flash, jave and multimedia on my phone ... well, excellent job! However, I have some security concerns regarding online banking and other stuff I do in the web, so, I most likely won't use it because of the rendering / generating of code at the Skyfire server!
Sure, the developers will tell me "It is 100% save" but then, ... I guess you got my point?
<Just my personal opinion - I am sure lots of users will be happy with Skyfire!>

which version is it? is it different from the beta versions like 0.8xxx (i guess it is something like that)

Its still a beta, version 0.85.0.7927. Seems about the same, but there's no need to log in.

jez83uk said:
Working well in the UK on my hermes. No need for fake American phone numbers.
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No sound on videos. Anyone else have this issue, or is it just me?
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Yep, sound is also not working for me

Still no multi-tab pages?

No Good for WVGA.

no mulitab but you can download stuff now

Works well on MDA Compact 4, nice to have full video etc when on wifi. Might be able to finally uninstall Opera mini (though it has been a good browser!!).

Works awesome on my HTC Wizard
Two nights ago I got bored with my htc wizard, had only wm5. I googled htc tweaks and found xda... my personal heaven now. two days later I have a phone I'm actually interested in.. with Wm6, SKYFIRE ( totally cool ) and a bunch of other apps I never knew existed. I didnt find a thread to say thanks to xda developers... but thanks... really.
btw, can anyone tell me what direction to step in if I want to learn about programming and writing software like the cool stuff I found on xda please?
Daniel

Skyfire's sound problem
There are no sound on athena x7501.

Just used it again, and the sound is now working. I didn't change anything, so it must have been a server issue.

2ndhandcowboy said:
... can anyone tell me what direction to step in if I want to learn about programming and writing software like the cool stuff I found on xda please?
Daniel
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The easiest way to get started is VS2008 but it is also commercial!
The good: It has a very nice user interface, excellent editor for writing code (with VISUAL Editor, so, not only script based) and finally as well a WINDOWS MOBILE EMULATOR integrated, so, you won't mess up your real device in case you make a mistake!
Besides that, VS2008 features different programming languages: Basic, C#, C++, Java - if you really want to program professionally, the only way to go would be C++. Other than that, I would recommend get started with Visual Basic - the language is easier to learn.
My recommendation:
Download one of the VS2008 EXPRESS Editions - it is freeware! Make some simple Windows desktop programming to get familiar with the interface and the programming language you have chosen. Join as well the MSDN Forums, hang out at www.codeproject.com - a great place snd source for programming techniques and code samples - and if you're finally still interested in programming, get the commercial version of VS2008 and start programming as well for PDA and Smartphone - it is really fun, trust me!
Sure, some people might come up now with the good old "It is .NET!" arguement, well, sure it is .NET! .NET is part of Windows since Windows XP SP1 and now also fully integrated in WM6.1, so, no big deal! For older platforms, the .NET distributables are available for free download.
However,
Try out cool stuff like this, go through the code to understand what it does, program your own little helpers and once you master it, you will have an easier intro to non-.NET C++ programming (which then will provide you with the full power of programming. The reason why I recommend VS2008 at first, it is very easy for non-Programmers to do stuff in there. You will in addition find millions of places / forums with how-to's.
If you make a quick jump to C++ directly (non-VS) then you most likely will get frustrated very soon since documentation and everything else is mostly written for people who know C++ inside out - VS takes you into the programming world slightly and there is much more help and lots of beginner guides available - this is why I recommend it to beginners, not to promote .NET.

[REQ]Read It Later App for WM

I use the Read It Later extension for Firefox heavily, and have always missed an WM App that would allow me to read the pages I've marked on my phone.
Well, since I've bought the HD2 I've missed this even more...
Now, it seems that the folks that makes RIL released an API so that anyone can make its own app...
There's an official one for the iPhone, a user made for Android... and none for WM.
I've tried to make one myself, but its way beyond my "search and learn with Google" programing skills.
This way, I want ask if someone is interested or is capable of doind a Read It Later App for WM, HD2 customized, using their API.
The site is here: http://readitlaterlist.com/
It would be really nice to have a "Instapaper" like app for WM...
Thanks in advance!

