Coming soon! "Mars" on your Pocket PC.
Ballshooter's new and cosmic game is due for release on Pocket PC.
People saw the Titan pictures from Huygens. We at Ballshooter Games
don't have images from Mars but you'll see OUR pictures from this red
planet on your Pocket PC soon.
Your aim is going to be to grab colorful cosmic puzzle pieces and place
them together. The more you fill up, the more Mars world you'll see.
Beta-testers are welcome. Let us know If you want to be notified when the demo version of "Mars" is available.
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First Melbourne PPC Meeting for 2005
2005
promises to be a big year for the Windows Mobile platform. News already
coming out about Windows Mobile 2005 (codenamed - Magneto) and the team
here that make up the Melbourne Pocket PC User Group committee are
super excited about all the other new gadgets and news already being
talked about throughout January and early Feb. To find out more about
what�s going on in the Windows Mobile World and a chance to win some
cool prizes and have a great time while doing so, make sure you come
along to the next User Group meeting on the
16th of February.
Lots of prizes and giveaways, and if that isn't enough incentive just
think you could be among the first to find out about new products
before they are released.
So don't forget to put a reminder in your calendars about the next
meeting using the details on the main page under Next Meeting.
~Our humble apologies for the belated site update~
-MPPUG Team
Spb Software House Releases Spb Clone
Spb
Software House, a leading Pocket PC software developer, releases Spb
Clone - an application that allows you to clone and restore
applications, files and registry settings onto several Pocket PC
devices.
Spb Clone software allows you to quickly deploy your business solution
onto a huge number of Pocket PC devices. Only one device is wholly
configured, and the rest are clone copies. The support solution has
never been this simple. Your employees can quickly repair the software
crashes by simply inserting a storage card with a self-extracting
seft-starting clone image on it. Additionally, this software can
provide some unique settings (like device names and IP settings) for
the clones.
This program was being developed with enterprise scenario in mind. Spb
Clone was initially supposed to be applicable for two major use-cases:
1. Deployment of a solution involving many identical devices
Suppose, your solution has in service many (maybe hundreds) identical
Pocket PC devices. All these devices are supposed to be used in the
same way, and have identical software and settings configuration. It
takes a lot of time to configure necessary registry settings and deploy
desired applications to a device that must be configured from zero.
When one needs to configure a new device, re-configure the old one, or
reconfigure the whole pack of devices he must perform all the same
operations, like installing programs, changing registry, adding files,
etc. This often requires attention to details, good memory and, last
but not least, some skills and knowledge. All this procedure can take
from 10 to 30 minutes for one single device. Therefore if you need to
configure the whole set of devices, the entire process could take up to
several weeks. And you may not be sure that you made no mistakes and
did it all right for each device.
If you use Spb Clone, you will have to configure only one device and
clone it to other ones. The whole process is performed automatically,
all software is installed accurately configured, free of errors, with
minimum human intervention and as fast as possible.
2. Deployed solution support
Suppose one of your devices, equipped with your application and used in
another city, crashed. Your main application deployed on the device
doesn't work and it needs fast repair. You could waste a lot of time
going there and restoring its functionality or trying to solve the
problem by phone.
Instead you use Spb Clone, create several storage cards with clone
images of a configured Pocket PC, and provide your employees with these
cards. In any software crash case your employee can hard-reset the
device and plug the card in. The clone image will be restored
automatically.
*** Software Features ***
- Easy restoration (just insert the storage card).
- Optimized restoration speed
- Data security (password protection supplied by AES algorithm (Rijndael))
- The clone devices should not be wholly equal. In most cases they
should have different names and IP settings in order to avoid
conflicts. Spb Clone supports an administrative tool for providing both
customizable names and IP addresses for the clone devices. This can be
done by means of an initiation file, which contains templates for names
and IP addresses. This feature does not affect the restoration
simplicity.
Finally, it should be mentioned that Spb Clone and Spb Kiosk
applications used in one business solution are a most effective
combination. You can use Spb Kiosk for deploying your custom kiosk-mode
application on a Pocket PC device and clone it onto several enterprise
Pocket PC devices. More information about Spb Kiosk can be found at:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/kioskengine
*** Pricing and Availability ***
You can download a demo or a full version of Spb Clone. The demo
version provides the same functionality, but on the clone copies from
time to time there will appear demo version notifications. You can
purchase the full version for an unlimited number of Pocket PC devices
for USD 299 from Spb website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/clone/purchase.html
*** Further information about Spb Clone ***
Further information regarding Spb Clone can be found on the Spb Web site:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/clone/
Spb Clone screenshots:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/clone/screenshots.html
Download Spb Clone here:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/clone/download.html
DVD to Pocket PC Version 2 is out and reviewed!
At
a meeting early last year, we took a quick look at DVD to Pocket PC for
copying DVDs to a storage card for playback on a Pocket PC.
The software has been updated since then and there's a review at The PDA Guy that covers off on this great application.
