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Summary: Speereo Voice Mailer is a perfect solution to manage your e-mail accounts. With intuitive one-button speech interface any operations with mail take seconds. Send, delete and sort your letters with simple voice commands.

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"Samsung’s been getting pretty creative with cell cameras lately — the Instinct lets you pan around web pages by tracking movement with the camera, for example — but the company’s latest patent application, for a gesture-based phone interface, might be a little less practical. The idea is to use the phone’s camera to track your hand movements, which, from the drawings, should have you looking insane on the subway in no time. Of course, we’ve all been guilty of waving at and even talking to our devices when they’re acting up, so maybe a little feedback wouldn’t be a bad thing — there’s one gesture we’d definitely like to see programmed in there."

This sounds kind of similar to the unconfirmed Windows Mobile 7 features and screenshots which were leaked back in January. Instead of using an accelerometer to detect motion based gestures, Samsung has decided to go the less expensive route of using our handsets built in camera. Sure it sounds silly when you say it out loud, and I am sure it will be even more silly to watch someone use it in real life, but it is still pretty neat technology. In theory this also makes it somewhat compatible with almost all of Samsung’s handsets that are already on the market. Go team Samsung!

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"So you’ve decided to export some of your ListPro lists in HTML format to publish on the web but you’d like a bit more control over how the published lists look. If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty with a bit of HTML and CSS, then this article is for you."

One of the cool features Ilium Software added to ListPro a version or two ago was the ability to export lists to a basic HTML file so you could share the list with non-ListPro users. It was functional, but not the prettiest web page you ever saw. If you are interested in taking that list and jazzing it up a bit, take a look at this blog post that will give you more details on how to proceed.

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"It looks like upper level executives aren’t the only vulnerable ones over at AT&T. The company announced today that it will be laying off 1.5% of its workforce, amounting to about 4,600 individual workers. AT&T has already begun the process, and is currently notifying the affected employees. The company gave no indication about the specific motivations behind the severance notices, but general economic malaise, combined with declining phone prices and increased network deployment costs seem to be to blame."

The layoff is mostly aimed at middle management and the wireline part of the company. Let’s face it a good number of people are abandoning them completely. It looks like they are cleaning out the dead wood in middle management mostly.

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Summary: With psShutXP for Pocket PCs you can easily control power and display of PDA

Tags: psshutxp, turn, off, display, off, restart, pda

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I guess I just purchased my last ebook from eReader.com. Friday night I browsed, purchased and downloaded an ebook through the eReader Pro application, just like I’ve done many times before, 98 times before to be exact. For some reason, the book I downloaded wouldn’t unlock on my device. My name and credit card haven’t changed since signing up with the service in 1998 or 1999, so I downloaded the book again thinking it was corrupted. I also downloaded from my desktop and transferred the book over. No joy. So I dutifully went to the eReader support page and filed a problem ticket Saturday morning. They responded with the response I half-way expected. They didn’t read my email and just explained to me what my name was and which credit card to use to unlock the ebook.

I politely responded back within about 10 minutes that I understand how the process works, how I’ve done this almost 100 times before, and that there is something wrong with that book and maybe it needs to be re-encoded. Two days later, I received an email that told me they gave up and refunded me the money.

I guess this is what happened when FictionWise purchased them. I am sure this isn’t the first time I’ve purchased a book after the FictionWise acquisition, but it might be the first time I’ve purchased since they migrated to a single platform, and rather than make even the smallest amount of effort to find out what the problem is, they effectively told me "Well, we have no clue, and it doesn’t matter that you’ve purchased 98 books in 10 years. We don’t have time to fool with it, so here is your money back. Now, go away."

From Peanut Press to Palm to Motoricity, I’ve never had an issue that wasn’t quickly resolved with the eReader store. Now that FictionWise has it, it took them from Friday to Wednesday to just refund the money and not bother. If they keep that level of customer service up, the company will change hands yet again in the near future at a price below what FictionWise paid for it.

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"Apparently, HTC is having a little trouble keeping people with cameras out of its offices, as evidenced by this totally great spy shot of a what appears to be a bunch of (or two) new phones. We’re familiar with quite of few of these devices, like the TyTn II, Touch Cruise, and Touch you see in the upper row, but things get a little stickier down below. Save for that P3470 that’s second from left, we have no clue what those slick looking square numbers are."

I rather suspect all the three unknowns in the bottom row are the same device, but they sure look interesting. Engadget thinks they’re T-Mobile’s MDA Compact IV, but the jury’s still out on that one - any chance we’re seeing the HTC Dream?

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Summary: Word Seeker is a classic concentration game that helps children learn word skills.

Tags: games, word, table, mind

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