Request seconded.

without looking at exactly what this is. do you mean an offline browser? if so then opera has the function built in.. saved pages

fards said:
without looking at exactly what this is. do you mean an offline browser? if so then opera has the function built in.. saved pages
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It's not only saved pages...
It's like Instapaper for the iPhone.
You mark a page to read later in RIL Firefox, for example, and then can access the link throught the app in the phone to read it.
The good thing about RIL is that you can mark a page in your desktop and it sincronizes with web, so, as soon as you open RIL in the phone the page is already there.
The advantage here is that you can mark pages to read in multiple PCs (I use in Vista/7 installarion in my notebook as well as XP/7 in my desktop) and still have a unified list.

+1 It looks like a swell piece of software which Id like on winmo

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+1 It looks like a swell piece of software which Id like on winmo
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It is very nice.
ATM i'm using the web version, with the shortcut readitlaterlist.com/unread . When you create an account, this shortcut will lead you directly to the reading list.
Putting Opera zoom in 100%, it fits right in the screen.
But it lacks a lot of features. It is actually just a list of links. You have to manually check read itens, press and hold the link if you want to open in another tab.
What I miss the most is some options to store the pages for future references. Now I have to manually do this... It would be nice if the app allow us to send the pages to another apps...

I hate to bump my own threads, but no one can help me?
Can someone at least tell me what programming language would be easyer to make such an app?

zefiltrin said:
I hate to bump my own threads, but no one can help me?
Can someone at least tell me what programming language would be easyer to make such an app?
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Could someone at least tell me what would be the easyest way to make a app like this?
I really miss an app for RIL, since internet version is not that good.

Id also like to have this app on WM or somethin similar. Cant help you build it, though.

TheGoD said:
Id also like to have this app on WM or somethin similar. Cant help you build it, though.
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Thanks anyway... I'm kind of resign that this won't be done.
Using the web version. Not perfect, but does the job.

I have not used this application/service before, but it looks interesting.
I have checked the API and it looks very simple to use.
The only thing that remains before starting to code is to have a rough design of the application GUI, just to set a rough scope on the functionalities.
Then I believe it is possible to create an "ugly" but functional application in a few days. I can work on this project if I can manage to allocate some spare time on this.
zefiltrin, I think you know the usage scenarios of this application way better than me, as I have not yet used it. Why not make a few sketches for describing the GUI of the application you want to see on your PPC. I mean the buttons, lists, etc. Then I would try to realize them (again, if I can manage to allocate some spare time on this)

vizier said:
I have not used this application/service before, but it looks interesting.
I have checked the API and it looks very simple to use.
The only thing that remains before starting to code is to have a rough design of the application GUI, just to set a rough scope on the functionalities.
Then I believe it is possible to create an "ugly" but functional application in a few days. I can work on this project if I can manage to allocate some spare time on this.
zefiltrin, I think you know the usage scenarios of this application way better than me, as I have not yet used it. Why not make a few sketches for describing the GUI of the application you want to see on your PPC. I mean the buttons, lists, etc. Then I would try to realize them (again, if I can manage to allocate some spare time on this)
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I´ll do that! I'm travelling until april 4th, but will try to do that as soon as I come back.
I think I´ll use some of the screeshots of the existing apps for iPhone and Android.
Thank you for your help!

Well, here are some ideas:
I think the home screen should look like iPhone's Read It Later app:
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The list of things to read could be similar to GReader site, with big letters, two or more lines to allow seing the whole title:
In the "Greader-like" list abobe, there shoud be a search bar and the buttons to direclty mark as read or show the text only view, like this:
Finally, it would be great to have the sharing options like iPhone app (don´t know if the API allow that):
Let me know if this helps...

Ok I will spend some time on this tomorrow.

I started working on this project, I call it "Late Reader" for now. Any better name suggestions are welcome. I think I can post a first beta or alpha in a week.

vizier said:
I started working on this project, I call it "Late Reader" for now. Any better name suggestions are welcome. I think I can post a first beta or alpha in a week.
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Thank you very much!
I'll be glad to test it when you release it.

ooh, this would be a fantastic application

I'll be following this with this new account.
Anyway, very anxious to see the result!

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I'll be following this with this new account.
Anyway, very anxious to see the result!
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OK I should call you hugocbp as of now I guess
I was on a business trip during the week, so I could not work on this project. I plan to have some progress this weekend, and hopefully post you some alpha to test. We'll see.

vizier said:
OK I should call you hugocbp as of now I guess
I was on a business trip during the week, so I could not work on this project. I plan to have some progress this weekend, and hopefully post you some alpha to test. We'll see.
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No problem! I posted only to subscribe to the thread and let you know I'm the same who created it.
Take you time, I'll be here whenever you're done!

