Windows Mobile Louisville

Do you enjoy flashing your Windows Phones with updated ROMs?  If so, I’m sure you’ve experienced the need to reinstall all of your applications and setting up the device the way you want it. Ugh!  It’s a time-consuming experience and most of us don’t want to go through the headaches. There are helpful tools out there to lessen the pain and make it much easier to handle.

Some of the ROM developers are using UC, which stands for User Customization.  All of the cellular providers use that tool built into the system to install their customizing software, so why can’t you?  What it does is automatically install some of the applications onto the device when it’s been hard reset.  I have used it in the past, but it had some limitations.  I had to write scripts to copy files where I wanted them put and it wasn’t easy.   I then checked out Sashimi.

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While Windows phones already support Flash Lite (a less robust version of Adobe Flash Player for mobile devices), it looks like Adobe is pumping more power into the devices.  Windows phones, along with Symbian, Android, and webOS are scheduled to receive the desktop-class version of Flash 10.1.   Windows phones and webOS will get public betas sometime near the end of the year. 

Flash 10.1 for smartphones will also make use of GPU acceleration for those who have a smartphone powerful enough to use Flash on their mobile device.  The platform will support the Tegra chipset, Snapdragon, and ION for up to 1080p video content.

Source: PocketNow via Engadget

Today Skyfire has released a new version of their browser for Windows Mobile. Skyfire is a mobile browser that gives you the most feature complete way to view the web on your phone as it would look on your desktop PC. This means YouTube, Hulu, Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Quicktime, AJAX, it’s all in there.

This latest release includes Facebook and Twitter integration, making it simple to share the things you view on your phone. The browser now supports widescreen (up to WVGA 800×480) and adapts font size for text so once you zoom in, you can read without horizontal scrolling. Contextual zoom will fit the text to your screen, and a newly improved rendering system makes this already snappy browser even faster.

Also new in this version is the ability to not just listen to audio, but download it to your phone (if the media is freely accessible), and for Windows Media Streaming audio, you can listen to streaming radio in the background while you keep on browsing.

To install over the air, point your phone to http://get.skyfire.com.

Source: On10.net

Applian Technologies and All Alex Inc announces the release of WM Recorder 12.1, the first streaming video recorder that can make exact digital copies of internet video and audio in all the popular formats, including Flash™, Windows Media™, Real Media™, MPEG™ and Quicktime™ streams.  WM Recorder 12.1 records all these streams automatically as they are played, and the included WM Converter lets customers convert videos to AVI, iPod/iPhone, WMV and other popular formats.
 
According to the program’s developer, Alex Urich, WM Recorder 12.1 is the easiest, most powerful way to record streaming video.   “We are really excited about WM Recorder 12.1.  Not only does WM Recorder support all the popular formats and protocols, it can do it extremely fast. Plus, it also converts.” 
 
In addition to recording capability, WM Recorder 12.1 comes with WM Converter built-in. Customers can convert to and from all the popular formats including Flash, WMV, MP3, MP4 and more.   WM Converter comes as a free 15 day trial with the purchase of WM Recorder; the full version of WM Converter is available with the purchase of the WM Recorder Bonus Bundle.
 
WM Recorder will work on all Windows PCs.  To learn more visit here.