In this roundup we have ScaleMaster, inCubus, CrazySoft Smart Educational Games for Palm OS, Babylon Mobile for Smartphone, Acquasys Pocket Investor and more.

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Astraware Annual Hogmanay Sale

Astraware would like to invite you to their Annual Hogmanay Party sale which starts today - 31st December 2007 - and runs until midnight PST on 11th January 2008!

Each day during this New Year celebration, one or two games will be offered with huge discounts. With a wide range of action, adventure, word games, puzzles, strategy and card games to choose from, there's certain to be something for everyone. Each offer lasts for just 24 hours, changing at midnight, so make sure to check back for the new offer each day!

The first game in the Annual Hogmanay Party on Monday 31st December is the beautiful puzzler Glyph for just $9.95. To grab this, or any of the great Hogmanay offers, head over to http://www.astraware.com/promo/hogmanay08.

HeroCraft to Release Long-Awaited Revival for PDA & Smartphones

HeroCraft is going to release a long-awaited game Revival for Palm OS, Windows Mobile OS and Symbian OS (S60, S60 v.3, UIQ & UIQ v.3) platforms. Date of release is January 15, 2008.

Revival is a turn-based military strategy game in the tradition of the world-famous game title, “Civilization”. The player will have to explore continents, direct battles on land and sea, build towns, develop science and uphold the economy of his empire. Great events take place in the world of Revival: grand empires are created; highly developed states collapse in a flash, science degrades and rises again, brutal wars never end, great wealth is created in the millions but can be lost just as easily… The eternal struggle for power is the mark of this world, and only the best ones will be blessed with absolute rule. Unconquerable general or inborn diplomat? Talented economist or crafty politician? You choose your path to glory in the world of Revival.

The detailed information about the game, including screenshots and trailer is available on the HeroCraft PDA site - http://smart.herocraft.com/revival.

Features:

• The game is designed in the best traditions of Civilization
• Realistic strategic game play – turn-based tactics, resource quarrying, founding towns, upgrading buildings, land and sea battles, and even the units will gather experience!
• Modern economical model: you can buy and sell everything
• Immense game space: 7 planets, 27 continents
• The scenario campaign consists of 13 missions which will take not less than 40 hours to complete
• Very detailed tutorial with an amusing and humorous mentor.
• Excellent artificial intelligence, adjustable difficulty levels and even allows you to battle against 7 simultaneous non-player opponents
• Stupendously funny music

ScaleMaster v1.0

Scales are elementary to all musicianship. They provide flavor and harmonic structure, but are at the same time fairly complex. ScaleMaster, by RoGame Software, is designed to help in several key areas concerning scales. It lists over 100 scale types in all keys and shows them in music notation. There are four different clefs available (treble, bass, alto and tenor). Additionally scale degrees are shown qualified by the interval to the root. To help visualization there are four virtual instruments (bass, guitar, mandolin and piano). These virtual instruments feature overlays that can show scale degrees or position of a note in the current scale and can be shifted to all available positions. Any scale can be sounded out using RoGame’s Sound Libraries (Palm OS 5.0 and higher only) or the built-in synthesizer.

Designed for the beginning musician as well as the professional, ScaleMaster is an excellent tool towards advancement in theory and scales in particular, making it easy to look up a scale in seconds, getting a taste of the flavor of a particular scale by listening to it, or finding out how to play it on one’s instrument.

Features:

• Over 100 listed scales
• Realistic playback sounds
• Notation display with accidentals
• All keys
• 4 clefs
• 4 virtual instruments (bass, guitar, mandolin, piano)
• Shiftable fretboard/keys
• Interval and scale index overlays
• Easy navigation with hard keys
• Online help

Grab it here for $15.95.

inCubus v1.00

inCubus, by inDev Software is a simple, but addictive, logical game which will explode your mind for sure! It has unique game concept -- a combination of well-known Bejeweled, old classic Tetris and Color Lines. Once you try it you'll never stop.

So, the basic idea of inCubus is to collect same colors on front sides of cubes by rotating them. You can see only three sides of cube (front, top and right), but opposite sides of each cube are identical, i.e. cube can contain maximum of three different colors. It also means that there is no difference in which direction you turn the cube -- to the left or to the right -- result will be the same.