[APP] TRACKMYSHARES - Equity Tracker application

Trackmyshares is an equity portfolio tracker.
With Trackmyshares you can keep your equity portfolio under control using this easy to use program. This Windows based solution will grab (Delayed) equity prices to show you your bottom line Profit & Loss at the touch of a button. Start the app, add some symbols and Get Tracking, It couldn't be simpler! *Please note this application requires an active data connection to retrieve equity prices*
Features:
Input an unlimited number of equities to your portfolio
Keep up to date with the latest prices on-the-go
Get instant portfolio valuations
Friendly user interface and optimized screen layout
15 minute Delayed Prices
Optimised for the HTC LEO
Prerequisites .NET 3.5
The demo is valid until 30th April 2010. If you like the application you can download it from the Windows Marketplace....Name = Trackmyshares
Installation:
Download the mobile installer (.cab file) to your desktop. Sync with your mobile phone and copy the .cab installer to your phone. From your phone go to Programs -> File Explorer, navigate to the .cab file and select it. The Installer should do the rest.
Questions / comments / bug reports are welcome.
* please post on this thread, and not on a private message
* report any error messages you got from the software
* when reporting first check if your question haven't been asked or your bug haven't been reported yet.
* don't forget to mention your type of device, os/rom version and type of internet connection used.
UPDATE 24.MAR.2010
Screenshots can be viewed by visiting my website trackmyshares.co.uk, I'm a noob so I cannot link to outside urls for my images ;(
UPDATE 28.APR.2010
REMINDER: The demo is valid until 30th April 2010. If you like the application you can download it from the Windows Marketplace....Name = Trackmyshares. If you want to preserve your portfolio, please ensure that you make a copy of the stocks.xml file which can be located in the program files\Trackmyshares folder, and then copy it back once you have purchased the app.[/B][/U]
UPDATE 24.JUN.2010
REMINDER: The demo is valid until 31st July 2010. If you like the application you can download it from the Windows Marketplace....Name = Trackmyshares. If you want to preserve your portfolio, please ensure that you make a copy of the stocks.xml file which can be located in the program files\Trackmyshares folder, and then copy it back once you have purchased the app.[/B][/U]

sounds nice. please share some screenshots thanks

Here you go:
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Looks pretty good

Hope you can have pricing similar to iphone apps of $1 ? *wishful thinking?*
It would be a definite buy if you can do something similar to bloomberg portfolio tracker.
I am accessing that currently from opera and the whole portfolio fits into the screen in landscape mode perfectly
I buy shares in Hongkong, Singapore, Australia and denominate them in Singapore dollars.

Hi wj888,
The app is currently on the UK marketplace for £3.19 . It has similar functionality to the bloomberg portfolio tracker, but it looks like my information has been spread over two main screens instead one wide landscape screen. I dont record the purchase date or the % portfolio but everything else is the same. These two changes I could make relatively easily.
The stocks that you can access are limited to what is available on the yahoo finance website, due to that being the underlying data source.
Thanks for your post.

works great (hd2), thanks a lot

troyantonio said:
The stocks that you can access are limited to what is available on the yahoo finance website, due to that being the underlying data source.
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Is it possible for you to add a feature where the data source could be pulled from somewhere else? Some of my stocks are not available on the yahoo finance website (Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm Exchanges)

Hi there it may prove to be a bit difficult since I may end up with a situation of one data source per stock exchange but I will investigate.
Thanks.

troyantonio said:
Hi there it may prove to be a bit difficult since I may end up with a situation of one data source per stock exchange but I will investigate.
Thanks.
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Would be extremely useful if end-users can actually choose their data source from a list of sources. A working version with me a green YES for me

Not working on my Tilt 2 ?
I purchased and downloaded the software from marketplace.The application opens, I go to share finder to search stock tickers and add to portfolio.Finds ticker symbols fine
It shows items were added to portfolio.I go back to main poage and none of my stocks show up.I try to EDIT PORTFOLIO or Valuation but they are greyed out.
Quotes delayed is permanently at the bottom.
When I explore the stocks.xml file it is blank.
Am I missing something obvious?
Does PUSH INTERNET need to be enabled?
I disabled the Push Internet feature from my phone to save sys resources.
Thanks
Ron

Clicking refresh in the bottom left hand corner should update your portfolio for you.

