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Moblie Media Center is great new freeware i have spotted on coolsmartphone.com, that allows you to access you computer wherever you are located.

Moblie Media Center is much more than great, because it allows you to throw an eye, check, download, stream or whatever you want to do from a distance by your pocket device securely. You can even to watch TV when a TV-card is connected to the PC! Mobile Media Center must be installed on your PC, then you configure your personal settings, that should value to options such as speed or streaming quality, ports, etc. This cool utility is the perfect companion if you are looking for way to stream some music from your home, or just listen any audio file data, that you need at any moment.

Moblie Media Center is currently released in v2.01 and is available for free download here.

Pocket PC Software developer Alex Buloichik has just released new free TV Guide application for Pocket PC devices. As the developer say The Mobile TVGuide software allows you to view TV schedules on your mobile device, so that you are always informed about what's on TV, wherever you are. It allows you to see TV schedules on you PDA, Smartphone or mobile phone.

TVGuide supports downloading TV schedules from the following sources:

* Zap2it.com (North America)
* VseTV (Ukraine)
* Kulichki.tv (Russia)
* NTV+ (Russia)

These listings cover BBC World, CNN, Discovery and many other channels.

TVGuide is available free for download at Freeware Pocket PC site.

holy smokes - what have these guys done - this is the reaction of our reader Richard Wang after installing and interacting with one of the latest free programs for Pocket PC devices. The program is Avot mV and it lets you watch videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Google and many more on your windows mobile based device. What actualy Avot mV does is searching videos from the those sites and playing them smoothly and choppy on your screen.

The Avot mV solution allows users to browse through the aggregated video channels and directory of billions of videos from video sharing sites. Also, the users can organize video playlists using Avot mV making your mobile phone a video jukebox on the go. The application has really fast Search and even better Playback functions, which makes it almost ideal solution for playing videos. Avot mV hasn’t yet been officially released to the public, but is available for all to start testing.

Syntrax, which has just been released for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones, is a FREE music composer for on the road using realtime sound synthesis. This neat little program combines a sequencer, sound synthesis and sample editor all wrapped together for your pleasure.

Syntrax Features:

* Upto 8 stereo audio channels simultaneously (previously only 6)
* Playback of samples with bi-directional looping support
* Realtime sound synthesis with 15 sound generation effects
* Realtime effects like filters, morphs and echoes
* A built in small sample editor
* A full featured sequencer
* Dynamic playback options (songspeed, groove, muting etc..)
* Realtime instrument parameter changing
* Full library of preset songs and sounds for you to start working with
* User adjustable sound quality for slower devices
* MIDI compatibility

Syntrax is available for free download at Symbian Freeware site.

PCPilot lets you control a PowerPoint slideshow, Windows Media Player or iTunes on your (Windows) PC from your Palm, through a network WiFi or Bluetooth connection.

PCPilot Features:

* Use your Palm as a remote control for your PC
* Connect through a Bluetooth or network (e.g. WiFi) interface
* Zero-installation lightweight Windows program
* Light and easily configurable Palm program
* Palm hardware command keys customization
* Automatic minimization of the Windows program upon Palm connection
* PowerPoint
- Full navigation: previous / next and first / last slide
- Pause / restart
- Slide title & number on your Palm
- Speaker notes on your Palm
* Windows Media Player & iTunes
- Main controls: next / previous track, fast forward & rewind (depending on configuration)
- Sound volume controls
- Track title & artist on your Palm
- Optional display of the player interface (full screen or normal)

PCPilot is available for free download at Freeware Palm site.

Owning the ultimate PC remote control for your Series 60 smartphone will change the way you listen to music and use your computer. Enjoy a degree of freedom that you'll never want to give up.

ControlFreak Media Control Utility Series 60 is new application as you can guess for Symbian Series 60 phones which enables you to control Winamp and the rest of your computer with your via Bluetooth. It has all of the music and video controls like play, pause, stop, next, previous, fast forward, rewind and volume.

ControlFreak 2 is now even better at controlling music and video thanks to full Winamp Media Library support. One of the most amazing features of ControlFreak is the spectrum analyser. You can get up to 40 frames per second of real-time spectral analysis of the music your listening to. The spectrum analyser in ControlFreak 2 is powered by our own advanced latency compensation technology that makes sure the spectrum analyser stays synchronised with the music even as you're moving around the room.