There are three different game types in inCubus. In time competition you have limited amount of time and the goal is to score as much points as possible. You can select suitable time limit from predefined set of 6 values (from 1 to 30 minutes)

Score competition is an opposite game type to time competition: the goal is to decrease given score to zero as fast as possible. There are 5 predefined score limits (from 2500 to 15000 points)

Both time and score competition game types have their own high score tables. You can try to beat predefined scores or clear them and start to build your own.

Third game type -- practice -- is a kind of training. There is no time or score limit, you just play game for fun. Also, there are no high score tables for this type of game.

Each game type has three difficulty levels. When you set higher difficulty level the number of colors on the field increases. Easy level field has only 6 colors, medium -- 9 and at high difficulty you play with 12 colors.

Features:

• Unique game concept
• Three game types
• Three difficulty levels
• Top 10 players table

Get it here for $9.95.

Talking PONS Advanced dictionary English v6.09

Paragon Software has released the Talking PONS Advanced dictionary English v 6.09. For almost 30 years PONS has been developing hallmark green dictionaries and language courses for lifelong learning - for students, professional users, travellers and hobby linguists. From Chinese to Turkish, for beginners or experts, over 500 dictionaries provide study materials and reference for every level. PONS Advanced dictionary English contains 117,000 entries, 315,000 words translations, usage examples, modern vocabulary.

The dictionary works under the powerful SlovoEd application engine from Paragon Software GmbH with pronunciation support, two learning tools and built-in morphology module which includes about 2 000 000 word origins and synonyms.

Two industry leaders have combined their efforts to provide a revolutionary combination of high-quality reference content and state-of-the-art technology for your translation needs.

Features:

• Work more effectively and conveniently with the rich-functional Palm OS dictionary engine working with unique low memory consumption technology that increases access rate greatly. You will find information 100 times faster than using a simple paper dictionary! User-friendly dictionary interface with different color schemes presented in 6 languages is provided for your comfort.
• Lexical database is provided by Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH (PONS) with 117,000 entries, 315,000 definitions, detailed meaning differentiations, usage examples, useful phrases for everyday life, Austrian and Swiss vocabulary, modern terms from a wide variety of areas such as the Internet, new media trends, etc. English-German-English word database is provided by Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH (PONS) publishing house. It contains 117 171 entries:
• English-German dictionary - 55 017 entries
• German-English dictionary - 62 154 entries
• Read books, documents and web-pages just from your PDA and get word translations quickly by using the Resident Module without leaving your active application. So you do not need to waste time on opening a program!
• Included Sound Modules enable to listen to the live speech quality pronunciations of the most popular words (pre-recorded native speakers). Tap a sound icon in front of a word and repeat the pronunciation with native speakers. English and German sound modules contain 20,000 words each.
• Study the language in the easiest and most effective way using SlovoEd Palm OS dictionary. Learn something new and interesting every day with the Word of the Day feature and quiz yourself with the words you have added to Flash Cards from the dictionary.
• Get more from the Palm OS dictionary by adding or modifying your own word definitions, creating your own personal word database with the SlovoEd Studio utility and discover other SlovoEd features. Built-in help (tips) and up-to-date documentation are provided in all SlovoEd packages.
• Besides, in SlovoEd you will find:
• Ability to install several dictionary word databases at the same time.
• Ability to install PONS Advanced dictionary on any expansion card - Memory Stick, Compact Flash, SD Cards, MMC, etc.
• Cross-look up feature and search history (list of words that you searched recently).
• Full-screen mode to show the translations.
• Compatibility:
• PONS Palm OS dictionary by Paragon Software GmbH is compatible with all the devices based on Palm OS 4.0 and higher, including the latest & most-popular devices (Treo 680, Treo 700p, Treo 755p, Treo 650).
• Morphology Modules are supported on all Palm OS 5.0 devices. Sound Modules run on Palm OS 5.0 devices except Tungsten T, Zire 22 and Sony Clie devices

Get it here for $59.95.

CrazySoft Smart Educational Games for Palm OS v1.0

CrazySoft presents Smart Educational games, which is a pack of games that helps you learn world Geography (States, Counties, Capital Cities), improves your memory, your mental awareness and your calculating speed.

Specially designed for both Grown-ups and Kids:
The program is suitable for both Grown-ups and kids. A simple button changes the difficulty on all the games at once.

