With Dragon Dictation you can also update your Facebook status, send notes and reminders to yourself, or Tweet using your voice. In addition to composing messages by voice, Dragon Dictation provides the ability for users to either enter new text or edit text they have dictated.

Key features of Dragon Dictation for Apple iPhone include:

• Voice-to-text transcriptions that may be sent as SMS, Email, or pasted into any application on your iPhone using the clipboard
• Convenient editing feature that provides a list of suggested words
• Voice driven correction interface

Click here to download Dragon Dictation for Apple iPhone.

Key features of SymSync for Nokia S60 include:

+ Wireless Files and Folders Synchronization between the mobile device and network computer
+ Intelligent file transfer ensuring minimal resource usage
+ Byte-Level replication (minimizing bandwidth utilization)
+ Continuous file replication (true real-time processing)
+ On Demand, Scheduled file replication
+ Ability to run in the background as a Service or as an Application
+ Ability to transfer files over the internet through TCP
+ Ability to replicate through network shares
+ Ability to sync files to a remote location

Visit the homepage to download a trial version of SymSync for Nokia S60 3rd and 5th edition mobile device.

Key features of Opera Mini 5 Beta include:

Tabbed Browsing - Open multiple websites in different tabs.
Speed Dial - Quickly access frequently visited websites using visual bookmarks.
Display - Interface optimized for touchscreen devices with the new zooming and kinetic scrolling.
Password Manager - Save usernames and passwords for websites and login with one click.

Updated features include:

Skins - Personalize Opera Mini by choosing different skins.
Performance - Opera Mini 5 uses the newly established server park in the US allowing significantly faster page downloads.
Sync Notes - All notes from Opera Desktop Web browser are available in Opera Mini directly from the Bookmarks menu.
Sync bookmarks and Speed Dial - Opera Mini features Opera Link, which allows you to synchronize your bookmarks and Speed Dial.
Custom search shortcuts - Create your own Web search from any search field on the Internet.

To download Opera Mini 5 beta, visit m.opera.com/next from your mobile phone browser.

Key features of WeeWheel for Nokia S60 include:

- Remote joystick emulation with an acceleromenter through Bluetooth.
- Mouse & Keyboard emulation.
- Up to 8 Joystick button emulation through the mobile phone’s keypad.
- Macro: Record and play phone actions.

WeeWheel is compatible with Nokia S60 3rd and 5th Edition and Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Quick Installation instructions:

Download and install Python on your Nokia S60 mobile device from here.

Install the PC component:
1. Download and extract PP Joy on your PC from here and run setup.exe
2. Go to Control Panel and select the Parallel Port Joysticks icon
3. Click the Add button
4. Click on the Parallel Port dropdown menu and select Virtual Port.
5. Click Add. Now select the newly created Virtual Joystick
6. Click on Mapping. Click Next. Choose 2 axes, 8 buttons, 0 POV hats. Click Next three times and click Finish.
7. Install WeeWheel

More instructions can be found in the WeeWheel manual here [PDF].

Here are some of the new features in Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7:

Easy setup of Windows XP Mode - Once both the Windows Virtual PC and the virtual Windows XP environment are installed, Windows Virtual PC provides a simple wizard to set up Windows XP Mode with just a few clicks.

USB support - Users can access USB devices attached to the host directly from virtual Windows XP. These devices include printers and scanners, flash memory/sticks and external hard disks, digital cameras, and more.

Seamless applications - Publish and launch applications installed on virtual Windows XP directly from the Windows 7 desktop, as if they were installed on the Windows 7 host itself.

Folder integration between host and guest - Access your Windows 7 Known Folders: My Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music, and Video, from inside the virtual Windows environment, such as Windows XP Mode

Clipboard sharing - Cut and paste between your Windows 7 host and any virtual machine.

Printer redirection - Print directly to your attached printer from your seamless application or virtual machine.

Smart card redirection - Ability to support smart cards connected to the host, inside the guest operating system. Smart card redirection works in a similar way to printer redirection. It is not available with integration features enabled.

Higher resolutions - The allowable resolution for virtual machines has been extended up to 2048×1920 from 1600×1200.

Jump List - Access Windows XP Mode applications with a “jump-list”. Right click on the Windows XP Mode applications from the Windows 7 task bar to select and open most recently used files.

Multiple Threads - Users will be able to run multiple virtual machines concurrently, each running in its own thread, which improves stability and performance.

To install applications in Windows XP Mode, you start by selecting Windows XP Mode from the Windows 7 Start Menu. You can install applications in Windows XP Mode just as you normally would on a physical PC. To run your application directly from the Windows 7 desktop, you can launch it from your Start menu.

Click here to download Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7.

