The beta for the new PointUI 2 came out. Gizmodo points out that is it “awesome.” With PointUI, you get a “new, skinnable UI.” Like Windows 7, the beta for PointUI is actually a significant upgrade. It responds to your touching more than Windows Mobile originally does. So, if you find Windows Mobile to be a bit slow and non-responsive, try this out.

YouTube has finally announced that you will be able to download videos off of their site. You know, like all of those cracks do and so does that Firefox add-on. But wait, with a catch. You have to pay. What is Google doing, destroying YouTube! Looks like you better download all of your videos off of YouTube quickly, before YouTube pulls all of the free downloading tools off of the Internet. There will probably always be a free software for downloading YouTube videos, but everyone won’t use it. Kind of like how they still sell CDs. I don’t know why more people don’t illegally download music, but i guess that’s just me.

The new rumour on the streets is that the back of the iPhone has been leaked. Omfg, you can’t be serious. This ‘new backing’ of the iPhone is “a new case, with reflective metal etching.” This could be a fake, but the source also caught screenshots of the glossy back of the iPhone 3G, well before it was released. This could be a China fake, but it could also be the real thing. This could also deny a major make-over, which actually isn’t needed. As long as Apple does, what’s got to be done, nothing could go wrong. It is Apple we’re talking about here. Everyone loves their products.

The HTC Dream is headed to Spain. It looks similar to the T-Mobile G1 phone and actually has the same hardware and stuff inside of it. There is no release date and is going to run the same Android OS as the G1. Celebrate good times!

Midway Games has filed for bankruptcy. Times are getting difficult, special thanks to the economy and Midway Games just couldn’t survive. We can now look back on one of their classic games, Mortal Kombat. Never mind.

PointUI for Windows Mobile (and picture): http://i.gizmodo.com/5152125/pointui-2-gives-touchscreen-windows-mobile-phones-a-new-lease-on-life

Download YouTube Videos: http://mashable.com/2009/02/12/youtube-paid-downloads/

The Back of the Next iPhone? (and picture): http://i.gizmodo.com/5152642/is-this-the-back-of-the-next-iphone

HTC Dream (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/12/htc-dream-coming-to-spain-via-telefonica-gets-a-facelift/

Midway Files For Bankruptcy: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693215/Midway-Files-for-Bankruptcy.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed

Cool interface (gui) for your window mobile devices anyone? Jealous of your friends i-phone?

I know this is not linux related, but, it’s so cool I just had to blog it…

The story goes like this…about 2 months ago, I got myself an O2 Atom exec, which was cool and all, but, it really lacked that cool i-phone user interface. One of my friends got the new HTC mobile which had touch-flo, but I couldn’t install it because I didn’t have a HTC phone nor did I have Win Mo 6 which was a requirement.

I tried looking for a linux alternative, and there were some out there, but, they weren’t on-par with either Win Mo nor the i-phone.

Enter pointui (pronounced point-you-i) .

Pointui is an app that sits on top of Windows Mobile 5/6 in order to skin it into something actually usable. It fixes 50% of what’s wrong with the surface of Windows Mobile right now, allowing you to get around the OS using finger swipes instead of a stylus, on your current hardware, no less.

In addition to enabling finger gestures, it also adds skinning on top of the standard Win Mo apps. Clicking the phone app, for instance, gets you a much prettier call log that aggregates calls from the same person into one entry (just like the iPhone). There are still other apps like email and calendar and tasks that aren’t skinned (for the moment I’m guessing) — these just go into the regular WM app when active—but are much easier to get to. The system settings are made top level (instead of hidden under 3 layers of menus). It doesn’t fix everything wrong with Windows Mobile, but it’s pretty darn good for me.

I’m sure that there’s more to come so I’m gonna be patient and stick with my O2 for the moment.

Go ahead, and turn your Windows Mobile into an iphone; Click here to get it now !!!

Cool interface (gui) for your window mobile devices anyone? Jealous of your friends i-phone?

I know this is not linux related, but, it’s so cool I just had to blog it…

The story goes like this…about 2 months ago, I got myself an O2 Atom exec, which was cool and all, but, it really lacked that cool i-phone user interface. One of my friends got the new HTC mobile which had touch-flo, but I couldn’t install it because I didn’t have a HTC phone nor did I have Win Mo 6 which was a requirement.

I tried looking for a linux alternative, and there were some out there, but, they weren’t on-par with either Win Mo nor the i-phone.

Enter pointui (pronounced point-you-i) .

Pointui is an app that sits on top of Windows Mobile 5/6 in order to skin it into something actually usable. It fixes 50% of what’s wrong with the surface of Windows Mobile right now, allowing you to get around the OS using finger swipes instead of a stylus, on your current hardware, no less.

In addition to enabling finger gestures, it also adds skinning on top of the standard Win Mo apps. Clicking the phone app, for instance, gets you a much prettier call log that aggregates calls from the same person into one entry (just like the iPhone). There are still other apps like email and calendar and tasks that aren’t skinned (for the moment I’m guessing) — these just go into the regular WM app when active—but are much easier to get to. The system settings are made top level (instead of hidden under 3 layers of menus). It doesn’t fix everything wrong with Windows Mobile, but it’s pretty darn good for me.

I’m sure that there’s more to come so I’m gonna be patient and stick with my O2 for the moment.

Go ahead, and turn your Windows Mobile into an iphone; Click here to get it now !!!