Improve your Geography:
There is a pack of map games for USA, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Center and South America where you must find either States / Countries or the Capital Cities on the map. The faster you do it the better your score will be. Help is available so that you can surly learn all the worlds geography.

Improve your Memory:
A memory game helps you fit your brains memory and by time improve it.

Improve your Mental Awareness:
A puzzle game with many different images helps you use your brain by just playing a very addictive game.

Improve your Calculating Speed:
These may look like simple ¡shoot the ufo¢ games but they are very sophisticated educational games which help you calculate faster and faster. You can try addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Features:

• Hi resolution!
• Crystal clear graphics with thousands of colours.
• Full screen graphics!
• Difficulty control.
• 5 way navigator support
• Export Hi-Scores to internet

Grab it here for $19.95.

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Mobiola Video Studio Pro v2.1.14

Warelex LLC has released v2.1.14 of Mobiola Video Studio Pro,a universal video converter with free player. Get videos or groups of videos (from YouTube/DVD/hard drive) to your phone with a single drag and drop mouse move! Blazing fast performance, excellent quality, automatic settings plus great flexibility (only in Pro) with manual configuration.

Supported formats:
avi, 3gp, mov, mpeg, mpg, mjpeg, mp4, mg2, mve, m4v, mkv, flv, smk, str, vob, rm, fli, flc, wve, uv2, wmv, 3g2, asf, m4a

Trial version lasts 15 conversions

Features:

• Converts DVD, YouTube, Google Video, video files (majority of formats), groups of files or folders with files to the BEST video format played by your device (automatic settings)
• ONLY IN PRO - flexible output format
• Unique DRAG AND DROP to device functionality of DVDs, files and folders or videos from the browser (YouTube, Google Video)
• LANGUAGE selection functionality for DVD
• SUBTITLE support for most languages for DVD
• QUEUE OF JOBS, do not wait until previous conversion is done, just drag and drop new videos
• DRAG AND DROP/convert to PC also works
• AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY of the mobile device and device model
• BEST PERFORMANCE/CONVERSION SPEED
• REMOTE FILE MANAGEMENT functionality

Get it here for $19.95.

Resco Explorer 2007 for Palm OS v3.22.2

Resco has updated it's Resco Explorer 2007 to version 3.22.2.

File manager, zipper, viewer, launcher, backup tool, ftp and network explorer in one product. You get in one package handset of tools that used to be scattered in various applications.

One of the best features of the Explorer is its customizability. The users may choose between one- or two-panel modes, horizontal or vertical layout and setup other display aspects. Note also the possibility of the one-handed control and the support of all common devices and resolutions.

Features:

• The File Manager is the heart of the Explorer. It is stable and efficient and it provides a comfortable way for file operations such as copying, moving, deleting, renaming, etc. It offers many enhaced functions such as drag&drop, copy&paste, multi-selection, RAM/card conversions, powerful sorting, searching and filtering.
• The zipper is integrated fully transparently into the Explorer. A zip archive is like a folder that just happens to take less space. You can even start zipped apps or preview zipped images.
• Secure encryption (AES) is part of the zipper enabling thus protection of the whole data folders.
• Explorer allows to start the applications stored in RAM, on the card or even in the zip archives. Moreover, by tapping suitable file (image, eBook, Word document, mp3...) you can launch the associated application. Editor of the associations is available, too.
• Lists Palm applications grouped by the traditional Palm categories. You can find here each application with conveniently grouped resources — files and databases.
• Integrates more enhanced features such as editors of the preferences, file associations or alarms as well as the additional system information.
• A simple fast viewer providing full-screen image preview. Displays jpg/bmp/gif images and images produced by Clie and Zire cameras. Enables direct image preview from the zip archives. Alternatively the external viewers can be employed.
• Txt files offer the easiest way how to share the information with the non-Palm world. Text files can be beamed, hotsynced, created and finally edited either with the built-in memopad or using the hex editor.
• Backup: For those who need just manual backup, Explorer 2007 offers a multi-backup solution with fast compression, incremental backup, encryption, sorting and filtering and with open zip format. Unique feature is the backup verification.
• RAM Analyzer: Explorer offers structured folder view of the RAM with the databases sorted into reasonably defined folders. Ideal for PDA cleaning.
• FTP explorer allows access to the web ftp servers. Explorer 2007 presents remote resources just like another card.
• If you can connect to a PC, then you get the same type access to your LAN drives.
• Explorer serves as an ideal fron-end for VPN clients.
• FTP starters may use free FTP account at the DriveHQ hosting service.

