Dragon Dictation by Nuance Mobile is a freeware speech-to-text voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. Nuance claims it to be up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.

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.

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SymSync is a powerful file and folder synchronization software for Nokia S60 3rd and 5th edition mobile devices. It offers byte-level, real-time and scheduled synchronization of files and folders with a computer on the network via Wi-Fi WLAN or 3G/GPRS internet connection. Synchronization can occur in both directions: from the mobile phone to the computer and from the computer to the mobile device.

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.

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Opera has released a beta version of its popular mobile browser Opera Mini 5 with new and updated features.

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.

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WeeWheel is a freeware application for Nokia S60 3rd and 5th Edition mobile devices that uses the built in accelerometer of a S60 smartphone to detect movement and convert it into joystick, mouse or keyboard signals on your computer via Bluetooth, allowing you to control software on the PC by only moving your mobile device. You can even record phone movements as macros and play them back in a sequence.

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].

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Microsoft has added several new features to Windows Virtual PC to make it easy to use and to help you run many older Windows XP applications in Windows 7. Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop. Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 makes it easy to install and run many Windows XP applications directly from your Windows 7-based PC. With Windows Virtual PC, Windows XP Mode applications can be seen and accessed from a Windows 7 desktop.

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.

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