Note: Windows XP Mode RC requires RC or RTM version of Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise. It also requires a processor capable of hardware virtualization with AMD-V or Intel VT turned on in the BIOS.

Here are some of the key features of Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile smartphone devices:

- Create, edit and save Microsoft Office documents from your Smartphone.
- Find people in your organization from your phone by searching your global address list.
- Online access to your e-mail, calendar, contacts and tasks from anywhere, any time.
- Essential authoring capabilities include tables, bullets and font styles.
- Auto Correct and background spelling checker.

New features include:

- Conversation View in Outlook Mobile 2010 allows you to save time by combining related messages so they can be moved, categorized or deleted in a single click.
- Browse SharePoint sites, document libraries and other lists from your Smartphone.
- Open documents directly from SharePoint 2010 or Windows Live workspaces for viewing or editing, and save them directly back to the server.
- Sync documents on your Smartphone — when a document is modified on the server, the copy on your Smartphone gets synced automatically.
- Communicator Mobile integration

Office Mobile 2010 will not be included in Office 2010 applications, suites, or Web Apps but will be pre-installed on mobile devices only through the OEM.

Many of the features in Office 2010 can be found consistently across multiple applications.

Here are some of the key new features in Office 2010:

Edit Pictures Right Within Select Microsoft Office Applications - You can apply artistic effects such as marker, line drawing, blur, glass and pastels to pictures without using additional photo editing programs.

Embed, Edit and Manage Video Within PowerPoint 2010 - Audio and video formatting makes it easy to work with video files inside Powerpoint.

Analyze Data and Create Compelling Visualizations Using Excel 2010 - New options in Excel 2010 let you quickly visualize and comprehend data using Sparklines, Slicer, Search Filters and improved PivotCharts, conditional formatting and Sharepoint Excel services.

MailTips, Quick Steps, and Conversation View in Outlook 2010.

Paste Preview for Office 2010 - Paste Preview allows you to see what your additions will look like before you apply them.

Search Navigation and Info Capturing for OneNote 2010.

In Office 2010, every application now has the Ribbon, including favorites such as Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, InfoPath 2010, and the new Office Web Apps.

Microsoft Office Backstage View.

64-Bit Scalability for Microsoft Office 2010.

Co-authoring in Office 2010 - Co-authoring in Word 2010 connects multiple team members on a single project in real time. Each person on your team can work on their section of your Word 2010 document, online simultaneously. Edits are highlighted so you can easily see what’s been changed.

Broadcast Slide Show in PowerPoint 2010.

Instantly Share Your Document using Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Backstage View.

Office Web Apps - The Office Web Apps give you a familiar Microsoft Office experience through a web browser.

Office Mobile 2010 - New features of Office Mobile 2010 for Windows smartphones will be covered in a new post.

Key features of TrueCaller for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile include:

+ Display name and address of unknown caller or SMS sender
+ Perform manual searches by typing a phone number
+ Save information to contacts
+ Displays a small log of caller Ids
+ Hide in background, display in foreground by removing stylus

TrueCaller includes support for 23 international countries for reverse phone number lookup including United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

It requires Microsoft Compact .NET Framework 3.5. Download TrueCaller for Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 from here.

To get this information, the position of the user is determined through GPS. To detect the direction in which the mobile phone is pointing, the application uses an internal digital compass - magnetometer. Combining these two mechanisms leads to very accurate results. Applications that only use GPS provide information about every relevant point which is close to the user. There is no possibility to consider in which direction the user is looking.

The information about the user’s position and the pointing direction is sent to a server via a mobile internet connection. The server side application calculates the area in which the sight is located, considering the direction information. Then it searches for so-called POIs (Points of Interest) in several databases. The results of this search are sent back to the user’s mobile phone and are shown on the display. If there is more than one POI in the area, the results are sorted by distance. In the current version of the Magic Wand software, the name and the category of a POI are displayed. The user is able to filter the results by category and to choose which information about the POI should be shown.

The software is a nice proof of concept but currently there is no comprehensive POI database that can be used with Magic Wand. However, you can create your own POI database and upload it to a server. It will be interesting to see how POI files that can be downloaded from the internet (e.g here) be integrated into the server application.

The author also provides an addon called Outlook Import 2007 for Windows PC. This software is an add-in for Outlook 2007 that lets you import all phone calls from the Windows mobile device into Outlook under the contact used on the device. If it cannot find a contact, it will store the call under ‘Unknown’. You can then use either the journal to look at the calls or open the contact and look at the ‘activities’ for the contact. To play the call just open the item and click on the link in the item.

