With such a small amount of storage available on most smart phones, and such a wealth of interesting software, DivX movies and MP3s to fill them up with, it can be tricky to avoid running out of space.
On Windows Mobile/Pocket PC handhelds, a useful way of checking on your memory usage is the freeware app DirMap, now in versionn 1.7.
After analysing your files and prorgams, DirMap displays a graphical map of what it finds.
The App divides your storage up into coloured boxes, the size and shasde of which are based on the size of the files therien. The effect is like an ever-changing lo-res Mondrian painting.
Tapping on a box will display information about its contents, allowing you to drill down and find out the properties of individual files and see exactly where your memory card is going.
VITO Technology are celebrating their 7th birthday by selling all their Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, S60 and UIQ software for $7 a pop.
They seem to have been producing apps t the rate f about ten a day during their 7-year history, with a huge back catalogue of apps. Some of thes, like VITO Audioplayer, have freeware equivalents, but there are some gems.
Some of their better efforts have passed through PocketPicks before, including Pocket PC GPS utility VITO Find Me, S60 dictaphpne VITO AudioNotes and Windows Mobile SMS threader SMS-CHAT.
If you have $7 burning a hole in your account, the offer runs until Feb 26th.
Californian developers SkyFire are running a private beta of a new mobile web browser that they claim will offer a ‘desktop’ browsing experience with full AJAX and Flash support.
Details are sketchy at the moment - the private beta is US-only and even there SkyFire are being pretty tight-fisted with the invites - but the browser seems to work a little like Opera Mobile, using a proxy server to compress and optimise pages to better suit a small screen and slow connection.
SkyFire currently works only on selected Windows Mobile devices, but full Windows Mobile and Symbian support is promised.
As soon as Pocket Picks can get it’s eager mitts on a copy we will give you a full review but until then, check out this demo video:
GPSed is billed as ‘a location based service for trip tracking’. What this means in practice is another GPS-aware mobile app that connects to a web service.
There are versions of the app for Symbian, Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, Blackberry, Palm OS and Java that can work with either built in or external GOS units to track your movements in real time, updating a database on the GPSed site and displaying your progress via Google Maps.
In other words, this is Nokia Sports Tracker, but with the emphasis on travel and geo-blogging, rather than sweaty trainers and number crunching performance stats.
Once you have recorded your ‘tracks’ the site makes it easy to share them with family and friends and will even offer a real-time view of your position on the map.
GPSed also provide a windows photo album that associates photos with geo-data and displays them with a nice ‘pin board’ metaphor via Google Earth. This is currently offline-only but there are apparently plans to let users share geotagged photos via the GPSed site.
Typical. You wait ages for YouTube to get round to making its video catalogue-mobile friendly, then enterprising developers go ahead and do it themselves.
Only last month we featured YouTube Pocket, letting Windows Mobile and Pocket PC users access YouTube’s entire library on their smartphones.
Now Symbian users can do so as well courtesy of software developer Samir. His YTPlayer is only at first beta stage but it already offers a full YouTube search and player facilities.
At the moment the app’s only a SWF file and needs Flash Lite 3 to work but at least it does work. You can see if for yourself here.
Update: And it’s not only independent developers now offering the full YouTube experience on mobiles.
In Korea, SK Telecom customers with Helio Ocean handsets can now experience the complete YouTube experience with all the features you’d expect from the website including video uploads and GPS Tagging.
Want YouTube on your phone but fed up with only have the (very) limited selection currently available for mobiles? With hours of video being uploaded every minute on YouTube you know it’s going to take them a lifetime to configure all of them for mobile phones.
Luckily some enterprising developers have managed create a streaming media player plug-in that’ll let you browse ALL YouTube videos and watch them on your smartphone.
The plug-in works by converting YouTube videos to play on Windows Media Player installed on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based smartphones.
To set it up you simply need to go to the YouTube Pocket website, download the YouTube player to your smartphone and you’re away.
The people behind YouTube Pocket have also developed other mobile services including a Gmail viewer and MySpace music player for mobile phones.
[Via Coolsmartphone.com]
Geodesic announced yesterday the compatibility of its Mundu IM client for an assortment of mobile devices. Like Fring, Mundu IM allows you to navigate your existing AIM, MSN, Yahoo IM, , ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber services via a single client on your mobile phone (which is different to the way standalone VoIP apps like Vyke and Truphone work).
Supported operating systems include Pocket PC, Sony Ericsson J2ME, Palm OS, Windows Mobile as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. The service has a few neat tricks up its sleeve too such as the ability to instantly share photos and videos taken from camera phones to contacts across all the supported IM services. Apparently this also works with file and music sharing too which is very interesting indeed.
The only kicker is that the application isn’t free (unlike Fring) but considering it is so feature rich, 11 dollars doesn’t seem like such an unreasonable price and will surely provide some pretty stiff competition.
(Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog)