Grab it here for $29.95.

IM for Skype v1.1.1

SHAPE Services has updated it's IM for Skype to version 1.1.1.

Skype wirelessly anywhere in a cost-effective way.

IM for Skype is a fully mobile application for voice and text communication with other Skype users and cost-effective calling to landlines and mobiles. No huge data traffic for calls!

IM for Skype works worldwide in any 3G/GSM/CDMA network and is not dependent on WiFi zones.

See how you can save:
Example 1: Call from UK Vodafone phone to PC with Skype.

Let’s say Mary is on IM for Skype, lives in UK and her carrier is Vodafone. Mary wants to call her friend who has Skype on her PC. SkypeOut rate will be equal to destination rate for calling to UK Vodafone of 0.205 Euro per minute plus the connection fee rate (0.039 Euro ).

Example 2: Call from UK Vodafone phone to landline in USA.

Let’s say Mary is on IM for Skype, lives in UK and her carrier is Vodafone. Mary wants to call her college friend who lives in USA, Florida to her phone number. To calculate the SkypeOut rate, just add the destination rate for calling to to UK Vodafone (0.205 Euro) and the destination rate to call to USA (0.017 Euro). So the rate to call from USA to UK via IM for Skype is 0.222 Euro per minute plus the double connection fee rate (0.078 Euro).

You can save even more by using ANY landline number instead of mobile! SkypeOut tariffs to landlines and mobiles are different and in most cases calling to mobile is much more expensive than calling to landlines. You can enter any landline number (it can be the phone number of a friend you came to visit, or even a phone number of a local restaurant) in the Call Back field in IM and the call will be forwarded to the number you indicate.

Example 3: Call from UK Vodafone phone to landline in USA with Call Back to landline.

Let’s say Mary is on IM for Skype, lives in UK and her carrier is Vodafone. Mary wants to call her college friend who lives in USA, Florida to her phone number. To make the most economy call Mary enters the landline UK number of her Mother in the Call Back field. Now the rate will include the destination rate for calling to to UK landline (0.017 Euro) and the destination rate to call to USA ( 0.017 Euro). So the rate to call from USA to UK via IM is 0.034 Euro per minute plus the double connection fee rate ( 0.078 Euro).

This product uses the Skype API but is not endorsed, certified or otherwise approved in any way by Skype.

Features:

• Make cost-effective calls to any destination. IM for Skype is based on SkypeOut service that allows users to make and receive calls for a low fee.
• See who is online and chat with Skype users who are logged in with their Skype accounts on PC. Text messaging is cost effective way to say something to your contacts instead of sending an SMS.
• One Time Fee, all updates are included. One time fee
• for the application, no monthly subscription. By purchasing IM for Skype users are entitled to all products upgrades.
• Intuitive interface, easy to use. User friendly intuitive interface and built-in help make the software really easy to use for everyone.

Grab it here for $14.95.

CrazySoft Mega Personality Pack v1.2

CrazySoft releases it's Mega Personality Pack version 1.2.

We have made a pack of programs that specializes in analyzing someone's personality, esotericism and discover his inner thoughts and feelings.

1. Find out everything about you and your partner,
2. analyze your palm and fingers,
3. read your horoscope and numerology,
4. make more than 1000 questions psychology tests,
5. play psychology games,
6. read the Tarot and find answers and a lot more...
7. Discover your virtuousness by a simple test...

5 great programs (Most recent versions) made as a pack and offered less than half price!
These 5 programs costs $80.72 but offer them ONLY $29.95!

Features:

• PROGRAMS INCLUDED:
Personality Psychology Pro
• A huge pack of personality/psychology tests & games
• presented in a pleasant way.
• Astrology & Horoscope Pro
• Matchmaking, 2006 horoscope, zodiac sign analysis & numerology by your birthdate.
Best Tarot Pro
• By the Tarot reading a person may be able to find answers about his/her hopes and wishes.
• Hand Reading Pro
• This hand reading software will guide you to self- understanding with many simple and entertaining image tests.
• Aristotle Virtuousness Test
• This program is a simple 11 step test which determines how much virtuous you are according to Aristotle*. (*It's the world known Ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato's student.)

You can get it here for $29.95.

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