Some of the configurable options in Auto Call Recorder include:

+ Enable or disable the call recorder
+ Path to save recorded conversations
+ Codec in which the file will be saved
+ Bit rate settings

Note that the use of this application may be illegal in some countries. Please

Both programs require .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Redistributable to be installed on the mobile device. Visit this XDA-Developer thread to download Auto Call Recorder for Windows Mobile 6 and Outlook Import 2007.

Key features of Google Voice Mobile App for Android and Blackberry include:

Make calls and send SMS from your Google Voice number
Save money with low priced international calls
Listen to your voicemail and read voicemail transcripts
Manage your Inbox and view Call History

On a Google Android phone, you can use the Inbox to listen to your voicemail messages and view text transcriptions. From the Inbox you can read a text transcription of a voicemail, play a recording of the message, or even add someone to your Contacts list. You can respond to any of the messages in your Inbox by placing a call or sending a text message. If you select Labels, under Menu, you can jump directly to any of the following sections:

Starred
Voicemail
SMS
Recorded (calls)
Placed (calls)
Received (calls)
Missed (calls)

You can also choose whether to use Google Voice for all calls or only for international calls.

On a Blackberry device, you can access your recent voicemail transcriptions, message recordings, and SMS messages through the Messages tab, and use the Dialer tab to place outbound calls.

If you don’t have an Android powered device or a Blackberry you can use Google Voice on your phone by visiting www.google.com/voice/m.

Key features of Google Translator toolkit include:

Correct automatic translations in an easy-to-use editor.
Search past translations to find words for new translations.
Publish translations to Wikipedia or Knol.
Collaborate with other translators.
Use advanced tools like translation memories and multilingual glossaries.

You can upload the following types of files (upto 1MB):

- HTML (.html)
- Microsoft Word (.doc)
- OpenDocument Text (.odt)
- Plain Text (.txt)
- Rich Text (.rtf)

Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers. Opera Unite is available in a special version of the Opera 10 desktop browser from Opera Labs. Opera Unite services run directly in the browser.

Opera Unite currently offers the following services:

File Sharing: Securely share a file from your personal computer without waiting to upload it. First select the folder from which you would like to share files. Opera Unite then generates a direct URL to that folder. By giving that link to your friends, you can share files without routing through a third-party Web service.

Web Server: Run entire Web sites from your local computer with the Opera Unite Web Server. After selecting the folder containing your Web site, you can share and host it from the given Opera Unite URL. Opera Unite will automatically recognize index files and create the Web site as you designed it.

Media Player: Rock out wherever you are by accessing your MP3s and playlists from any machine. After selecting the folder containing your playlist, use the Opera Unite direct link to play your tracks directly in any modern Web browser.

Photo Sharing: Share your photos direct from your PC, without uploading them online. Once you select your photo folder, the photo-sharing service will create a thumbnail image gallery of your photos. Clicking the thumbnail will present the photo in its original resolution.

The Lounge: The Lounge is a self-contained chat service running on your computer. Your friends can access the chat room via the direct link, which will not require them to sign into any service. Depending on your privacy settings, you need only provide the generated password to your service in order for people to log in to your chatroom.

Fridge: Post a note on your friends’ virtual refrigerators. By sharing the direct link to your refrigerator, you and your friends, family or colleagues can exchange notes securely and privately in real time.

Download Opera Unite from one of the following links based on your Operating System:

Opera Unite build for Windows
Opera Unite build for Mac
Opera Unite build for Linux/Unix

The keyboard can be made transparent and dragged anywhere along the entire screen of the mobile device. The following buttons are emulated as virtual keys on-screen:

Left menu
Right Menu
Up
Down
Left
Right
Ok
Green button
Red Button

The software is currently in beta without any configurable options. However, you can change the skin of the t-pad by modifying the file under C: \system\Apps\WF_VirtualKey\Skin\Default\.

The software must be signed and installed in the main memory (C: drive) of the mobile device.

Visit this forum to download Virtual keyboard for Nokia 5800 S60 5th Edition.

Key features of Wizcode Undelete Mobile include:

•Recovers deleted files from storage cards.
•Recovers the original filename and folder path.
•Recursively rescans deleted folders and recovers contained files.
•Recovers multiple files in one click.
•Restores the original creation and modification dates.
•Supports Unicode filenames.
•Restores both short and long file names.
•Supports FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems.
•Visible representation of file/folder recoverability.
•Recovers data straight on your Windows Mobile device, no desktop machine required.
•Supports both solid state storage card (flash memory) and micro drives.

Wizcode Undelete can be downloaded for Windows Mobile 2003, 5.x and 6.x from here.

