Friday morning thoughts

OK, a couple of quickie's, firstly winners Scott Symonds you won the Windows Mobile giveaway from earlier in the week and Lewis Kent you won the case from yesterday so well done guys.

Yiching looks like being a good game. A variant of mahjong where you match tiles in the same row/column, or diagonally adjacent. Sells for $5 with a free trial.

The Gadgeteer has published a review of the NVBackup - Palm OS Backup Software. "Good backups of my Palm have saved my fanny several times. One time, I ended up using an obscure, almost forgotten and out of date backup file because every other backup I had was dead. I hope I never relive that day- and with some solid backup software, I shouldn't have to."

[From Eric Mann] Pocket Now has done a review of Short Take: Textware Solutions' Fitaly v4.0. "Fitaly has been around for a long time. Some people swear by it, some have no idea what it is. Well, it's a keyboard layout designed specifically for efficient one-finger (or stylus) input. Something that's greatly needed on small Pocket PCs and other pen-based computers that lack hardware based input methods such as keyboards or thumboards, which frankly were not designed for efficient small-device text input at all."

Quick program news and Cookbook is added to the Palmgear listings. The biggest mobile cookbook in the world. With over 900 recipes you are guaranteed to never run out of ideas! Retails for $19.99 and there is a free trial too.

The pen is mightier than the stylus is a very good editorial over at the PDA24/7 website this morning, "A while back I wrote an article called Analogue about a notebook I have been using for a long time now. It has served a purpose and constantly been scribbled on day after day but ultimately is no real use for finding information because the notes are random and half the time make little sense 10 minutes after they have been written. Last weekend I was in a book shop with my daughter and spotted a Moleskine day-to-a-page diary and bought it on the spot purely because I liked the look of it (it was also very cheap because it is a 2006 one). I got it home and with no real thought carefully removed the bindings, hole punched a load of pages and slotted them in to my beloved notebook."