Since your computer can do a lot more than play music and video, so can ControlFreak 2. Perhaps the most exciting new feature in ControlFreak 2 is Desktop Control. Use it to do almost anything you normally do with your computer but from anywhere in its Bluetooth zone.

ControlFreak Media Control Utility Series 60 is available for free download at Symbian Freeware site.

Spb Software House has just released their latest multimedia application, which will enhance and make easier the way you create DVDs for watching on your Pocket PC or Smartphone. Spb Mobile DVD 1.0.1 is a desktop application providing you with a quick and easy way to convert DVDs and video files to the mobile format with the highest possible speed and true real-time preview.

Spb Mobile DVD 1.0.1 offers variety of conversion options like Audio language, Subtitle mode and language, Convert entire movie or only a part, Output video format (WMV or XVID), Output resolution, FPS, Zooming and cropping modes and the quality or file size.

Spb Mobile DVD Features:

* Fastest possible conversion speed
* Adjustable quality with real-time preview
* No additional software needed on Pocket PC
* DVD and video file sources
* Conversion to both WMV and XVID formats
* Possibility to convert entire movie or only some part
* Dual core CPU support
* Support for slow 200MHz Pocket PC devices
* qVGA, VGA and square screen support

Spb Mobile DVD 1.0.1 is priced $24.95 and is available for order at MobileTopSoft's Pocket PC software archive ( it also has a trial version there ).

CoreCodec, Inc. has just released their CorePlayer for the Palm OS.

CorePlayer Mobile is at the center of the CoreCodec Universe for playing multimedia on your mobile phone, portable media players, PDA, GPS or convergence device. CorePlayer is truly the next-generation in multimedia playback. It will extend your reach for playing your content from anywhere. Its simple yet extremely powerful interface and features is designed to empower the multimedia community.

CorePlayer for Palm OS supports the following audio and video formats:

Audio
CorePlayer Mobile allows you to enjoy your music with these supported audio formats;
MP3, AAC, MKA, WMA, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, Midi*

Video
"It simply works!' Is what we hear from the community and what sets CorePlayer apart from other mobile media players. It support these video formats and containers;
Video: H.264 (AVC), MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV*, MJPEG Containers: Matroska, TS, PS, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, NSV

CorePlayer for Palm OS Features:

* "Universal Skins" allows you to create a unique custom user interface exactly the way you want it!
* Best in Class audio and video decoders like CoreAVC our H.264 High Definition video decoder
* CoreTheque media libray allows for easy management of you playlist, bookmarks, database
* Codecs: AAC/MP3/DIVX/XVID/MP4/MKV/MIDI/WMA
* Streaming Support
* Hardware acceleration on supported devices

CorePlayer is available for order here.

Virtual Spaghetti has released recently their latest version of their drawing and image editing applicaton for Windows Mobile devices, the Vspainter 1.5. New version is full with cool features and improved tools for finger drawing.

Vspainter features advanced and unique tools to help you create your digital masterpieces with your Windows Mobile Pocket PC. You can design and save your creations in a easy way, just launch Vspainter and you get right in to painting by using standard brushs, special brushs, Shapes and others special effect including many tools like the smudge tool and the lightning and darkness pen. Vspainter is also able to create, store and view simultaneous creations.

Here is one video presentation of what you can do with this neat pocket pc graphics application.



Vspainter 1.5 new features:

* Axis Tools - Duplicate quickly with the symetric X/Y tools or flip the screen in horizontal or vertical
* Stamp Tools - Clone a part on the current page or in a other work pages.
* Colors Tools - Select or Manipulate colors
* Screen Distortion - Manipulate the form of your creation.
* Multi pages workspace - Switch quickly beetween your creations.
* Finger Tools - Realistic and very usefull tools
* Load and Save and manipulate - your creation in JPEG Format.
* Zoom Windows - Create detailed artworks, Zoom by 2x, 4x or 8x
* Advanced Drawing tools - Use the advantage of the stylet. Draw anytime, anywhere
* Full Screen Mode and Historical Undo
* Devices Compatibilities - Windows Mobile 5.0, Phone Edition and Squared Screen Support.
* Advanced brush Tools - Draw using many different brush including Line, Circle anq square
* Special Effect Brush Tools - Use special Brush Effect( lightning, cloud, etc )

Vspainter 1.5 is priced $24.95 and is available for order at MobileTopSoft's Pocket PC software archive.