Those looking for a freeware application can use a desktop based application called FreeUndelete. To recover files using FreeUndelete, you need to connect your storage card to your Windows based computer and run the recovery tool on the removable drive. Click here to download FreeUndelete for Windows XP and Vista.

Additionally, eyeCall allows you to send a predefined SMS text message by covering the phone with your hand. For instance, when you’re in a meeting and the phone rings, you can move your hand over the cellphone to silence the incoming call, and then cover it with your hand to send a predefined text message such as “I am currently in a meeting, please call later.”

Download eyeCall for Nokia S60 from Nokia OVI store.

The Microsoft Touch Pack consists of 3 multi-touch optimized casual games, and three Microsoft Surface applications created for Windows 7. Here is an overview of each of them:

Microsoft Surface Globe uses the Virtual Earth 3D engine to display a 3D view of the world. Using multi-touch, you can navigate to different regions, get local information, and “pin” your favorite locations. You can even “fly” around 3D models of buildings in some cities.

Microsoft Surface Collage allows you to take your favorite digital photos and arrange and resize them using only your fingertips. Once you have your photos in an arrangement you like, it’s simple to save your collage and make it your desktop background.

Microsoft Surface Lagoon is a screensaver that recreates the natural environment of water and schooling fish. You can run your fingers through the “water” and hold your finger down and watch the fish gather around.

Microsoft Blackboard is a game in which you create a nifty machine on a virtual blackboard. You can then use gestures to rotate and resize gears, fans, see-saws and more to move balloons and balls toward the light bulbs - and victory.

Microsoft Rebound lets you use your fingers to propel a ball in a ping-pong like game.

Microsoft Garden Pond allows you to guide your origami creations to peaceful areas on the pond or direct them with gestures to complete goals that have been set for you. Gently move the origami by making ripples in the water.

Below is an overview of the native Windows 7 applications that take advantage of multi-touch capabilities:

Paint: The latest version of Paint has new brushes that are designed for multi-touch, you can click on the Brushes gallery, pick any one and try finger painting.

Internet Explorer 8: IE 8 features multi-touch panning; you can place your finger anywhere on a page and drag up or down to scroll the page. You can also go back and forward between pages with your finger using Flicks.

Task Bar: You can also use touch to navigate along the taskbar. The new Jump Lists on the taskbar are touch optimized, instead of right-clicking on one of the icons on the taskbar, you can drag up on it with your finger to open the menu.

Windows Media Center: Windows Media center also allows you to navigate using touch capabilities.

Moreover, programs which are “touch unaware” also have some level of touch control. For example, if someone tries touch scrolling over a window that is touch unaware, Windows can detect the presence of various types of scrollbars and scroll them.

Key features of Microsoft My Phone Beta include:

- Synchronize contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, photos, audio-video, text messages, and
documents between your phone and your My Phone web account.
- 200 MB of free storage.
- View and manage phone information by using a web browser. In your web account, you can add, edit, and delete contacts and calendar appointments, and the changes will appear on your phone the next time that you sync.
- View photos on your computer that were taken with your camera phone. From your web account, you can save photos to your computer or can e-mail them to family and friends.
- Manual or automatic synchronization

Microsoft My Phone Beta client is compatible with most Windows Mobile 6.x devices and can be download from the homepage,

Total Recall allows you to automatically (or manually if you choose) record all your outgoing and incoming calls and store them as either as AMR or WAV files. You also have the option to turn off the recording “beep” sound for recipient notification.

Key features of Total Recall for Nokia S60 include:

•Unlimited Call Recording
•Standalone Voice Recording Utility (record anything else apart from phone calls)
•Extremely small footprint
•Record in AMR or WAV audio format
•Intelligent clip naming with the ability to rename clips
•Create notes for each clip
•Send clips via Bluetooth, Irda, Email or MMS
•HTTP upload (automatic & manual) with free KM user account for registered users
•Password protection feature
•Disable beep sound notification on most Nokia S60 devices
•Record to Internal Memory or Memory Card
•Manual Star or Stop recording using Hot Keys
•Dictaphone (While not on a call)
•Autostart application upon reboot

Download the freeware version of Total Recall from getjar.com.You can choose to remove ads by upgrading the software for a fee.

Key features of Yahoo! for iPhone include:

* Voice search – “Press and Speak” capability is now built into Yahoo! oneSearch and works with Search and “Add to my Interests” options.
* Yahoo! News – breaking headlines on the day’s top stories
* Email – add accounts from Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail
* Social Networks – receive status and photo updates from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and others
* Yahoo! Messenger, Address Book & Calendar
* RSS feeds, sport scores, stock quotes, movie theaters, websites & blogs, weather, and more.

Click here to download Yahoo! Mobile for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch from the iTunes Store.