Author: Tarandeep Kaur

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Give your Resco Explorer XBox 360 look [Windows Mobile]

With the release of Resco Explorer v7, the Resco Explorer gained the capability to skin itself. Sadly, no one ever came forward to skin the Resco Explorer. Although, numerous skins were introduced for it’s Today Plugin, but no skin was ever released for the Resco Explorer. Not anymore now.

jmckeejr, a very creative guy has made two skins for the Resco Explorer. Both look alike except for the fact that one uses green color to show the detail and another one uses white color for detail. Here is a quick screenshot of the skin:

How to install the skin:

  • Get the skin from this post
  • Put both of the skn files under program filesresco explorerskins
  • Open Resco Explorer and go to “Menu”>customize>skin(tab)
  • Select the 360 or 360Green
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VITO softwares now compatible with Samsung Omnia [Windows Mobile]

VITO Technology releases mass update of all software items at vitotechnology.com. Now all programs like VITO Voice2Go, VITO AudioNotes, VITO SoundExplorer and others support Samsung Omnia.

Samsung Omnia made it’s debut with a resolution, which was previously never used in Windows Mobile: 400 x 240. But, now the users of Samsung Omnia can enjoy all the great VITO applications thanks to the mass update of all of their applications.

Head on to vitotechnology.com to download free trials and check out their great products!

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SMS Minder [Windows Mobile]

SMS Minder is a small application which replies to SMSes for you automatically with the message you set in the application.

Current features:

  • Auto reply to received SMS messages
  • Blacklist contacts that would be replied to via SMS
  • SMS reply to missed calls with the ability to filter out the first two digits of their phone number. Useful when you’d like to exclude national rate phone numbers.
  • Whitelisting for replies to SMS

Get this application from here. [related xda-devs thread]

Here are some useful screenshots this application. Note: all are VGA. Click on them to see full resolution screenshots.

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MSI Wind U115 Honored Among this year's Top Ten Gadgets

At the CES 2009, we came to know about plethora of great products. Among one of them was the unveiling of the MSI Wind U115, which the first hybrid netbook. By hybrid, we mean that it has both SSD and a normal Hard Disk under it’s hood.

Last year, MSI was the dark horse of the IT industry. This year, MSI hopes to become one of the world’s top ten notebook brands through its strong product R&D and global marketing. During the CES, which took place from January 8 to 11, MSI not only continued to promote the latest Wind Netbook, entertainment series, and gaming series, but also introduced the X320 of the aesthetic X-Slim series and four new Wind NetOn All-in-one PCs.

The hybrid storage design of the Wind U115 Hybrid allows you to choose between 8GB and 16GB for the SDD, and 120GB or 160GB for the SATA HHD. The SSD operating system provides efficiency, stability, and cuts down power-up time, while the SATA HHD hard drive provides large storage space. We are pretty excited to get our hands on these hybrid devices as-soon-as they hit the market. What about you?

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ViewSonic netbook LinkPC is debuting this March

After so many months of waiting, the ViewSonic would finally be launching the ViewSonic netbook LinkPC. But, don’t get your hopes too for this netbook as it’s specfications as-well-as looks are pretty basic. The price is qutie high at $400, which is not a wise desicion as the competition in the netbook market is getting fiercer and fiercer day-by-day.

ViewSonic netbook LinkPC is debuting this March

Infact, we had some hopes have that ViewSonic would come up with a netbook to rival the new hybrid netbook from MSI U115, but ViewSonic has let us down. Here are the quick specs of it:

1.6GHz Atom processor
1 GB of RAM
160 GB HDD
Wi-Fi
Window XP Home

It will be available by the end of March.

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AT&T's $99 Dell Netbook plan now confirmed – dell mini 9

Want to get that sleep Dell Mini 9 for just $99? Now you can because AT&T has now confirmed to offer $350 mail-in rebate, if you get a two year AT&T contract. The Mini 9 is originally available for price of $449, but thanks to this sweet mail-in rebate, the deal becomes irrestitible. For $99, you are getting a quite powerful netbook, which not only has the AT&T coverage, but also WiFi via which you can connect the netbook to the nearby WiFi hotspots.

Hurry as this offer is valid till January only!

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Gigabyte to launch 3 new Netbooks in Second Quater in 2009

The Gigabyte is planning to launch 3 new netbooks in the second quarter this year. Out of 3 netbooks, two will be manufactured by Quanta, which is a popular manufacturer of notebooks and Windows Mobile smartphones. All three netbooks are rumored to have prices around $400, although the folks at Gigabyte are trying to get one of them at around $300 for the emerging markets.

I hope the netbooks made by Quanta won’t have hardware problems like the MWG had with the Atom Life. I have personally owned Atom Life once and had to sell it at a ridiculously low price. Not only me, but countless people complained about the hardware issues of Atom Life and the original Atom (then known as O2 Atom).

[digitimes]

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ASUS P565 vs HTC DIAMOND – Speed Comparison Video

If Benchmarks say a thousand words, video would then say (at least) a million words. Right? Here is a quick video, where I’ve tested the browsing speeds of both the devices. Both are running the Opera Mobile 9.5. ASUS P565 really shows it’s power when it comes to processor intensive task like web browsing. The Opera Mobile 9.5 truely shines on the ASUS P565, where it not only loads faster on the P565, but the web browsing too is noticeably faster on it as compared to HTC DIAMOND.

I also did some basic tests like making a new MS Word file, opening Excel and Powerpoint Mobile. The speed of both devices were similar with P565 being slightly faster in those tests. Of course, the speed won’t be that noticeable in such tasks as they don’t take the CPU to it’s limits. But, the ASUS P565 impresses us, where it should: in the processor intensive tasks like web browsing.

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New GroupSMS released and reviewed! [Windows Mobile]

Windows Mobile lacks the ability to send sms to a particular group of people. Fortunately, there is a way to handle this missing function from the Windows Mobile, thanks to the GroupSMS by Shubaroo.com

Installation
The installation went fine with no problems. The installation is done via a CAB file, which is meant to be run on the device itself.

After the installation, you get two icons in the programs folder under the start menu: Group SMS and Group MMS. Both of them work similarly. First select the group to which you wish to send the SMS/MMS. There is also an option to send the SMS to all of the contacts on the list.
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