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UMPC tuned applications begin to appear
by Nitin Badjatia Mar 24th 2006 at 11:05AM
Now
that the excitement has died down, software products are starting to appear that are 'tuned' for the UMPC's form
factor. Yes, we know that Microsoft has made is a point to tell everyone who will listen that the UMPC's greatest
appeal is that it can run any Windows XP application. While that may be true, the smallish screen size of the UMPC
made us wonder how we'd squeeze some of our favorite applications into such small digs. While it looks like some
applications from Microsoft (namely OneNote) will account for the new screen
real estate, an entirely new cadre of applications are being readied to fill the (smaller) void.
One of the first applications to be released that is UMPC sensitive is abletFactory's abletFoodCalc. FoodCalc is a nutritional calculator for keeping track of your eating habits while on the go. FoodCalc comes with a large database of nutritional values for foods that will allow you to quickly accumulate your daily consumption habits with your UMPC. This sounds interesting enough, although we're forced to ask one practical question: Since input on the UMPC is mostly hand driven, won't our precious UMPC get 'all greased up' if we enter food data all day? Well, it seems like a sure opening for another UMPC accessory, the UMPC sanitizer.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
