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T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 update leaked

WM6 dashCan't wait for T-Mobile to offer its official Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the Dash smartphone? Better hit up those torrent trackers, because it looks like the ROM upgrade has been unofficially released to the wild.

The update includes all the Windows Mobile 6 goodies you'd expect, plus a couple of new surprises, including a Music Plug-In that lets you add a music player to your home screen, a new email setup program.

The upgrade takes about 10 minutes to complete. But again, we'll point out that the official release should be coming within the next week or two. So if you can hold out a few days, you're probably better off waiting for the supported upgrade, you know, in case you accidentally turn your PDA into a brick installing this update and void your warranty in the process. If your warranty is already expired, have fun!

Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, News, Windows, Blogging, Productivity, Freeware

Why you need the T-Mobile Connection Manager

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For anyone who uses the T-Mobile wi-fi HotSpot service inside Starbucks, Kinkos, airports, and other places, this little free download comes in handy. I use the HotSpot service quite a bit, and generally it is pretty reliable, at least the Starbucks I frequent have it working well. For the first time the service continued to kick me off every few minutes for some reason. I use the Windows Zero Configuration wireless networking service, since it is often easier to use and requires no intervention on my part.

Not very happy with the quality of service at the moment, I downloaded the lightweight T-Mobile Connection Manager client. These proprietary clients are a dime a dozen, heck every wi-fi card maker has their own. This one isn't anything special except it did actually make my connection stay on and not drop me after I installed it. The client also manages any access point you might have nearby, including EDGE/GPRS and VPN networks. Why it works better, I don't know exactly, but it does. If you use the T-Mobile service in Starbucks or elsewhere, I recommend it. Less frustration equals happy bloggers. We don't want no mad and road-raging bloggers. That would be messy.

Free T-Mobile HotSpot for Vista users

T-Mobile free hotspotStep right up and claim your latte, oh and some free wi-fi. If you use Windows Vista that is. As a promotion, the 90 days of free HotSpot access will begin tomorrow (January 26th, 2007). Usually T-Mobile charges $30/month for unlimited HotSpot access including just about every Starbucks, Kinkos, some hotels and airport clubs, and the price is $20/month for T-mobile wireless subscribers. The only requirement for the 90 days free wireless is that you have Vista installed. Go enjoy some free wi-fi on T-Mobile, the service is generally very good, and by good I mean reliable, good connection, decent speed, and so on and so forth. I use it to write many of my posts you see here on Download Squad from an undisclosed Starbucks.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser Tips

Keep tabs on your mobile minutes in Firefox

TMobile Minutes Used ExtensionWinston Huang has written a pair of great extensions for Firefox that help you keep tabs on how many minutes you have left on your mobile phone. They're the Verizon Minutes Used Extension and the TMobile MInutes Used Extension. Each of them shows you right in your status bar how many minutes you've used and how many you have left, and hovering over it will give you more information like a projection of how many minutes you'll use this month. Brilliant!

[Via Lifehacker]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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