Fizz Alarms Overview

Date of Review – 26th April 2008

Available from here.

Price – $14.95 (use discount code ‘247forever’ to take 14% off this price).

Pros – Excellent software, great eye candy, easy finger navigation

Cons – Only compatible with Windows Mobile 5/6.

• Comprehensive Alarm Support
• Control your alarm recurring options
• Control your alarm volume playback – various options
• WAV, WMA & MP3 support
• Snooze Support
• Stopwatch Support
• Save your lap times

   
• See your laptimes at a glance – compare the speed bar.
• Multiple Counters
• Name your counters
• Select different sounds for each counter
• Snooze time – at end of counter
• Digital or analog main clock face

   
• Windows Mobile 6.1 support – all screen sizes
• Super Simple Interface
• Localised in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch & Russian

Fizz Alarms was a joy to use, with beautiful graphics.

Review by Gavin Fabiani-Laymond

Fizz Traveller 3 Overview

                                  

Date of Overview – 26th May 2008

Available from here. Price – $29.95 (use discount code ’247forever’ to take 14% off this price).

Pros – Excellent software, providing detailed information on weather, flights, local information, airports, and so much more. Also supports newer 320 x 320 resolution.

Cons – Only compatible with Windows Mobile 5/6.

Fizz Software have recently released Fizz Traveller 3. The feature list of this application is extensive.

• Support is provided for over 58,000 cities worldwide

                           

• Track the time in any of the supported cities from around the world.
• Set alarms in your time zone or any time zone for any city.

                        

• Make use of the timers and stopwatches, with recordable lap times
• Add events to your Outlook Calendar
• Understand who’s in daylight and who’s in darkness with the real-time, world daylight map.

                      

• See moon phase information including graphical representation
• Get weather forecasts for today, 48 hours or 7 days ahead, for any city out of the 58,000 supported worldwide. Now you can also see current conditions for each of your favourite cities.
• See weather maps, radar maps and satellite maps for any of your favorite cities. (radar only supported for the US)
• Choose a custom webcam for all of your cities that you can update whenever you like.
• See likely Airport Delays caused by the weather for all major airports
• See international dial codes and sunset/sunrise times

                       

• View and make your own packing lists or choose one of the built in templates
• Make schedules and detailed trip itineraries with support for adding your schedule to Outlook

                        

• Plan your meetings when everyone anywhere in the world will be in the office with our easy to use graphical meeting planner, even add your appointment to your Outlook calendar
• Do all your currency conversions with fully updated currencies from around the world.
• Convert all the most common units of measurements and also clothes and shoe sizes from around the world
• Configure your interface with customizable skins and themes

                      

• Flight statistics for flights around the world supplied by Flightstats. Get arrival and departure details including any delays and gate information (a subscription is required for this feature).
• See the time and weather from the home screen of your phone, with our tabbed home screen plug-in
• Dialcodes and Airport codes for cities worldwide
• NB. City lookup and weather forecasts require your device to have an active Internet connection, but you can use Active Sync or the Windows mobile device center and get your data without a data plan on your device.

Overview by Gavin Fabiani-Laymond

The Samsung Today plugin. Get it to launch your favourite GPS software.

1. Download and install the Samsung (Garmin) Software. You can manually remove maps.

2. With a registry editing software, goto, HKLM\Software\Garmin\que is ‘QuePath’. You just need to point that string to your executable for TomTom or whatever nav app you use. Thanks to Gavin.

HiConcept v1.2 released

HiConcept v1.2 has been released with the following changes-

Today Plug-in

Added 5 Skins with Opacity’s option
Ability to change date/time with IPhone’s input style
Support both USA and EUROPEAN date style
Performance and stability improvements

Card Studio

Detectable & Correctable partition’s error
Option to create backup FAT before do format
Fixed error of Partition module on IPAQ 21x
Performance and stability improvements on Defragment

X-Card

Ability to integrate with Resco Explorer 2005, 2007; File Explorer; CeCmd
Several more minor changes and bugfixes

Pocket Mini Golf 2

Pocket Mini Golf 2 is not classed as working with the i780, but it works perfectly. Ignore any warning messages from the download sites and enjoy it- a classic PPC game.

Your favourite characters are back, with a couple of new friends, for more extreme mini golf fun. Masses of new features (including multiplayer) and superb new graphics make this the most enjoyable and addictive golf game available.

Pocket Mini Golf 2 is the follow up to the hugely popular multi award winning miniature golf game Pocket Mini Golf.

Pocket Mini Golf 2 features a massive variety of holes, including fairways, rough, sand pits, beaches, loads of interesting objects to negotiate and much much more…

16% off ALL software!

You can take 16% off ALL software in our store this weekend by using discount code ‘oneweek’. The offer ends Tuesday morning, and don’t forget that some developers such as Deluxeware are offering substantial discounts anyway so have a search around.

Link: Windows Mobile Store

Piel Frama i780 Leather Case Review

Piel Frama has taken a different approach to smartphone cases with their new Samsung i780 case. It retails for 50 Euros, which may seem steep to some, but is made from grade A quality cowskin and has also been handmade. It may seem unusual to spend so much on a case, but the Samsung i780 costs £340 so this amount is not silly to ensure it is protected at all times.

The usual level of quality from Piel Frama shines through from the moment you open the box, with the standard packaging adding to the overall positive first impression. The case itself is another matter, and what which is almost impossible to write about, which makes a long review difficult to say the least.

It is a singular construction which is designed purely to hold the phone and with no cut-outs for the keyboard etc. The design is pure class and it more than resembles a posh cigarette case, to make an understated look that will fit in to any time and place- on the desk, in a meeting or at a coffee shop, this case will look the business and genuinely adds something to the smartphone experience.

The i780 slips into the case and is held in place by hidden magnets with naturally close when the case is laid flat, and there are no markings or branding anywhere on the case which is a welcome relief. The interior is fashioned from a cream coloured soft lining which complements the outward colouring well.

I have little else to say except to advise you to look at the images in this review. The case protects the i780 very well and adds little to the overall dimensions, whilst making the phone look better than it actually is. Few cases make me ‘want’ to use them but this one does, and Piel Frama has recognised that smartphone users do not always want to carry their phone in a case but want to take it out for calls and carry it in a case when needed. This is a elegant solution to a perennial problem and it is worth every bit of the asking price.

Available from Piel Frama.