Windows Mobile Louisville

Joe Chiu, who works on the Microsoft Surface team at Microsoft, has developed an RSS/podcast client for Windows Phones in his spare time.  The app is called FeedMe and it’s a lightweight and easy-to-use client for both Professional and Standard devices.  Not only does FeedMe let you syndicate podcasts, feeds, and photostreams, it can also help you find interesting feeds to subscribe to with its “Discover Feed” option.  With this, you can discover the feed from any external web site, for example.  You can also subscribe to keywords or searches.

As mentioned above, FeedMe can also be used to view photostreams like those from photo-sharing sites Flickr and Zooomr.  To do so, just enter in the photostream URL into the app and you can then view the photos in a slideshow.

Other FeedMe features include the following:

• Support for RSS, RDF, and Atom feed formats
• View feed content in full HTML fidelity with pictures
• Supports MP3/WMA podcasts (Also supports streaming WMA)
• Download Manager: Allows you to view the progress of current downloading podcasts
• Downloaded Podcast channel allows you to view all your downloaded podcasts easily
• Today folder, Watch folder (find content with certain keywords)
• Cache all the content for seamless reading experience
• Play all downloaded podcasts in a playlist in Downloaded Podcast channel
• Pick a feed from an OPML file (You can open the OPML file from local device or from a URL)
• Options to automatically download latest episodes of a podcast and purge old files
• Config file auto-save and auto-recovering

To try FeedMe for yourself, you can download the application from here.

Source: Sarah in Tampa

Viigo has released version 3.0.38 for Windows Phones.  
 
The update includes performance improvements and bug fixes.  The core emphasis with this release was to substantially improve the stability of their application, but they also managed to develop a whole bunch of new goodies to enjoy

• Twitter - So the most amazing thing just happened and you can’t wait to share the news with your friends. With this version you’ll be able to post anything that you read in Viigo to Twitter, with a single click.
• March Madness - With comprehensive stats packages, breaking news and up to the minute results you will have every angle covered in the palm of your hand.  
• Shopping – Keep your eye on the latest mobile software, accessories, games, themes and more. Purchase and download these goodies directly from your smartphone. 
• Movie Listings – Instantly scope out what movies are playing near you, get a preview of the coming attractions, read movie reviews, and click to call the theatre to book your tickets.
• More Audio – They’ve teamed up with podcast.com to deliver over 85,000 podcasts, all one click away from within Viigo.  Browse, search for, and subscribe to a whole bunch of cool new podcasts, all in their easy-to-navigate library.
• More Local Interest – Check out their growing portfolio of local content… Craig’s List, Search for Jobs, Traffic Updates, Metro/Transit Updates, and Local Restaurant Listings.  
• Stocks and Finance – Has the market bottomed out yet? Create customized portfolios, track the value of your stocks, and subscribe to a variety of popular business publications and investment news.  
• Flights and Travel – Road Warriors hate it, but it’s something we all have to deal with - Is my flight on time?  Track the status of your flights, and search for new flights (Train and Rail Schedules are coming soon).

This version will also work on much wider variety of Windows Phones.

Get Viigo for free here.

Discuss it here.

Omega One has been making some very useful applications for Windows Mobile devices for a long time.  Recently I checked out 1-ToGo, which is pretty cool.  It brings a lot of useful features together into one place.

1-ToGo is a brand new concept in Windows Mobile utilities - an enhanced web service which brings the best of the web right to your mobile device. Other solutions force you to use their view of the web. 1-ToGo allows you to get to the data you want.

Here’s a list of what 1-ToGo features: 

• Front Page - Your own newspaper front page with your favorite news feeds.
• World Time / Weather
• News / RSS
• E-mail - Get e-mail easily on the go from your Yahoo, GMail, Windows Live (Hotmail), AOL Mail, Mail2Web, Inbox.com, BigString or HotPOP account.
• Instant Messenger - 1-ToGo allows you to use Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Google Talk or eBuddy simply through your phone.
• Social Networking - Easily check out mobile formatted versions of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Windows Live Spaces, Twitter or MocoSpace.
• Stocks
• Unit/Currency Converter
• Movie Times / Reviews
• Games
• Search - At the bottom of every page is a search link for Google, Yahoo, Windows Live, Wikipedia, Ask.com, Answers.com or Bloglines.

There is a 30 day trial of 1-ToGo.  Just point your mobile browser to http://1togo.mobi.  It will auto-detect what device you are using so you can download the correct CAB file to install.

1-ToGo is $29.99 to purchase initially.  Each contiguous 12 month subscription renewal is $19.99.

The BETA of Viigo’s Project Tango for Windows Mobile devices kicked off on July 7th.

Initial support is in for News & RSS, Audio & Podcasts, Weather, Sports, Entertainment, Stocks and Finance with support coming soon for Flight Scheduling  & Status, Local Interest (Hotel & Restaurant reviews, Local Events etc.) and more. Starting today, in partnership with Microsoft, there will be special content in the build, covering breaking news and conference details from the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.

To see a quick preview of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference edition of Viigo’s exciting new platform, or to get a copy of the BETA, you can go here from your computer, or you can visit here from your mobile browser.

I’ve been using Jott for some time now, and I find it incredibly handy and useful - I even have my Google Calendar set up with Jott Links, so I can Jott an appointment from my phone and it shows up on my Google Calendar (then, taking it a step further, I have GooSync, so my Google Calendar syncs with my Mogul!).

Enter Jott Feeds.  “Jott Feeds is a new and easy way to get updates from your favorite websites by listening to them on your mobile phone!  It is a simple service designed to make accessing the information you want as easy as a phone call.

Add any RSS feed to your Jott account, call Jott and have them read to you over your phone. Whether you are in the car or walking around town- you can now listen in to your trusted sources of news and other content without needing Internet access”.

I’ve only been playing with it since yesterday, but it’s very cool!  Jott offers numerous feeds for you to choose from (Yahoo! News, Local Weather, Tech Crunch, Mashable, Lifehacker and many more), or you can create your own feeds.  I created a feed for this blog as well as the forum (see the buttons over in the right-hand navigation panel) - it is pretty cool to hear the posts on the phone!

Check it out - Jott is free!

We are happy to announce that there is finally an RSS feed for the new version of the Discussion Forum!

As you can see over in the navigation panel on the right side of the page, the 5 most recent posts from the forum are posted there.  You can also add this feed to any RSS reader that you might use, such as Newsbreak, Spb Insight, or any of the multitude of readers available on the desktop PC!  This will allow readers to easily spot discussions that might be of interest. 

This is in addition to the RSS link at the top of the page, which gives you the latest posts here on the main part of the site.  I highly recommend using both feeds, to stay on top of the latest with Windows Mobile Louisville!

Thanks to John Foland for being the fire under my butt to get this RSS feed up & running for the new forum!