Hi Tony
Not sure why post didnt make it.I am
to search stocks,add to portfolio but hit the BACK button and there are no stocks displayed for the portfolio. So refresh does nothing.
Perhaps bad download from markeplace.Is their still a trial one to download.Not sure if there is still going to be another problem

troyantonio said:
Hi wj888,
The app is currently on the UK marketplace for £3.19 . It has similar functionality to the bloomberg portfolio tracker, but it looks like my information has been spread over two main screens instead one wide landscape screen. I dont record the purchase date or the % portfolio but everything else is the same. These two changes I could make relatively easily.
The stocks that you can access are limited to what is available on the yahoo finance website, due to that being the underlying data source.
Thanks for your post.
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Hello all. i can't find this app. on marketplace !!!
any link for working app?
thxs. rgds
Modesty

I'd like to be able to trial this software but it doesn't seem to work. Past the evaluation date, perhaps?
May I suggest you post a trial version so people like me can test before purchase?
Thanks!

Knobhead said:
I'd like to be able to trial this software but it doesn't seem to work. Past the evaluation date, perhaps?
May I suggest you post a trial version so people like me can test before purchase?
Thanks!
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Hi Knobhead, a new trial version has been uploaded which expires at the end of July.
Any feedback is appreciated.

troyantonio said:
Hi Knobhead, a new trial version has been uploaded which expires at the end of July.
Any feedback is appreciated.
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hello
can u give us the cab of new trial as there's no such app on Marketplace.
thanks, Modesty

Hi Knobhead I overwrote the existing one that has been uploaded at the top of the site

troyantonio said:
Hi Knobhead, a new trial version has been uploaded which expires at the end of July.
Any feedback is appreciated.
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Doesn't seem to offer a lot more than the built-in stock tracker.
Graphs would be great. (Like TinyStocks)
Multiple portfolios would be very wecome. (Again like TinyStocks.)
Think I'll stick with the latter for now but I really like the interface. Best of luck!

Hi Knobhead, thanks for your feedback and enhancement list, which I will try and take on board when porting the app to WinMo 7. The U.S.P of the app is to allow you to track your investment exposure to your equity portfolio on a single share basis or across your entire stock holdings.
I will take a look at Tiny stocks and do some gap analysis. Cheers

[Game] Shift: one of the best WinMo puzzle games now on android device near you

Some of you might remember the free windows mobile game Shift. It was really easy to play, but extremely addictive.
I waited for an android port for more than a year, and finally when i didn't see it ported i decided to do it myself So, no matter if you spent long hours with this game, of if you never heard of it before, here's a chance to play it on your phone/tablet/ereader/microvave oven or other android device
The game mechanics and scoring system are identical to windows mobile version, however the graphics and coding were redone from scratch since i didn't have sources for the original shift anymore.
I don't have an android market account and it's not likely i'll be getting one any time soon, so grab it here:
http://slideme.org/en/application/shift
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Or in the post attachment.
And some screenies:
One day, i'll have to make a youtube video of the game, but i didn't get around to this so far.
Initially, i developed it for myself, but now that i'm satisfied with the results i see no reason not to share it. After all we all love and use freeware apps
It's my first android app and i was learning java, android api and the engine i was using as i went, so it might not be exactly perfectly optimized. But it does work smoothly on a G1, and the graphics turned out rather nice. It also scales properly to other screen sizes (though graphics won't be as crisp of course): I tested it on a motorola milestone and the android emulator with a few other screen resolutions.
I don't really plan to develop it much further, since i'm rather satisfied with it. Sure, i have a few ideas on how to make it work even better an some tricks i learned along the way, but that would probably take a complete rewrite and right now i'm not really in the mood for that So the game is provided as-is, but i might try to fix any really serious bugs.
If you feel like buying me a beer (or helping me get an android market account), the donation button is right above my avatar
By the way, if you think about trying to write your own android game, don't forget to check out andengine. That's a really powerful, and yet easy to use 2D game engine.

I'm getting an Access Denied message when clicking on the link.

Yes, me too.
And I really like this game too. Was playing it while it's available for WM6.1 QVGA screen. It didn't work on my WVGA HD2 last time. So, happy that it's coming to Android..

nijnvy said:
I'm getting an Access Denied message when clicking on the link.
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Oops, sorry about that. It seems that the link worked for me only because i was logged into SlideMe. I'll fix that later, and meanwhile i uploaded the game as an attachment to the fist post.
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It turned out that the app wasn't visible publicly until it got approved by slideMe. The link should work now.
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Very cool game! Thanks for sharing!

