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Streamline your mobile browsing with mDigger

mdigerWe all love browsing the web on our mobiles but unless you have a decent data tariff a couple of prolonged ‘net sessions can leave you with a nasty surprise when you get your bill at the end of the month.

If you must have your net fix, but want to minimize the amount of data you slurp down from your provider, take a look at mDigger.

Billing itself as “The Mobile Internet done right”, mDigger users can create a list of favourite sites from a catalogue on the mDigger website or supply their own list RSS feeds.

mDigger will then grab all the latest info from your list and compress it, ready for download into the client app which runs on Windows Mobile and the iPhone. (There is also an XP & Vista version if you want to try it on a PC with a slow connection)

mDigger claim that browsing in this way is up to 30 times faster than using a typical mobile connection and that you can navigate using 150% fewer keystrokes. mDigger is a free download and the WinMo version comes in two flavours - one for devices with touchscreens and one for those without.



SideShow for Windows Mobile?

sideshowIf you have shopped around for a new laptop recently you may have seen a few with a little auxiliary display on the front of the lid, This is Windows SideShow - a new feature of Microsoft Vista that displays selected info (new email notifications, weather, etc) even when the laptop is powered down.

SideShow devices have been a little thin on the ground so far - confined mainly to high-end laptops - but that could be about to change.
The SideShow team have released a new development kit that adds support for QVGA displays and Bluetooth connections. As these two features are common to almost every Windows Mobile phone on the market today, this has lead to speculation that the long-promised SideShow mobile phone support might be just around the corner.