Nicely made game. Thanks!

great port! i'll try it later. thank you!
btw, you should really put this in the market, or it might get stolen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=900923

Thanks! Pretty fun game!

The Link for the WM version its very old! i want to try in my tp2! the version WM, you can upload the wm too pls!??

nice game.... works great on MyTouch4G

Very cool interface. Enjoyable with a high chance of replay.
I second the other member's notion to place this into the market. Your current version is AOK for release.
Perhaps there's another reason why you wont?

this game is fantastic!!! it runs amazingly on my hero, and I love trying to get huge combos!! 5 stars!!!
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
EDIT : there seems to be a bug in the app. sometimes when I switch to another app via homescreen or long holding the home button, the gray bar underneath the notification bar that tells the name of the app doesn't go away. and you should put this on the market so we could get the updates.

!!!!!!!
If I'm not mistaken I remember this from my last WM phone (samsung omni) This is a fun game!

Excellent remake.
Makes me wonder though that what this game would be like if it had a mode with accelerometer enabled "physics". Tiles would fall freely to the tilted direction (only one direction at a time in tetris-like fashion) Angle of the tilt would off course relate to falling speed.
It would be the core mechanic with a little bit of action and accuracy.

I tested your game out and it is really good (never played the original), all I can say is make sure you put it on the market as XDA devs have had their apps uploaded to the market by someone else trying to make some quick $$

Cool thanks.

Thanks for the feedback, i'm glad it works on your phones and you like it
As for the accelerometer control, i thought about it, but i'm afraid it would be just something you try and disable, as it will get in the way of the gameplay instead of enhancing it. But if i ever get around to rewriting this game to properly support high-res screens i might try implementing something like that. For now i think gestures control is easy enough. And just in case you didn't notice, the gesture can be performed anywhere on the screen and doesn't have to be long - only the width of a single block is enough.
hecthork said:
The Link for the WM version its very old! i want to try in my tp2! the version WM, you can upload the wm too pls!??
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Yeah, i know the project website is down, but it's still easy to find. However i'm afraid it might not work well with VGA or higher res screen. At least the winMo version didn't work on a HTC Diamond. But i guess there's no hurt in trying.
KLBrey said:
Very cool interface. Enjoyable with a high chance of replay.
I second the other member's notion to place this into the market. Your current version is AOK for release.
Perhaps there's another reason why you wont?
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Yeah, i'm aware of that a**hole stealing other people's work. But right now i don't feel like paying 25 bucks registration fee without even a potential way of getting the money back - google doesn't allow selling apps from my country (yet).

Hi
I remember Shift very well (played it on Ipaq h3970)
Unfortunately I can't run it on Samsung Spica (i5700)- FC right after starting, logcat attached.
Phone config:
-Samdroid 1.3.1(deodexed Eclair, info)
-kernel- Xmister's STD Eclair (info)
-graphic drivers- mixed files from other devices v3 (info, as one of developers I've tested those drivers on everything I could and there were no problems with other apps)

gen_scheisskopf said:
Hi
I remember Shift very well (played it on Ipaq h3970)
Unfortunately I can't run it on Samsung Spica (i5700)- FC right after starting, logcat attached.
Phone config:
-Samdroid 1.3.1(deodexed Eclair, info)
-kernel- Xmister's STD Eclair (info)
-graphic drivers- mixed files from other devices v3 (info, as one of developers I've tested those drivers on everything I could and there were no problems with other apps)
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I'm afraid it might be a problem between the engine i used and your device. Could you try running the following app and one attached to this post?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/andengine-examples/org.anddev.andengine.examples
The one above is a demo of the engine's capabilities, and should be compiled against the latest engine version. The attached app is just some random quick test i was doing but it uses the same lib version as shift. So if one works and the other doesn't it will mean that compiling with newer engine version might fix the problem. It will take some time but it's possible. However if none of these work, then i won't really be able to do anyting about it

mr_deimos said:
Could you try running the following app and one attached to this post?
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The one from AppBrain- always FC when starting ShapeModifiers and Irregular ShapeModifiers (both demo and benchmark):
Code:
W/dalvikvm( 8065): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b180)
Rest of tests works fine.
Attached apk- works fine